He returns to the series this Sunday to play the 48 preludes and fugues of Bach.
I shall now play the famous 'Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.'
They heard a crackle and hiss, and then the sounds of an organ playing the Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
And there were rooms full of arrangements of crystals and fountains, playing exquisitely complicated fugues composed by members of the family, some living, some dead.
Though not required by competition regulations, she had come prepared to play any of the 48 preludes and fugues of The Well-Tempered Clavier on request.
Tonight Steven Beck, a pianist, plays preludes and fugues by Bach and Shostakovich.
The composer sits down at an old organ and plays the Bach Prelude and Fugue in A Minor.
She played him her favorite,Toccata and Fugue in D Minor , an ancient piece meant for the omnichora's predecessor, the organ.
He listened carefully, eyes closed, as the or-ganist played the recessional, Bach's brilliant Prelude and Fugue in D Minor.
Skade played lightning-fast one-handed fugues on a holoclavier, her gauntleted fingers becoming a blur of metal as quick and lethal as threshing machinery.