Kenneth Weiss plays Bach's Well Tempered Clavier on Satirino records www.satirino.fr/artist_records/da…mperierte-klavier

Week 22 of your Well-Tempered Clavier Soundcloud streams, with a commentary by Kenneth Weiss, available for one week.

Prelude and Fugue in B-flat minor, BWV 867

"Leap of faith"

Prelude

“A heavy and meditative state is created by an oppressively dense texture and a plodding and unaltered repeated rhythmic motive. This hypnotic lament exposes feelings of frailty, suffering and yearning.”

Fugue

“A supreme example of Bach's power to speak directly to our innermost selves, this 5 voiced Fugue is a claustrophobic and tragic work. Bach gives us strength in his understanding and reflections on human emotions - we feel acknowledged and not alone. He speaks through the performer and the performer speaks through him. Bach can ease our doubt and pain by expressing it so clearly.”

Kenneth Weiss
www.satirino.fr/artists/kenneth-weiss

A full presentation of Kenneth Weiss's recording of the Well-Tempered Clavier can be found via this link www.satirino.fr/artist_records/da…mperierte-klavier

Kenneth Weiss - Book 1  Prelude No. 22 In B - Flat Minor, BWV 867

Track 11 From the album "Czardas Fantasy"

Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsodies 
Hungarian Gypsy Music

Ferenc Vizi, piano 

Ensemble Cifra 
Dezsõ Rontó, prímás (violin) 
József Csurkulya senior, cimbalom 
Ágoston Bartha, viola & hurdy-gurdy 
Róbert Csõgör, double bass 

József Csurkulya  junior, cimbalom

Live Recording 
Targu-Mures Philharmonic, Romania, 3 xi 2012

Instruments 
Piano Yamaha
Tekerő (Hurdy-gurdy) - Mihály Bársony, 1980
Hungarian cimbalom ‘Kozmosz’ - István Jancsó

Sound engineer, producer, editing, mastering 
Jiri Heger

Images 
Copsa Mica, Romania © Lisa iltse / Corbis
Ferenc Vizi © Arthur Forjonel

Design 
le monde est petit

Full presentation at http://www.satirino.fr/artist_records/czardas-fantasy

Czardas Fantasy

Rhapsody No. 14 In F Minor, S.244 14  Hungarian Fantasy

A selection of live recordings by the period instrument wind sextet Nachtmusique - 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns. 

Eric Hoeprich, clarinet & direction

J. Haydn - Marsch, Hob. VII,6
J. C. Bach - Allegro, Andante [from Sinfonia in B-flat 1782]
W. A. Mozart - Menuetto [from Serenade in E-flat KV 375]
F. Krommer - Finale [from Partita in E-flat]
C. M. von Weber - Rondo [1808]

Nachtmusique - J. C. Bach, Andante, Sinfonia in B-flat 1782

Nachtmusique - J. C. Bach, Allegro, Sinfonia in B-flat 1782

Kenneth Weiss plays Bach's Well Tempered Clavier on Satirino records www.satirino.fr/artist_records/da…mperierte-klavier

Week 24 of your Well-Tempered Clavier Soundcloud streams, with a commentary by Kenneth Weiss, available for one week.

Prelude and Fugue No 24 in B Minor, BWV 869

Kenneth Weiss writes:

"The decision to post a weekly audio recording with written commentary of each Prelude and Fugue from the Well Tempered Clavier was the third phase in my engagement with the work.
 
"The first phase was learning this pinnacle of classical keyboard repertoire - a daily ritual of frustrations and achievements that spanned five years. 
 
"After recording the work, I entered into the second phase. I performed it (and continue to do so) at major cities throughout the world. Bach lovers are everywhere - attesting  to his universality more than 250 years after his death.  Sharing this masterpiece with a live audience is magical – the performer / audience bond enhanced by the musical presence of J. S. Bach.
 
"My third phase was to put my thoughts about these works into words. I wanted to  make them accessible; to provide a point of entry for listeners. The essence of music cannot truly be expressed in words. And yet, this exercise has been personally enriching and, I hope, of interest to some readers.
 
"Bach completed Book I in 1722. Over twenty years passed until he wrote Book II. We cannot know if he intended to re-visit the experiment of writing in all keys. For this reason, I am titling this last entry 'Denoument.'
 
"I plan to continue with Book 2 using the same format starting next fall.
 
"Thank you for your interest."
 
Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 869

"Dénouement" 
 
Prelude

"A striking key and a tempo indication define the 24th and final Prelude of the 1st book of the Well Tempered Clavier.  Based on the inherent affects of different keys, B minor was seen - at the time - as a key of patience.  As in Bach’s b minor mass, awaiting one’s fate was  submission to divine power.   Given the grief laden sentiment in this work, Bach felt the need to include the tempo marking 'Andante'. It is there to avoid wallowing and to literally walk ('Andante' deriving from the Italian 'Andare') steadily and calmly into one’s final reckoning."
 
Fugue

"Time appears to be frozen in this long and utterly distraught  chromatic theme. The severity of each entry takes one’s breath away with its tortured fatalism. The suffering subsides periodically with glorious rays of light and purity; yet always ebbs back to sighs, jabs and jolts. It pushes forward, it goes beyond until the end. The experience is shattering."

Kenneth Weiss
www.satirino.fr/artists/kenneth-weiss

A full presentation of Kenneth Weiss's recording of the Well-Tempered Clavier can be found via this link www.satirino.fr/artist_records/da…mperierte-klavier

Kenneth Weiss - Book 1  Prelude No. 24 In B Minor, BWV 869

Kenneth Weiss - Book 1  Fugue No. 24 In B Minor, BWV 869

Satirino records presents Bach's Goldberg Variations in a live concert recording by Kenneth Weiss, harpsichord, made on the 12th October 2008 at the Théâtre St Louis, Pau, France, in the chamber music series of the Orchestre de Pau Pays de Béarn, Fayçal Karoui & Frédéric Morando

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Goldberg Variations Live

Kenneth Weiss, Goldberg Variations - Variatio 21 Canone Alla Settima

Kenneth Weiss, Goldberg Variations - Variatio 12 Canone Alla Quarta In Moto Contrario

Goldberg Variations - Variatio 11 A 2 Clav

Kenneth Weiss, Goldberg Variations - Aria

Satirino was created in 1997 by Ian Malkin and Christine Menguy and specialises in both French and international representation for Classical music artists, ensembles and orchestras. In 2001 the company created the Satirino Records label to record some of the agency's artists.

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