Description
"As if you're driving a wedge into something and the wood splits." Organist Reitze Smits talks about the Prelude and fugue in E minor, which he performed for All of Bach.
Recorded for the project All of Bach on September 16th 2014 at St Jacob's Church, Leeuwarden. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel https://bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating https://bit.ly/2uZuMj5.
For the complete performance of the Prelude and fugue in e minor go to https://youtu.be/dd212O3_t_M
For more information on BWV 548 and this production go to https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-548
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Reitze Smits, organist
Organ: Christian Müller, 1727
0:00 Start of the prelude
1:10 Theme and connections
1:36 Noteworthy cadence
2:33 Fugue: almost a twelve-tone theme?
3:26 Why they call this piece 'the Wedge'
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