J.S. Bach - Prelude & Fugue in A Minor "The Great", BWV 543 (Synthesized)
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- I have joined together the Prelude and Fugue that I posted previously, with minor adjustments to tempo and master balance, I hope that listening to these two parts together will be an experience by itself.
The original video of the Prelude: • J.S. Bach - Prelude & ...
And the Fugue: • J.S. Bach - Fugue in A...
0:00 Prelude
2:55 Fugue - Hudba
Thanks for putting these two pieces side-by-side - as they should be, in my opinion. It is a feast! Whatever our individual interpretations, it is always Bach who comes out on top!
Thank you! And you're absolutely right!
@1:54 Jubilant little segments like this are what make me love Bach. So delightful! Do you enjoy the Toccatas BWV 912 & 913?
❤ and timbres and visual. Thanks!
Thank you!
Another masterpiece, thank you. Your earlier video of the BWV 543 fugue, the one with the red dots on the cover, remains my favourite of all Bach visualisations. Glad you didn’t change the audio for this video. Bach would have loved your work. Organ builders maybe not so much :)
Thank you! And, well, organ builders of the time are the synth builders of our times, so there's always something to love :)
PS: Also: impressive that you remember the cover of my other video :)
I just send a photo of the red dot one to friends to make sure they get the correct video. Between your work, Electro Classic Orchestra, and young organists such as Pyotr Novotny and Jan Lieberman, I predict a huge upswing in Bach appreciation by the young. School teachers across the world should be using your work. Thank you to all the above for sharing your talents.
❤
The note entrance at 0:29 is so encapsulating 🔥
Thank you! It's a bit undervalued when played in the organ, unless of course you're there in the church. But with synths you can do pretty much whatever you want :)
It sounded so good!
Il Magnifico Unico !!!
Thank you! :)
J'aime beaucoup
Merci beaucoup!
Que belleza las fugas de Bach todas me fascinan Esta, la 543 es increíble. Es perfecta y el sintetizador le resalta todo el trabajo armónico que el órgano no puede mostrar ni el clavier tampoco. Un trabajo exquisito. Bravo👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️!!!
¡Muchas gracias por tu comentario y por escuchar!
I wonder if this was inspiration for Light Asylum's Dark Allies?
Good question!
This is a great video!!!
Thank you!
I could cry
Firstly thank you, I'm happy this elicits an emotional response :)
I don't want to sound discouraging, but it would be rather hard to play this in real time. The whole piece required north of 100 tracks, almost all the sounds you hear are layered (i.e. there are up to 8 sounds for each voice).
But that said, here is what I suggest: assuming you have a DAW, download the Surge XT VST, and select the preset "Butter", from the "Leads" section. Start from there, it's not exactly what I use, but it's very similar. Good luck!!
@@OrzoMondo Oh I know that it would be hard to play conventionally, I am however in the making of programming a real-time "compositor" of sorts which renders midi on it's own and switches "registers"/voices after a pattern is being recognized etc :)
100 tracks is crazy, amazing work! Would you mind sharing the 8 voices layered to reproduce the main voice of the Prelude and the two starting voices of the Fugue?
Thank you!
@@SinanAkkoyun Hi! I don't know how much you can use it, since I don't use presets and all synth programming is done by me, but I have saved a Reaper file for you. It contains the two initial voices of the prelude. I only used two synths: Surge XT and Viking - I hope it helps! Link below.
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I play the Liszt transcription for piano, of Bach Prelude BWV 543 (1st movement) for organ.
I find the tempo of this synthesizer interpretation fast.
And the long loud A-bass, instead of supporting, dominates the beautifully modulating part. That's a bit unfortunate.
In the piano version that dynamic is clearer, and also possible.
It would be interesting and fun to also listen to the Liszt piano interpretation in a synthesizer version... with more dynamics.
'Bach Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV 543 - Martina Filjak LIVE video'
or
'Svetla Protich - Bach: Prelude & Fugue in A minor BWV 543/1'
can agree with this sentiment! the bass can be somewhat overtaking in the prelude at some points. Still this is a quite magnificent synthesizer rendition!
Thank you! Well, I have actually based some of my re-interpretations on Liszt's transcriptions, most notable for BWV 542 (czcams.com/video/OoKP7Z80HAU/video.html), which is loosely based on Trifonov's interpretation (czcams.com/video/QJUs6gRf-Ao/video.html).
Definitely the transcription helps to visualise some passages, although I like the fullness of the organ, albeit with some loss of dynamics.
However, at the end of the day, I find that the freedom to move melodic lines without limitations of keyboards, fingering, and even tonal registers, makes the interpretations with synthesizers a sort of middle ground, where you can choose to go super expressive and very dynamic, or metronomic, and very organ-like, depending on what your feeling for the piece is.
In this case, probably because most interpretations for the prelude make a heavy use of rubato, I've decided to go for little rubato (there's comparatively much more in the fugue) and just go for the spectacular instead. Cue the huge A pedal at the beginning.
As for the tempo, well, I can assure you, as I'm sure everyone who has ever attempted to play classical music knows (you'included I assume), that whenever you find a tempo that you think is "right", there's going to be half the audience that thinks it's too slow, and the other half that thinks it's too fast.
I know that this one is on the faster side, but I also think it feels faster because there's so little rubato.
Thank you for taking the time to comment and provide some real feedback, and thank you for the suggestion!
@@OrzoMondo Indeed, tempo is a personal taste... with some nuance...
I played the tempo slower at first and recorded myself playing... It sounded terrible, painfully slow, annoying.
Now I play the work about 1/3 faster and it sounds better.
Yet I still play it slower than many pianists, who I think play this work too technically because the fast tempo makes many dynamics impossible.
As for the dynamics. I mean that more interpretation is possible by playing certain notes differently in the same context.
For example :
| - la - do - la | MI - la - do - la | FA - sol# - si - sol# | MI - sol - si - sol | MI - fa# - la - fa# | RE ...
The notes that you can interpret differently make the work sound different:
MI...FA...MI...MI... RE...
But hey, we can keep going like this...
It really is a beautiful interpretation.
By the way, you have Bach synthesizer interpretations that are on my playlist ;-)
i think the tempo does feel a bit fast (if we think of it in terms of this being performed live, the speed certainly would add quite some difficuly). Given the sequenced / synthesized context tho, i think it fits with the nature of bach's music. The beauty is in the mix of simultaneous overlapping harmonies as the melodic lines clash and interact. Metronomic and precise speed i feel really highlights that. and i feel you on the too slow / too fast arguments... i think this is a more than worthy interpretation!