- These Toccatas are among the most underrated Pieces by J.S.Bach and probably in all the Classical repertoire, but they're simply awesome. This one is probably my personal favourite of the set.
so baiscally I start listening in my head the motif from 5:55 randomly at different times of the day, then I open up youtube on my phone or laptop and listen to this toccata yet another time! ahahaha :)
hes not trolling the heads of the audience, hes gently massaging the stressed, torn apart by the hardness of life heads into a sublime, fanatical dream-state of serenenity and peace
I am not a Bach expert but I think Bach's unpublished fugues (some that have come down to us in copied format) seem to have been used more towards private instruction rather than public performance. That is the unfortunate thing about Bach's intention with unpublished keyboard works: There will always be disagreements regarding his intentions on how to use them. By the way. I also enjoyed 8:26. Just when Bach abandons the pattern, he tells us, "Wait a minute, I've got to try a few more".
The quantity and quality of Bach's music never ceases to stagger my mind. For instance, these personal and deeply emotional toccatas are so full of surprises that I can only imagine them being close to the way Bach might improvise. The fact that he could introduce fully worked out fugues as elements of the larger work speaks to his unmatched musicianship.
No kidding, that g minor one was the same. One could easily make a great movie or even tv series about Bach solely from seeing not just ‘his music’ alone but, like you said, his transitions and cool versions of himself as he aged. Just cool metamorphosis stuff
"Bach is the most stupendous miracle in all of music" - Richard Wagner "He is the father, we are the boys" - Mozart about Bach's son CPE "God is God and Bach is Bach" -Hector Berlioz "What I have to say about Bach's legacy? Listen, learn, love and worship his music ... and shut up." - Albert Einstein
It's incredible to hear and here also see him just absorb just whatever melody of any kind or quality and he just puts it in it very's musically own special place like an abstract musicological and encyclopedian Tetris but for the who hears not who only sees.
At first I thought it was boring, but the repetition of the melody figure in the higher and lower registers along with adding richer harmonies adds a lot of emotional tension.
I've read that Bach's harpsichord works (especially the fugues) were meant to be pedagogical and not necessarily intended for public performance ( Well-Tempered Clavier for example. ) However, I see these toccatas as varied, flamboyant, and grand enough to be used for performance. Can a Bach expert drop some insight on this Bach aficionado? By the way 8:26 is great.
thank you very mucho from Argentina for upload this magnificent piece. I studied it many years ago, but Im trying to remember and why not start again to play it!! Thank you
I literally look out for you comment every time I wanna listen again to this masterpiece hahahahaha I soooo agree with you and I love this piece more and more every time I listen to it❤
Awesome from 04:49 , how he just plays with the subject or thema is just astounding, for to have been written by a 27-year-old (1712-1685=27) not only but by one att that age, after the first fuga there an middleplay och interludium (which in latin basically means exactly the same and a harmonicly more developed depth which can only be caused by an later insertion. Bach usally did review he works and maybe regularly so. The interludium and second Fuga completes the work by taking another but rather similar melody for the fugue, dirived - probably a chromatic phares in the initial fast half or slow half. Bach probably gave many homewroks for his pupils and listener; If you have payed attention to and listened correctly and understood the whole Toccata; until the Fuga Finalis comes, you will get the point. Just hear it couple of times.. try to follow not with eyes only but your ears, and you will hear a different character in the second fugue that's my tips.. Cause that fugue, despite a maybe strange subject to chooose for making a fugue, but the whole point of it.. He makes a masterpiece of that scrap for a tune
It must not be coincidence then that I transposed his c minor toccata to f sharp on musescore on a harp dreaming of why he “never” made one in the key of f#/amajor
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- These Toccatas are among the most underrated Pieces by J.S.Bach and probably in all the Classical repertoire, but they're simply awesome.
This one is probably my personal favourite of the set.
yes
You are right! But I think that I love the most the toccata in c minor. The fugue is just a Rollercoaster...
@@aimilios439 Έτσι ακριβώς, φίλτατε...
@@Freawulf Έμα ναι!
They are perhaps the best keyboard works ever written
so baiscally I start listening in my head the motif from 5:55 randomly at different times of the day, then I open up youtube on my phone or laptop and listen to this toccata yet another time! ahahaha :)
Aventuras Rrlz Yes!!!
hes not trolling the heads of the audience, hes gently massaging the stressed, torn apart by the hardness of life heads into a sublime, fanatical dream-state of serenenity and peace
I feel protected by Him I can go in peace from this fallen world .
I assume you mean Bach, as to honour another in such a way in this space would be unthinkable
@@verfuncht Him=JSB. Who else?
@@omarzagmuttcahbar4896 Yes Yes Yes!!! Of Course lol
1:14. Bach predicted Harry Potter.
Nice
I am not a Bach expert but I think Bach's unpublished fugues (some that have come down to us in copied format) seem to have been used more towards private instruction rather than public performance. That is the unfortunate thing about Bach's intention with unpublished keyboard works: There will always be disagreements regarding his intentions on how to use them. By the way. I also enjoyed 8:26. Just when Bach abandons the pattern, he tells us, "Wait a minute, I've got to try a few more".
The quantity and quality of Bach's music never ceases to stagger my mind. For instance, these personal and deeply emotional toccatas are so full of surprises that I can only imagine them being close to the way Bach might improvise. The fact that he could introduce fully worked out fugues as elements of the larger work speaks to his unmatched musicianship.
Definitely! It's a toccata followed by a recitative, fugue, aria and another fugue. The BWV 900s seem to be Bach at his most adventurous.
No kidding, that g minor one was the same. One could easily make a great movie or even tv series about Bach solely from seeing not just ‘his music’ alone but, like you said, his transitions and cool versions of himself as he aged. Just cool metamorphosis stuff
5:55 Bach: what if I repeat the same pattern endlessly, trolling the audience for several minutes straight? I'm so doing it
Brian Bernstein I had a CD of this and would play that section of this piece over and over in my car. It’s intoxicating.
So simple but yet it just works.
It's hypnotic.
"Not Brook (Brook in German: Bach) but Ocean should be his name.
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
Yes F sharp minor is for the ocean
so Tessa Brooks is related to Bach?
Beethoven - "Bach is the immortal god of harmony"
"Bach is the most stupendous miracle in all of music"
- Richard Wagner
"He is the father, we are the boys"
- Mozart about Bach's son CPE
"God is God and Bach is Bach"
-Hector Berlioz
"What I have to say about Bach's legacy? Listen, learn, love and worship his music ... and shut up."
- Albert Einstein
Bach as adjective translates to brook in English.
Also the CH in Bach isn't spoken like English CH sound, but like H in history for example
It's incredible to hear and here also see him just absorb just whatever melody of any kind or quality and he just puts it in it very's musically own special place like an abstract musicological and encyclopedian Tetris but for the who hears not who only sees.
This is by far the most correct interpretation of the second to last movement. It feels like i am falling asleep to sadness.
I like how he almost plays the Harry Potter theme at the end of the opening toccata
Or in other words..
Pure beauty indeed. Especially 4:49 where Bach starts a mini-mimicking session from tenor to soprano to bass. Just wonderful stuff!
c est vrai pour ce passage. on entend mieux ce mimétisme dans la version de glenn gould.
Awesome. It makes it so easy to study the composition with the sheet music scrolling. Thanks!
5:54 wow, i'm speechless
I just had the same feeling. A melodic pattern that is so magnificantly conducted through a chord progression. So beautiful and so well crafted.
@@hstanekovic stunning
Yes, it just so staggeringly beautiful. I've heard it a hundred times, and each time it's the first time.
At first I thought it was boring, but the repetition of the melody figure in the higher and lower registers along with adding richer harmonies adds a lot of emotional tension.
Buxtehude had a huge influence here...
Thanks for uploading!
It is Matthew. Imagine, your early pieces will also receive the same appreciation as you continue to compose great works.
i listen to this stuff because it is decongests my brain and feels like rain.
5:54-8:42 life is fleeting-less fuss people
1:15 like Hedwig's Theme.(speed 0.5)
I've read that Bach's harpsichord works (especially the fugues) were meant to be pedagogical and not necessarily intended for public performance ( Well-Tempered Clavier for example. ) However, I see these toccatas as varied, flamboyant, and grand enough to be used for performance. Can a Bach expert drop some insight on this Bach aficionado? By the way 8:26 is great.
Grande obra do João Sebastião Ribeiro!
+Felipe Espinola Aprecio tanto quanto os livros de Johann Übald Bach.
Legal kkkk
The frequent key changes used in this piece make the temperament the performer used sound a little strange, in my opinion.
thank you very mucho from Argentina for upload this magnificent piece. I studied it many years ago, but Im trying to remember and why not start again to play it!! Thank you
Any musicians out there feeling inferior?
PositivePioneer :(
In shadow of bach
Every single one probably should...
Watch your bach, young man
YES
what an insanely complex piece... lol
I literally look out for you comment every time I wanna listen again to this masterpiece hahahahaha I soooo agree with you and I love this piece more and more every time I listen to it❤
Awesome from 04:49 , how he just plays with the subject or thema is just astounding, for to have been written by a 27-year-old (1712-1685=27) not only but by one att that age, after the first fuga there an middleplay och interludium (which in latin basically means exactly the same and a harmonicly more developed depth which can only be caused by an later insertion. Bach usally did review he works and maybe regularly so. The interludium and second Fuga completes the work by taking another but rather similar melody for the fugue, dirived - probably a chromatic phares in the initial fast half or slow half. Bach probably gave many homewroks for his pupils and listener; If you have payed attention to and listened correctly and understood the whole Toccata; until the Fuga Finalis comes, you will get the point. Just hear it couple of times.. try to follow not with eyes only but your ears, and you will hear a different character in the second fugue that's my tips.. Cause that fugue, despite a maybe strange subject to chooose for making a fugue, but the whole point of it.. He makes a masterpiece of that scrap for a tune
Bach was probably 17 when he wrote those Toccatas
He's still following the model of his predecessors like Buxtehude but putting his personal spin on it. His method is assimilate > transform.
Consider he probably wrote the passacaglia and fugue at 21
Pure beauty!
wow so amayzing !!
Oops! I meant soprano to tenor to bass! Sorry.
Two fugati in one toccata? Bach, you spoiled us too much!
You are welcome.
4:39 blows my mind
BACH THE MASTER OF ALL THE MUSICIANS dixit ROBERT SCHUMAN !!
Браво гениально сыграл
wonderful temperament
Is it unequal temperament?
Most definitely. Have a close listen at 1:20
Preciosas las Partitas
8:07
Goosebumps every time!
It must not be coincidence then that I transposed his c minor toccata to f sharp on musescore on a harp dreaming of why he “never” made one in the key of f#/amajor
5:54
Is this a kind of toccata suite? Or are the speed notes just for recognizing different parts of a piece?
Para la tecnica es muy buen
3:57 omg
What’s the little movement/section before the fugue called? Bach and Buxtehude sometimes have a really juicy section before a fugue.
James May in his Honda civic type r
3:27 3:58 4:39 4:48 5:54 8:42
1:14
1:14 the start of harry potter
Me while listening *oh yay a cadence… 😡… oh yay a cadence…😡… etc*
4:05 5:40
Чёт,. Я там не видел adagio.
Precio
Listen at 5:11 ... Is that a Skype notification or something like that? Such a shame. :(
It is out of tune in 10:52? Wat? impression? strange and funny hahhhhaakkkkakkka
It must be that day I was tired. I was listening to hours of harpsichord music. It seemed recording
Hear the microtonal compositions its "out" of tune.
10:53 its "out" for a one second
+Danimar da Silva It's inequally tempered. The A# is sharper as it should be.
Thanks :)
In my opinion the fugue has a wrong articulation in this version. Should be slower and more legato. Not joyful.
notice "e staccato" in the tempo marking, staccato = choppy :)
@@nazaracanreapit I mean that last fugue at 08:43. Earlier fuga staccato, of course.
@@aksuli1 oh! sorry
@@nazaracanreapit No problem.
5:54 if played with a better instrument and expression is fantastic but here it's too machine like
the instrument its perfect
What is out of tune Danimar?Probably your brain, only.
He is talking about the usage of inequal temperament.
AIDAS RUSA i see your coment only today, my brain is able to write music since my 14 years old, please look to my channel and coment about my brain out of tune.
Too fast,,,,
3:27
8:41