Bastille Day, BWV 859

A favorite P&F, today’s F# minor from WTCI.  This is one of those P&F’s that make the whole Well-Tempered Project worthwhile.  The fugue possesses a quiet intensity that makes me think better thoughts, puts my mind in order.  No wonder the fugue was featured on “32 Short Films about Glenn Gould,” presented in a meditative and strangely appropriate cartoon of rolling balls that divide and re-join.