เสาตอม่อ: Bach: Invention 5 (Eb major)

Invention Playlist: www.youtube.com This is the most technically difficult of all 15 Inventions. It is not my favorite musically (no. 9 is), but much can be learned through practicing and eventually mastering its technical difficulties. I have to admit I split hairs over this recording and it was by far the hardest Invention to record because it is like "walking on egg shells". Making a good recording is not just about PLAYING the right notes, but rather HOW the right notes are played. Like many of Bach's allegros, this Invention is usually played too fast. It has Bach's most common allegro of 84 bpm which is plenty fast if one makes audible all the articulative details. This Invention is more difficult to play at a controlled allegro like 84 bpm than at 19th-century or Czerny allegros as often heard. **************************************** This second recording of Bach's Inventions wasdone on December 29 and 30 instead of just one night as in my first recordings (the ones with the Greek column in the background). In these new interpretations I have kept all the same tempos but have changed the articulation in some of them. One can play these Inventions infinite ways, yet there is only one correct tempo. Some viewers have become offended claiming that I think my "way" is the only way to play Bach. This is false reasoning because "tempo" is not the same as "way". To illustrate this, imagine 100 performers playing the same Invention at the same or similar tempos. It is ...