![]() ![]() ![]() “Sometimes you already catch a whiff of the Fugue theme in the Prelude,” says the Belgian harpsichordist, organist and ensemble conductor Bart Naessens, whose home we visited for this recording. The Prelude ends with a rising festoon of notes that definitively sets the key of B-flat major. It opens with a sequence of characteristic keyboard figures – more passage work than real melodic material – followed by an extremely free passage that is strongly reminiscent of an improvised cadenza. ![]() This Prelude and fugue in B-flat major is one of the shorter and least complicated pieces included in the Wohltemperirte Clavier. Here, Bach clearly opts for the somewhat lighter side of B-flat major. As usual, authors are not in agreement on the subject. In the Baroque, the key of B-flat major was associated with grand, elevated qualities as well as modest and even dark, melancholy ones. ![]()
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