ANDREAS STAIER / ALEXANDER MELNIKOV
PRÉLUDES ET FUGUES
- DIMANCHE 21 OCTOBRE 2012 / 16:30
- SALLE DES CONCERTS
| Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Prélude et fugue n°1 en ut majeur, BWV 846 |
| Prélude et fugue n°12 en fa mineur, BWV 857 |
| Dmitri Chostakovitch |
| Prélude et fugue n°21 en si bémol majeur |
| Prélude et fugue n°22 en sol mineur |
| Prélude et fugue n°7 en la majeur |
| Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Prélude et fugue n°5 en ré majeur, BWV 874 |
| Prélude et fugue n°11 en fa majeur, BWV 880 |
| Entracte |
| Dmitri Chostakovitch |
| Prélude et fugue n°15 en ré bémol majeur |
| Prélude et fugue n°16 en si bémol mineur |
| Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Prélude et fugue n°8 en mi bémol mineur, BWV 853 |
| Prélude et fugue n°17 en la bémol majeur, BWV 886 |
| Prélude et fugue n°9 en mi majeur, BWV 878 |
| Dmitri Chostakovitch |
| Prélude et fugue n°3 en sol majeur |
| Prélude et fugue n°4 en mi mineur |
I've talked about these preludes and fugues by Shostakovich before, but what a wonderful opportunity to hear them together with the pieces they are emulating, by Bach. Of course, if you have the recordings you can just reproduce the concert at home...
UPDATE: A thought-provoking comment was left, to which I responded, but I also did a new post on this concert with some further thoughts.
UPDATE: A thought-provoking comment was left, to which I responded, but I also did a new post on this concert with some further thoughts.
2 comments:
"if you have the recordings you can just reproduce the concert at home" Really!? Is this irony? Can you reproduce a live performance from recordings?
In a sense it is just a trivial observation: If you have recordings of the Bach preludes and fugues and the Shostakovich preludes and fugues then you can mix and match them to correspond to the published program. In that sense you can "reproduce the concert at home" as truly as any recording captures any concert. Except, to be truly exact, you would have to have the works recorded by Staier and Melnikov, the performers who will give the concert.
However, this is to ignore a number of aspects of a concert. There is another sense in which no recording ever captures any concert in that recordings always miss some dimensions of the sound. Which exactly and how would lead us into a technical discussion that is not so important. But when you are actually there in the hall, the music sounds different. Second, there may be an interaction created by this program: the way Staier plays Bach may influence in some way the way Melnikov plays Shostakovich and vice versa. Third, there is a social aspect to concert-going in which the experience is a shared one, not a separate one as when you listen to a recording.
But still, a large part of the experience of hearing these works in this particular order could be synthesized at home using recordings...
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