Tag: Prelude & Fugue in e

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  Upside down and twice as slow

  February 10, 2014

  Keyboard, Solo

  Bach, Prelude & Fugue in d, Prelude & Fugue in e, Well-tempered Klavier

  We are, I hope, by now getting familiar with fugue-speak – ‘statements’, ‘answers’ (real or tonal), ‘episodes’, ‘inversions’, ‘strettos’ (or ‘i’ if you prefer) and so on, are all grist to our mill. So the time has come, I reckon, to examine that most recondite of fugues in that most recondite of keys, No. 8 in d-sharp. It’s…