0:06 Prelude 4:27 Fugue

Something tells me that this lady loves to play Bach more than anything in the world.

As Albert Schweitzer once put it, the preludes and fugues of the Well Tempered Clavichord serve as windows onto a superior reality. What they express is not really related to the world we inhabit or even the human condition itself. They represent eternal soul-states or the kinds of emotions a god would feel. Such was the capacity for expression in the art of the absolute rendered possible by Bach's meticulous compositional technique. It's so wonderful that Netherlands Bach Society can draw on a pool of such fantastic musicians who are masters of their instruments and able to interpret the master's intentions so poignantly. This lady is one among them.

Wer mag jetzt noch behaupten, Bachs Musik sei "kostruiert" im Sinne von fehlender Emotionalität? Wundervoll gespielt. Danke!

She brings out every emotional nuance in the Prelude. Melancholy but hopeful both at once!

Christine should never be denied a harpsichord wherever she goes. She pours her soul into her fingertips.

What a magnificent fugue - Bach was certainly the master of counterpoint, and Christine Schornsheim does an excellent job at capturing the piece. Cheers!

I just wanted to thank NBS for the amazing work they are doing and specially for creating one of the most smooth and peaceful places on YT where people with taste for Bach's music can unite and learn together. I can say for myself that I have learned a lot being here for the last months.

it's wonderfully majestic and what a talent with more the acoustics of a gymnasium which is not common so there is a lot of space to showcase this work very good instrument very good sound also congratulations Madam you bring back a lot of memories but it was at the very top at the high perched rood screen and not at the harpsichord Johann Sebastian Bach to this architecture and its own apogiaturee and it is precisely this construction in the fugue that I particularly like I wonder if the instrument would not date from the 17th century by chance again my congratulations to all these magnificent songs that we hear

This prelude is so difficult to execute properly. The ornamentation requires real skill. Beautifully played.

What a majestic pair of pieces! Played, also, on a majestically sounding instrument!

Wunderschöne und detaillierte Aufführung dieses perfekt komponierten Tastenwerks im relativ langsamen Tempo mit schimmerndem doch warmherzigem Klang des technisch fehlerlosen Cembalos und mit perfekt kontrollierter Dynamik. Im Kontrast klingt die Fuge echt lebhaft und auch überzeugend. Wahrhaft intelligente und geniale Cembalistin!

Absolutely beautiful! Thanks for posting! 🌹🦋🍀🌸🥰😊🎶🎹💐🎈👍😀

Christine Schornsheim really mastered the complexity and beauty of these two pieces!

So beautifully played🍃thank you

It's a joy to.listen to her ..

Christine plays beautifully

Out of this world beautiful -- bravissima!

Excellent. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Love it 💐💐💐💐

Loved listening to you play the most beautiful and soothing music so gentle soothing and relaxing Thank you 💃🏿🎹🎼🎶🎼🎶🎶🌹🙏♥️

Beautiful performance!

These masterworks are not mathematical exercises, they convey enormous emotional content, and this performer gets that content and delivers it.

Tres belle interprétation bravo Madame

Gratidão a todos 💐

Splendid !!! 💐💐💐

Toll gespielt!

Fantastic job guys! Great playing.

So good, and I love that something so eternally significant is being played somewhere so temporal as a basketball hall.

This touched me at first listen. It's a great sight reading testament and not just that it gives you the emotion and respect to both the prelude and fugue which hope is coming through at the very end

magnificient instrument very well played and recorded. Mrs Schornsheim plays from scanned sheet music on her tablet and uses a foot switch to turn the pages it seems?

This fugue is one of my favorites in book II - really like the interpretation here. It's also a great challenge to play yourself :)

bravissima!

Amazing!! :)

Nice!

I was so engrossed in the playing that I didn’t even realize she is playing in a gym!

God is in Heaven. All is right with the world. Bach played this well is a mental and psychological tune up.

This seems to be a somewhat unusual basketball hall! And it is obvious that other sorts of playing also is perfect in this hall❤

danke

The A-natural dissonance at 00:28 forms a minor-ninth with the bass, which in equal temperament is the harshest interval. But in well-tempered it sounds poignant. Chopin's favorite composer was Bach, and here in the prelude Bach sounds like Chopin.

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GREAT

What strength also in the game you play!

👍👍👍👍👍💯

The tablet app automatically turns pages. Does anyone know how it is called?

Ο ήχος του κλαβίχορδου έχει δωρική λιτότητα. Αν συνηθίσεις να ακούς τα έργα αυτά στο κλαβίχορδο, το πιάνο σου φαίνεται περιττό και πολύ φαντεζί! Η εκτέλεση όλων των κομματιών είναι εκπληκτική.

Grazie,lo studio e ora ho un quadro di come deve essere, bravissima

The 48: my daily bread

Отличная запись! Вдохновенное исполнение! Хотя мне до Баха как до луны, дерзну всё же предложить своё произведение: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mrmcq6eUvZmWinU.html

Wonderful music, wonderful rendition! An unrelated question: why do some harpsichords have two keyboards?

It's biurefor!

Nederland kent geen andere componist meer dan Bach.

the setting of the gym ruined it for me