Marc
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Yes, certain works indeed.I just proposed my point of view on how certain works of him have to be performed, in order to reach the golden cut between the performer and the audience in our times, based on things we have learn from our older teachers.
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Take fugue 578 in Gm. Beautiful melody, exeptional contrapunctal harmonisation and hard times for the feet. Most fellow organists play it at about 90 to 100 BPM. Good show.
But, try it in about 80BPM or at the extreme 74to78 and you've got something else. Everything sounds with a certain mystical meaning and acceptence of the pact between God and mankind, the cut between Heaven and Earth.
Take Prelude & Fugue in E-minor BWV 533. I don't mind if the Prelude is played in a more slow and 'grave' way .... but in this performance I feel it's a bit exaggerated (organist: André Isoir). I like the mainly organo pleno throughout though .... and of course the 1750 Gabler 4-manual at Weingarten Abbey, Germany!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JyFP-s_ZQc
If interpretation is concerned, I f.i. prefer this one (Marie-Claire Alain). The straightforward playing of the Fugue brings me in a flush of excitement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qVP95mZm-4
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