🇩🇪Johann Sebastian Bach ： Fantasia g-moll BWV 917

Centered on two subjects, this fantasia unfolds through the exchange of melodic lines, imitation, and contrapuntal writing. Listening to the ways the subjects appear and to how the material changes as the music progresses reveals a sense of formal unity within its free-ranging ideas. In performance, it is important to make each voice’s entrance clear and to keep the melodic hierarchy while shaping the inner parts lightly. Supporting the flow of the beat without rushing, and responding to phrase divisions and harmonic changes, brings out the music’s momentum and tension. Ornaments and smaller figures should not be treated mechanically; they should be articulated naturally without interrupting the flow of the subjects.