Nothing gives way. The music never yields.
Bach’s Prelude in A minor, BWV 865 sustains a single, unbroken character from beginning to end — a texture that remains fixed even as the harmony shifts beneath it.
The result is extraordinary control: tension without release, motion without change of surface.
Presented with a scrolling score, allowing the structure to be followed as it unfolds.
Performed by Robert Costin on the Metzler organ of Trinity College, Cambridge.
J. S. Bach (1685–1750)
Prelude in A minor, BWV 865
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
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