Bach Prelude and Fugue No.24 Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1 with Harmonic Pedal

In this recording I used the 4th harmonic pedal in resonance position only. The harmonic pedal was invented by Denis de La Rochefordière.

[robbyburns]

Wow, finishing the entire book 1 wtc, something so many people could only dream of doing

[mattbalfe]

A little known secret is that a lot of thematic material in Beethovens late string quartets comes from the fugue here, and in Beethovens notes we have found a partial arrangement of this fugue for string quartet, just listen to the grosse fugue's subject and dont tell me it isnt similar to this one, but there are more direct, well documented examples in other late quartets.

[ViRrOorR]

This fugue is haunting, sad, scary and depressing but oh so beautiful

[vetlerradio]

Beautiful, Paul. The quality of your updates lately is astonishing, keep at it!

[powerliftingcentaur]

How could two people give this a thumbs down? Both of my thumbs are raised to the heavens to compensate.

[adelefarough]

This is a beautiful piece! I think I know what my next piano project will be! Time to dig out my WTC, Vol. 1!

[jackschleich]

never get tired of it, probably would take decades to become an expert in this style

[davideguiguren]

Can you pls up load ballade #4 by chopin? I would love to hear you play
Excelent channel and keep on going

[jonathandossantossilva]

Esse piano tem um timbre lindo e esse pianista é top

[joelmarttinen]

This fugue suits your style of playing much better than the prelude on this occasion.

[imyfujita]

The sequence of bass of the first measure is Droian. 
"The walking bass line of the first half of this prelude is made of the Dorian Mode using mainly the notes in the A Major Scale in some minor mood. Notably, the bass sequence of the first measure is 'B C# D E F# G# A B', which is 'Tonic, Whole-Step, Half-Step, Whole-Step, Whole-Step, Whole-Step, Half-Step, Whole-Step'. It is called the Dorian Mode. In other words, this pattern of intervals: T-S-T-T-T-S-T is the characteristic of the Dorian Mode. It is symmetric." It is not B-minor scale. Isn't it strange?

[brandsonvillalobospastera]

Bach - Prelude and Fugue No. 24

Book 1 of The Well-Tempered.
Clavier
Prelude/Praeludium XXIV
:Starts - 0:10
:Ends - 5:23

Fugue/Fuga XXIV:
:Starts - 5:24
:Ends - 11:40

👍Thank's me later😊❤

[jackschleich]

I love this one too, similar to number 8

[purelypiano]

Wonderful, Paul. Hope you’re doing well.

[Malikjardine]

Anyone else notice alot of Bach’s fugues in B minor have a similar structure or is it just me? I feel he uses a lot of chromatics in his B minor fugues

[SaxToThaMax]

Nothing better on this planet.
I checked. ;)

You play E in bar 3 (beat 4) but we listen E sharp, playback?

[MarcusHK]

The tempo of the fugue is just perfect, neither sluggish, nor too fast. Most versions I have heard are too slow to my taste, except Glenn Gould who is too fast.

[tymoteuszsuszycki]

Could you please do a comprehensive tutorial on Chopin's Ballade no 3? Thanks.

[jessalynnlevine]

I hear a lot of BWV 150 "Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich" in the prelude!