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Roger Evans <[log in to unmask]>
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Roger Evans <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 1 Sep 2004 00:20:38 -0400
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On Aug 31, 2004, at 11:19 PM, Carl Schwartz wrote:

> I know the Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor are "married" though few
> organists
> seem to care. I play the fugue alone often paired with BWV 578.
>

I can't defend this with anything except personal feeling, but I have
NEVER liked to play the Fantasy and the Fugue together. I find that the
fugue, with all its individual personality (in my opinion almost
without peer even among Bach's works), is not complemented by the
Fantasy.


R.E.

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