
Sam Post
Washington DC–area pianist and composer, piano faculty at Levine Music, known for his rhythmic reimagining of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (The Well-"Tampered" Clavier) with Ralitza Patcheva.
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Mar 17, 2026
The Well-TAMPERED Clavier: A rhythmic reimagining of JS Bach by Sam Post
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20:21John BantherHOST
So how long was this... process from start to finish? Was it like an intentional, I'm starting this project? Or was it just kind of a slow thing you just did and then suddenly it came together?

Sam PostGUEST
Yeah, so what actually happened, how it came about, I, you know, I wrote a couple pieces of my own, which actually I think you've heard the syncopated suite, which I wrote and Braulitzer performed.

Sam PostGUEST
And this was a kind of Baroque style piece with syncopations and with different rhythms, but not based on Bach's writing.

Sam PostGUEST
But then after that, I thought, oh, well, maybe if I play a Bach suite and kind of take the same approach, like I wonder what would happen with that.

Sam PostGUEST
So I kind of started changing the rhythm in the Bach suites on the repeats to start with.

Sam PostGUEST
And then I thought, well, if I can do it on a Bach suite, why not try it with the preludes and fugues? So the first time I did that was in, I think, early 2021 or maybe over the summer.
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39:57John BantherHOST
Well, are we missing anything about this? Is there anything about this music that we've not talked about or that you think people should maybe know or explore afterwards, after they hear this recording?