Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV544

composer

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Recordings

Bach: Great Fantasias, Preludes & Fugues

Christopher Herrick (organ)

Buy by post £13.99 CDD22062 2CDs Dyad (2 for the price of 1)

Bach: The Complete Organ Works

Christopher Herrick (organ)

CDS44121/36 16CDs Boxed set (at a special price) — 16CDs Deleted

Details

Movement 1: Prelude

Christopher Herrick (organ)

Track 8 on CDD22062 CD1 [5'49] 2CDs Dyad (2 for the price of 1)

Track 8 on CDS44121/36 CD2 [5'49] 16CDs Boxed set (at a special price) — 16CDs Deleted

Movement 2: Fugue

Christopher Herrick (organ)

Track 9 on CDD22062 CD1 [5'07] 2CDs Dyad (2 for the price of 1)

Track 9 on CDS44121/36 CD2 [5'07] 16CDs Boxed set (at a special price) — 16CDs Deleted

Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV544

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This is one of the most original of the last great preludes and fugues from the Leipzig years, the Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV544. The prelude, in an advanced and highly decorated Rococo style, combines grace and grandeur in an individual marriage between the older fugal techniques and the newer expressive harmony induced by frequent appoggiature. The fugue, particularly closely crafted and on two subjects, achieves over and above the contrapuntal ingenuity an inevitability of growth and profundity of thought remarkable even for Bach.

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