What incredible memory to play all this magic music of Bach without reading the music. Itslike remembeting every word in Dostoevskij's Brother Karamazov except music says more than words. Especially Bach's.
Incredible. What a labour of love from this young woman, extremely gifted, playing from memory (!!) that difficult but moving timeless masterpiece by the greatest artist of all time.
As a pianist and composer I know and love (and often tried to play parts of) this maybe greatest work of music ever since more than 40 years in all its details and have heard many great interpretations of it. But this one is really the greatest of all! M. Czech not only plays this, but becomes it !! This is a miracle and without exaggeration one of the greatest experiences of my musical life !!! I can not thank you enough for this superhuman performance 🌸🌸🌸
One hour and 20 uninterrupted minutes of one of Bach's greatest meditations in his conversation with the Universe. Congratulations Martha Czech, for bringing us this universal conversation with such beauty and precision. God bless you.
Absolutely outstanding tempered interpretation of Bachs' german character. What a perfect match. He would be very pleased by your interpretation. I hear Bach saying: this is exactly how it is supposed to be played!
Ich (PITANO) bin vollkommen fasziniert und fühle, wie ich mit Gänsehaut einem Wesen demütig ohne Unterlass lausche ...Der Schöpfer - J.S.Bach - muss diese MARTA wohl auserkoren haben, sich SELBST spielen zu lassen ! BRAVO ! ! ! ! ! Christian Abraham Pittius (C.A.P.)
Miss Marta, I am swept away by your clarity and precision, over and over. I enjoy watching your hands as much as listening. But I am also thinking about the hours alone and sacrifices you have made, and only you know this, to achieve this success with these pieces. You are a beautiful soul, musician, and woman.
Wunderschön zu hören die rhyythmische Brillianz. Bach dienend, uneitel. Kein selbstdarstellerischer Firlefanz. Wunderschön. die Hände aunzusehen. Rein Technisch. Die Klarheit ihrer Darbietung berührt.... Eine großartige Musikerin.
Dear Miss Martha Czech, I have been listening to KDF since my teens. I am 59 now and haven't experienced such bliss as I felt during your rendition. I am delighted that in such troubled times, the fire is still burning and the light is still shining. Thanks. God bless you.
J'ai également 59ans, et j'ai écouté KDF tout au long des années (enfin, un peu moins ces dernières années). Cette version est de loin la plus belle que j'aie entendue. Je suis tout à fait d'accord avec vous quand vous parlez d'une lumière qui brille encore. La belle musique, la belle poésie, le beau cinéma, quand de telles choses existent encore, cela est rassurant. Dieu vous bénisse également.
Martha you really make "dancing" this masterwork. Maybe Glenn is smiling you for your great variety of staccato. Thanks a lot for sharing this jewel. Take care of your gift. Paolo from Italy
i am an old hippie but i have to get out of bed now and call my friends and tell them " listen to this, it is the best ever .." Thankyou so much,, danke Marta, merci de tout mon coeur, gracias por todo...
Maria Czech, I kiss both your hands for this unbelievably mature interpretation! You have a great future as an interpreter of the greatest composer of all time!
Sono circa 2 anni che ascolto quasi tutti i giorni la tua esecuzione - Marta - dell'Arte della Fuga e ogni giorno scopro nell'universo policromo della tua interpretazione delle perle risplendenti che danno nuova vita allo Spirito di Bach che trascende in Cielo sfumando dall'ultima nota da lui scritta nel suo ultimo contrappunto....
@@user-jf6hw7dm3t Hubert Rieger, sicherlich ist es der christliche Gott, denn Marta Czechs Klavieraufführung von Bachs Kunst der Fuge ist genau ein Gebet an unseren Gott
Beweise gibt es leider keine. Aber mit Karl Jaspers würde ich über Chiffren der Transzendenz sprechen. Und mit einigen anderen Philosophen, ob wir es mit einem unbewegten Beweger oder einem Gott zu tun haben, zu dem wir beten können. Mit dieser Musik, zum Beispiel.
@@OldPannonian Wrong?? Bach hat a harpsichord, that does not allow much romantic. On the piano it is easily possibel. I am glad that she plays Bach romantically. I Adore Gustav Leonhard, this has an immense beauty. I think Bach did minimalize romantik, aß he takes all sweet passages very short for people like to dream. I myself I love so much Chopin, and my piano teacher hated it when I made Bach romantic. You may listen to the invention 13 I play with some elongation of the nice parts. BACH WOULD BLAME ME. Then you know I like very much Bach in a romantic way playd. AND perhaos you Do Not know Mozarts ADAGIO and FUGUE, in the style of Bach but higly romantic. Bach once did meet Albinoni, I love sooo much, and sayd to him: YOU CAN WRITE NICE MELODIES BUT YOU CAN NOT COMPOSE. Albinoni replayd: YOU ARE A GREAT CIMPOSER BUT YOU CAN NOT WRITE NICE MELODIES. (It is rarely found a sing-able peace of Bach. He could take a duodezime and does not take care of the players Hands. Not so Chopin. Horrible looking arpggios are easily Played for he composed odver his Hand, Bach over his Inner) Now this composition of Mozart is a composition like BACH&ALBINONI MARIED
This is one of the best piano interpretations of this last of Bach's works. I love hearing it on the piano, harpsichord, and organ. The late German organist, Helmut Walcha interpreted it masterfully on both organ and harpsichord. This is a monumental work, and Maestra Czech absolutely brought this piece, which is very complex and difficult, to life. I am an awe of her talent.
Beautifully and flawlessly performed from memory. Driving rhythmic dynamism. Great phrasing. Each melodic line is so clearly stated. Bach comes alive and musical. BRAVO! Glen Gould eat your heart out!
Colossal Her wonderful performance must slake the slake the thirst of the soul of busy modern people, and evoke comfortable feelings and a peace of mind and embody great pleasure and deep impression and prodigious admiration
I’m old. I still cling to antiquated notions about good taste in music and in dress. Marta Czech epitomizes those ideas, unlike some of today’s celebrated pianists who dress like Go-go dancers or gesticulate like cartoon characters. It’s quite refreshing.
I think that maybe, it would be better to just try to listen to the music instead of caring about dressing. Once there was just music, vinyl or cassette or wax cylinder, you wouldn't have cared about the dress. You could just try a real *blind* test... listening with closed eyes... maybe you could appreciate both Marta Czech and, let me guess, Yuja Wang?, for their artistic merits instead of their appearance.
Charles Rosen has made the point that Bach probably wrote and performed this work for the piano. He was at the court of Frederick the Great who did not like the sound of the harpsichord but owned 15 Silberman pianos. Bach was a friend of Silberman, and was interested in the development of the instrument. I can’t imagine that Bach would not be thrilled to hear this superb performance on a Fazioli.
The sound of the harpsichord is actually rather annoying and creepy-crawly; whereas a modern piano's is just gorgeous, full-bodied, subtle & thunderous.
Danke für diese wunderbar unaufgeregt angelegte, beiden Händen exakt die richtige Gewichtung verleihende Einspielung, erkennbar innerlich beteiligt, durchdacht, für mein Gefühl perfekt im Tempo, Chapeau!
Quand le monde fléchit autour de soi, quand les structures d’une civilisation vacillent, il est bon de revenir à ce qui, dans l’histoire, ne fléchit pas, mais au contraire redresse le courage, rassemble les séparés, pacifie sans meurtrir. Il est bon de rappeler que le génie de la création est lui aussi à l’œuvre dans une histoire vouée à la destruction💥
I see you check your comments. I was surprised when I came across this video. I thought I was the only one on the planet Earth to play this piece. Alas, I learned only the first three. I can't imagine learning the whole thing! You have the patience and clarity of a Buddhist monk. I consider it to be mankind's greatest artistic achievement. You, probably, feel the same.
What makes it the " mankind's greatest artistic achievement"? Is your statement just based on pure listening to the music? Serious question. I am curious.
@@MrUseur First of all, music seems to communicate deeper than other art forms. I know there is no way I can prove that, except to say that the frequency relationships between the 12 notes in the octave correspond exactly to the frequency relationships found between electrons in all atoms. Secondly, the theme in the Kunst der Fugue, is a quintissential mathematic musical phrase. Starts on the tonic, goes to the second most important note which describes tonality, the fifth, then the third most important note, the third, back to the tonic and then the leading tone. The 4 most important notes in the scale. But most importantly, it is mostly written in four parts. No pianist will deny that it is the most challenging music ever written. It has 4 different melody lines played simultaneously through most of it by just one person. No composer comes close to duplicating it. Madam Czech is a remarkably dedicated artist. The idea that someone has the nerve to sit down and play the entire work by memory is inconceivable to me. Are you aware that Bach wrote this on his deathbed?
I don't believe I have ever heard a performance of Die Kunst der Fuge where every moving line of the Fuge is so clearly delineated...after all, the beauty of a Fuge is to submerge oneself into the counterpoint.
Maestra Marta Czech's interpretation of Bach's 'Der Kunst der Fugue' is a perfect example of what the late Sviatoslav Richter called, "[T]the terraced dynamics of the late Baroque." Her achievement is at once breathtaking and astounding. I believe that Maestra Czech's rendition of this piece is far-and-away the best one that I've ever watched or listened to, hands down! Bravo!
Well, just a thought on Friday the 13th😀: I wonder what it would sound like IF this really fine classical sheet music performer decided to break free from the shackles of sheet music and choose musical freedom and genuine creativity by taking up ad lib & by ear playing. That's how we got Beegie Adair, Eddy Duchin, Art Tatum, Carmen Cavallaro, Liberace, Elton John... Nice playing though. Thanks.
Wonderful interpretation to such high level music, with so beautiful play, all from menory, using Gould method of short souns. The best music play I have heard last years. Remarkable and enjoyable performance. Thank you Matha Czech
Marvelous Bach playing. Clear, intelligent, thoughtful, and remarkably mature. I am amazed that someone so young would devote themselves with such obvious love to this most austere of masterworks. Marta Czech is a breath of fresh air in a classical music world dominated, with few exceptions, by either sentimentality or empty virtuosic display.
I am a big fan of Schiff for Bach and have numerous interpretation of these pieces, but this one is of an unprecendented detail and clarity. I am so happy to have discovered Marta on RUclips. This is just pure genius!
(... and by the way ): Dear MARTA -You´re playing like a conductor, doesn´t need the partitur anymore, ´cause You are the FUGAs ! - no ! - You are the great BACH-ORCHESTRA - Ciao ! (cap)
Ich kann mich dem letzten Kommentar in jeder Hinsicht nur anschließen , keine Selbstdarstellung, sondern alleine dem Komponisten folgend und dienend! Bewundernswert!
Working as a visual artist in Canada listening to this with headphones allows complete concentration and uninterrupted flow state to complete very delicate and complex work with excellent results that may not have been able to be accomplished otherwise. Thank you Bach and Marta Czech❤
Gewaltig was Sie da aus dem Innersten ohne Noten spielen. Das "offene Ende", war das von Bach so vorgesehen nach mehr als einer Stunde von einem Leitmotiv zum andern. Grossartig, ihr Spiel, vom Anfang bis zum offenen Ende.
Never Forget , that 80% of Bach keyboards works are the result of an improvisation that Bach put on a score aferwards. We will never hear the best composition of Bach, which means all the organ improvisations of Bach who died famous for his organ composition. During his life, he was popular and quiet famous in northern Germany not for his music (fiew disciples and connoisseur) but for his organ improvisations which are flying in the sky along my dream to lesson such a mathematical improviser. Bach is unique to have been the only musician to improvise a piece which seems to be the perfect achievment of the throught, of a long mathematical work! no way, it came like this wouahhh !. How can you compose more than 500 hours of music for all instruments , without to be a genius improviser. How can you be the composer the most famous for each instruments and the musician the most learn in musical school all over the world without to be a great improviser. Otherways you think, you are an hard worker to compose 9 symphonies and 6 hours of piano and that's all, as Beethoven who was a hard worker and wonderful musician, but not the music incarnated. The first instrument that Bach learned and played was the violin, from age 5 to 10 under the teaching of his father who died and Bach started to play organ at 10 under his uncle.when his father his violin teacher died and that's the reason why he created himself the sonatas and partitas for solo violin which are among the most difficult and beautiful pieces for a small instrument ever invented and it takes Menuhin, or Pearlman, or Grumiaux to play these sonatas and partitas perfectly. But Menuhin was playing 7 hours of violin per day. How did Bach to compose it, to play it himself while playing organ, harpsichord, composing 330 cantatas plus The Passions , the oratorio, chamber music, cello music, add that he was an incredible luth player as well as a flutist as well as a cello player as well...
Never Forget , that 80% of Bach keyboards works are the result of an improvisation that Bach put on a score aferwards. We will never hear the best compositions of Bach, which means all the organ improvisations of Bach who died famous for his organ improvisations. During his life, he was popular and quiet famous in northern Germany not for his music (only known by fiew disciples and connoisseurs) but for his organ improvisations which are flying in the sky along my dream while listening such a mathematical improviser. Bach is unique to have been the only musician to improvise a piece which seems to be the perfect achievment of the throught, of a long mathematical work! no way, it came like this wouahhh !. How can you compose more than 500 hours of music for all instruments , without to be a genius improviser. How can you be the composer the most famous for each instruments and the musician the most learn in musical school all over the world without to be a great improviser. Otherways you think, you are an hard worker to compose 9 symphonies and 6 hours of piano and that's all, as Beethoven who was a hard worker and wonderful musician, but not the music incarnated. The first instrument that Bach learned and played was the violin, from age 5 to 10 under the teaching of his father who died and Bach started to play organ at 10 under his uncle.when his father his violin teacher died and that's the reason why he created himself the sonatas and partitas for solo violin which are among the most difficult and beautiful pieces for a small instrument ever invented and it takes Menuhin, or Pearlman, or Grumiaux to play these sonatas and partitas perfectly. But Menuhin was playing 7 hours of violin per day. How did Bach to compose it, to play it himself while playing organ, harpsichord, composing 330 cantatas plus The Passions , the oratorio, chamber music, cello music, add that he was an incredible luth player as well as a flutist as well as a cello player as well...
Wonderful performance by *Marta Czech* ! On organ I play only Contrapunctæ XI and XIV fromemory because too difficult to read and play. *XI* 37:00 *XIV* 112:04 Best recording I havever heard on organ is blind organist Helmut Walcha.
@@GeorgeBletchly Have never been impressed by sight-reading, even though I.mproved the more I did. Besto finger everything out, then perform witho surprises/crashes.
I hope even if it’s just 1 single person that sees this, that they have an amazing day and an even better future! 💖💖💖
🎉🎉🎉
What incredible memory to play all this magic music of Bach without reading the music. Itslike remembeting every word in Dostoevskij's Brother Karamazov except music says more than words. Especially Bach's.
I will but only because of reading this comment
Thank you. Likewise
Incredible. What a labour of love from this young woman, extremely gifted, playing from memory (!!) that difficult but moving timeless masterpiece by the greatest artist of all time.
As a pianist and composer I know and love (and often tried to play parts of) this maybe greatest work of music ever since more than 40 years in all its details and have heard many great interpretations of it. But this one is really the greatest of all! M. Czech not only plays this, but becomes it !! This is a miracle and without exaggeration one of the greatest experiences of my musical life !!! I can not thank you enough for this superhuman performance 🌸🌸🌸
I love her
One hour and 20 uninterrupted minutes of one of Bach's greatest meditations in his conversation with the Universe. Congratulations Martha Czech, for bringing us this universal conversation with such beauty and precision. God bless you.
Wonderfully put! Thank you ❤
7:17 7:19 7:21 7:23
7:58 8:01 8:02 8:03 8:03
❤ wonderfull
Diese Souveränität und Stilsicherheit sind mir im Leben noch nicht begegnet (ich höre seit 60 Jahren Klaviermusik).
J'aime son interprétation, j'entends toutes les voix...du ciel.
Effectivement c pas mal.
Heilige Musik aus einer verlorenen Welt, vorgetragen von einem Engel. Innigsten Dank.
Sehr schoen gesagt - schliesse mich an.
so etwas wollte ich gesagt haben......
💠✨🙏✨💠
❤ oui moi aussi j' aurai aimé dire cela ❤ merci
She played this whole piece by memory? Mind blown.
This is what I have to
say about Bach's life
work: listen, play, love,
revere -- and keep your
mouth shut.
Albert Einstein-March 1928
Absolutely outstanding tempered interpretation of Bachs' german character. What a perfect match. He would be very pleased by your interpretation. I hear Bach saying: this is exactly how it is supposed to be played!
Glenn would be proud of this.
Anyone who has made it here... congratulations.. you have reached the pinnacle of music, no matter which version you prefer
Amen to that!!!!
Amen, God bless you ! ♥️😽
Ich (PITANO) bin vollkommen fasziniert und fühle, wie ich mit Gänsehaut einem Wesen demütig ohne Unterlass lausche ...Der Schöpfer - J.S.Bach - muss diese MARTA wohl auserkoren haben, sich SELBST spielen zu lassen ! BRAVO ! ! ! ! ! Christian Abraham Pittius (C.A.P.)
Dass einem hin und wieder Wunder begegnen, macht das Leben doch lebenswert.
Une vision grandiose digne du Maître Absolu de la pensée musicale. Structure et poésie en amour. Merci Madame.
Ja, man verneigt sich in Dankbarkeit. Welch ein Geschenk 🎁
Miss Marta, I am swept away by your clarity and precision, over and over. I enjoy watching your hands as much as listening. But I am also thinking about the hours alone and sacrifices you have made, and only you know this, to achieve this success with these pieces. You are a beautiful soul, musician, and woman.
Ich kann mich dieser Einschätzung nur anschließen. Es geschehen noch Wunder auf dieser Welt.
Wunderschön zu hören die rhyythmische Brillianz.
Bach dienend, uneitel. Kein selbstdarstellerischer Firlefanz.
Wunderschön. die Hände aunzusehen.
Rein Technisch.
Die Klarheit ihrer Darbietung berührt....
Eine großartige Musikerin.
Admirably played,by an extremely talented artist.Each note so clear,pure.Thank you for sharing your gift.Pure joy!
A pure one (joy), and greetings from a Belgian's lover!
80 minutes such a difficult music, from memory ! she is so tall that I can't even kiss her thank you
😅 Wunder kann man sich nicht herbeisehnen, sie geschehen einfach.
Dear Miss Martha Czech, I have been listening to KDF since my teens. I am 59 now and haven't experienced such bliss as I felt during your rendition. I am delighted that in such troubled times, the fire is still burning and the light is still shining. Thanks. God bless you.
I am also 59 and have been listening to KDF since I was 19. You are right - this performance is light in a dark time.
@@eumaeus71 Thanks for your absolute heartful remark.
J'ai également 59ans, et j'ai écouté KDF tout au long des années (enfin, un peu moins ces dernières années). Cette version est de loin la plus belle que j'aie entendue. Je suis tout à fait d'accord avec vous quand vous parlez d'une lumière qui brille encore. La belle musique, la belle poésie, le beau cinéma, quand de telles choses existent encore, cela est rassurant. Dieu vous bénisse également.
Martha you really make "dancing" this masterwork. Maybe Glenn is smiling you for your great variety of staccato. Thanks a lot for sharing this jewel. Take care of your gift. Paolo from Italy
Thank you so much for your effort, Mrs. Czech, it's a delight to hear you playing.
cp 1: 0:22
cp 2: 3:20
cp 3: 6:06
cp 4: 8:30
cp 5: 12:54
cp 6: 15:48
cp 7: 20:36
cp 8: 24:14
cp 9: 30:14
cp10: 32:58
cp11: 37:00
cp12: 43:42 (rect/inv)
cp13: 49:40 (rect/inv)
cp14: ?
canone 1 per augmenationem: 54:30
canone 2 all' ottava: 58:52
canone 3 alla decima: 1:02:57
canone 4 alla duodecima: 1:07:30
cp15 (not completed): 1:12:03
Danke für den musikalischen Genuss am Sonntagmorgen. 🙂👍🎹🎶🎶
i am an old hippie but i have to get out of bed now and call my friends and tell them " listen to this, it is the best ever .." Thankyou so much,, danke Marta, merci de tout mon coeur, gracias por todo...
Maria Czech, I kiss both your hands for this unbelievably mature interpretation! You have a great future as an interpreter of the greatest composer of all time!
Dokonalé spojení Bacha a Vašich rukou, děkuji a zdravím z Česka.
Sono circa 2 anni che ascolto quasi tutti i giorni la tua esecuzione - Marta - dell'Arte della Fuga e ogni giorno scopro nell'universo policromo della tua interpretazione delle perle risplendenti che danno nuova vita allo Spirito di Bach che trascende in Cielo sfumando dall'ultima nota da lui scritta nel suo ultimo contrappunto....
@@user-jf6hw7dm3t Hubert Rieger, sicherlich ist es der christliche Gott, denn Marta Czechs Klavieraufführung von Bachs Kunst der Fuge ist genau ein Gebet an unseren Gott
KdF BWV 1080 + Marta Czech sono la
prova dell’esistenza di Dio
Beweise gibt es leider keine. Aber mit Karl Jaspers würde ich über Chiffren der Transzendenz sprechen. Und mit einigen anderen Philosophen, ob wir es mit einem unbewegten Beweger oder einem Gott zu tun haben, zu dem wir beten können. Mit dieser Musik, zum Beispiel.
Just ωοω-‼️, ~ Staggeringly beautiful. -
Play on and keep convincing people that
JS Bach was ‘the’ βεst Composer ‘’of all time.’’ 🥰
Das ganze Werk, das ganze System im Kopf.
Was für eine Leistung! Bravo!
Two hands amazingly trans-audibly playing with each other under supervision of a splendid young pianist!!!
Es ist ein Hochgenuß, Sie spielen zu hören! Vielen Dank für Ihre Kunst!
Fantastic interpretation, I love it : ) thanks for sharing. It's a bit jazzy - or is it just me? Anyway, I should sleep, but can't stop listening.
Bardzo fajna Sztuka Fugi. Dziękuję. I nich się wideo niesie po YouTubie szeroko i lajkowo :)
Obwohl Sie alles ganz korrekt spielen im Sinne des Barock, ist es dennoch SEHR ROMANTISCH. Vermutlich lieben Sie Bach-Busoni
What'w wrong with Romantic, even in a Bach composition? I don't think that Bach would mind.
@@OldPannonian Wrong?? Bach hat a harpsichord, that does not allow much romantic. On the piano it is easily possibel. I am glad that she plays Bach romantically. I Adore Gustav Leonhard, this has an immense beauty. I think Bach did minimalize romantik, aß he takes all sweet passages very short for people like to dream.
I myself I love so much Chopin, and my piano teacher hated it when I made Bach romantic.
You may listen to the invention 13 I play with some elongation of the nice parts. BACH WOULD BLAME ME.
Then you know I like very much Bach in a romantic way playd.
AND perhaos you Do Not know Mozarts ADAGIO and FUGUE, in the style of Bach but higly romantic.
Bach once did meet Albinoni, I love sooo much, and sayd to him: YOU CAN WRITE NICE MELODIES BUT YOU CAN NOT COMPOSE. Albinoni replayd: YOU ARE A GREAT CIMPOSER BUT YOU CAN NOT WRITE NICE MELODIES.
(It is rarely found a sing-able peace of Bach.
He could take a duodezime and does not take care of the players Hands. Not so Chopin. Horrible looking arpggios are easily Played for he composed odver his Hand, Bach over his Inner)
Now this composition of Mozart is a composition like BACH&ALBINONI MARIED
I am convinced now that no creaking chair is needed for a perfect performance. Thank you.
Der Gipfel der Musik überhaupt. Punkt. / The summit of music -no doubt about that.
Mais il y' a plus beau et plus grand que l'art de la fugue dans la musique pour piano de Bach.
This is one of the best piano interpretations of this last of Bach's works. I love hearing it on the piano, harpsichord, and organ. The late German organist, Helmut Walcha interpreted it masterfully on both organ and harpsichord. This is a monumental work, and Maestra Czech absolutely brought this piece, which is very complex and difficult, to life. I am an awe of her talent.
I don't think Walcha recorded it on harpsichord.
Beautifully and flawlessly performed from memory. Driving rhythmic dynamism. Great phrasing. Each melodic line is so clearly stated. Bach comes alive and musical. BRAVO! Glen Gould eat your heart out!
Noch nicht alles angehört, aber schon jetzt einfach Atemberaubend! Ich fasse es nicht, wie man das alles aus dem Gedächtnis spielen kann.
Colossal
Her wonderful performance must slake the slake the thirst of the soul of busy modern people, and evoke comfortable feelings and a peace of mind and embody great pleasure and deep impression and prodigious admiration
Never heard this on a Fazioli before. It is wonderful and so is Miss Martha.
You might want to check out Angela Hewitt’s 2019 recording. She also plays it on a Fazioli, but the similarity ends there.
Danke! Wunderschön ! Gott segne Sie,Martha!
Have listened to 20 secs - phantastic. She really gets it. I would say only a women can play like that.
I’m old. I still cling to antiquated notions about good taste in music and in dress. Marta Czech epitomizes those ideas, unlike some of today’s celebrated pianists who dress like Go-go dancers or gesticulate like cartoon characters. It’s quite refreshing.
I agree.
Those go-go dancers are circus artists. Marta Czech represents true art. But that's my humble opinion.
Cheers to that!
Marta, your piano playing has depth and utmost beauty. I am so astounded. All the best. Thank you for such an experience.
I think that maybe, it would be better to just try to listen to the music instead of caring about dressing. Once there was just music, vinyl or cassette or wax cylinder, you wouldn't have cared about the dress. You could just try a real *blind* test... listening with closed eyes... maybe you could appreciate both Marta Czech and, let me guess, Yuja Wang?, for their artistic merits instead of their appearance.
For me, this is perhaps Bach's greatest piece. So exceptionally well performed Marta.
If Bach had had RUclips, he wouodn't have got a fraction as much done!
He had all those kids, though...
bellezza! le auguro di restare per tutta la vita un unico insieme musicale. tutte la sue movenze trasmettono musica in un' unica entità. evviva!
Her Bach’s performance will be a call to God to remain silent
Charles Rosen has made the point that Bach probably wrote and performed this work for the piano. He was at the court of Frederick the Great who did not like the sound of the harpsichord but owned 15 Silberman pianos. Bach was a friend of Silberman, and was interested in the development of the instrument. I can’t imagine that Bach would not be thrilled to hear this superb performance on a Fazioli.
Isn't Fazioli just a lighter touch? I'm a bit ignorant here...
The sound of the harpsichord is actually rather annoying and creepy-crawly; whereas a modern piano's is just gorgeous, full-bodied, subtle & thunderous.
There are women
and there are goddesses.
Danke für diese wunderbar unaufgeregt angelegte, beiden Händen exakt die richtige Gewichtung verleihende Einspielung, erkennbar innerlich beteiligt, durchdacht, für mein Gefühl perfekt im Tempo, Chapeau!
Quand le monde fléchit autour de soi, quand les structures d’une civilisation vacillent, il est bon de revenir à ce qui, dans l’histoire, ne fléchit pas, mais au contraire redresse le courage, rassemble les séparés, pacifie sans meurtrir. Il est bon de rappeler que le génie de la création est lui aussi à l’œuvre dans une histoire vouée à la destruction💥
my god, it's full of stars
Merci Marta c'est tout simplement époustouflant, enthousiasmant ! Merci !
Die Edle Kunst der Marta Czech ♥
I see you check your comments. I was surprised when I came across this video. I thought I was the only one on the planet Earth to play this piece. Alas, I learned only the first three. I can't imagine learning the whole thing! You have the patience and clarity of a Buddhist monk. I consider it to be mankind's greatest artistic achievement. You, probably, feel the same.
What makes it the " mankind's greatest artistic achievement"? Is your statement just based on pure listening to the music? Serious question. I am curious.
@@MrUseur First of all, music seems to communicate deeper than other art forms. I know there is no way I can prove that, except to say that the frequency relationships between the 12 notes in the octave correspond exactly to the frequency relationships found between electrons in all atoms.
Secondly, the theme in the Kunst der Fugue, is a quintissential mathematic musical phrase. Starts on the tonic, goes to the second most important note which describes tonality, the fifth, then the third most important note, the third, back to the tonic and then the leading tone. The 4 most important notes in the scale.
But most importantly, it is mostly written in four parts. No pianist will deny that it is the most challenging music ever written. It has 4 different melody lines played simultaneously through most of it by just one person. No composer comes close to duplicating it.
Madam Czech is a remarkably dedicated artist. The idea that someone has the nerve to sit down and play the entire work by memory is inconceivable to me.
Are you aware that Bach wrote this on his deathbed?
@@bartbannister394 Excellent answer, Bart Bannister. Thanks for sharing your clarifying statements!!!Greetings from Argentina.
@@gladyspalmieri7292 Argentina! My sister in law is from Buenos Aires. Her family name is "Manfredi." Greetings from NYC.
MrUseur, there is your answer.
So good they named a country after her.
Danke für die schöne Musik.
Bach will always loom large over the musical giants that succeeded him.
I don't believe I have ever heard a performance of Die Kunst der Fuge where every moving line of the Fuge is so clearly delineated...after all, the beauty of a Fuge is to submerge oneself into the counterpoint.
Good morning Marta from Birmingham UK - congratulations on your wonderful performance - I am very moved as I am sure you want your listeners to be
Just came back for an Encore! Thank you Marta 🏵💮🌹🌲🌴
Maestra Marta Czech's interpretation of Bach's 'Der Kunst der Fugue' is a perfect example of what the late Sviatoslav Richter called, "[T]the terraced dynamics of the late Baroque." Her achievement is at once breathtaking and astounding. I believe that Maestra Czech's rendition of this piece is far-and-away the best one that I've ever watched or listened to, hands down! Bravo!
Stupendo Bach, Stupenda Martha Czech.
Enchantement Sonore. Deeply Love for Bach & Martha Czech, Glen Gould, Hélène Grimaud and Co
Well, just a thought on Friday the 13th😀:
I wonder what it would sound like IF this really fine classical sheet music performer decided to break free from the shackles of sheet music and choose musical freedom and genuine creativity by taking up ad lib & by ear playing.
That's how we got Beegie Adair, Eddy Duchin, Art Tatum, Carmen Cavallaro, Liberace, Elton John...
Nice playing though. Thanks.
Wonderful interpretation to such high level music, with so beautiful play, all from menory, using Gould method of short souns. The best music play I have heard last years. Remarkable and enjoyable performance. Thank you Matha Czech
She takes the music in her hands and gives it to you.
Magnifique interprétation d'une pianiste qui a tout compris de l'essence et l'art du contrepoint chez J.S. Bach.👏
Merci à vous, Maître!🙂
Presicion de principio a final... Felicitaciones!!!
So happy I found you. Very special. More after I hear more of you. 🥀🌾💐🌱☘️🌻
Marvelous Bach playing. Clear, intelligent, thoughtful, and remarkably mature. I am amazed that someone so young would devote themselves with such obvious love to this most austere of masterworks. Marta Czech is a breath of fresh air in a classical music world dominated, with few exceptions, by either sentimentality or empty virtuosic display.
I came for Bach but then stayed for your beautiful sense of space.Great musicality Marta.Greetings.
A new admirer of yours Marta, of your breathtaking ability, intelligence, artistry and grace. You do the greatest composer of all time proud.
I am a big fan of Schiff for Bach and have numerous interpretation of these pieces, but this one is of an unprecendented detail and clarity. I am so happy to have discovered Marta on RUclips. This is just pure genius!
Simply beautiful. Musically, aesthetically, technically, she is graceful and beautiful to hear and see. Wow....
Fantastic!! She really understands Bach's music.
Dieu doit beaucoup à Bach !
Et Bach va devoir beaucoup à Marta
Emil Cioran a dit quelque chose de similar dans Des larmes et des saints: Dieu ne peut être compris sans Bach
I have no words really except that she captures Bach so well; mathematically and aesthetically. X
I very much like this performance. Fresh and clear without being idiosyncratic
(... and by the way ): Dear MARTA -You´re playing like a conductor, doesn´t need the partitur anymore, ´cause You are the FUGAs ! - no ! - You are the great BACH-ORCHESTRA - Ciao ! (cap)
Sehr schön
Ich kann mich dem letzten Kommentar in jeder Hinsicht nur anschließen , keine Selbstdarstellung, sondern alleine dem Komponisten folgend und dienend!
Bewundernswert!
Working as a visual artist in Canada listening to this with headphones allows complete concentration and uninterrupted flow state to complete very delicate and complex work with excellent results that may not have been able to be accomplished otherwise. Thank you Bach and Marta Czech❤
The Art of the Fugue always seemed to me to be a masterpiece of continual tension & release, even til the very darkly abrupt ending. I love it!!!!
Gewaltig was Sie da aus dem Innersten ohne Noten spielen. Das "offene Ende", war das von Bach so vorgesehen nach mehr als einer Stunde von einem Leitmotiv zum andern. Grossartig, ihr Spiel, vom Anfang bis zum offenen Ende.
Ein unerwartetes Weihnachtsgeschenk am Heiligen Abend. Von Herzen Dank, liebe Marta Czech, für diese außergewöhnliche Interpretation.
Wunderbar!!!
Hi @ Miss Marta
Great performance. Happy 𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙚 to you & your many wonderful fans throughout the world.
Peace ...
This is incredible, congratulations for this Great work !
a stunning balance of clarity and beauty -
Ich liebe die Komposition.. Sie gibt mir immer sehr viel Kraft & Ruhe.
Göttlich..!
Perfect. Amazing.
Courtship of the Soul.
❤❤❤
just beautiful taking me to the heights and depths...beautifully rendered. Bach is so calming and healing for me. Puts me back in right order.....
Magnificent beyond words.
Marta, J ❤️ you.
Never Forget , that 80% of Bach keyboards works are the result of an improvisation that Bach put on a score aferwards. We will never hear the best composition of Bach, which means all the organ improvisations of Bach who died famous for his organ composition. During his life, he was popular and quiet famous in northern Germany not for his music (fiew disciples and connoisseur) but for his organ improvisations which are flying in the sky along my dream to lesson such a mathematical improviser. Bach is unique to have been the only musician to improvise a piece which seems to be the perfect achievment of the throught, of a long mathematical work! no way, it came like this wouahhh !.
How can you compose more than 500 hours of music for all instruments , without to be a genius improviser. How can you be the composer the most famous for each instruments and the musician the most learn in musical school all over the world without to be a great improviser. Otherways you think, you are an hard worker to compose 9 symphonies and 6 hours of piano and that's all, as Beethoven who was a hard worker and wonderful musician, but not the music incarnated. The first instrument that Bach learned and played was the violin, from age 5 to 10 under the teaching of his father who died and Bach started to play organ at 10 under his uncle.when his father his violin teacher died and that's the reason why he created himself the sonatas and partitas for solo violin which are among the most difficult and beautiful pieces for a small instrument ever invented and it takes Menuhin, or Pearlman, or Grumiaux to play these sonatas and partitas perfectly. But Menuhin was playing 7 hours of violin per day.
How did Bach to compose it, to play it himself while playing organ, harpsichord, composing 330 cantatas plus The Passions , the oratorio, chamber music, cello music, add that he was an incredible luth player as well as a flutist as well as a cello player as well...
Never Forget , that 80% of Bach keyboards works are the result of an improvisation that Bach put on a score aferwards. We will never hear the best compositions of Bach, which means all the organ improvisations of Bach who died famous for his organ improvisations. During his life, he was popular and quiet famous in northern Germany not for his music (only known by fiew disciples and connoisseurs) but for his organ improvisations which are flying in the sky along my dream while listening such a mathematical improviser. Bach is unique to have been the only musician to improvise a piece which seems to be the perfect achievment of the throught, of a long mathematical work! no way, it came like this wouahhh !.
How can you compose more than 500 hours of music for all instruments , without to be a genius improviser. How can you be the composer the most famous for each instruments and the musician the most learn in musical school all over the world without to be a great improviser. Otherways you think, you are an hard worker to compose 9 symphonies and 6 hours of piano and that's all, as Beethoven who was a hard worker and wonderful musician, but not the music incarnated. The first instrument that Bach learned and played was the violin, from age 5 to 10 under the teaching of his father who died and Bach started to play organ at 10 under his uncle.when his father his violin teacher died and that's the reason why he created himself the sonatas and partitas for solo violin which are among the most difficult and beautiful pieces for a small instrument ever invented and it takes Menuhin, or Pearlman, or Grumiaux to play these sonatas and partitas perfectly. But Menuhin was playing 7 hours of violin per day.
How did Bach to compose it, to play it himself while playing organ, harpsichord, composing 330 cantatas plus The Passions , the oratorio, chamber music, cello music, add that he was an incredible luth player as well as a flutist as well as a cello player as well...
The same was true of Handel, his equal in many ways.
This is a beautiful performance. Thanks for sharing it! I will listen to it many times....
tolle Leistung, offenbar auswendig abgerufen, Respekt aus BRD SH OH
Realize that she has performed this entirely from memory. Astonishing❤
Wonderful performance by *Marta Czech* ! On organ I play only Contrapunctæ XI and XIV fromemory because too difficult to read and play.
*XI* 37:00 *XIV* 112:04 Best recording I havever heard on organ is blind organist Helmut Walcha.
@@GeorgeBletchly Have never been impressed by sight-reading, even though I.mproved the more I did.
Besto finger everything out, then perform witho surprises/crashes.
herrlich! 💜 💐 🙏 der "Himmel" ist so nah, wenn Menschen wie Bach und Marta den Weg zeigen.
¡Qué interpretación tan elocuente!
Fantastic performance, a little in the style of Glenn Gould but with the charm and virtuosity of Martha Czech, bravo !