We are putting this on the list of piano music that is too damn hard right now, but stuff I will eventually be able to play. Watch his hands after the first repeated section – what is going on is that he is alternating quickly between two sets of notes
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
Gotta catch them all, can you distinguish all 20 variations? 🙂 BWV 582/1: Passacaglia The passacaglia is in 3/4 time typical of the form. Bach’s ostinato comprises eight bars, which is unusual but not unheard of: an ostinato of the same length is used, for example, in Johann
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