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This collection gathers 5 of Bach's best fugues in arrangements for wood quintet, from easy ones that beginners can perform to versions for professional musicians. All of them keep the essence of the original works and can be played in several ceremonies, even religious or matrimonial ones.
I. Fugue No. 1 from The Well-Tempered Clavier (Book 1), BWV 846b 0:00
The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846893, is two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach. In the composer's time Clavier, meaning keyboard, indicated a variety of instruments, most typically the harpsichord or clavichord but not excluding the organ. Together the two volumes of The Well-Tempered Clavier consist of 24 preludes paired with 24 fugues. Bach completed the first book while employed at the royal court in Köthen (Cothen) in the 1720s and the second some two decades later in Leipzig, where he had been appointed director of church music for the city. The pieces were intended as pedagogical exercises to give keyboard players experience in working with the chords, scales, and arpeggios in each key.
II. Little Fugue in G minor, BWV 578 2:12
Fugue in G minor, BWV 578, (popularly known as the Little Fugue), is a piece of organ music written by Johann Sebastian Bach during his years at Arnstadt. It is one of Bach's best known fugues and has been arranged for other voices, including an orchestral version by Leopold Stokowski. The fugue's four-and-a-half measure subject in G minor is one of Bach's most recognizable tunes. The fugue is in four voices. During the episodes, Bach uses one of Arcangelo Corelli's most famous techniques: imitation between two voices on an eighth note upbeat figure that first leaps up a fourth and then falls back down one step at a time.
III. Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 6:35
The Fantasia that precedes the Fugue in C minor is a lamento pur sang. The rarefied notes floating high up seem to be lamenting some tragic loss or other. The sense of desolation is further reinforced by the dispirited, deep droning of the organ notes in the far distance. The lamento mood does not lessen on the introduction of the second theme, as now the notes start to descend breathlessly still further in pairs. Even after an extensive repetition of the two themes, we are still not done with the misery, as it closes with a question.
IV. Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 16:38
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (BWV 582) is an organ piece by Johann Sebastian Bach. Presumably composed early in Bach's career, it is one of his most important and well-known works, and an important influence on 19th and 20th century passacaglias: Robert Schumann described the variations of the passacaglia as "intertwined so ingeniously that one can never cease to be amazed."
V. Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 33:11
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 is a piece of organ music written by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is one of the most famous works in the organ repertoire and is used in many movies, video games and as a theme for rock music. The piece begins with a Toccata and is followed by a fugue, which ends in a coda. The music is considered to be one of the most famous in the repertoire for the Organ.
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