Why Prelude+Fugue?
The evolution of a musical form is, like biological evolution, seldom linear. But Philip Norman teased out a straight line of sorts, in his explanation of the development of the prelude/toccata/whatever + fugue format, on Saturday at Bloomsbury Central Baptist…
Playing Bach with Professor Peter Williams
Can you be in rapport with an eighteenth century German Lutheran? asked Professor Williams, at the beginning of his study day on Bach in Cambridge last Saturday. All playing is distortion of a kind he said – you are imposing…
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