Edito de J.S. Bach: Flute and Harpsichord Sonatas Vol. 2A view from the keywell
Keyboard players of all eras have acknowledged and esteemed those rare composers who can write a well-crafted keyboard part. Bach?s Keyboard style is a marriage of intention and execution. His keyboard writing presents many difficulties for the human hand to negotiate but it is never unplayable.
Likewise, the quality of his musical ideas distracts our attention from more
obvious chordal and figural techniques which in lesser hands descend into the doggerel of empty note-spinning. He plays subtle games with our wit
incorporating non-keyboard textures derived from vocal and string music (a
knack learnt by arranging music for different forces). If the devil is in
the detail, then the angels maintain the over-all effect and any blurring of the stylistic image is offset by the ingenuity of construction and the
fluency of writing.
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