Gustav Leonhardt ... my hero. In high school I got a harpsichord and went on to major in harpsichord in college. Leonhardt was the one I always went to when I wanted to hear reasoned yet animated performances. I actually saw Gustav Leonhardt in concert here in the U. S. and I knew I had been right in following his lead in my performing work.
La razionalità matematica diventa armonia dei suoni. Leonhardt maestro del clavicembalo, io strumento non facile da far esprimere e gradire alla sensibilità del nostro tempo. Ma il nostro è inarrivabile!
The Italian Concerto is probably my favorite Bach, and this is a great recording by a great master. I also have this on CD by Wanda Landowska from 1935/36, and Igor Kipnis from the early '60s. Many thanks for posting this.
As I listen to this again, Perfect! Perfect! The ending of that third movement... Wham! Bam! Bach you did it again. Why use any other ending when that ending is just magnificent.
Totally agree! Leonhardt had something about his playing that not even he himself could impart to his now, relatively famous students. Flamboyant? Maybe. But not without total consideration to the music, the composer or the age it was written in. I read one of his last interviews in GOLDBERG Magazine and even he didn't, or wouldn't, explain it. But all that matters are the results for which we shall enjoy forever.
Editores modernos costumam nomear movimentos de peças de J. S. Bach que não foram indicados pelo próprio compositor. Como neste caso, no primeiro movimento desta não há indicação de tempo no original. Leonhardt respeita o compositor e faz escola, diferentemente de muitos intérpretes que tocam o primeiro movimento em questão em velocidade extremamente grande! Para mim esta é a melhor versão encontrada!
Listen to Leonhardt and then go back and listen Gould. The first is musical and the other merely "technical" not to mention all out plain odd: i.e. Gould's obsession with humming along with his own playing. In Leonhardt's obit he's quoted as saying that first you read all the period treatises, practice and then forget them because it still comes down your own personal interpretation: "historically informed" but personal. THAT'S what modern pianists don't get.
If you love Maestro Bach's music, you will love the video biography on Netflix. French language with English subtitles. Here is its imdb.com listing:www.imdb.com/title/tt0377073/ One of the beauties of the film is its respectful treatment of the man's Christian faith and humility. When he signed his compositions, he penned M.G.D. (magister Gloria Deo -- "to the greater glory of God") as a subscript. Perseverance of Christian faith. Great man.
Not so sure about that. Paul Badura-Skoda, in his book on Bach's music on the keyboard, amasses quite a bit of evidence that the practice in Bach's day was to play quite a bit of music briskly. He gives evidence from many sources but to choose a striking example,surviving music boxes where the music is all played very fast.
Curious: Why does almost every pianist play the first movement faster than Leonhardt does here? I think even Richter plays it faster. Listening, I wonder whether there just isn't more to *say* in the first movement on the harpsichord and hence it can indeed work slower.
@BlueMaTiger Simple. "Modern" pianists are seemingly only interested in how fast they can play anything and they certainly don't approach Bach or any other Baroque composer from the point of being "historically informed" about the performance practices of that age. A lot of so-called "experts" from the early keyboard crowd don't even understand this. Hence they all end up playing Bach fast without any musicality including ignoring early fingering used when Bach wrote his music.
Ótima interpretação, embora, em minha opinião, o primeiro movimento esteja mais lento do que eu estou acostumado a ouvir. Mesmo não havendo indicação de movimento na partitura original, acredito ser mais plausível o Allegro. O terceiro movimento, um Presto, também ficou mais lento, mas, de qualquer maneira, ficou lindo assim mesmo. O segundo movimento é o meu favorito, uma das mais belas páginas da História da Música.
not really. in fact, Rubsam made dozens of recordings until 1980 with no rubato at all. then his more recent recording on Naxos (on piano and on organ) happens to have inegalité, good and bad notes, and so on. and I just found out another pianist who seems to know how to play Bach in a historically oriented way: Carl Saeger. I do recomend it!
Ignorant? Rather strong and personal don't you think? BTW, I personally don't like the "hum along with Glenn" approach to any music. And that's one of those "brilliant musicalities" that he incessantly did over and over again.
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Leonhardt was unequalled in the performance of Bach's keyboard works, in my opinion. I hope he won't be forgotten... Bruggen too...
Grande Bach, grande Leonhardt!!.....ora suonate assieme, assolutamente inimmaginabile la bellezza e la gioia che darete....
God Bless our vivid memories of Gustav Leonhardt! What playing.
Gustav Leonhardt ... my hero. In high school I got a harpsichord and went on to major in harpsichord in college. Leonhardt was the one I always went to when I wanted to hear reasoned yet animated performances. I actually saw Gustav Leonhardt in concert here in the U. S. and I knew I had been right in following his lead in my performing work.
La razionalità matematica diventa armonia dei suoni. Leonhardt maestro del clavicembalo, io strumento non facile da far esprimere e gradire alla sensibilità del nostro tempo. Ma il nostro è inarrivabile!
So safe SO SAFE and yet so FREE.
There's only one that absorbs and THROWS it out and away.....
LEONHARDT
for ever.
Sublimes música de J.S.Bach y pinturas de Caravaggio.
finally a harpsichord version on youtube, as it should be, much better than piano versions.
Thanks for upload it!
Adore this...may never play it again on the piano.
R.I.P. to the master.
The Italian Concerto is probably my favorite Bach, and this is a great recording by a great master. I also have this on CD by Wanda Landowska from 1935/36, and Igor Kipnis from the early '60s. Many thanks for posting this.
grossartig! sehr schönes tempo: ruhig und doch sehr lebendig.
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The great Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio painted them!
I had NO idea that would sound this amazing on harpsichord... I literally went to tears when it got to the presto part. BEAUTIFUL!!
As I listen to this again, Perfect! Perfect! The ending of that third movement... Wham! Bam! Bach you did it again. Why use any other ending when that ending is just magnificent.
Das ist das Geheimnis des "tempo giusto".
"Most pianists play Bach poorly not because they're ignorant but rather due to other shortcomings." But they DO play it poorly, regardless.
Totally agree! Leonhardt had something about his playing that not even he himself could impart to his now, relatively famous students. Flamboyant? Maybe. But not without total consideration to the music, the composer or the age it was written in. I read one of his last interviews in GOLDBERG Magazine and even he didn't, or wouldn't, explain it. But all that matters are the results for which we shall enjoy forever.
Editores modernos costumam nomear movimentos de peças de J. S. Bach que não foram indicados pelo próprio compositor. Como neste caso, no primeiro movimento desta não há indicação de tempo no original. Leonhardt respeita o compositor e faz escola, diferentemente de muitos intérpretes que tocam o primeiro movimento em questão em velocidade extremamente grande! Para mim esta é a melhor versão encontrada!
Listen to Leonhardt and then go back and listen Gould. The first is musical and the other merely "technical" not to mention all out plain odd: i.e. Gould's obsession with humming along with his own playing. In Leonhardt's obit he's quoted as saying that first you read all the period treatises, practice and then forget them because it still comes down your own personal interpretation: "historically informed" but personal. THAT'S what modern pianists don't get.
Many thanks for your feeback! I don't understand how this could happen. I've already changed the tempo indication.
If you love Maestro Bach's music, you will love the video biography on Netflix. French language with English subtitles. Here is its imdb.com listing:www.imdb.com/title/tt0377073/
One of the beauties of the film is its respectful treatment of the man's Christian faith and humility. When he signed his compositions, he penned M.G.D. (magister Gloria Deo -- "to the greater glory of God") as a subscript. Perseverance of Christian faith. Great man.
If bach was god?
he is...
Not so sure about that. Paul Badura-Skoda, in his book on Bach's music on the keyboard, amasses quite a bit of evidence that the practice in Bach's day was to play quite a bit of music briskly. He gives evidence from many sources but to choose a striking example,surviving music boxes where the music is all played very fast.
Curious: Why does almost every pianist play the first movement faster than Leonhardt does here? I think even Richter plays it faster. Listening, I wonder whether there just isn't more to *say* in the first movement on the harpsichord and hence it can indeed work slower.
@BlueMaTiger
Simple. "Modern" pianists are seemingly only interested in how fast they can play anything and they certainly don't approach Bach or any other Baroque composer from the point of being "historically informed" about the performance practices of that age. A lot of so-called "experts" from the early keyboard crowd don't even understand this. Hence they all end up playing Bach fast without any musicality including ignoring early fingering used when Bach wrote his music.
anyone know if this is the Leonhardt's Dulken?
What is the year of the recording? Thanx.
Rubsam plays so just because he is an organist.
Ótima interpretação, embora, em minha opinião, o primeiro movimento esteja mais lento do que eu estou acostumado a ouvir. Mesmo não havendo indicação de movimento na partitura original, acredito ser mais plausível o Allegro. O terceiro movimento, um Presto, também ficou mais lento, mas, de qualquer maneira, ficou lindo assim mesmo. O segundo movimento é o meu favorito, uma das mais belas páginas da História da Música.
not really. in fact, Rubsam made dozens of recordings until 1980 with no rubato at all. then his more recent recording on Naxos (on piano and on organ) happens to have inegalité, good and bad notes, and so on. and I just found out another pianist who seems to know how to play Bach in a historically oriented way: Carl Saeger. I do recomend it!
I enjoyed this performance very much indeed - and also the illustrations! Can anyone tell me please who painted them ? Many thanks!
Caravaggio! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio
Belatedly, my warmest thanks and best wishes, Allan
Why is the third movement labeled 'Allegro Vivace' when the Urtext score gives 'Presto' as the tempo indication?
Ah, Caravaggio; ever the cynical, roguish wiseass.
Bach = God
so fuckin' aaaaawweeessoooomme!
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To each his own, Nimrod.
chi ha messo il non mi piace????
Sicuramente qualche amante del reggaeton...
@@romanhugodiazg.1281 un “ somaro” . Peccato per lui
Ignorant? Rather strong and personal don't you think? BTW, I personally don't like the "hum along with Glenn" approach to any music. And that's one of those "brilliant musicalities" that he incessantly did over and over again.