I don't usually look at my Bach scores because I'm a slow reader (alas, I started playing at age 20, and I'm 72 now) and it takes a fair amount of time for me to learn one of his pieces. I just stumbled across this piece today when I grabbed an old book of inventions off the shelf and opened it from the back. And there was Sinfonia 15, so I tried it and found it staggeringly beautiful. It will take me a year to get anywhere presentable with it. But I just want to send along my best wishes and thanks for this video. Your love and feeling for the music comes through loud and clear, and is a welcome respite from the misery the world is going through right now.
Hello Boston Lover, thank you so much for your wonderful comment. This is a staggeringly beautiful piece, and I really appreciate your heartfelt words about the "love and feeling for the music coming through." More than ever, we can turn to the music of Bach to lift our spirits in this very troubling time. I wish you much joy with your practicing, and your communing with the divine voice of Bach.
Love how you quickly introduce every one of your lessons. A lot of youtube channels miss this but you nailed it and it makes you want to get started every time!
Dont agree with some comments below. Music is not a visual art, like a painting in a museum, never to be touched or altered. Its a living, breathing thing that needs interpretation. Personally I like the more expressive style Sally plays here. Its interesting that the harpsichord went extinct around 1790 as soon as the piano was invented. Its notable also that no single composer ever went back to that wretched instrument afterwards. The piano opened up so many new possibilities. Imo its wrong to say that Bach never wanted this new expression... we can only say that he was born just a bit too early to explore it.
Hello J Barry, thank you for your inspiring and supportive words. I appreciate your articulate commentary in favor of a more expressive and unconventional interpretation. I agree, it's highly likely that Bach would have happily explored the wide dynamic and expressive range of the piano had he lived another 40 years! Thank you for your thought provoking ideas. All best wishes to you.
Sally is an artist. You are a critic. It was understood in Baroque music that the player is the interpreter/artist. If Bachs has a modern piano he would have used it fully, just as Sally does. Turn your frown upside down.
Oh, your interpretation is very interesting for me! Bach is one of my favorite composers. This heavenly, divine harmony, melody and sound in the music by Bach is really unique thing!
Hello Juan, thank you so much for your heartfelt comment. I am very touched to read your words, and am glad you resonated with this lesson. All best wishes to you!
Thank you thank you wonderful you. You have shared so much passion and depth in your musical exploration. It feels amazing to have finally found someone who feels the beauty of this piece as I do.
Hello Caroline, thank you for your very kind words about the lesson. I appreciate hearing that you resonate with my passion and approach to this piece. I wish you the very best with your playing and your musical journey!
I just started to learn this Infonia, listening to you helps me a lot to play this beautiful piece of music. I bought your sheet music. Thank you, I really appreciate listening to you.
Hello Aline, thank you for your warm and very appreciated words! 💕I'm so glad that the video is helping you as you learn this beautiful piece. I am also delighted that you ordered your chart and now have the sheet music and analysis to work from! All best wishes to you with your playing and your journey with the piano. 🎵
@@SallyChristianMusic Hello Sally, I started to wach your video 2 years a go and I love it. You inspire me to play better at my piano. You are a great player! Your passion for music it's really great. I just had a new piano in my house, two weeks a go, a baby german grand piano. The technicien will come at my house this saturday to fix it. I am so happy to play on a good instrument, since 5 years I use to play on Yamaha Clavicimo electric piano. And, it,s not the same ! Thank You again for your passion for music, it,s an inspiration for me to watch your video!
@@alinevalade3964 Hello Aline, thank you for your kind and appreciated words about my playing and passion for the music. 🙏 I'm also happy you are watching the Sinfonia No. 15 Version II tutorial & performance. This 2022 lesson is more comprehensive than the 2013 Version, and I also prefer the interpretation. Congratulations on getting your new grand piano! It will make such a big difference for you to play an acoustic piano with its beautiful sound and touch. I wish the best to you with your playing, and many joyful hours with your new piano! 🎹🎵
You play beautifully. But why are you playing it like it's Chopin? These pieces were written for harpsichord which had no dynamic range no matter how hard or softly you pressed the keys. There was no crescendo or decrescendo in the original scoring so I don't understand why modern pianists add something that wasn't written in by Bach. All that said, good vid.
Commenting about what you say on dynamics: Bach’s keyboard music was not all written for harpsichord. There was another instrument in which Bach composed and played (even more so than the harpsichord) and that was the Clavichord. It has sensitivity to touch and you can make all the dynamic nuances you want. Playing a piece with zero crescendos, diminuendos and phrasing is playing unmusically. Also if you think that an absence of markings in the score means that you just play the notes flat, that’s very incorrect. There are amazing old books about the performance practices of those times, or you can even read what the sons of Bach themselves left written on performance.
Hello stelun56, thank you for your very kind words. Regarding the profound Sinfonia No. 9, I am learning it now and hope to make a tutorial for it in the future. BTW: I have just recorded a Version II Sinfonia No. 15 tutorial & performance that reflects a much different interpretation than this 2013 Version I. It will be uploaded soon. Best wishes to you! 🎵
Hello Verónica, thank you for your generous and much appreciated words about the lesson and performance. I'm so glad to know that you resonated with this approach, and that it was useful! Very best wishes to you and with your playing.
Hello appassionata sonata, thank you for your lovely words about my channel. I appreciate your imagery about the flowers and the commentary, too! Best wishes to you.
Hmm.. interesting theories on 9/16 time. You should be careful espousing theories when teaching that are not based on evidence or musicological research, especially now there has been so much light shed on baroque performance practice. Bach didn't write it in 3/4 because it would've been inappropriate for the tempo he wanted for the piece. According to Kirnberger (a student of Bach's) time signatures with a 16 denominator are presto not, as you suggest, "not too fast". Also these strange, fringe theories about spirituality and time signatures (9 being 3x3) are not based on anything more than (at best) speculation. Bach's time signatures had specific musical meanings. In regards to the choice of key, b minor is not really considered a dark key in the baroque period. According to Mattheson, it is "seldom used because it is bizarre and moody". These baroque perceptions on characteristics of keys were formed because keys had not been homogenised by modern equal temperament and some keys were less harmonically stable than others thereby giving a greater variety of colours across different keys than what we perceive today. We do not hear these characteristics on modern instruments but the composers choice of key can give us an insight into the mood they were striving to create.
Craig Lake "be quiet, you windbag." - couldn't agree more. Why not just relax your academic correctness for once and enjoy beauty when you see and hear it
I think we should start doing things a lil bit different. Always the same interpretations cause of the "Baroque era", it gets kind of boring. Her interpretations is different. Beautiful approach in which you learn to express something new. If these melodies can be expressed this way, why not? Peace.
Thank you for your wonderful comment & request! I will be continuing to make more teaching videos of the Bach Inventions and Sinfonias, as I so love this music!
This piece is normally without pedal and without rubato and this Bach sinfonia was not made for a lot of rubato like this ,I don’t really understand your thougts about this piece,it’s made for play like a study and with a regular tempo I think
Hello Arthur, thank you for your comment, which I agree with. This video was recorded 5 years ago in 2013. Since then, I have studied in depth many more Bach Inventions and Sinfonias. In the process, my views regarding pedaling and rubato in Bach have changed. You will hear minimal use of pedal and rubato in my more recent Bach teaching and performance videos. All best wishes to you.
Hello Water Fale, (what a lovely name!) thank you for your enthusiastic words! I'm very glad you liked the content and narrative approach of this lesson. All best wishes to you!
Hardly to hear anyone uses surgical method laying out the parts of music pieces . Thanks for the analysis to draw us near to Bach. Do you teach music? I want my kid to be your student.
Thank you for your very kind words! I really appreciate you saying that this method of analysis "draws us near to Bach." As far as taking new students, I now teach primarily through my RUclips videos. I wish the best to you and your child for a wonderful musical journey!
I just read all the comments, what people mean by to much pedal and rubato ? I don,t really understand what they mean...when I listening you playing I don't find that the pedal is to much, or the rubato...I will learn to play the piece and I will see with the pedal and the rubato.
Hello Aline, thank you for your thoughtful comment and question about the use of pedal and rubato when playing Bach. I have taken this subject and the comments to heart and have given it a great deal of thought since I made this tutorial 9 years ago. In the years from then to now, I have continued to study the works of Bach and made many more Bach tutorial videos and chart packages. With this work, my views have changed, and today I use very little pedal and rubato when I play Bach. The keyboard instruments Bach had available to him were the harpsichord, clavichord, and the organ. None of these instruments had the damper pedal that our modern day piano has. For this reason, some people think that Bach should also be played with absolutely no pedal, or perhaps not played on the modern day piano at all. The subject of rubato is more subjective. While I prefer less rubato today than what you hear in this 2013 video, I still believe that some rubato is acceptable if done with discretion. Subtle rubato is a natural part of playing expressively and “breathing” the phrases as a singer, string, or woodwind player would do when playing Bach. Last year in 2022, I made a Version II performance & tutorial video of Sinfonia No. 15 with a more comprehensive lesson and expanded chart package, including the Color Structural Analysis which you now have! You will hear in this 2022 Version II that I use very little pedal or rubato. To compare the two versions, please click on this link: ruclips.net/video/_FbSRsfC_J4/видео.html Best wishes to you!
@@SallyChristianMusic Thank You Sally for this great respond! I will watch that video you made with a lot of attention. I started to learn this piece last week, I am working on it, and I see my teacher tomorow, so your suggestions and his will help me to play that sublime piece of piano music form Bach in a good way, I hope!
@@alinevalade3964 Thank you Aline. I hope my recent 2022 tutorial Version II of this piece along with your teacher's guidance will help you as you learn this sublime piece. I send all best wishes to you and your teacher, and much joy to you with your playing! 🎵
@@SallyChristianMusic I never really got into the inventions and hardly sinfonias in all my years casually dabbling with Bach keyboard works, but you inspired me to give this one a serious go. It's a piece with what I imagine as lively cavalry rally trumpet riffs in between what you relate as heartbeats. 😉
@@joeblue6325 Hello Joe, I'm glad to hear you are going to give this one a try. With this sinfonia in particular, there is a wide range of interpretative possibilities for tempi and character. I have changed many of my ideas regarding these since making this video 7 years ago, and will be making a version II that reflects this. Our growth and development are an ongoing process. I wish you all the best with your practicing and musical journey!
Hello Aditi, thank you for your respectful comment. You are correct, there is rubato here. Since this video was recorded 8 years ago, I have changed my thinking, and now use very little rubato when playing Bach. You can hear this difference in the Bach teaching and performance videos I have made in the last several years.
Hello what_should_I_call_myself? This video was recorded 9 years ago and does not reflect how I would play or teach this piece today. I am planning to record a Version 2 tutorial of Sinfonia No. 15, and will use very little pedal or rubato if any. In my more recent Bach teaching / performance videos, you can hear how little pedal or rubato I use now. Thank you for your question, and best wishes to you.
Hello Fang, this lesson was recorded almost 8 years ago. At that time, I was using much more pedal and rubato for Bach than I do now. Over the years I have come to prefer much less rubato and pedal. You will hear these differences in many of my more recent Bach teaching videos. I am planning to make another teaching video for Sinfonia No. 15 that will reflect these changes as well. Best wishes to you.
too much pedal there is only a few measures with pedal and its bach not chopin a little bit faster is better and keep the same speed the whole piece you are going fast slow fast slow which sounds great but keeping it the same speed sounds better. bach never wrote that the first note was longer that the second. Again, its bach not chopin chopin sounds like that bach sound more clean and simple. Bach sounds clean not a lot of pedal and mostly the same speed
I loved this teaching video, thank you very much! There is just one thing, my mind is now divided... 50% of me says "wow, what a great performance, i loved it!" 50% says "noo!! too much pedaal! too much rubato! thats Bach and not Chopin!" now i'll have to struggle with that thought for a long time before deciding which one to follow in my performance. Again, thank you
Hello Clara, thank you for your comment, which I agree with. I have changed my ideas and approach to Sinfonia No. 15 since this 2013 version. Today I would play it differently, and would use less pedal and rubato.
Oh, your interpretation is very interesting for me! Bach is one of my favorite composers. This heavenly, divine harmony, melody and sound in the music by Bach is really unique thing!
I don't usually look at my Bach scores because I'm a slow reader (alas, I started playing at age 20, and I'm 72 now) and it takes a fair amount of time for me to learn one of his pieces. I just stumbled across this piece today when I grabbed an old book of inventions off the shelf and opened it from the back. And there was Sinfonia 15, so I tried it and found it staggeringly beautiful. It will take me a year to get anywhere presentable with it. But I just want to send along my best wishes and thanks for this video. Your love and feeling for the music comes through loud and clear, and is a welcome respite from the misery the world is going through right now.
Hello Boston Lover, thank you so much for your wonderful comment. This is a staggeringly beautiful piece, and I really appreciate your heartfelt words about the "love and feeling for the music coming through." More than ever, we can turn to the music of Bach to lift our spirits in this very troubling time. I wish you much joy with your practicing, and your communing with the divine voice of Bach.
Staggeringly beautiful. Perfectly describing both the performer of this video and this piece of music. I love her description of the heartbeat motif.
Love how you quickly introduce every one of your lessons. A lot of youtube channels miss this but you nailed it and it makes you want to get started every time!
Dont agree with some comments below. Music is not a visual art, like a painting in a museum, never to be touched or altered. Its a living, breathing thing that needs interpretation. Personally I like the more expressive style Sally plays here. Its interesting that the harpsichord went extinct around 1790 as soon as the piano was invented. Its notable also that no single composer ever went back to that wretched instrument afterwards. The piano opened up so many new possibilities. Imo its wrong to say that Bach never wanted this new expression... we can only say that he was born just a bit too early to explore it.
Hello J Barry, thank you for your inspiring and supportive words. I appreciate your articulate commentary in favor of a more expressive and unconventional interpretation. I agree, it's highly likely that Bach would have happily explored the wide dynamic and expressive range of the piano had he lived another 40 years! Thank you for your thought provoking ideas. All best wishes to you.
Why does she use pedal and rubato???
Sally is an artist. You are a critic. It was understood in Baroque music that the player is the interpreter/artist. If Bachs has a modern piano he would have used it fully, just as Sally does. Turn your frown upside down.
Sally, Very nice teaching. Performance sounds really rubato, pretty unusual but very nice to hear, clear and sensitive. Thanks for this nice lesson.
Thank you, Philippe, for your kind words which I appreciate hearing. My best wishes to you!
Oh, your interpretation is very interesting for me! Bach is one of my favorite composers. This heavenly, divine harmony, melody and sound in the music by Bach is really unique thing!
A trick: you can watch movies at Kaldrostream. Me and my gf have been using them for watching lots of of movies these days.
@Clay Onyx Yea, been watching on KaldroStream for since december myself =)
@Clay Onyx yup, been watching on kaldroStream for months myself :D
Tears running down my face. Thank you so much Sally.
Hello Juan, thank you so much for your heartfelt comment. I am very touched to read your words, and am glad you resonated with this lesson.
All best wishes to you!
One day I hope to play this as fast as Glenn Gould has... It has such an *epic* quality to it while played at such an insanely high speed!
Faster isn’t always better…!
You are exceptional :) Thanks so much for you great contributions (I bought your Albeniz cd as a thank you). Please continue sharing you talents!
Your teaching and performing was fabulous!!
Hello Ryan, thank you for your very nice words. I'm glad you liked the lesson & the performance. Best wishes to you and with your playing!
Please do more Bach videos! I love all of them :)
Thank you thank you wonderful you. You have shared so much passion and depth in your musical exploration. It feels amazing to have finally found someone who feels the beauty of this piece as I do.
Hello Caroline, thank you for your very kind words about the lesson. I appreciate hearing that you resonate with my passion and approach to this piece. I wish you the very best with your playing and your musical journey!
What a beautiful woman who plays the piano
Very best interpretation Sally. Well done!!! Congratulations.
Hello Marcio, thank you for your generous and much appreciated words. Best wishes to you!
I just started to learn this Infonia, listening to you helps me a lot to play this beautiful piece of music. I bought your sheet music. Thank you, I really appreciate listening to you.
Hello Aline, thank you for your warm and very appreciated words! 💕I'm so glad that the video is helping you as you learn this beautiful piece. I am also delighted that you ordered your chart and now have the sheet music and analysis to work from!
All best wishes to you with your playing and your journey with the piano. 🎵
@@SallyChristianMusic Hello Sally, I started to wach your video 2 years a go and I love it. You inspire me to play better at my piano. You are a great player! Your passion for music it's really great. I just had a new piano in my house, two weeks a go, a baby german grand piano. The technicien will come at my house this saturday to fix it. I am so happy to play on a good instrument, since 5 years I use to play on Yamaha Clavicimo electric piano. And, it,s not the same ! Thank You again for your passion for music, it,s an inspiration for me to watch your video!
@@alinevalade3964 Hello Aline, thank you for your kind and appreciated words about my playing and passion for the music. 🙏 I'm also happy you are watching the Sinfonia No. 15 Version II tutorial & performance. This 2022 lesson is more comprehensive than the 2013 Version, and I also prefer the interpretation. Congratulations on getting your new grand piano! It will make such a big difference for you to play an acoustic piano with its beautiful sound and touch. I wish the best to you with your playing, and many joyful hours with your new piano! 🎹🎵
You play beautifully. But why are you playing it like it's Chopin? These pieces were written for harpsichord which had no dynamic range no matter how hard or softly you pressed the keys. There was no crescendo or decrescendo in the original scoring so I don't understand why modern pianists add something that wasn't written in by Bach. All that said, good vid.
Corn Fed Because she has a piano and she's inspired! xD
You mean Bach right
Commenting about what you say on dynamics: Bach’s keyboard music was not all written for harpsichord. There was another instrument in which Bach composed and played (even more so than the harpsichord) and that was the Clavichord. It has sensitivity to touch and you can make all the dynamic nuances you want. Playing a piece with zero crescendos, diminuendos and phrasing is playing unmusically. Also if you think that an absence of markings in the score means that you just play the notes flat, that’s very incorrect. There are amazing old books about the performance practices of those times, or you can even read what the sons of Bach themselves left written on performance.
In Europe we play Bach without a pedal, it sounds more transparent.
@miki milane *boring people
All the thumbs-up responders know you're a true artist, and understand your artistic insights and depth.
Never lose that path!
:)
Hello Joe, thank you for your thoughtful and kind words. I really appreciate your support and generosity of spirit. :-)
All best wishes to you. 🎶
Thank you for your teaching it's really helpful you are playing very beautifully impressed
you play lovely sally, I'm learning this pieces using your lessons. Thanks!!
Hello Raul, thank you for your very kind words. I wish you all the best and much joy as you learn this piece!
Hello wonderful pianist, do you have a tutorial for Bach's 9th Sinfonia?
Hello stelun56, thank you for your very kind words. Regarding the profound Sinfonia No. 9, I am learning it now and hope to make a tutorial for it in the future. BTW: I have just recorded a Version II Sinfonia No. 15 tutorial & performance that reflects a much different interpretation than this 2013 Version I. It will be uploaded soon. Best wishes to you! 🎵
Thank You! Your aproach and your performace are originals , exceptionals, and very useful for me!
Hello Verónica, thank you for your generous and much appreciated words about the lesson and performance. I'm so glad to know that you resonated with this approach, and that it was useful! Very best wishes to you and with your playing.
Very insightful channel. Love all the flowers and commentary you get here.
Hello appassionata sonata, thank you for your lovely words about my channel. I appreciate your imagery about the flowers and the commentary, too! Best wishes to you.
Lovey!! Thank you!
Hello Alex, thank you for your very kind and much appreciated words! Best wishes to you! 🎵
Very sensitive, intuitive, imaginative and intelligent interpretation! I look at this piece with a totally fresh inspiration, now. Thanks.
Hello QTF818, thank you for your thoughtful, generous, and much appreciated words! All best wishes to you.
Hmm.. interesting theories on 9/16 time. You should be careful espousing theories when teaching that are not based on evidence or musicological research, especially now there has been so much light shed on baroque performance practice. Bach didn't write it in 3/4 because it would've been inappropriate for the tempo he wanted for the piece. According to Kirnberger (a student of Bach's) time signatures with a 16 denominator are presto not, as you suggest, "not too fast". Also these strange, fringe theories about spirituality and time signatures (9 being 3x3) are not based on anything more than (at best) speculation. Bach's time signatures had specific musical meanings. In regards to the choice of key, b minor is not really considered a dark key in the baroque period. According to Mattheson, it is "seldom used because it is bizarre and moody". These baroque perceptions on characteristics of keys were formed because keys had not been homogenised by modern equal temperament and some keys were less harmonically stable than others thereby giving a greater variety of colours across different keys than what we perceive today. We do not hear these characteristics on modern instruments but the composers choice of key can give us an insight into the mood they were striving to create.
be quiet, you windbag.
Craig Lake "be quiet, you windbag." - couldn't agree more. Why not just relax your academic correctness for once and enjoy beauty when you see and hear it
Craig Lake I agree
I think we should start doing things a lil bit different. Always the same interpretations cause of the "Baroque era", it gets kind of boring. Her interpretations is different. Beautiful approach in which you learn to express something new. If these melodies can be expressed this way, why not?
Peace.
I like hearing what everyone has to say and share if they have knowledge of interest like Lachlan. That's how we develop.
Thank you for your wonderful comment & request! I will be continuing to make more teaching videos of the Bach Inventions and Sinfonias, as I so love this music!
This piece is normally without pedal and without rubato and this Bach sinfonia was not made for a lot of rubato like this ,I don’t really understand your thougts about this piece,it’s made for play like a study and with a regular tempo I think
Hello Arthur, thank you for your comment, which I agree with. This video was recorded 5 years ago in 2013. Since then, I have studied in depth many more Bach Inventions and Sinfonias. In the process, my views regarding pedaling and rubato in Bach have changed. You will hear minimal use of pedal and rubato in my more recent Bach teaching and performance videos. All best wishes to you.
SallyChristianMusic thank you for your answer,you have in any case a real talent and a breathtaking interpretation
Have a good day
Arthur
Thank you, Arthur!
I'm playing it right now! It's a great piece, but i think Schiff has got the best interpretation
If you have the facility why not try to include all the notes as rapidly as you can? A steady beat makes sure you understand this.
truly amazing! I love your explanation, you make it seem like an entire narrative :-)
Hello Water Fale, (what a lovely name!) thank you for your enthusiastic words! I'm very glad you liked the content and narrative approach of this lesson. All best wishes to you!
Hardly to hear anyone uses surgical method laying out the parts of music pieces . Thanks for the analysis to draw us near to Bach. Do you teach music? I want my kid to be your student.
Thank you for your very kind words! I really appreciate you saying that this method of analysis "draws us near to Bach." As far as taking new students, I now teach primarily through my RUclips videos. I wish the best to you and your child for a wonderful musical journey!
I just read all the comments, what people mean by to much pedal and rubato ? I don,t really understand what they mean...when I listening you playing I don't find that the pedal is to much, or the rubato...I will learn to play the piece and I will see with the pedal and the rubato.
Hello Aline, thank you for your thoughtful comment and question about the use of pedal and rubato when playing Bach. I have taken this subject and the comments to heart and have given it a great deal of thought since I made this tutorial 9 years ago. In the years from then to now, I have continued to study the works of Bach and made many more Bach tutorial videos and chart packages. With this work, my views have changed, and today I use very little pedal and rubato when I play Bach.
The keyboard instruments Bach had available to him were the harpsichord, clavichord, and the organ. None of these instruments had the damper pedal that our modern day piano has. For this reason, some people think that Bach should also be played with absolutely no pedal, or perhaps not played on the modern day piano at all.
The subject of rubato is more subjective. While I prefer less rubato today than what you hear in this 2013 video, I still believe that some rubato is acceptable if done with discretion. Subtle rubato is a natural part of playing expressively and “breathing” the phrases as a singer, string, or woodwind player would do when playing Bach. Last year in 2022, I made a Version II performance & tutorial video of Sinfonia No. 15 with a more comprehensive lesson and expanded chart package, including the Color Structural Analysis which you now have! You will hear in this 2022 Version II that I use very little pedal or rubato. To compare the two versions, please click on this link: ruclips.net/video/_FbSRsfC_J4/видео.html
Best wishes to you!
@@SallyChristianMusic Thank You Sally for this great respond! I will watch that video you made with a lot of attention. I started to learn this piece last week, I am working on it, and I see my teacher tomorow, so your suggestions and his will help me to play that sublime piece of piano music form Bach in a good way, I hope!
@@alinevalade3964 Thank you Aline. I hope my recent 2022 tutorial Version II of this piece along with your teacher's guidance will help you as you learn this sublime piece. I send all best wishes to you and your teacher, and much joy to you with your playing! 🎵
no pedal with bach... >:/
Nice, this was really helpful..
Thank you, Hakon. I'm really glad the lesson was helpful!
amazing!
Thank you!
To romantic
Your students must feel lucky and inspired after your lessons.
Hello Joe, thank you for your very kind and gracious words. All best wishes to you.
@@SallyChristianMusic I never really got into the inventions and hardly sinfonias in all my years casually dabbling with Bach keyboard works, but you inspired me to give this one a serious go. It's a piece with what I imagine as lively cavalry rally trumpet riffs in between what you relate as heartbeats. 😉
@@joeblue6325 Hello Joe, I'm glad to hear you are going to give this one a try. With this sinfonia in particular, there is a wide range of interpretative possibilities for tempi and character. I have changed many of my ideas regarding these since making this video 7 years ago, and will be making a version II that reflects this. Our growth and development are an ongoing process. I wish you all the best with your practicing and musical journey!
@@SallyChristianMusic thanks 😊, growth and revising are essential artist qualities.
@@joeblue6325 Thank you for your wise and affirming words!
Thx
You're welcome, and best wishes to you!
I like it teacher，I hope I will do best in my grade seven piano ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much for your kind words! I wish you all the best with practicing and performing your grade seven piano pieces!
@@SallyChristianMusic Thank you❤️❤️❤️❤️
Do I sense a rubato here? But is this not the Baroque period?
Hello Aditi, thank you for your respectful comment. You are correct, there is rubato here. Since this video was recorded 8 years ago, I have changed my thinking, and now use very little rubato when playing Bach. You can hear this difference in the Bach teaching and performance videos I have made in the last several years.
Are you meant to use this much rubato and pedal?
Hello what_should_I_call_myself? This video was recorded 9 years ago and does not reflect how I would play or teach this piece today. I am planning to record a Version 2 tutorial of Sinfonia No. 15, and will use very little pedal or rubato if any. In my more recent Bach teaching / performance videos, you can hear how little pedal or rubato I use now. Thank you for your question, and best wishes to you.
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Thank you!
The tempo looked and sounded wrong please say why
Hello Fang, this lesson was recorded almost 8 years ago. At that time, I was using much more pedal and rubato for Bach than I do now. Over the years I have come to prefer much less rubato and pedal. You will hear these differences in many of my more recent Bach teaching videos. I am planning to make another teaching video for Sinfonia No. 15 that will reflect these changes as well. Best wishes to you.
fabulous teaching
Thank you for your kind words, Dominga!
too much pedal there is only a few measures with pedal and its bach not chopin a little bit faster is better and keep the same speed the whole piece you are going fast slow fast slow which sounds great but keeping it the same speed sounds better. bach never wrote that the first note was longer that the second. Again, its bach not chopin chopin sounds like that bach sound more clean and simple. Bach sounds clean not a lot of pedal and mostly the same speed
Gwyneth Liu
Bach by dominatrix:)
I loved this teaching video, thank you very much! There is just one thing, my mind is now divided... 50% of me says "wow, what a great performance, i loved it!" 50% says "noo!! too much pedaal! too much rubato! thats Bach and not Chopin!" now i'll have to struggle with that thought for a long time before deciding which one to follow in my performance. Again, thank you
Bruno Bartolomasi Don't struggle, just play it like Bach
4:40
Sally, I'm still waiting for my tutorial in Spanish, please.
What the heck?!
Va a estar difícil. Tendrás que aprender inglés jajajaja
sounds a bit romantic.... not quite like bach
Hello Clara, thank you for your comment, which I agree with. I have changed my ideas and approach to Sinfonia No. 15 since this 2013 version. Today I would play it differently, and would use less pedal and rubato.
Oh, your interpretation is very interesting for me! Bach is one of my favorite composers. This heavenly, divine harmony, melody and sound in the music by Bach is really unique thing!