BWV 1004 - Chaconne (Scrolling)

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  • Опубликовано: 11 ноя 2024

Комментарии • 145

  • @Albacoide
    @Albacoide 4 года назад +41

    This piece truly speaks to your soul. I can feel the sorrow, anger, confusion, resignation... above all, I can get a sense of how much he loved his wife. I'm deeply moved everytime I hear this =*( . And to acheive all this with only a violin... Bach was something out of this world.

  • @Gabry2138
    @Gabry2138 12 лет назад +43

    One among the absolute masterpieces of the human history.

  • @verdecillo9940
    @verdecillo9940 7 лет назад +82

    I think Johannes Brahms summed it up nicely when he wrote: "...schreibt der Mann [Bach] eine ganze Welt von tiefsten Gedanken und gewaltigsten Empfindungen. Wollte ich mir vorstellen, ich hätte das Stück [die Chaconne] machen, empfangen können, ich weiß sicher, die übergroße Aufregung und Erschütterung hätte mich verrückt gemacht. (“…the man [Bach] writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece [the chaconne], I know for sure that the excess of excitement and shock would have driven me crazy.”)

    • @bargledargle7941
      @bargledargle7941 Месяц назад

      I wonder why this piece is so esteemed, listening to it - it just sounds like repeating chords and then sometimes it changes, goes to major maybe or whatever...

    • @verdecillo9940
      @verdecillo9940 Месяц назад

      @@bargledargle7941 Hmm, you either didn't listen to the whole piece or you simply dissent from the great majority of musicologists and lovers of classical composition. (Either way, it's fine- you are certainly welcome to your opinion).

    • @bargledargle7941
      @bargledargle7941 Месяц назад

      @@verdecillo9940 I listened to the piece, I just don't understand what is good about it. I didn't see anything that points out anything that says that it's good. The only reasoning provided is mainly "It's very intense". Or "It's cool to me". With Bach fugues they provide actual reasoning not just "because it's cool"

  • @helloworld-ji8wm
    @helloworld-ji8wm 7 лет назад +59

    That last final d is so deep and impressive. For me this piece represents everything a human life is filled with and can be described as. I imagine the last few bars as being what it sounds like to die and the d at the end as the final bell stroke and the soul being brought to heaven and eternal piece.

    • @ulisescervantes
      @ulisescervantes 4 года назад +2

      I find it impressive too, but to me it sounds like "resignation in pain"

    • @fatitankeris6327
      @fatitankeris6327 3 года назад

      That D stands for "dead" then?

    • @Ciaccona255
      @Ciaccona255 3 года назад +3

      Absolutely . Beautifully said my friend. Chaconne changed my life it Saved my life. It cured me from my mental and emotional disease. Thank you Bach for saving my life and giving me hope to continue 🙏🙏

  • @sormu16
    @sormu16 9 лет назад +151

    This is Bach's original handwriting, which I for this piece see for the first time. I never knew he just wrote "Arpeggio" at 4:50, giving chords only, and leaving to the musician how to play the notes.
    The interpreters over time mostly seem to play .-'-.-'-.-'-., except for the change in style at 5:12 to ...-'''-...-'''- which only some players do.
    This is such an excellent performance.
    The piece has been my religion for 30 years.

    • @rawxsa
      @rawxsa 9 лет назад +14

      sormu16 The Performers of the time of Bach, were expected to know and do this on the spot. Composers not just Bach did this. This is how Figure Bass began it's way in music. This is also something we see in Keyboard parts in Baroque operas and concertos of the time. This "Basso Continuo" was a way for the keyboard player to show their diversity but in all reality the composers did this because they knew the person playing this would have to know the rules of part writing and also be a virtuoso player. "No pressure" right ...? hahaha anyways it was awesome you noticed it...

    • @leonardopaoletti3940
      @leonardopaoletti3940 9 лет назад +3

      +raul facundo indeed, most indications on scores were put there later by scholars and professors. Baroque composers rarely indicated anything on the way the piece was to be performed, let alone fingerings etc..

    • @Rudel23
      @Rudel23 8 лет назад +4

      +sormu16 The way to "change style at 5:12 as you say, was a romantic way, let's say " old fashion", now abandoned by most performers who continue, wisely, the normal arpeggio. AS well as at 10:45: the way Milstein plays the arpeggios was an old habit, disputable. Now most performers play the arpeggios at 10:45 in the same way as at 4:50.

    • @khgkfghru858dfh
      @khgkfghru858dfh 7 лет назад +3

      In the last 17 years unfortunately I can not find a better religion than this composition... I feel helpless. Yesterday were, 267 years since the world is without His Unique chemical Brain reactions, here represented on paper by his hand... I am not inspired by who is playnig, I just want to hear the sound of this work times to times, again and again and try to compose something like this one on my guitar... It is a question of note's correct and effective position and not who is playing it better. Good compositions sound good in Finale as well, which has no expression and midi low sound quality. But, it's a matter of chords conceptualisation + timing, interlarded with emotion, throught the use of counterpoint + transitive notes. Nothing else. Indeed, a lot of parameters. And He made the best possible variations of them in all keys. Thank you JSBach for writing and letting us know your ingenuity and helping us become a little more cleverer, or trying at least to be so.

    • @MaggaraMarine
      @MaggaraMarine 4 года назад +4

      But at 4:50 you can clearly see how the arpeggios are supposed to be played. The two first figures (in the beginning of the measure) are written out, the rest just follows the same pattern. It's just simpler to read the way it is written - this way you can see the harmonies clearer, and the page isn't full of notes (and it also leaves some more room for interpretation). When it all follows the same pattern, there's no need to write everything out. The "change in style" isn't indicated in the score, so it's probably just the musician's own interpretation, not what Bach originally meant.

  • @gerubach
    @gerubach  11 лет назад +28

    Thank you for your kind comments. In regards to your question, the violinist, Mr. Milstein, has used "artistic license" in some sections of the Chaconne (i.e. the triplet rhythm at 12:31).

  • @mtv565
    @mtv565 11 лет назад +51

    “To me, Bach's music is the most profound balance between pure logic and pure humanity. A kind of proof that you don't have to be cold to be rational, nor irrational to be emotional. To me, it's proof of an inherent meaning to existence, beyond anything explainable by science...... [His] music connects all the best parts of our world to something greater, something more meaningful. It's clear why Bach was so spiritual.” -- TheInspirationExpert, May 2012.

    • @WesCoastPiano
      @WesCoastPiano 6 лет назад +1

      mmm I love Bach but Bach fans are seriously the most ignorant pretensious mother fuckers on the planet. Bach was Chopin's musical hero and was also a master of counterpoint. The 4th Ballad is just one example of that. Just because Chopin is more popular than Bach doesn't suggest any less in quality. As Debussy said. "Chopin is the greatest of them all, for with the piano alone, he discovered everything."

  • @ahujeffrey
    @ahujeffrey 5 лет назад +7

    Returning to this countless times. Loving Bach's gorgeous notations, and imagining just how quickly he could write out a score. I find it remarkable that there is no superfluous note, not is there anywhere that additional notes would improve upon this masterpiece. Poignant, painful, chromatic, as contrapunctal as a violin performance, let alone a chaconne, could possibly be. Truly inspired by God, Bach here is also at his most human. Thanks for the upload.

  • @gerubach
    @gerubach  11 лет назад +21

    Ha! I'm as French as French Fries. iGoogle translator comes in handy for communicating. I'm actually 1st generation Mexican-American. Je suis heureux que vous ayez apprécié. Mon inspiration vient de bons commentaires comme le vôtre.

  • @vt2637
    @vt2637 8 лет назад +9

    What a beautifully haunting melody.

  • @netspirit79
    @netspirit79 8 лет назад +59

    Bach, deprived of his main vehicle (counterpoint / multiple voices) still manages to turn a single violin into something very different. Anybody else wondering how the introductory theme could sound on a pipe organ?

    • @forgottenbooks2395
      @forgottenbooks2395 8 лет назад +5

      Not quite the same thing, but this piece has been arranged for the organ, and you can find performances of it on RUclips.

    • @mydogskips2
      @mydogskips2 7 лет назад +25

      While it may not have multiple INDEPENDENT parts, in a sense this work actually does have counterpoint in it, not only when the violin plays multiple stops, but also because the music often jumps musical registers quickly which plays the notes off against each other in both melodic and harmonic fashion. And of course counterpoint just means "point against point."
      Also, in the middle "appegio" section the music is essentially written in multiple part harmony with the solo violin playing the chord notes, often spanning several octaves, just arpeggiated. If you listen closely, when the outer notes change you can actually hear what seems like two moving lines(or more), a melody floating above an underlying harmonic progression.
      Of course this is the genius of Bach demonstrating his unparalleled mastery for writing in this form.

    • @Mackattack1080
      @Mackattack1080 Год назад +1

      What are you talking about. The chaconne is filled with counterpoint.

  • @mtv565
    @mtv565 11 лет назад +38

    “Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.” ―
    "The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul." ― Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750, Baroque/German Composer & by general consensus the GREATEST composer of ALL time.
    And to write profound music, Bach doesn’t need huge full orchestras or choirs. Even just a solo violin or keyboard instrument is enough - eg; Chaconne in D minor, Art of Fugue’s Unfinished Fugue.

    • @martijnpieterman
      @martijnpieterman 9 лет назад +4

      mmm Indeed! Bach is one of the greatest composers ever, just like me (even though I'm almost 13 years) are as young composer already inspired by Bach, and I am also working on writing fugues and so.
      (Translated by Google Translate, I come from Netherlands)

    • @IrizarryBrandon
      @IrizarryBrandon 9 лет назад

      +mmm "...and anything else is just devilish hubbub" lol!

    • @Mackattack1080
      @Mackattack1080 Год назад +1

      @@martijnpietermannot one of the greatest. The greatest.

  • @gerubach
    @gerubach  11 лет назад +14

    Good eye. The major and minor portions of this piece collide at that point. Therefore, I momentarily turned the line red at that point to show the dissonant interval which was C natural & B natural (minor 2nd).

  • @vhsjpdfg
    @vhsjpdfg 9 лет назад +9

    Utterly gorgeous.

  • @Artorius19631
    @Artorius19631 Год назад +1

    Every time I watch this I hear something wonderfully different each time.

  • @LeavesLullaby
    @LeavesLullaby 11 лет назад +4

    Wow I'm so happy I found your video's/channel!!
    I've seen/listened to a few now.. this is amazing!! Getting in touch with "new" music (I just started listening to "classical" music 2 years ago) and those beautiful pieces... next to that the scrolling is awesome. Thanks :D

  • @aimilios439
    @aimilios439 5 лет назад +9

    9:29... Very well done, Gerubach, thank you for improving our thoughts on music...

    • @0freeman
      @0freeman 2 года назад

      Is that part chromatic?

    • @aimilios439
      @aimilios439 2 года назад +1

      @@0freeman No, it isn't. It lowers a usual note so that it clashes with the one below, making that striking sound. Which sound is more relevant to the red part, the minore part, of the piece, that's why he changes color from blue only for that note. It is a probable insight in how Bach made this gorgeous piece comprehensive...

    • @0freeman
      @0freeman 2 года назад +1

      @@aimilios439 So that whole section is in D major, and that one note is in d minor, which is why it's in red?

    • @aimilios439
      @aimilios439 2 года назад +1

      @@0freeman It isn't in d minor but it sounds like it comes from a minor because of how close the simultaneous notes are.

    • @0freeman
      @0freeman 2 года назад +2

      @@aimilios439 Yeah it does sound like as if it's a minor chord, or at least it has that "darker" quality to it.

  • @pianomarius
    @pianomarius 7 лет назад +3

    best handwriting i have seen thus far (from older music)

  • @francesconuma
    @francesconuma 11 лет назад +4

    I can't stop watching

  • @michelr657
    @michelr657 6 лет назад +3

    you can see the emotion and where the phrasing is meant in his hand writing...

  • @mtv565
    @mtv565 11 лет назад +44

    “Chopin is more easy-to-listen and easy-to-understand, is a concrete thing,and an emotive flow of consciousness, almost a soliloquy. Simple content in a simple form. Beautiful, no doubt, but....Bach is something more difficult to understand. A research of beauty into a strictly structured order. He overturns all the clichés of Art as Disorderliness, he demonstrate that Art can survive also in a perfectly ordered structure. Something more abstract, but deeper...” - bachinblack94, 2012

    • @YayBenSpeck
      @YayBenSpeck 9 лет назад +10

      Bit of stretch to call Chopin simple.

    • @mtv565
      @mtv565 9 лет назад +8

      YayBenSpeck Not at all. Chopin's and Vivaldi's music forms, structure and development are simple and straight-forward. That's why Chopin is never considered as "great composer". He is only talented composer.

    • @chenyanhao676
      @chenyanhao676 9 лет назад +4

      mmm you stoopid, but seriously go listen to some late Chopin, even the little late nocturnes has a nice development, I think chopins 3rd sonatas is most complex in terms of form, but even middle or early Chopin isn't simple at all, harmonically and to produce the clarity that comes from chopins master of his language

    • @mtv565
      @mtv565 9 лет назад +5

      banson houry Give me Bach anytime. Chopin should be chopping wood.

    • @thinkitsimpossible8718
      @thinkitsimpossible8718 6 лет назад +1

      chopin sonata 3

  • @zungiri2008
    @zungiri2008 Год назад +2

    たぶん1000回以上聴いていると思うけど、まったく飽きない色褪せない。。たぶん現代の演奏家の方がうまいだろうけど、バッハ自身の演奏を聴きたいなあ。

  • @hans-georgschoelzel1425
    @hans-georgschoelzel1425 4 года назад +2

    A choice of one's few most beloved pieces out of the vast repertoire of exquisite music must always seem difficult, and I find it impossible to rank my favourites - but surely the one music I wish to listen to on my deathbed is Bach's Chaconne for unaccompanied violin. - Greetings from Bonn, Germany

  • @str3123
    @str3123 13 лет назад +4

    Timeless classic!

  • @fatitankeris6327
    @fatitankeris6327 3 года назад +1

    His strokes on paper are also quite satisfying and beautiful for me. If I will ever be able to write some music that would satisfy my soul, I would want to learn to write it with such strokes. A good reason for at least a metal feather.

  • @Roizhd
    @Roizhd 11 лет назад +10

    This is Nathan Milstein's play, one of my favorite!

  • @chopin65
    @chopin65 11 лет назад +1

    It may not ever be more perfect.

  • @gerubach
    @gerubach  12 лет назад +2

    Yes it is.

  • @yukily07
    @yukily07 9 лет назад +2

    This is wonderful. Thank you so much!

  • @sica9
    @sica9 5 лет назад +3

    this it totally amaziiiing

  • @05marlove
    @05marlove 13 лет назад +2

    Magnifique musique !!!! Un vrai prodige

  • @JulianZeezer
    @JulianZeezer 11 лет назад +2

    Fascinating

  • @stephenfiler7564
    @stephenfiler7564 Год назад +6

    The way this is interrupted by an ad has inspired such an unnecessary amount of anger in me this morning

  • @escolademusicawave4944
    @escolademusicawave4944 6 лет назад +2

    Mais que coisa mais grandiosa!!!

  • @forgottenbooks2395
    @forgottenbooks2395 8 лет назад +8

    Does anyone know if the arpeggiation beginning at 4:51 is played that way because it is explicitly written out like that just before, or is it something specific to violin notation or specific to the era? I would be completely lost reading the notation starting at 5:12 if I didn't already know how it was supposed to sound.

  • @Picklesauce315
    @Picklesauce315 11 лет назад +1

    Now i know you're french, Merci pour la musique, vous êtes grand pour faire ce genre de choses

  • @Vinceswim
    @Vinceswim 11 лет назад +2

    Bravo pour le travail ! c'est très bien fait !

  • @rosacobos
    @rosacobos 11 лет назад +3

    Thanks so much. The idea is great. I am thinking , though that I am missing the Barock approaching with an specialized musicien on that time and not a modern version of the same one. The top of the didactic result would be grand. Being able to compare and see how different, or in what it may be different the modern from the "ancient" approach to the Bach or other´s music. Thanks a lot.

  • @wakkowarner4288
    @wakkowarner4288 8 лет назад +17

    Oh sweet cheese and crackers, this thing.. this wonderful thing.. in his own handwriting. T.T There's this theory floating around that this was a sort of epitaph for Maria Barbara, his first wife, who died while JSB was out on the road. And to me, there are parts of this where I could conceivably hear it as someone sobbing. 4:51. Then again, I have been known to be overly sentimental, so.... YMMV

    • @CH3LS3A
      @CH3LS3A 8 лет назад +1

      it's very likely the player breathing...

    • @helloworld-ji8wm
      @helloworld-ji8wm 6 лет назад +6

      There have been people who discovered plenty of choral melodies all about death and sorrow within this chaconne. Also some number riddles which (encoded) say the name of Bach's wife and the year of her death (or something like that).. So yeah, this chaconne can definetly be seen as a musical tombstone for Maria Barbara...

    • @elanorallmann
      @elanorallmann 6 лет назад +3

      You are right! I heard it too and I was like- it sounds like the he was so terribly sad while writing that part, like weeping.

    • @Albacoide
      @Albacoide 4 года назад +2

      I can totally hear the sobbing... I cannot conceive this theory not being true... Just hear it! It is exactly what Bach is telling us. Deeply moving. =* (

  • @gerubach
    @gerubach  11 лет назад +1

    Yes - @14:04

  • @MarianoCardilloMusic
    @MarianoCardilloMusic 11 лет назад +1

    fantastic.

  • @ThePearsch
    @ThePearsch 6 лет назад +2

    Wow!

  • @adamcapoferri6903
    @adamcapoferri6903 4 года назад +17

    Here is my question: It starts in D min, transitions to D maj, and ends in D min. However, the last note is a double D on both the G and D string. What key does it truly end in, and to a greater extent, what emotion did Bach want to gain at the end? I like to think it is bittersweet and allows the chaccone to end in both keys.

    • @gigogrom216
      @gigogrom216 3 года назад +1

      actually all 3 sections ended on double D

    • @FyRaka
      @FyRaka 2 года назад +2

      It ends in d minor, because of the f right before the end

    • @adamcapoferri6903
      @adamcapoferri6903 2 года назад +2

      @@FyRaka I mean, yes, because of the lead-in tone; and by the very structure of a chaccone. As someone who has performed it, I just find there to be more character in various interpretations of it.

    • @FyRaka
      @FyRaka 2 года назад

      @@adamcapoferri6903 ah I got ur comment now, i agree ending on just a d octave leaves it rather open,
      I'd nterpret it as finally calming down after a wild and emotional journey.
      Having said that, its such a great end. I'm too am learning it currently (on the guitar tho) and the feeling you get while letting the d ring out is incredible.

  • @wonkydonkeys4441
    @wonkydonkeys4441 5 лет назад +1

    Sublime

  • @tufghbv
    @tufghbv 9 лет назад +2

    Bravo!

  • @hischamzouaoui8726
    @hischamzouaoui8726 9 лет назад +1

    Ah ... Fein. Danke für den Autograph.

  • @andrecastro9534
    @andrecastro9534 9 лет назад +2

    Fantástico!!!!

  • @alvarogarciabarbosa3199
    @alvarogarciabarbosa3199 6 лет назад +5

    Listen Hilary's, Haifetz and Oistrak's : perfection all Bach!

  • @CruelLion7
    @CruelLion7 9 лет назад +3

    wow

  • @richrokk
    @richrokk 7 лет назад +20

    I love Bach's music, what I don't love is seeing all of the grandiose comments people make about his music in an attempt to make themselves seem smart.

    • @TheOneAndOnlyZeno
      @TheOneAndOnlyZeno 5 лет назад +3

      People talking beyond your comprehension eh? Sucks for you.

  • @АлександрЯрков-ш2з
    @АлександрЯрков-ш2з 7 лет назад +1

    Браво

  • @kevinhutcheson1854
    @kevinhutcheson1854 7 лет назад +1

    This piece fits the guitar perfectly. I the hands of someone like Andres Segovia, it reveals a beauty and graceful strength, that the violin struggles to to reveal. This is an exquisite piece.

  • @johnbrothers8226
    @johnbrothers8226 8 лет назад +1

    I like your scrolling version that highlights the individual notes. The bar is nonspecific.

  • @GuitarraMiguel
    @GuitarraMiguel 10 лет назад +3

    Bach-Busoni - Chaconne in D minor

  • @ericwarncke
    @ericwarncke 14 дней назад

    One thing I noticed is a lot of subtle rubato and notes held longer than indicated in here in some parts.

  • @DraculasNephew
    @DraculasNephew 11 лет назад +1

    That's pretty damn cool.
    ~Coming from a percussionist.

  • @Picklesauce315
    @Picklesauce315 11 лет назад +1

    At 7:46, it sounds like he's gonna play Edvard Greig's 'Morning Mood' from the Peer Gynt suite.

    • @TheOpus480
      @TheOpus480 5 лет назад

      It does. But really it should be the other way round lol. Bach came before Greig

  • @abarakus1
    @abarakus1 4 года назад

    wow....

  • @srinitaaigaura
    @srinitaaigaura 4 года назад +1

    Nathan Milstein if I am not mistaken...

  • @juansozdar3329
    @juansozdar3329 11 лет назад +1

    I LOVE G string

  • @johnbrothers8226
    @johnbrothers8226 8 лет назад

    I am searching for Chaconne in modern script that highlights the individual notes without the moving bar (nonspecific).

  • @cretium805
    @cretium805 8 месяцев назад

    Does anyone know why the arpeggio pattern is changed at 5:12?

  • @waterglas21
    @waterglas21 11 лет назад +3

    thanks for this absolutely amazing version
    Is it the original score from JS Bach ??

    • @CodeNameParis
      @CodeNameParis 4 года назад +7

      This is indeed Bach's handwriting!

  • @LifeforArt
    @LifeforArt 11 лет назад

    arpeggio

  • @jimbarker6763
    @jimbarker6763 11 лет назад

    Interesting to compare to the score of the Segovia transcription for guitar...elsewhere on RUclips.

  • @guitarradeviento
    @guitarradeviento 11 лет назад +1

    Amazing!
    Can you send me the complete score in pdf?

    • @louiscouperin3731
      @louiscouperin3731 4 года назад +2

      You should be able to find the score on this website called IMSLP.

  • @mtv565
    @mtv565 10 лет назад

    I wonder why haven't the Swingle Singers do the Chaccone?

  • @glasssteagall3400
    @glasssteagall3400 Год назад

    This is the song Putin played in Syria at the desecrated ancient buildings. Historical moment for sure. There is justice.

  • @snowypiano9974
    @snowypiano9974 6 лет назад

    Please do Francois Couperin's "Le tic toc choc ou les Maillotins"! PLZ!!!

  • @ciaconne
    @ciaconne 11 лет назад +1

    Is this a recording by Nathan Milstein?

  • @Lillars
    @Lillars 8 лет назад

    Qui joue ?

  • @brycecolson3410
    @brycecolson3410 11 лет назад

    Why does the line turn red around 9:29?

  • @nathanmor.6162
    @nathanmor.6162 4 года назад

    2:30
    Nike's logo

  • @jimbarker6763
    @jimbarker6763 11 лет назад

    Eloquent, and fiendishly difficult on either instrument!

  • @enessolmaz9226
    @enessolmaz9226 11 лет назад

    04:55 what is this red word???

  • @bigstroker1300
    @bigstroker1300 4 года назад

    Why do not you write who plays?????

  • @jacksonhancock6563
    @jacksonhancock6563 5 лет назад

    Once again, Bach won at being human.

  • @johnbrothers8226
    @johnbrothers8226 8 лет назад

    Handwritten music is to messy..

    • @helloworld-ji8wm
      @helloworld-ji8wm 7 лет назад +12

      Bach's handwriting was the most beatiful out of any composer. Look at a Beethoven manuscript. After that the ones from Bach will look like printed to you

  • @Ivan_1791
    @Ivan_1791 6 лет назад

    The interpretation is quite bad.

  • @matthewmills9228
    @matthewmills9228 5 лет назад +1

    Wow