1:19:12 . My preferred Feinberg's moment in the whole book . He brings this fugue not as another frozen "Zen Bach session" , which would be typical of the stupid way of seeing Bach today , but as an incredible living thing , struggling with (or against) both the pianist and the listener , some sort of audible meteorite . Lifting us outside , in an extatic fever , giving no solution to nothing , but blowing , like crazy , a wind of true revelation .

Wow, the d minor prelude, book 1. I've never heard it like that before. He brings out voices in the triplets that everyone else seems to miss.

@ianletbey

4 жыл бұрын

My favorite prelude!

This is the greatest recording of this work. Not Richter, Gould or Fischer, but Feinberg.

@stevehinnenkamp5625

Жыл бұрын

An incredible journey frought with danger, regret, joy, exhilaration to remind us life is worth living.

@Fritz_Maisenbacher

8 күн бұрын

Yes ... our journey in the WTK ends here, in an exalted and calm beauty

Samuil Feinberg (1890-1962). Recorded, presumably in Moscow (1958-1961). Some say his is the best recording of Bach's work.

@rs8197-dms

5 ай бұрын

I have heard many different recordings of this work, some not so good, some very good, some quite excellent. If this isn't the best recording it is certainly very close.

I have heard the prelude in C major played by so many artists I can't even guess at how many. In my mind's ear, every time I listened to it being played by some great pianist, I heard the final dozen or so bars played the way Feinberg plays them in this recording. When I heard this for the first time it was like being re-united with a long-lost beloved and imaginary friend.

This is what the Information Age is supposed to be like... You feel like listening to one of the greatest works by one of the greatest composers that ever walked the Earth? Just open KZread and search for it. And there it is, with full scores to boot! This is a priceless service for humanity. Everyone can listen to this divine music, for free, anywhere, anytime. This counteracts, in a way, all the garbage that is thrown at us every day. BRAVO, Jacky Tran. Thanks from a music & peace lover.

I have studied the wtc1 for 20 years and this video is a present. Thank you very much.

It amazes me when listeners complain about “too much expression”, and that these should be performed more mechanically. What would be the point of trying reproducing this beautiful music “exactly” the way Bach intended as it was written on a harpsichord? Interpreters of this music should indeed impart their personality into this music while, of course, honoring the feeling of the period. Would we really want to listen to a thousand similar sounding interpretations? I don’t think so.

@titicatfollies6615

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! THere are so many idiotic comments about how a rendition is "not Baroque enough" or "not the way Bach would've wanted it" etc. Who knows how Bach would have or might have wanted it. What is "more Baroque"? It's such narrow thinking.

@blumousey

4 жыл бұрын

@@bradywolff8923 it wasn't originally written for the harpsichord, it was just for written for any keyboard instrument, a general term for which is 'clavier'

@blumousey

4 жыл бұрын

@@bradywolff8923 it's important I think to find an interpretation (either by playing or listening) that works for you. It's possible to enjoy more than one style, both playing and listening. However there are degrees of variation in how 'academic' an interpretation is. I think those opposing romanticism in bach are trying to keep things academic and 'proper' to make the product 'faithful', closer to its original sound, but also to pay attention to the contrapuntal detail. I like many interpretations. The main thing that irks me is people playing too fast! No time to appreciate the beauty within

@jewbacha1137

Жыл бұрын

Other wind and string instruments are highly expressive in his other pieces. Is it really that outlandish to think that if Bach played this piece he would not completely ignore the capabilities of the Fortepiano?

it gives so much inspiration for modern composers, Bach created all the melodies ahead of time

I could listen to the second fugue a million times over !

Glorious! Fresh, vibrant and expressive playing with joy, sorrow, solemnity, yes even humor. JS Bach could express them all. This incredible artist makes them come alive. Could not bear to stop listening. Genius played by an interpretive genius!

Want to add my thanks for uploading this and the second book as well. And it's not just another WTC - Feinberg's playing is fascinating, individual, personal, and unlike any other Bach playing I've heard.

1:27:45 this time it is going too far for me . So beautiful that it hurts .

This is the greatness of KZread, so many people think the computer is a bad thing, when they say that I just show them stuff like this. Thank you for doing this!

Very impressive the way he plays

I love this. It's wonderful to start the morning with it.

OMG, I can't believe you did all this! It is a classic recording, with all the matching sheet music, no less. Thank you so much, what a lovely gift!!!

Yes, thank you for sharing this recording with us! It is lovely.

Samuel Feinberg is one of the greatest re-tellers of the WTC ---- Ah! he did have a true SOUL (Hey! music is but one of the languages of our humane universe -- like mathematics, physics, literature, visual arts, etc.) -- and so our soul truly SPEAKS. Bravo!

@manuelespinosa02

8 жыл бұрын

+Alexander Kataenko Indeed lots of maths in Bach. And an incredible amount of soul, too.

@manuelespinosa02

8 жыл бұрын

+Alexander Kataenko Specially in Prelude 8, copied everywhere by lesser musicians. Bach is unique genius.

@manuelespinosa02

8 жыл бұрын

+Alexander Kataenko Not to mention Prelude 9

@claudiomascaro6963

8 жыл бұрын

+Alexander Kataenko great comment!!

@Fritz_Maisenbacher

8 жыл бұрын

+Alexander Kataenko No , Mr. Kataenko , music is not "one of the languages of our human universe" , it is exactly the opposite . Music is of course written by the so-called "composer" , but this kind of music is coming out of other spheres and the so-called "composer" is only writing it on a leaf of paper .... This kind of music is a revelation , given by some Muses to the so-called "composer" . Bach never "composed" the WTC . It cames out of the very hand of God Himself , or out some strange Divinities , or out the black holes of the Cosmos , as you want , (I don't even know myself) , but certainly not out of the mind of the bloody saxon with his ugly wife and his nine or ten children .... This is not "human" stuff . And the true miracle is that Mr. Feinberg is understanding this ... and he accepts that his hands and spirit follow the same out-of-this-world inspiration as Bach accepted to write down what came upon him when he was under the same forces ....

1:39:21 reprise with some extraordinary octaves at the left-hand , in this unquiet and abyssal mezzoforte ..... Feinberg only ...

Indeed not only excelent player but also superb setting of indexing and addition of the music reading

1:26:34 Prelude No. 21 in B-flat major 1:27:44 Fugue No. 21 in B-flat major

Thank you for this precious and wonderful upload! It has a touch of divinity in it. Thank you, Mr Feinberg for dedicating your life to music. No composer is like J S Bach, who was God-sent.

What a gift your presented us here to listen to this wonderful music together with all the notes! How much effort you must have put in here - Thank you!

Thank you for this performance. Bach's fugues featured in a book I have just read "The Piano Tuner" written by a young American writer about British colonisation of Burma in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The story is made so much more credible and alive by having heard this music. I really enjoyed the whole performance of this music. I am not a pianist and I liked the emotional response of the player to the music rather than presenting it as a purely mechanical exercise.

Bravo - thank you SO much for posting this wonderful, legendary recording and for taking time to do so with the score. What a gift!

Truly amazing! My favorite recording of the WTC

Wonderful - thank you. Really helps with studying music appreciation.

I had to cry on this. It is so wonderful.

@barbaralawrence1545

7 жыл бұрын

to listen thus is to weep - bud lawrence

The remaining voices and harmonies you will hear in heaven, if your life deserves it.

Thank you for uploading this. Very enjoyablt to follow the sheet music.

Amazing prelude 22

Quero escutar cada vez mais. Lindo

Какой благородный труд !

1Q84 brought me here! This is amazing! 💕

55:55 ! Stunning . Feinberg makes it metaphysical . As fast as the fugue extends it disappears . The fountain of vacuum here explicated . . . not to be understood .

I don't know how many times Feinberg recorded this, if more than once. But if it is the recording I am thinking of--one that is a continual wealth of subtle nad marvelous details--then it was recorded during the dark era of some of the height of Stalin's craziness. This is, indeed, music to survive totalitarianism by. Music for our time. Meanwhile, though, I find Feinberg's performance totally haunted by that spectre and it makes it all the profound for me. Hopefully I'm not just imagining, making up a story, but not every true story is factual. *gonna go and relearn the fugue in G minor now.

Wonderful!

Wow. Thank you.

1:20:33 ...... Feinberg on the very edge of abolute beauty .... unbalanced and in this way , perfect

Bach... music for the mind (and math homework.)

Incredible how Bach works at FUGA IV. with 5 different voices. also one thing I noticed is how bach wrote each of his preludes and fugues in each major and minor key to every note.

@dangelobenjamin

7 жыл бұрын

影 ShadowZZZ interesting observation!;) if you study music history you'll find that the reason we have our 12 tone chromatic scale today is in part because of Bach's book here! before bach, instruments, organs and claviers, were tuned to perfect thirds or fifths (complicated ideas, lots of physical acoustics needed to understand), but what bach did in his work, and in his well tempered clavier we are listening to, is tune his instruments to perfect octaves. this allowed him to play with other string instruments still tuned to 4ths and 5th yet still add somethings they could not do, certainly harmonies, that eventually caught on because of their more intriguing sound, yet still just as pleasant as the tunings of others. Bach's ideas in the temperament of music helped solidify the theory and tuning we still use today. and this book is the biggest reason we have other artists like beethoven, mozart, chopin, later debussy, American blues artists, and others that studied Bach's harmonies and technique, furthering the development of music.

@talastra

7 жыл бұрын

Not just how Bach does it. This is indeed one of the finer things Bach ever wrote, but it is monstrously well realized by Feinberg. You'd be surprised by how many ways this fugue has been wrecked by extremely competent musicians. Feinberg almost inerrantly negotiates all of the major snags this piece throws at you.

@carolineleiden

6 жыл бұрын

影 ShadowZZZ That was the point of this colkection.:)

Genium !

Огромная благодарность за это видео, которое помогает разобраться в сложной игре... и доставляет такое огромное удовольствие!!!

Thank you

Thank you!

My favourite version of the complete WTC.

THANKS .

Very interesting, thanks a lot

1:26:34 one of the greatest little things ive heard

@MrAmerica51

4 жыл бұрын

But too fast?!

@alainspiteri502

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrAmerica51 no the tempo is perfect !

une super bonne idée de joindre les partitions!

impecavel execusao

There's so much Beethoven coming out in the C minor fugue. And I actually really dig it.

@benburch

8 жыл бұрын

+Tubs of Blue '12 this predates beethoven by a long time you moron

@quinto34

8 жыл бұрын

+Tubs of Blue '12 Beethoven loved WTC and played it at a very young age..when he was 10 yrs old I believe

@bobbyjbarron

8 жыл бұрын

+Tubs of Blue '12 I wish i knew wtf you were talking about

@manuelespinosa02

8 жыл бұрын

Absolutely: anyone that wants to be called 'musician' should play this!

@lunaticfae4415

7 жыл бұрын

+burchison lmfao, looks like youre the moron

My thanks too.

I played prelude and fugue no 16, G minor

how come his endind cadences are always a differnt rythymic pattern?

Where can I download all this sheets? Does somebody know a link? Please

No fundo dessa música tem uma mensagem...

wich is your favourite

There is no God. Instead, there is Bach. Nobody kills in his name. Beauty reigns. Everybody wins.

54:42

Loved the actual music. Hated having a commercial every single song smack in the middle each time. At LEAST place commercials between songs?

Is the piano well-tempered?

Balsam for the soul.

J always played the first note of the left hand more forte than others and this prelude is better with something more in the melody no my Teacher but it-s was my choice , beautifull melody this prelude lyrical romantic : a song !

Fugue No. 20 sounds very similar to Fugue No. 2. I wonder if Bach wrote those two pieces around the same time.

39:28 40:38

Where's the drop?

fiou ça détend

1:30:35 how he's just at that one bar like 'fuck the system' and attempts to fulfill it on the next staff below.

1:26:34 :by Feinberg , an unknown late piece of R.Schumann ?

55:58 ..... metaphysical comment by Feinberg . Disappearing in proportion as it appears . Fountain with inversed pouring water . And of an incredible , incredible beauty . Not to be understood . Unexplainable .

@Fritz_Maisenbacher

9 жыл бұрын

***** Thank you Mr. Grant . Not for me . For Feinberg .

By the way , are you related or in family with Amon ?

feinberg's is the best...

This is my favorite song.

@ratzlp0li

8 жыл бұрын

+Ren McGee Me too.

@DieFlabbergast

8 жыл бұрын

+Ren McGee No, it isn't. Song? Song??!! Do you hear anyone singing? There is NO singer. There is NO song. No-one sang anything! This is a fucking piece of music - a piece of purely instrumental music - you ignorant peasant!

@yichaozhang7933

8 жыл бұрын

+Ren McGee yeah，me too. although i take up this song

@themusicalgerbil192

8 жыл бұрын

+DieFlabbergast 48 pieces of music, actually ;)

@gorgalsi

8 жыл бұрын

+DieFlabbergast Don't waste your time with this kind of people. It is hopeless to try reeducate them. I gave it up already. They will never stop calling everything "song", because such people have not learned to differentiate. No matter how much you explain them that it is a piece, they will keep calling it "song". This is their problem, not yours.

clear direct feeling feeling break-heart so a language to itself & to me g i v e

no 18 is G# not A flat...

6:08

not exactly what they had in mind when i said i'd play the pub joanna

this, too, is sublime.....

In conclusion : give our great german protestant composers to jewish pianists . Bach to Feinberg , Beethoven to Schnabel , Schumann to Horowitz . A catholic is speaking !

@d_r_e_a_m_b_o_a_t

Күн бұрын

Truly a banger comment

@Fritz_Maisenbacher

Күн бұрын

@@d_r_e_a_m_b_o_a_t haha .... thank you !

Prelude No. 6 in D minor was probably chopins favourite prelude :D

my favorite well tempered Clavier is Joerg Demus, but try the sensitive and powerful performances by Phil Grant of the C major of book 1 and G sharp minor of book 2.

Book 3 = Darude Sandstorm

@diffugerenives

7 жыл бұрын

Feel the beat!

Oe Kenzaburo introduce this in his book Teigishu p.176, Culture is the Skill to face danger: bunka wa kiki ni chokumen suru gijutsu

내가 팔일만에 할례를 받고 이스라엘의 족속이요 베냐민의 지파요 히브리인 중의 히브리인이요 율법으로는 바리새인이요 열심으로는 교회를 핍박하고 율법의 의로는 흠이 없는 자로라 그러나 무엇이든지 내게 유익하던 것을 내가 그리스도를 위하여 다 해로 여길뿐더러 또한 모든 것을 해로 여김은 내 주 그리스도 예수를 아는 지식이 가장 고상함을 인함이라 내가 그를 위하여 모든 것을 잃어버리고 배설물로 여김은 그리스도를 얻고 그 안에서 발견되려 함이니 내가 가진 의는 율법에서 난 것이 아니요 오직 그리스도를 믿음으로 말미암은 것이니 곧 믿음으로 하나님께로서 난 의라 빌립보서 3:5‭-‬9 사도바울은 율법을 잘지키며 교회를 핍박하는 유대인이였습니다 허나 율법은 죄를 깨닫게 하는 법이지 구원할수는 없는법입니다 예수님을 만나 회심하고 율법이 아닌 예수 그리스도로 나온 의를 전하는 말씀입니다 우리 모두는 원숭이에서 진화한 존재가 아닌 신께선 창조하신 존귀한 존재입니다 예수님만이 우리를 죽음에서 살리실수있습니다 사랑합니다

Who cares in the end it's good music

What year was this recorded? And where? Thanks!

@mcoldewey

9 жыл бұрын

TiticatFollies One of the reviews on Amazon gives the recording dates as between 1959 and 1962. I would imagine in Moscow.

@TiticatFollies

9 жыл бұрын

mcoldewey Thank you.

just fyi, fugue no 8 is notationally in D sharp minor. it is aurally in Eb minor though

@sasha42196

8 жыл бұрын

+Lauren Malouf Please explain. To me, D# and Eb are the same key. How is it "aurally in Eb"?

@laurenmalouf1814

8 жыл бұрын

+sasha42196 So D# and Eb sound exactly the same, but if you're reading music the key signature is written differently. So if you skip to 30:17, this is the prelude in eb minor. take a look at the key signature. then skip to 34:35, this is the fugue in d# minor. the key signatures are different but the keys sound the same (aural sense!). When I originally commented, it was listed as fugue in Eb minor, but it has been corrected since then!

@sasha42196

8 жыл бұрын

+Lauren Malouf I know that D# and Eb are enharmonic. And I do know that the fugue is written in D#. My question is, what do you mean by it being aurally in Eb? What is the difference aurally between Eb and D# to you particularly?

@laurenmalouf1814

8 жыл бұрын

+sasha42196 There is no difference in the aural sound on the piano between D# and Eb. When I originally commented on this, the description box had the fugue listed as Fugue No. 8 in E-flat minor. I commented that it could sound like it's in Eb minor, but notationally, it is written in D# minor. It has been changed since then. I do know on stringed instruments sharps are actually higher and flats are actually lower, so they're not eharmonic. at least that's what I was told when I took violin lessons for a few years. But on piano, it will sound exactly the same.

@sasha42196

7 жыл бұрын

Gotcha. I am a violinist, so I know what you're talking about. Just wasn't sure I understood your expression. Now I do.

Surely you could have fit one more ad in. Jeez!

Here I somehow get the feeling that Feinberg makes these pieces sound more interesting than they were "really meant to be" - just like Richter did. It is commendable, I think, but is it actually good or bad in the end?

@nkrzanowski

6 жыл бұрын

Completely depends on the stuffiness of the observer.

Why does the first part remind me of Ave Maria?

@ratzlp0li

8 жыл бұрын

+Joel Wallenius Because they're the same; Gounod wrote the melody to Ave Maria on top of Bach's prelude.

@raspillade6027

8 жыл бұрын

+Jacky Tran what a Gounod!

@eyelamp8271

8 жыл бұрын

+Jacky Tran same? i know that gounod edited it

@seamusbreathnach4893

8 жыл бұрын

+Joel Wallenius ...Becaause of the widespread use of similar arpeggiation..... No?

@michaelminkovich9703

8 жыл бұрын

+Joel Wallenius because Schubert used this to accompany the melody.

1:10:33

ich habe u l t r a thanks W A Y beautiful the life! -bud lawrence

Prelude 1 could easily be the theatrical music for a 70s love movie. That’s how universal Bach is.

Вне времени....

11

You are missing bars at the infamous Prelude in C Major.

@antoniogarcia4277

8 жыл бұрын

(23th bar)

@watchmakerful

8 жыл бұрын

No, bar 23 is on its place :-D

@oliviergarcia8030

7 жыл бұрын

hahaha lo que sea

@hxocxjo

7 жыл бұрын

indeed many editions include an extra bar between the 22th and 23th, but it doesn't appear in Bach's manuscript. They added it to make it sound more regular

@Brettorini

7 жыл бұрын

+1 for twenty threeth

god wrote such music, demigod played it. enchanting!

@Fritz_Maisenbacher

4 жыл бұрын

This makes one god and a half .....; fantastic !!!

@guraim1433

3 жыл бұрын

@@Fritz_Maisenbacher no it was a human being called Bach, you can trust me. your god thing had nothing to do with this great music

@Fritz_Maisenbacher

3 жыл бұрын

@@guraim1433 I do not trust you.

prelude 8 all the sheets are wrong after the first