Angela Hewitt: Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903 (JS Bach) - Live

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On Wednesday, March 12, the pianist Angela Hewitt gave a Bach master class to students from the Third Street Music School Settlement. Jeff Spurgeon hosted the event in WQXR's studios in The Greene Space.

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  • @derekdavid1
    @derekdavid12 жыл бұрын

    No one compares. Greatest living Bach interpreter, hands down.

  • @hammydon65
    @hammydon659 жыл бұрын

    Outstanding - I love your very original and personal interpretation. This gives me the feeling of someone in the kitchen cooking their favorite recipe... I can smell every note! Brava!

  • @nessieness5433
    @nessieness54339 жыл бұрын

    So clear! Wonderfully enjoyable. Thank you.

  • @Starclimber
    @Starclimber10 жыл бұрын

    Well, that was thoroughly awesome. Entrancing performance of a work of genius. Chapeau!

  • @danielknutson5402
    @danielknutson54026 жыл бұрын

    Brava! to Ms. Hewitt. The Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue is difficult to hear, to really listen to, to make sense of or to really love -- even for those of us who are otherwise Bach lovers. But this is the most intelligible and intelligent version I have heard. And while Schiff has done much to make Bach utterly delightful to me, Hewitt makes this particular piece finally speak out loud and clear. Richter on the harpsichord is inspired and made me question whether the piano could ever do what Bach intended. Here, however, it is perhaps not only Hewitt's mastery of the composition, but I sense it is also the instrument, the Fazioli, that does its part. The piano vindicated.

  • @donaldaxel

    @donaldaxel

    2 ай бұрын

    OK for a musical honest rendering - it's said that the romantic composers, Brahms, Liszt, used this piece to display virtuosity and it must be interesting to hear what Brahms could do with it :)

  • @GuyMannDudeTheOnly
    @GuyMannDudeTheOnly3 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful !

  • @charliecrcc3859
    @charliecrcc38599 жыл бұрын

    Amazing!!!

  • @laowei7279
    @laowei72794 жыл бұрын

    Full of meaning! And through the window one can see the traffic passing by...

  • @michaelgamer6649
    @michaelgamer66493 жыл бұрын

    Angela Hewitt is my new favorite pianist... and she doesn't even have to sing along as she plays!

  • @exequielchuaqui5968

    @exequielchuaqui5968

    3 жыл бұрын

    Maan stfu michael gamer you probably dont know your shit

  • @flintlong2937

    @flintlong2937

    Жыл бұрын

    I love your comment! And I love her playing. She is my favorite too!

  • @painter1955
    @painter19559 жыл бұрын

    Stupendous.

  • @nnahshon
    @nnahshon2 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful!

  • @jeanlouiscolle8415
    @jeanlouiscolle84159 жыл бұрын

    Merci Angela Hewitt pour cette poésie à la hauteur du Maître! Cette interprétation me donne autant de joie que celle d'un Kempf, quoique très différente. A cette qualité d'interprétation, Bach est inépuisable!

  • @Amittai_Aviram
    @Amittai_Aviram2 жыл бұрын

    Ms. Hewitt, you are one of the towering geniuses of our generation. Thank you for your many gifts.

  • @MichaelConwayBaker
    @MichaelConwayBaker Жыл бұрын

    I just close my eyes and listen. MAGIC!!

  • @RINCO65
    @RINCO656 жыл бұрын

    Bravissima!!!

  • @Michajeru
    @Michajeru4 жыл бұрын

    I saw her give a concert in Jerusalem a few years ago and I have been a fan ever since. Her knowledge and performance ability of Bach is simply staggering.

  • @MrJbcostafilho
    @MrJbcostafilho5 жыл бұрын

    Extraordinária interpretação de Angela Hewitt!!!!!!

  • @delin2435
    @delin24353 жыл бұрын

    The Bach Goddess!

  • @pablograndelopez

    @pablograndelopez

    2 жыл бұрын

    I agree. Although I’m not really very fond of her interpretation here. A bit soft yo my taste for this piece. Enough explained and discussed in this thread hehej:-)

  • @presidenzanazionale2907
    @presidenzanazionale29076 жыл бұрын

    Eccellente esecuzione!

  • @notaire2
    @notaire25 жыл бұрын

    Breathtaking performance! Every time I listen to this highly sophisticated masterpiece, I cannot help feeling Bach had foreseen the future development of European music up to the twentieth century.

  • @darkoanton5
    @darkoanton58 жыл бұрын

    I'm not an historian of music, not do I demand something to be played the same way a hundred thousand times. I like this performance. I'm looking forward to seeing her perform and hopeful get a chance to meet her for a few moments.

  • @flintlong2937
    @flintlong29373 жыл бұрын

    I have just read most of the comments and sub-replies on this page. I am a pianist and have played Bach for over 50 years. Please trust my opinion. Angela Hewitt has replaced Gould in my opinion as the "go to" pianist for Bach. I also like Martha Augerich and many others, but.... here I find everything I want to hear in piano Bach - clean crisp precision, a little emotionalism, an authoritative, strong approach, a love of fugue and the ability to bring out the voices clearly, a sense of the depth and meaning of the music. In my opinion, Angela has it all!

  • @gildasiooliveira7921

    @gildasiooliveira7921

    3 жыл бұрын

    You've said it all! And I agree, point over point! Thank you!

  • @jayelm5392

    @jayelm5392

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, Canada remains fortress Bach.

  • @bacholog
    @bacholog3 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful energy as theme appears in the bass at 11:08

  • @pawelwysockicoreandquirks
    @pawelwysockicoreandquirks9 жыл бұрын

    “Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.” ― Johann Sebastian Bach

  • @lunchmind

    @lunchmind

    6 жыл бұрын

    I'm not sure if I believe in God or not but I appreciate Bach's point.

  • @mikeburns9109

    @mikeburns9109

    5 жыл бұрын

    Clearly a quote from another age, when discipline and beauty were not incompatible. I marvellous quote -I'd not heard it. Thanks for the post!

  • @gildasiooliveira7921

    @gildasiooliveira7921

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lunchmind , I respect your point of view, although my lack of agreement to it... but we have something in common: we feel ourselves too small to discuss Bach's manner to see the World! Good to know you, and care... the times are not for joking... COVID discuss, but on the bad manner... Be well!

  • @lunchmind

    @lunchmind

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gildasiooliveira7921 Hello. Thank you for your thoughts. I assume ,ylou mean that you don't share my agnosticism. That's fine. But yes, who can know the mind of Bach? YOu be well, also.

  • @constantinqueins9313
    @constantinqueins93134 жыл бұрын

    bravo

  • @santjoa7630
    @santjoa76304 жыл бұрын

    Angela Hewitt adds an extra dimension to the music of J.S. Bach that most other Bach-interpreters often lack. Something that is mysterious but noticable and that keeps the lifeline viable in the music of J.S. Bach .

  • @ViRrOorR
    @ViRrOorR Жыл бұрын

    Yeah she is probably the best I just wish more of her bach stuff was on spotify

  • @paxwallacejazz
    @paxwallacejazz4 жыл бұрын

    Hewitt is a goddess and reading all the negative comments from the Jackals of Mediocrity reminds of why the Jazz World is so much less neurotic .

  • @flintlong2937

    @flintlong2937

    3 жыл бұрын

    I agree on thousand per cent. I am in both worlds, and to me, Angela is the greatest for piano Bach! In my opinion, she has replace Gould as the "go to" pianist for Bach.

  • @jubeltr
    @jubeltr2 жыл бұрын

    Apenas estoy conociendo esta pianista,la primera vez que la escuché fue en un concierto relacionado con el concurso Chopin en Varsovia el año pasado...

  • @manueljeronimo6582
    @manueljeronimo65822 жыл бұрын

    Bach compôs esta, também para Deus e Angela Hewitt de certeza que foi uma das que lhe conseguiu entregar a obra. Bach composed this one, also for God and Angela Hewitt was certainly one of those who managed to deliver the work to him. Manuel Jerónimo, Lisbon, Portugal.

  • @gadidi22
    @gadidi223 жыл бұрын

    BRAVA

  • @Jaleelk0
    @Jaleelk05 жыл бұрын

    I feel like this is the epitome of Bach, for me anyway. I like the timing and feel on this one and think it actually works better on piano than organ.

  • @leonkowalenko1747
    @leonkowalenko17472 жыл бұрын

    Bravissima. And with her dear, tragically departed Fazioli, piano of pianos

  • @stevehendrix9625
    @stevehendrix96258 жыл бұрын

    She employs more rubato here than in her studio recording which I would highly recommend (the recording, not the rubato). I would certainly love to own the piano she's playing here - what a magnificent instrument!!

  • @hyramesshiramess1035
    @hyramesshiramess10359 жыл бұрын

    Brsvo! It's a wonderful achievement all around. I don't believe, however, that anyone will ever equal -- let alone surpass -- Wanda Landowska's historic recording from 1935 on her unique, self-designed Pleyel harpsichord. The incredibly broad range of dramatic expression and subtle tonal coloration Landowska brought out of that "pluck box" creates awe in me still -- fifty-odd years after i first heard the recording. A life changing experience I have never forgotten. Angela Hewitt's Chromatic Fugue, however, strikes me as highly successful, but I did feel the Fantasy, while superbly executed and thoughtfully interpreted, sounded a wee bit too dry. What I mean is that if you are going to play Bach on the modern piano, it's not a bad idea to take full advantage of all the piano's resources. Just a few touches of pedal now and then would have given more "bloom" to the sound and made an already stunning rendition SOAR as though borne on angel's wings.

  • @john-patrickdickson9663

    @john-patrickdickson9663

    7 жыл бұрын

    Hyramess Hiramess- you had to buy wanda Landowska's sound, which I agree with you and have played countless times over the years, but now on KZread with a modern concert grand Fazioli the sound of the fugue comes out with much more detail free of charge. We are the luckiest Generation ever with the master composers and young virtuosi at our beck and call with video too.

  • @johnsarkissian5519

    @johnsarkissian5519

    5 жыл бұрын

    Listen to her playing again! She makes the use of the pedal, and how! I just heard her play this piece last Friday in Ottawa. Her pedalling was just perfect. To pedal any of those fast runs would simply turn it into a mud soup. However, those arpeggios were all pedalled to great effect. I am sure, some people would now complain that she uses the pedal too much. It's simply a matter of taste. I may pedal it differently myself. But in her case, her pedalling is fully convincing, suiting perfectly her interpretation, which by the way, remains always and fully Bach! Nothing eccentric there or for show-off!

  • @Paolo_De_Leva

    @Paolo_De_Leva

    2 жыл бұрын

    You are right. Passionate spotless interpretation and incredible sound: kzread.info/dash/bejne/emZ6xMR6hd2piaQ.html

  • @paxwallacejazz
    @paxwallacejazz6 жыл бұрын

    Romantic or not Hewitt really brings out the passion locked away inside the greate master's works while sacrificing nothing in precision. Between Gould and Hewitt one can glimpse the scope of Bach. I suggest checking out their very opposite but equally important interpretations of WTC2#22 in Bb minor .

  • @normangensler7380

    @normangensler7380

    4 жыл бұрын

    What? There is no precision here at all!

  • @GyromiteROB
    @GyromiteROB5 жыл бұрын

    The greater debate is - in my opinion - whether this piece should be played with comical remarks as Gould once pointed off, or with that emotional, romanticized technique.

  • @normangensler7380

    @normangensler7380

    4 жыл бұрын

    Indeed. Hewitt has given the perfect representation of all that is wrong with playing Bach in the romantic style.

  • @pablograndelopez

    @pablograndelopez

    2 жыл бұрын

    I like it yo be played in this way (in the torrent of strenght way… by the way Bach=torrent as you people know:-) kzread.info/dash/bejne/n35pq82BnK63oto.html And… yes; I agree… I think this piece in particular … better on the harpsichord. I still remember the Andreas Steier recording. Wow

  • @lunchmind
    @lunchmind4 жыл бұрын

    Dear Ms Hewitt, So sorry about your piano mishap. I heard about it on the BBC. PLease don't let it discourage you. Your music is needed .

  • @talento398
    @talento3984 жыл бұрын

    9:48?

  • @natalianame8873
    @natalianame88734 жыл бұрын

    Отличное исполнение! Как жаль, что этот инструмент разбили.

  • @pablostanfield6192
    @pablostanfield61928 жыл бұрын

    á chacun son sal goût. De gustibus disputandum non est. Should and ought are musts of may. (~e.e. cummings). Such comments you folks make!!

  • @rayawene1311
    @rayawene13113 жыл бұрын

    Antwerp international airport ( Deurne) Belgium. Provincie antwerp.

  • @firesong75
    @firesong752 жыл бұрын

    Listened with score open, as I played it many years ago. I have the von Bülow edition which adds here and there. To my ears this interpretation was excellent, not strictly rhythmic. It is, after all, a fantasie! Such liberties were perhaps taken in Bach’s time, but we will never know. Certainly listening to an artist’s interpretation was pleasant and surprising. Boring it is not as Miss Hewitt brings her whole person to performance of the music. Let the music speak and do not burden it with unnecessary strictness!

  • @johanhakkens
    @johanhakkens7 жыл бұрын

    I just listened to Scott Ross's version of this piece and then stumbled into this one...wow made it again very clear to me how much Scott rules! This shouldn't be played on a piano, it just doesn't work, this belongs to the harpsichord.

  • @carnivalcruiserbill

    @carnivalcruiserbill

    4 жыл бұрын

    This piece works on both instruments .

  • @danielj9042

    @danielj9042

    3 жыл бұрын

    It’s just not as clear and crisp on the piano. She is great, though.

  • @BruceRHaskinSr
    @BruceRHaskinSr6 жыл бұрын

    This was very good. Maybe it's just me, but I have never preferred a piano over a harpsichord or clavichord.

  • @michaelbauers8800

    @michaelbauers8800

    4 жыл бұрын

    Such different instruments though, IMO. They both have strings, and a lot of them, and are mechanically set to vibrating. I think that's about their main similarity. Piano is so dynamic, I think the player can put more emotion into it. But harpsichord has a distinctive sound, and I think it's great people still play them, so we can somewhat hear the baroque in the way it sounded way back in the day.

  • @freeqwerqwer
    @freeqwerqwer7 жыл бұрын

    I wonder what kind of piano she is playing. I think the tone could be voiced better. The tone doesn't have a long sustain.

  • @durupi

    @durupi

    7 жыл бұрын

    Fazioli

  • @josephlouis7702
    @josephlouis77024 жыл бұрын

    just can't believe that her prestigious piano is gone and can't be fixed really sad...that piano was the last in the world "a perfect work of art"..

  • @elliotnaess8020

    @elliotnaess8020

    3 жыл бұрын

    She now has a new one just like it. Fazioli prepared five of them for her to choose among, and she is reported to have found a worthy successor.

  • @curmudgeonlyfogey4678
    @curmudgeonlyfogey46787 жыл бұрын

    "Hewiit lacks the strength that Bach's music has"???? What pretentious rubbish. Angela is a supreme Bach interpreter with Bach in her soul and at her fingertips. I heard her play the AoF straight off at a concert in Bristol - titanic performance.

  • @lunchmind

    @lunchmind

    6 жыл бұрын

    I love her WTC but not as much in this piece.

  • @matheom.5400

    @matheom.5400

    5 жыл бұрын

    When I heard her at a concert in Udine (near the east border in Italy) she said that the first time she studied the Art of Fugue she found it “boring”. I don’t think that this pianist has a great understanding of the music of Bach, and maybe of the music simpliciter. The fact that she cannot end a concert without a performance of one of her beloved french composers - which are perfect to make the audience madams say “quelle finesse!”, whispering - proves it.

  • @TonusFabri2024

    @TonusFabri2024

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@matheom.5400 Having met her as a kid & heard her play, she probably found the Art of Fugue "boring" at about age 6. I wouldn't fault her for that. Some people find it boring at any age. But the first time I heard Angela (as an adult) play Bach, it brought tears to my eyes. Not because it was emotionalized or romanticized, just because it was perfection, _purest_ Bach. I think it was her ppp touch that totally stunned me.

  • @michaelbauers8800

    @michaelbauers8800

    4 жыл бұрын

    I totes understand that people like to analyze music to death, but sometimes on youtube, I feel like people are hypercritical. Some people probably have no "right" to really critique talented musicians. Sometimes you just don't like a piece of music, or how it's performed, which is totally understandable. But some people then proceed to critique the skills of the musican or musicians, even when they are not as skilled. Well, that's the internet for you :)

  • @pablograndelopez

    @pablograndelopez

    4 жыл бұрын

    thank you fogey. Well... I don't know. I am listening to this interpretation 4 years after I wrote I felt kind of a ... lack of strenght. I know what I meant then; I think I still feel it a bit; may be not so much as at that time... ; some pieces of Bach, to my taste... have to be really "PRESSEED" of the keys... ; presure, a bit presure on the keys is important to me when playing Bach... otherwise I have the feeling that I loose ... that torrent of strengh that there is in many pieces of Bach (not all; it is true, look, that the AoF ... can be a different thing about that strengh I try to express...; some of the contrapunctus (contrapucti, in plural in latin :-) are suitable for such a delicate touch on the keys, true). I was mentionoing to others, as a reference, that I find that strenght I try to talk about in Martha Argerich for instance... she is "voiding her self"... each note is exploding when being pressed (pressed, really pressed, not just put down). And I think this chromatic fantasy is suitable for that torrent of strenght, of pressing. kzread.info/dash/bejne/aaF6prqHf6e0qcY.html You can find it there. (can you imagine that touching, with finger 2 index right hand, of M.Argerich in this interpretation?... I would love to see M.Argerich playing the chromatic fantasy. But well, this is just my opinion and taste! I respect all others, and I really admire Hewitt for having been able to devote her life to Bach mainly! that's my dream in fact :-) . aBOUT the Art of Fugue, if you love it as you say, please check the interpretations of Zhu xiao Mei, may be you know it already. It is a wonder of... may be not 'stunning thechnique'... but of profoundness, of deepness... it's wow. yOU can find at least the contrapunctus 1 on youTube (I don't think the whole interpretations. But on spotify yes, I think. Thank you! P

  • @mikekeyes6102
    @mikekeyes61029 жыл бұрын

    One of the better performances of this, without the irritating mannerisms of Mr Gould. It is almost always rushed by most other performers. However, I suspect that Bach wouldn't care much for piano versions of this; it's best on a good harpsichord or clavichord - piano sound is not incisive enough, and after all, Bach had the sound of the harpsichord or clavichord in his musical imagination when he wrote this.

  • @lagunagreg4019

    @lagunagreg4019

    8 жыл бұрын

    Bach owned three pianos before he died, and liked them very much according to his sons. And he was probably thinking of the organ when he wrote this more than anything else. He himself said the organ was his preferred keyboard instrument. The almost orchestral range of expression and color needed to make this piece work are simply not possible on a harpsichord.

  • @normangensler7380

    @normangensler7380

    4 жыл бұрын

    Bach wouldn't care for mediocre playing, that is what is heard here.

  • @drivenhome7840
    @drivenhome78405 жыл бұрын

    Anyone who remarks negatively should go play the piece. Or at least compare it to their own perfectionism in your jobs or careers. Think of how many spelling errors you typed onto the keyboard as you made comment.

  • @avocatdenis

    @avocatdenis

    5 жыл бұрын

    Don't be silly. Being able to comment on performance practice and music esthetics does not depend on one's ability to actually play the piece. A music critic who critiques musical performances depends on their understanding of the instrument, the repertoire within its historical context and the corresponding practice for that period. Harold Schonberg (former music critic for the New York Times) wrote extensively on music performance and music in general (he wrote an excellent book entitled "The Great Pianists"). And he was not, as I understand it, proficient on the piano. But he could pick apart (that is, deconstruct) a pianist's performance by properly and skillfully referencing the conventions of the piece and what one should expect from a particular piece as it relates to appropriate performance practice. So at the very least, if someone is to negatively comment on a pianist's performance he/she should be ready and able to specifically address the performance and why it does not conform with appropriate performance practice. Otherwise, such criticism is about as useful as a screen door on a submarine.

  • @danielj9042

    @danielj9042

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@avocatdenis 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 so true!!

  • @randomimprovise1918
    @randomimprovise19187 жыл бұрын

    She s the best Bach player

  • @levicopp3224
    @levicopp32247 жыл бұрын

    Acknowledging Hewitt's marvellous Bach's playing , I found this performance, strangely muted as it were, lacking dynamic strength and "narrative " in the fugue. A stern, inexorable progession to the end.

  • @pablograndelopez

    @pablograndelopez

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you levi Copp; yes, that's the idea I tryed to say probably. in a less political correct form , may be. Never trying to offend of course. I really value Hewitt, and her devotion of ther life to Bachs music. i would like to do so too (if I could). To my taste and opinion, I find that lack of strengh also in the fantasy. But, well, of course everyone of us have our days and... ; but still... I can imagine Martha Argerich playing this Chromatic fantasy.. kzread.info/dash/bejne/aaF6prqHf6e0qcY.html

  • @gildasiooliveira7921

    @gildasiooliveira7921

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pablograndelopez , yes... or even Karl Richter, or Glenn Gould... diverse ways to see the same; but I do not disgust... I have my own way to feel this Chromatic Fantasy... and for my taste, it sounds well, but I respect every way your manner to see the thing; Bach had his own time... the Fantasy and Fugue BWV 906 is an example: he had no time to finish the Fugue... at least we can delight with this, BWV 903... thanks, o God! And, despite of all, thanks Angela Hewitt!

  • @pablograndelopez

    @pablograndelopez

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gildasiooliveira7921 absolutely agree Gildasio. By the way, look at this wonder I found, by Gulda!… yesss, there it is the strength! :-) kzread.info/dash/bejne/n35pq82BnK63oto.html

  • @giovannipeirone3915
    @giovannipeirone39154 жыл бұрын

    If you play Bach on a piano you have to use your own way, i love this way (and i love a lot of other pianists' way): there are some more estathic approaches, this is very bright and emotional. This is good, i don't think that the perfection of Bach's music can be shadowed by this fiery rendition, even if i love also the way play some completely different pianists. (sorry for my english)

  • @danielj9042

    @danielj9042

    3 жыл бұрын

    There’s nothing wrong with your English 😃

  • @lunchmind
    @lunchmind6 жыл бұрын

    Angela Hewitt is an outstanding musician and pianist, but to my ears Glenn Gould is the only pianist who pulls this one off.Otherwise I must turn to the harpsichordist for this "permissable delight of the soul"

  • @pablograndelopez

    @pablograndelopez

    2 жыл бұрын

    Listen to this too: kzread.info/dash/bejne/n35pq82BnK63oto.html

  • @Renee2004lr
    @Renee2004lr7 жыл бұрын

    Something bothered me about this performance....and I came to the conclusion that it is a combination of the piano and the room she is playing in. Either it is a very small room with very poor acoustics, or there are a lot of people with heavy winter clothes on which sucks up the sound. And yes the piano sound is VERY DRY. It is as if the "mute button" was never really released on a computer. (IMHO). The result is a good, but not a great performance.

  • @JoeLinux2000

    @JoeLinux2000

    4 жыл бұрын

    Many KZread videos are not optimal in terms of sound quality, but all in all this is not bad. You are correct that the room itself can make a huge difference. It's also true that the audience absorbs much of the sound. Have you considered that it may be the small speakers on your computer?

  • @normangensler7380

    @normangensler7380

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@JoeLinux2000 Nope. She is not a world class player.

  • @donmcgibbon6575
    @donmcgibbon65757 жыл бұрын

    "Paging Glenn Gould! Mister Glenn Gould!... "

  • @normangensler7380

    @normangensler7380

    4 жыл бұрын

    What? are you kidding? Gould would bow his head with sorrow over this sorrowful presentation. Have you heard Gould before? This is lacking indeed in precision.

  • @flintlong2937

    @flintlong2937

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@normangensler7380 Where is this lacking in precision, Norm? To me, it is high on the scale of precision and clarity. I have loved Gould for decades, but I think she is the new Gould. Am I wrong. Please clarify. Thanks. Also, did you ever hear Peter Serkin play Bach? He did a good job. I really, really like Angela!

  • @raulsimon2218
    @raulsimon22186 жыл бұрын

    It wasn´t made for the organ. (Not for the piano, either).

  • @mewsdo
    @mewsdo4 жыл бұрын

    Great performance... but Bach's message seems to need an instrument that speaks his language... ie any of the keyboards he actually was familiar with...

  • @normangensler7380
    @normangensler73804 жыл бұрын

    Yes, this woman has some amount of talent. However, she is nowhere near world class, not even close, until she learns to play ornaments with rhythmic precision. And she has the cheek to give master classes?

  • @spiritualatheist1
    @spiritualatheist12 жыл бұрын

    Certainly is worlds different from organ rendition.

  • @EarlLedden
    @EarlLedden9 жыл бұрын

    I prefer the emotional liberties taken, and the pace, over Gould's performance. Each to his own; it's not often someone outGoulds Bach.

  • @violinhunter2
    @violinhunter25 жыл бұрын

    Don't read the rest of my comment if you think this is a delightful performance. (I hear a lot of vague playing - also, a few mishaps along the way. This is beyond her abilities as a piano player and as a musician.)

  • @carnivalcruiserbill

    @carnivalcruiserbill

    4 жыл бұрын

    Can you play this any better? Please post your performance.

  • @normangensler7380

    @normangensler7380

    4 жыл бұрын

    How true! It's unbelievable how many "internet experts" think this is good playing. God help us!

  • @danielj9042

    @danielj9042

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ummm mistakes are inevitable. Shut up.

  • @violinhunter2

    @violinhunter2

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@danielj9042 Yes, from mediocrities, they are.

  • @danielj9042

    @danielj9042

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@violinhunter2 good point, but you will hear even the best musicians make mistakes occasionally….. it’s human nature to fuck up 😃

  • @pauljohnston3884
    @pauljohnston38845 жыл бұрын

    You have a small problem, Angela. The problem's name is Glenn Gould. No amount of glib dismissal of genius will help you in the long run. Meaning, posterity. Right?

  • @drivenhome7840

    @drivenhome7840

    5 жыл бұрын

    Oh my god. Get a Handle or I'll be Bach.

  • @esperanzasalgueiroanabitarte
    @esperanzasalgueiroanabitarte3 жыл бұрын

    ¡Qué amaneramientos tan innecesarios y tan impropios! Esta versión no es ya imprimir a la obra un cierto toque romántico que sin duda tiene sino amanerarla al estilo Glenn Gould pero sin la maestría, la personalidad y la originalidad que este pianista tenía, lo que hacía que se le permitieran ciertas licencias. Me refiero, por supuesto a la Fantasía. Respecto a la Fuga no hay ninguna objeción que hacer.

  • @robertgift
    @robertgift9 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful performance! The exaggerated animated antics is an unfortunate distraction from the music. Best to listen to her with eyes closed.

  • @normangensler7380

    @normangensler7380

    4 жыл бұрын

    And ears!

  • @Astor962
    @Astor9624 жыл бұрын

    Playing Bach on the piano is like putting donkey's ears on a racehorse ...

  • @carnivalcruiserbill

    @carnivalcruiserbill

    4 жыл бұрын

    I disagree.

  • @INDIGOBLUE555

    @INDIGOBLUE555

    4 жыл бұрын

    Personal taste rules....

  • @Astor962

    @Astor962

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@INDIGOBLUE555 Even the hog in the pigsty can say the same ... This is not Bach, this is an easy listening arrangement addressed to an unprepared and uncritical audience.

  • @INDIGOBLUE555

    @INDIGOBLUE555

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Astor962 You're missing the point... I'm not judging (nor misdjudging...) Hewitt's rendition.Playing Bach on piano,that was the main topic...Cool down man :)

  • @Astor962

    @Astor962

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@INDIGOBLUE555 If everything were just a matter of taste, then nothing would prevent someone from playing Beethoven, Liszt or Debussy on a hammond organ, just to mention a more modern instrument. What I find disrespectful of this type of performances, is that they want to make believe that this would be the real Bach, while instead it is only a commercial recording operation. All the Best.

  • @qnoquai
    @qnoquai9 жыл бұрын

    Sry, but this Interpretation is - sry, sry - terrible. I can´t feel any spirituality ... Much to much much technique (just for the technique?), to much speed without sense - and less "empathie" whrere it is needed ... To me this has nothing in common with bachs Intention. Just imagine this in a church ? A masterpiece could be heared from Wilhelm Kempff (London 1969, live) here. Thanks for uploading

  • @lagunagreg4019

    @lagunagreg4019

    8 жыл бұрын

    OH so you like more pedal do you?

  • @johnsarkissian5519

    @johnsarkissian5519

    5 жыл бұрын

    Kuno Braun, Why would you want to hear this piece in a church? It was written as a virtuoso piece! A secular piece to dazzle the audiences at some palace or private home. Not everything Bach wrote is supposed to be spiritual.

  • @danielj9042

    @danielj9042

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think he’s talking about a large cathedral with lots of reverberation. I don’t think he saying it should be played in a church because of spiritual reasons. That’s just my guess.

  • @qnoquai

    @qnoquai

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@danielj9042 Maybe :-)...But the church has payed him his whole live, he believed in God and each peace was played in a church for the first time.. hmM :-)

  • @PointyTailofSatan
    @PointyTailofSatan9 жыл бұрын

    As much as I like the playing of AH, this is terrible. Too much rubato; this fugue should drive like a train, with a hard rhythm, and without pointless romanticizing.

  • @kennywood6434

    @kennywood6434

    9 жыл бұрын

    PointyTailofSatan, in your opinion, of course.

  • @oscarlasprilla9345

    @oscarlasprilla9345

    8 жыл бұрын

    +PointyTailofSatan ;I agree that Bach music ought to be played straight and simple, without affectation or romanticized manner,which a great deal of pianists fall for, Bach 's music is the most pure form ever created ; in my opinion, due to the nature of Modern Grand Pianos, performers of today are lured or tempted into ways of too much expression and over sophistication,the instruments available in Bach's time were very simple and perhaps of limited expression against modern keyboards of today,for this reason I find it hard to fault or blame AH's performance this time, I've been listenning to AH's piano works for quite a long time,and quite comfortable confirm that AH'S Bach's interpretations are top notch.

  • @lagunagreg4019

    @lagunagreg4019

    8 жыл бұрын

    Look Pointy, if you're objecting to the rubato in the fantasy, I could understand that. I find it a bit erratic in the intro. But the fugue is played as straight as can be, almost with a sewing machine-like rhythm. There's no rubato in it at all. And while I might not agree with AH's choice of phrasing in the fantasy, it is perfectly stylistic to use rubato in it. It's suppose to sound entirely improvised, and Bach himself used rubato a good deal in such places according to written account of his playing.

  • @danielj9042

    @danielj9042

    3 жыл бұрын

    There are several Harpsichord methods that talk about rubato. Rubato was used in Baroque music, but not to the point that romantic composers used it. Also, the keyboards back then did not have limited expression, so to speak. You express in a completely different way With those instruments than you would on the piano. Remember, just because someone can play soft and loud on the piano does not make them musical. There are so many other aspects of music that make a performance musical.

  • @pablograndelopez
    @pablograndelopez9 жыл бұрын

    it's good, no doubt. But doesn't impress me. At all. I use to say that to play Bach very well, at the end all you need is not just to like Bach's music, but to believe in it (next step). Angela H. believes in it. No doubt. But still, she lacks (HERE) of the strenght that Bach's music has. She's (VERY) good, (WE ALL KNOW) but... she doesn't have (HERE) (IN MY OPINION AND TASTE) the strenght of an organ inside her. Which is required for Bach. That's my opinion. :-)

  • @davehshs651

    @davehshs651

    9 жыл бұрын

    Pablo Grande López Enlighten us as to how you are able to perceive that "she doesn't have the strength of an organ in her." Do you have some kind of rare psychic ability, or are you just dressing up your subjective opinion with vague words that mean nothing?

  • @BachFlip

    @BachFlip

    9 жыл бұрын

    +davehshs Her father was in fact a church organist!

  • @gnostie

    @gnostie

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Pablo Grande López Yes, I see what you mean.

  • @lagunagreg4019

    @lagunagreg4019

    8 жыл бұрын

    You have absolutely no idea what you are saying.

  • @ranchoelchamusquito3683

    @ranchoelchamusquito3683

    5 жыл бұрын

    you are an opinionated moron

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