1. Prélude 0:00 2. Allemande 5:14 3. Courante 9:38 4. Sarabande 11:28 5. Bourrée I 15:26 18:36 6. Bourrée II 17:33 7. Gigue 19:45 Thank you so much for sharing this exquisite performance with great sound and video. I loved all of it, but especially enjoyed the thrill and suspense of Bourrée and Gigue.

@irmtrudmiocque3317

5 жыл бұрын

Muyu ‘

@luuktorn

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the links!

@hazemhassan1864

3 жыл бұрын

Such a lovely performance for a beautiful music thank you for sharing this link

@moseskfrost

Жыл бұрын

Thank You for the timestamps! Fully agreed on all. I first discovered Pierre Hantaï play this suite, and instantly fell in love with the sixth movement (gigue), and then also the fifth (bourrée). After having convinced two Organists to sight-read me the gigue, ha-ha, I finally decided to practice it yesterday. I have come quite far, I must say!

@user-np8dn6bc6c

15 сағат бұрын

Prelude is my personal favourite, Allemande is very soothing, Courante is very free-spirited, Sarabande is melancholic, Bourree 1 is mostly esctasy❤

Can u imagine being on of the people at this concert? Heaven on earth!

@nicholasgarbutt6533

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, i'd have have given my life savings just to have been a fly on the wall ! Brilliant !

@domingopartida5812

3 жыл бұрын

@@nicholasgarbutt6533 even better if you play it yourself

@mallorga1965

2 жыл бұрын

A privilege.

@johannsebastianbach9003

2 жыл бұрын

The only thing I can hear is Jewish screams and MP40'S in the background

@Ziad3195

2 жыл бұрын

@@johannsebastianbach9003?

Before this performance i didn't really care about the harpsichord and only listened to Bach played on the piano. Having listened to this I now realize what a unique and amazing instrument the harpsichord is! Cuiller is incredible

@TheGloryofMusic

10 ай бұрын

The harpsichord is more resonant, is properly tuned, and the performer can use characteristic techniques such as over-holding and staggered attack.

@TheGloryofMusic

10 ай бұрын

The composer who wrote the most idiomatic harpsichord music was Louis Couperin: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hmGBsZWips6edZc.htmlsi=2PB2yrXRsmuXnEw_

I had to subscribe, the quality, the crowd, the emotional understanding is remarkably fit & also the environment. This is Bach being even more promoted in this modern day of HD quality & as we explore with better technology throughout the years to come, we can get a closer & better understanding in music to that of the master himself. Soon when a VR performance will also hit the road with these forgotten classics, it will give more life to the music of the past! Right, this is an unforgettable art, indeed it will be just a disgrace to our kind if we shall ever abandon it in the future! This Must Always Live Forever! J. S. Bach always to be in our hearts is a must! This music simply cannot have any time limits in order for it to be put aside & forgotten one day or else humans would no longer be in respect of one another & this world would start becoming a more & more corrupt place to live in. Therefore Love would not be at our availability of reach. Everything will become bitter & empty, technology & robots will take over & shape our future and earth would no longer be a place where once it used to be a most rememberable place where love used to exist.

@ProdigyImprovisation

4 жыл бұрын

O.S.H. Thank You! ❤️ More do need to agree with this however.

@Highlander1432

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

Outstanding performance on a wonderful harpsichord!

@bethesdaslawyer2446

3 жыл бұрын

I know right, it also makes me REALLY happy how many recent comments there are, which means people are still listening to this music!!!😊

I knew immediately he was a student of Pierre Hantaï the first seconds I heard him playing this piece! He plays it the same way. I really like this kind of interpretation, it is very relaxing.

@martineslava8642

5 жыл бұрын

spiros spithas Absolutely! This is very reminiscent of Hantaï’s performance at the Fundación Juan March posted a few years ago.

@Highlander1432

3 жыл бұрын

That's awesome you can recognize that

@gianlucamarcialis3595

3 жыл бұрын

The way he put his hands on the keyboard and some dynamic choices can recall only Hantai. Unfortunately, this is also a drawback and leads to a certain lack of creativity while listening.

@tmnvanderberg

3 жыл бұрын

I would say "played in the way of Leonhardt as received by Hantaï" :)

@hugoclarke3284

3 жыл бұрын

@@tmnvanderberg The opening has gotten faster since Leonhardt though. I don't want to be "that guy" but it just sounds like a drill to me at this speed, which almost everyone is insistent on playing at. Yes, it's fast, but it's a dance form. Listen to how Leonhardt's version speaks.

What a pleasure to hear this wonderful piece played by someone who is engaged with the music.

Best version of English Suite 2 I have heard on harpsichord! Excellent interpretation. Just like I would strive to play it.

@Mase251

3 жыл бұрын

@@charlesgauthier8287 Agree, Hantai tops everything on this regard - but this one is still fantastic!

@ttwiligh7

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mase251 I have a question...I hear a lots of rubato here....The first note is already on it. You never hear any Bach loving pianists play like this, do you? And in bar 10, the difference is so evident. Is this a certain trend among today's harpsichordists? Or do they think this is historically correct because the instrument didn't have much control over each note like the piano does? I often find a piano version more pleasant to listen because of less rubato.

@emfox6280

3 жыл бұрын

@@ttwiligh7 notes inégales

@CanAlternateLostTape

2 жыл бұрын

@@ttwiligh7 Yes harpsichordists are more likely to use rubato and playing with time as one of their expressive means since they don’t have dynamic control over each note as on a piano. I think Cuiller still plays with a wonderful sense of tempo and forward motion in the fast movements, and his rubato never seems mannered or overdone. His Allmande is heavenly! Regardless of whether it is “historically correct,” why shouldn’t pianists also feel free to play Bach with some rubato? I feel many pianists play Bach too fast and metronomically to prove their virtuosity in a repertoire that is on the surface less technically ostentatious than the usual 19th/20th century keyboard literature. Or maybe they worship at the altar of Glenn Gould? Anyway, such pianists would have much to learn from Cuiller’s rich and beautiful playing here.

@ttwiligh7

2 жыл бұрын

@@CanAlternateLostTape Thanks for the reply. I grew up listening to Helmut Walcha who's rendition very much established the other way around. It sounds structurally much more solid to me, like a steam train running in the steady pace. I like that much better in Bach's music, with few exception like Van Asperen playing BWV 869. My guess was that many pianists simply followed what Walcha have established while harpsichordists tried to compete the piano for expressive range. Honestly, I can't take this Allemande. It's too sweet for me, for a matter of taste, I would say. It is a kind of ironic that the period instrument players somehow got closer to Romantic School.

Superb. One of the best accounts of this wonderful work I have ever heard.

Freshly wonderful​ performance​ of​ a​ favorite​ old​ BACH​ masterpiece​ of​ mine, especially​ the​ Bouree.​ BIG​ THANKS​ for​ sharing​ this​ wonderful​ music​

What a delightful rendition! The sound quality, outstanding... Bravo NBS!

Wunderbar! Perfekt! Einfach nur Gold!

Clavecin magnifique et claveciniste exceptionnel! Bravo!

It’s possible to play these pieces differently from this but it’s not possible to play it better!

Une révélation ! Ce clavecin d'une extraordinaire vivacité sonne très français, à la hauteur de Rousset / Rannou / Hantaï et réussit à délivrer tous les fantasmes de cette musique ! Un grand claveciniste.

Beautifully Done. Playing it sight read is a bonus and speaks to the prowess of Cuillers ability . Bravo. Bach would like the interpretation of this piece very much

Excellent articulation and clarity, so essential with Bach in all his music.

Masterful and sensitive. Delightful.

Lebhafte und wunderschöne Aufführung dieser perfekt komponierten Suite im rhythmischen Tempo mit klar artikuliertem Anschlag und perfekt kontrollierter Dynamik. Echt genialer Cembalist!

OMG those gorgeous little butterfly trills in the middle of the prelude!

Splendida, bravissimo!!

Bravo! I wonder if this could become my favourite interpretation.

Splendid, thank you!

Une interprétation magistrale!

Just.... perfect. Pure bliss

I loved it. Congratulations.

Que excelente clavecinista es el interpreta esta obra de bach, es simplemente un divo, enhorabuena, artista superior, siempre lo voy a escuchar, si ustedes me lo permiten, gracias.

Sehr einfühlsam. Meisterhaft auf dem Cembalo.

What sweet divine audial bliss Ive been blessed with the opportunity to experience, by the Grace and for the Glory of God, a masterpiece of explicit fantastical essence set to harmonize and enliven your soul. Bach as Gods chosen instrument of creative expression, he paints a beautiful resonating musical environment where he demonstrates his mastery of art with precise scaling and placement followed by whimsical fingerings and the wobbling head as a early form of head banging to express enjoyment of the concert. I listen to this on repeat.

Listened to all of it, I loved it!

Bela performance! Parabéns!

Magnificent! Thanks

There are actually three masters on display here: Bach, Cuiller, and Bruce Kennedy. Beautiful performance on a beautiful instrument! Looking forward to hearing more from the Netherlands Bach Society.

@rbarreira2

Жыл бұрын

Also the audio engineers who recorded this.

Bravissimo!!! 👏👏👏

Merci, M. Cuiller. 💖

Great harpsichordist

Beautiful.

He plays really well!

I hear an enduring 'stoic subtlety' of determination in this English suite;)

Sumptuous version!

Merci beaucoup.

Simplemente sublime es este clavecinista, el mejor que yo he visto, el mejor de todos los tiempos.

Stunning!!!

Just brilliant!!!

I like a Bourrée with a little pep in it's step. Nicely done!

@ludwigfryderyktsongfulec1655

3 жыл бұрын

I like prelude more , it sounds very dark in opinion

@matteomagurno3068

3 жыл бұрын

@@ludwigfryderyktsongfulec1655 Sound really energetic and joyful to me, remeber that minor keys aren’t at all only used to make a composition sound moody and dramatic in early 18th century and after, more often than not it’s used in dances and gives it quite some zest!

Wow that must have been a $60K camera :D And also beautifully played! ;)

It’s wanderfull!

Excelente interpretación

Wonderful. Just love that the English Suites consist entirely of German, French, Irish (gigue-jig) and Spanish traditions. The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, was originally The Royal Italian Opera. I refer you to the English Virginalists.

@matteomagurno3068

3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention his ab-use of the italian concerto form! :)

i love it

WoW! Amazing

Tellement beau

Bravo !

Wunderbar!

Isto, esta música, é demais... Até diria que a música para cravo é a que melhor foi escrita por JSBach, não fora o caso de ser quase impossível fazer a distinção que a sua música é quase toda ela superlativa!

The colours are so so rich 🥹🥹

Большое спасибо!

Very good 😃

the music: vine of the gods pleasure delight of human intellect. the audience: night of the living dead.

Bach.The father of Metal music!

@eduardoj.9455

3 жыл бұрын

a bastard son.

enchantment

Bravo

Hi Netherlands Bach Society - ever thought of devoting a segment (or two or three or...) to the lute harpsichord? (Lautenwerk) It was apparently a Bach favourite, he owned I think 3 of them at some point? There is a big hole in the recorded repertoire, AFAIK there is only ONE set of the WTC recorded on the lute harpsichord.

i still dont get that this is for free on the internet in this quality.

@rlaflamme865

3 жыл бұрын

Still, it's possible to support the whole project see description under the video

I play a lot of thoughtful introverted often original jazz piano normally in venues where people think if it's not making your ears bleed then, it's ok to talk; conduct business deals etcetera. Oh for an audience like this!

Kiváló!

Es el más bello de los conciertos que componen las Suites Inglesas del gran J.S. Bach.

@maxtenenbaum7425

3 жыл бұрын

La musica de BACH me eleva el alma y alegra mi existencia.

His ornamentation is scrumpcious

Please, let we know some information about the harpsichord in this recording. Is this a replica or an original one? Who was the luthier or company that build this masterpiece of craftsmanship?

@bach

5 жыл бұрын

The harpsichord in this recording is a Bruce Kennedy after Michael Mietke, 1989.

❤️

👏

Lovely! It feels like a lot of rubato for Bach, no? But ultimately I don't care, because it's such a lovely interpretation

how have they not recored the whole wtc series yet?

@nunziomeatballs

5 жыл бұрын

scuffed bach Bach, your works take time for us mere mortals to interpret up to your standards. Cut us some slack

@espressonoob

5 жыл бұрын

@@nunziomeatballs true, I just assumed if anything was gonna be recorded first it would be the wtc books.

@symbolicacts6056

5 жыл бұрын

I like that username lol

@domenicodenicolo4013

3 жыл бұрын

@@espressonoob pp

Awecome!

Il est meilleur que Hantai, Rondeau, Alard et tous les autres de la jeune génération! Bravo, enregistrez tout Bach.

@BertrandCuillerOfficial

2 ай бұрын

Merci, je suis heureux que vous aimiez! Un album Bach sortira bientôt au label Ramée / Outhere. Bien cordialement

11:31

Heiligkeit von Bach; er ist ein Heiliger, von Eunomia geworden, zuwiss; einer die Edele und Grosse Selen; Illuminierter Meister...

Cembalo et sjældent spillet instrument. Der er fart over feltet og det lyder godt..

Can i PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get the entirety of English Suites played by this musician or harpsichord? Bach does not belong on piano, if you asked my unprofessional opinion.

Beautiful , Wanda Landowska would be very happy

@cynic150

5 жыл бұрын

I doubt it!

@Mase251

3 жыл бұрын

@@cynic150 LOL 😂

Kijk die mensen een vertoeven in hun roestige gelaat. Ik dans met mijn vrouw en maak liefde terwijl de klanken van Bach op mijn afvuren. Wat een contrast. Prachtige sessie.

oh shit it's the Black & White stones!

!!!!!!

@keescanalfp5143

5 жыл бұрын

_|¡|¡¡|¡¡¡|¡¡||_ **±** .

So they had an Italian playing the French Suite, and a Frenchman playing the English Suite. There's an Italian Concerto. Who ended up playing that one? An Englishman? LOL.

@Wolfganger

Жыл бұрын

😐😑😐 Not funny didn’t laugh

@eduardsnikolovskis8981

Жыл бұрын

​@@Wolfgangershut up

@morozowvlad6363

Жыл бұрын

And a Chinese pop model-man to play Goldberg variations .

@user-vf7lm2js2t

Жыл бұрын

What's wrong with an Italian play French suits? Bach is a German composer who wrote music that transcends national boundaries. By your logic, shouldn't he be only composing German suites?

@Alex-iu7dl

Жыл бұрын

@@user-vf7lm2js2t dude chill... It was just a joke

A pupil of Hantai?

@Mase251

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, he is indeed.

わしは、グレングールドのこのプレリュードを死ぬほど聴いたから、それが頭にこびりついとる。しかし、このチェンバロの演奏はなかなかええ。気に入った。テンポがちょうどええ。しかしイギリス組曲は、特にこのプレリュードはピアノがええ。チェンバロは旋律がよう聴こえん。 kzread.info/dash/bejne/gqB71KWLqd3agps.html

@VERITS99

Жыл бұрын

You should see your otorhinolaryngologist.

おそらくこの演奏がバッハ時代の演奏だと思う。しかし、感動は薄いと言わざるを得ない。ピアノの演奏が遥かに感動する。 kzread.info/dash/bejne/epxk2aerYdDPZco.html バッハの音楽は小宇宙や。モダンピアノが一番相応しい。

Why is this in an entirely different key/tuned entirely differently... the performance is great but it just hurts

@Aezandris

4 жыл бұрын

Haven't checked but it's probably just tuned to a lower A

@jmccarty3

4 жыл бұрын

If you are going to listen to much of All of Bach, you must allow your ears to adjust to a = 415, or even a = 392. In Bach's time, the concept of absolute pitch at a = 440 was unknown. Relax, and let it go.

@Mase251

3 жыл бұрын

@@jmccarty3 correct, the reason may also be a mere mechanical one - if you pitch a harpsichord to 440 you will set more tension on the strings and you have to tune more often, moreover it can lead to deformation or a crack in the resonance body. I tuned my harpsichord on 415 and it’s perfect like That.

@jmccarty3

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mase251 Right, I keep my Dowd 1730 Blanchet copy at a= 392. It’s strung in iron and brass. The tone is more free and resonant, and tuning stability is improved.

@Mase251

3 жыл бұрын

@@jmccarty3 Neupert Blanchet copy here 😅☝️

harpsichord is like chewing tinfoil

@Ziad3195

2 жыл бұрын

?

@codythedoggo7671

Жыл бұрын

Wym Harpsichord is beautiful

Public de riches désabusés , faut les voir ... pauvre Bach .

Bach? Nein, Mozart!

@Mase251

3 жыл бұрын

I doubt it...

@johannsebastianbach9003

2 жыл бұрын

Mozart?

Schön...aber sehr "rubatiert"...Ich weiss...Agogik und so...aber zu viel meiner Meinung nach...

Wonderful, but I still prefer the piano.

@itsmeashbeel9175

5 жыл бұрын

if you like piano music that chopin is your guy/composer

@johannsebastianbach5223

5 жыл бұрын

@@itsmeashbeel9175 No, he is not.I like only barouqe music with very coplex counterpoint and written in a minor key. What such pieces would you recommend?

@johannsebastianbach5223

5 жыл бұрын

@@itsmeashbeel9175 I listen to piano music very rarely.

@user-kw9qt1rx1p

5 жыл бұрын

@@johannsebastianbach5223 Scarlatti

@thinkitsimpossible8718

5 жыл бұрын

@@johannsebastianbach5223 bach's art of fugue is basically perfect for you given it's the most complex counterpoint ever written and all in d minor

Ok, will try keep this short-ish, I hope. I can’t address the performance because it is like almost every performance of Bach. It’s robotic. Bach is played constantly like this. Why not then just input his music into a computer and it will be played “perfectly”. I say it’s time to reinterpret Bach much differently than is current. I’ll give you a hint: add the most nuanced of Gould, with a dose of Bill Evans, and then add to it a final dash of a modern interpretation of this complex music. The final result is that the music breathes, and, in places, takes its time. Just say no to the robotic playing of Bach and it will set you free.

@jmccarty3

4 жыл бұрын

@Anson Yeung No, he can't, because he has not been taught to listen for them. If he wants computerized Bach, he needs to seek out Karl Richter, et al.

@ladyhalcon3036

2 жыл бұрын

@@jmccarty3 It is simply sensitivity to perceive.

@holgerschafer4583

2 жыл бұрын

Goulds playing is the door to another dimension. unreached. He substracts all earthbound low radiants. A very extraordinary experience. i have studied harpsichord as well, and it is in my opinion not possible to reach his unearthly quality on any harpsichord... this is a previlege to the modern piano. however. this is my opinion on this interpretation here: one of the best harpsichord interpretations, i have heard of this piece ever. the subtile level of dance quality (earthbound, and i love it) and at the same time so many micro articulations and well thought of pedal moments (through fingering of course), i dont hear any robot style here. this is full of life. of affects. mainly in the slow movements he is doing such a great work in guiding us through the phrases which are determined through the harmonic developements. micro rubatos and breaks to show the motivs, but still with movement...when i heard the old gustav leonhard it almost was boring for me. bless him anyway for his impact on us players. but cuiller gets my full attention. intreging in a way. anyway thank you for your comment as it made me made up my mind, why i love this interpretation so much. isnt it great, that we both love music, although it seems to be a completely different taste. best wishes to you.

@CarlBowlby

2 жыл бұрын

@@holgerschafer4583 thanks for your reply, though it was a bit tangential to my original comment on the robotic playing of Bach, mostly. If you know Miles Davis, the American jazz trumpeter of the late 20th century, also states in his autobiography that classical music mostly is played by robots who only regurgitate what has already been written. And I’m talking about the “average” classical music performer. Others are sublime in their interpretations, like Karl Richter, for example. But my background also is in improvisation, so I don’t always like to play what’s already been played hundreds if not thousands of times over. Anyway. Keep playing!

@Ziad3195

2 жыл бұрын

@@CarlBowlby Please shut up and go listen to Jazz. Jazz and Classical are different and both call for different performance techniques. You are the only one dissatisfied. Jazz relies on rhythm and improvisation. Classical does not. This video is more than perfect. Perhaps, Bach is not for you.

Quite good, but he is making my stomach feel worse than it already is. His constant lengthening of the first note of every small phrase just becomes too much after two pages. Perhaps he has not had enough time to digest this piece enough.

ist das Mozart?