About this work
The Fugue in C minor develops a theme associated with Giovanni Legrenzi within broad polyphony. The subject retains its profile throughout the entries, while counter-lines and changes of register continually alter its light. The task is to hear that continuity without making the pulse rigid.
Episodes extract fragments of the material, move them through sequences and prepare new combinations. Cadences divide the journey without fully closing the discourse. The pedal part joins the construction as an independent voice and becomes especially important when the texture expands into the lower register.
Locate the subject, its answers and the principal episodes before settling changes of manual. Practise the manual voices in groups, then add the pedals at a reduced tempo. This version should be studied in its own right: the neighbouring record devoted to the variant preserves another state of the music, not a simple duplicate.
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