J. S. Bach, Prelude in d, BWV 926
4/21/19 Watched “free solo” and “meru”?! Rock climbers are just cool. These movies indeed changed some of my views about work and life.
This prelude looks simple from the music sheet. But it is very difficult to play. Sometimes I spent long time in front of piano. I still found different ways to play it. If you take individual notes from this piece, they are nothing special, but when putting them together, they are so…o musical. It’s like a good writer who uses non-fancy sentences, but it’s just intriguing to read a sentence followed by another sentence to explore the entire story.
Rachmaninoff has composed many emotional pieces. I very much enjoy these pieces because I feel resonance of his emotion. Bach is quite different from me. He is German, he is cool and he is logic. But I found him so interesting. You never know where he takes you. He is a master who invisibly leads you around and then gives you a chuckle behind the curtain. I feel he has this aspect of intelligence that my brain never can reach. Once a pianist told me that “Bach is so deep. When his music starts, you feel the entire room is lid up”.