Bach - Toccata in E minor BWV 914 - Jacobs | Netherlands Bach Society

The Toccata in E minor, performed by Bart Jacobs for All of Bach, ends with a brilliant fugue, which bears a strong resemblance to an anonymous Italian piece. Although Bach often arranged Italian concertos and also borrowed the occasional fugue theme from the Italians, he never adopted a whole fugue. But maybe it was the other way around and the anonymous Italian copied the fugue from Bach, or both composers based their piece on a lost original. We will probably never know for certain. Incidentally, Bach’s version of the fugue is ‘better’, but that is hardly surprising from the world champion fugue writer. Recorded for the project All of Bach on March 23rd 2017 at Eikevliet, Belgium. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel and consider donating For the interview with harpsichordist Bart Jacobs on the Toccata in E minor go to For more information on BWV 914 and this pro