🇩🇪Johann Sebastian Bach ： Well-Tempered Clavier II no.5 D-Dur BWV 874

No. 5 from Book II is best appreciated as a pair consisting of a prelude and a fugue. In the prelude, flowing musical motion moves across the registers, while the exchange between voices and harmonic changes shape the music. In the ensuing fugue, the subject appears successively in the different voices, and the overlapping imitative entries create tension and forward momentum. In the prelude, keep the pulse moving while bringing out each voice lightly and distinctly; in the fugue, present the subject clearly without allowing the other voices to be obscured. Keeping the sound transparent and shaping the direction of each phrase toward its cadences will make the structure easier to follow.