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Prelude, English Suite No. 2, BWV 807 is a piece by Johann Sebastian Bach from the Baroque era. PlayPiano puts it at Level 8, an estimate.
- keyboard work on piano
- Baroque
- Key of A minor
- dancing
- stormy
- hand independence
- scales runs
Also known as BWV 807: The English Suites II, Prelude; English Suite II Prelude: as inspired by Pogorelich; J. S. Bach; Prelude from English Suite No. 2 in A minor, BWV 807.
History
A stream of small notes drives the movement forward. Find the larger pulse so that the passagework does not become a string of equal accents. This source uses modern piano instrumentation and acknowledges inspiration from a performance, not note-for-note equivalence with it.
Sources
How to practise it
- Practise the encoded lines separately, then combine them while preserving their different rhythms.
- Group the rapid written figures into small gestures before linking them into longer phrases.
How hard is it
Opening sixteenth-note motion continues into active lower material; 164 encoded measures and more than 3,200 notes make fluency and sustained independence the central advanced demands.
About this piece
- Licence
- cc-zero
- Source
- musescore.com
More by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Prelude in C major, BWV 846Level 4, estimatedOpen to everyone
- Two-Part Invention No. 1 in C major, BWV 772Level 5, estimatedWith Maestro
- Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971: III. PrestoLevel 9, estimatedWith Maestro
