Bach prelude

The fourth Prelude and Fugue from JS Bach’s first book of the Well Tempered Clavier is a work of rare beauty, and among the greatest masterpieces that this composer created.

Ian Barton Stewart playing and his paintings from 2007 to 2016 chosen by him to resonate with the music.

also one of the three most profound from book one.

I have commenced the prelude and fugue with video of me

The fugue is particularly fascinating with its conjunction of the horizontal (or earthly) and vertical (or spiritual) world.

Johann Sebastian Bach was appointed Thomaskantor of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, “the leading cantorate in Protestant Germany”, located in the mercantile city in the Electorate of Saxony.