Johann Schneider, Präludium und Fuge, g moll
This is my entry for the Secrets of Organ Playing contest, week 23.
Another personal challenge: play a prelude and fugue in one go. Admittedly, it is a short one (a little over 5 minutes) and my performance is certainly not error free. Nevertheless, I'm quite proud on the result. I approached it as if it were a live concert. In a concert you don't stop and start over. So, I did not in this performance either. In the prelude I play in bar 23 very wrong notes, yet managed to keep the flow of the music, and hopefully make it sound like they are the intended notes. The mistakes in the fugue are more prominent, regrettably. Yet I'm learning and start to get more confident in my playing and I enjoy that very much!
The recording was done with the Hauptwerk software and the sampleset, made by Voxus, of the Matthijs van Deventer-orgel in the Grote Kerk, Nijkerk (https://www.voxusorgans.com/en/product/nijkerk).
For more background on Johann Schneider and a complete edition of his (regretably very few) remaining organ works, visit my website: http://partitura.org/index.php/johann-schneider-organ-works-mus-ms-30377/
I also record my improvisations in one take. For compositions I usually do 3 takes and choose the best. Congratulations on being able to do it in one week and play it live!
Treating it as a live concert in some way removes the stress of recording multiple times for a good take. Well done.
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It's learning to cope with the stress that makes it a valuable learning experiment for me.
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You’re right. Sometimes I think a live performance is less stressful. You can’t change the past and what’s done is done. But recording on video makes you always aware of what will be captured for viewing multiple times!
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