Each day I tell myself, "The only reason I decide to wake up every day is because someone as great as Johann Sebastian Bach walked this earth"

@Nooticus

7 жыл бұрын

Amen! Most true thing I have heard in a while.

@loidaornelas9479

7 жыл бұрын

Beautifully said! I feel the same way and yet could not come up with the words!

@lucasbazzano7290

7 жыл бұрын

Listen the Magic ") thank's Bro for post this Incredible piece \B/

@U3ALeader

6 жыл бұрын

Me too. I cannot live without Bach's music.

@bab0urian

6 жыл бұрын

+Bachlover Same here. Listening to Bach leads you to a unique state of mind which you always want to be on, It's like LSD for me.

the counterpoint is incredible in the toccata. you have arpeggiation on one register with harmony accented by mordents on the opposite register then it switches. its so simple but it makes the music so rich. Bach uses this technique to develop an incredible rhythm and flow almost as if the piece were breathing.

0:18 - 1:10 -- Who else got chills??

I love Bach. He's got a certain flow like a stream of notes flowing with curves and ups and downs.

@stephenritchings8135

Ай бұрын

Bach in German means . . . brook, does it not ?

The rhythm in the Gigue is kinda like Baroque swing

@aimilios439

3 жыл бұрын

Trevor really spices it up like this.

@tomfurgas2844

2 жыл бұрын

This performance of the Gigue is incorrect, in that it is meant to be a slow moving Gigue in common time, similar to the Gigue in the first French Suite. This slow-moving type of Gigue was developed by the French lutenists, particularly Denis Gautier. In this performance the rhythms are played as if the Gigue is in 12/8.

Bach always impress me with his phenomenal music. What a timeless piece this is, and extremely difficult to play. The saraband has some of the most complex rhythms and ornamentations of all. Beautiful!

The fugue of Toccata (mov 1) is one of my favourites pieces of all composers, it is really fantastic, and must be with this Pinnock recording.

this whole partita is an absolute masterpiece by JS Bach and so damn well played by Pinnock

@habadabadaaa

3 жыл бұрын

Pinnock is the best Bach cembalist

@louiscouperin3731

3 жыл бұрын

habadabadaaa Probably tied with someone, but definitely one of the greats.

@christofferfinman2551

2 жыл бұрын

@@habadabadaaa Leonhardt? Staier?

The sarabanda makes me shiver in its dramatic beauty.

Best performance! 03:32 - 04:06 one of the most beautiful Bach passages ever. I listen to it over and over again but that circle of fifths progression at 4:00 never ceases to overwhelm my emotions!! I've been obsessed with those two measures for a few months now. It's impressive how much time 4 seconds of Bach can take for you to grasp.

@Nanashii_Midoluri

Жыл бұрын

Wow, exactly the same feeling. That part always moves me to tears.

@usfghost

Жыл бұрын

Me too, some times i like to accentuate the upper voice with the repetitive off beat character. Beautiful progression.

Nice fugue in the beginning. Also the high B on this instrument is lovely.

This Piece truly is epic, one of the best of Bach's keyboard output (and, by extension, one of the best of the whole keyboard instruments' Repertoire).

So divine, so complete and so time-less. This is true art to me. Thank you!!

Words cannot describe how excited and happy I was to finally see this partita on your uploads page!! Thanks so much :D

2:14-2:30 amazing

This channel always provides the best performance/version of each of those pieces!!! Just wonderful!!!

Gerubach, this is a tremendous work of love. I can't fathom the quantity of work and patience you put into these wonderful animated scores. Thank you, very much.

Przepiekna błyskotliwa melodyjna ta Partita Bacha dziękuję bardzo

How one man can create such a large body of spectacular works of art is beyond my comprehension

Possibly my new favourite piece of music.

I feel so pleasured to have a wonderful resource to help my study of this beautiful work on the piano. I will be listening to more videos on your channel!! This was particularly useful for me in terms of interesting time signature and rhythm business in the Gigue. Also really enjoyed the Sarabande, and the fact this is on a harpsichord has really inspired me to learn to play the harpsichord, which I will be doing from September. Thank you so much!

Gracias Gerubach, tremendo trabajo que te mandas con tus magníficos videos... ¡Qué tal diferencia de calidad! No hay punto de comparación entre las obras de Bach y de los otros músicos. Ese courante me parece muy pero muy misterioso

This whole partita is gorgeous! Heavenly intricate music; incredibly beautiful! I cannot get enough of it. I’ve instructed my family to play the Allemande on my cremation! (I’m only 79, so it may take some time 😊)

That Corrente is probably the second best thing I've heard from Bach

@martijnpieterman

8 жыл бұрын

+President Aria And what is think you the first best work?

@FckingLOL

8 жыл бұрын

The Chaconne

@konstantinkrystallis8484

8 жыл бұрын

BWV 596 for me.

@martijnpieterman

8 жыл бұрын

And BWV 999... Beautiful...

@menestrello_99

7 жыл бұрын

Bach wrote all Masterpieces, However the Toccata is more fascinating of the Corrente if you focus on its depth and anyway if you had listend to all Bach's works for keyboard and for Choral Music you wouldn't have said that :)

The rhythm of the Sarabande is absolutely crazy.

The last movement is haunting! So beautiful!

Love watching and listening to this!

Thank you for everything. Thanks for the amazing works.

The Corrente is amazing and one of the few pieces that are in a minor key and sound this exciting

All I can say is .. oh my god this is pure genius and beautiful.. Damn!!!!!!

Thank you very much for your work.

20:41 just sounds like a stunning Cadenza! Bach always astonishes me with his Sarabandes. Just like what he did in Partita no.4.

The ornamentals are so essential for this piece to play and sound so beautiful

Падает занавес и льётся свет! ❤❤❤

The courante... Oh my goodness I've never seen anything like it, it's like aliens showing me alien technology for the first time! I don't know what's more astounding, the fact that people have the ability to play it or the fact a human being created something so amazing.

Wonderfull, what a genius!

The opening Toccata is just the most incredible piece of music I have ever heard. Beyond genius.

Wasn't expecting a fugue in the middle of the Toccata, what a pleasant surprise

Thank you Sir! I could now study and research this piece and surely play myself soon

@darashayda1

9 жыл бұрын

Thomas Field I prefer the Toccata, it has that 'inevitable' motion of 'rolling down the hill' or pushing up the hill needing much will power. I have not heard any piece like that ever.

@darashayda1

9 жыл бұрын

Thomas Field I looked at Gavotte, and did not like on the piano, but whatever the strings used for this rendition was quite beautiful, definitely love to play some parts of it. Gerubach's graphical renditions are quite useful to understand the composition structures and repeatitions, I suspect by looking at these graphical renditions that the composition had several layers, and some layers had gaps which needed to be connected somehow.

Dear Sir the choice of Harpsichord like instrument was really a good one. I can actually hear the ornamentals which are often not audible enough with piano. The Edgy metal on metal sound allows for better understanding of the composition's structure.

He's the consummate "rock star," whose music is always in style.

Браво

Thanks sir for your Gurubach service. Never heard this before your channel. I look no further. I love this whole suite, but that Courante just jumped out at me. Bach says, " Ok you want a french dance? Here you go try this out. " Classic Bach all the way through. " So epitome of baroque and totally Bach. I usually don't get sucked into this dance that easy. Ahh... Great!

I love the graphics made to this, gurubach

Bach surely use some of his most beautiful melodies for this partita, always my favorite, specially by Gould

Love the courante !

The opening Toccata blends with Fugue so naturally: notice how it first announces the fugue (which is structurally inspired from it), lets it unravel then completes with conclusion. It is impossible to find any other words than pure perfection: beauty condensed at atomic level. Nothing more could be said... The ending Gigue is yet another display of perfection, but from a different angle. Here it's theme and, later, its inversion talking. Probably Bach, if not a composer, would have been an astonishing mathematician with his ability to find patterns in chaos and blend them meaningfully into a rock-solid system. For me, as a programmer, he will always be endless source of inspiration:

@aimilios439

3 жыл бұрын

Please listen to Bach's keyboard toccatas, they are all like this. Best music by Bach...

@Isegawa2001

Жыл бұрын

The trasitition of the fugue back to the toccata (recapitulation) is so astonishingly beautiful, I can't help but tear up a bit every time I hear it.

The note highlighting in the Corrente is a masterpiece! You're like the cameraman running alongside olympic sprinters. Also, listening closely to the Toccata, I just noticed a fantastic compositional detail. After 5:45, the two-part counterpoint theme from the toccata returns (in 3-part counterpoint) as part of the fugue! Such a cool transition; I never noticed it because it fits into the fugue so smoothly.

I've been waiting so long!! That's one of my Piano exam pieces, Great job gerubach

@FreeTheJambon

9 жыл бұрын

lau wingshun And you're supposed to play the whole piece ?...

@winsomelau6188

9 жыл бұрын

***** Yes! And the second (last) piece is Bach's Partita No.2 for solo Violin (Piano Version arranged by Busoni) ,I Hope you make a video of this piece (piano version) gerubach

@FreeTheJambon

9 жыл бұрын

Wow, that's impressive. Do your best !

@7TheMrSeven7

8 жыл бұрын

+Winsome Lau Hey, did you pass the exam?

@winsomelau6188

8 жыл бұрын

+TheMrSeven The exam will be in Oct

incredible

As always, it is hard to understand how a human being can compose such music. JSB is unique.

@Basel107z

5 ай бұрын

Bro how come u dare to say (human being) to bach

For those who wonder about the odd time signature of the gigue, it's like a double 2/2 (crossed C), but I'll agree it looks like a coda sign. I suppose the same engraving piece was used.

@composer318

3 жыл бұрын

(|) some kind of that I guess

Happy bithday mr. Bach!

The Gigue sounds like 2 fire chariots end up meeting together at tip point touching, a deadly dance in the high sky, while diving down from high altitudes & rising back up. As to say LOOK, the world is being judged!! *Chills *Chills *Chills!!

11:58 remember Brandenburg concerto 5 Early cadenza.

Amazing

Honestly, I consider Trevor Pinnock the harpsichord version of Glenn Gould. Pinnock is the kind of musician that would have made Bach proud to have him play his music.

@aimilios439

3 жыл бұрын

He really is great and probably more historical than others.

Genius. Who wrote it? Just kidding. Brilliant in its simplicity. Inspired from on high. Even this performance couldn't dampen the true luster of its original spirit of intent. Would like to hear it played en ensamble. There is so much here. So many voices working en co - operation. Remarkable . Thanks for sharing your understandings... with the unworthy.

i hate when people say bach is to cerebral and not emotional. just listen to the beginning of the toccata smh

I dont know when this opus drifted to Spain and Andalucia, but the first minute of Toccata sounds really much flamenco guitar. German Hubert Käppel transcripted the whole partita succesfully for classical guitar.

02:12 . I love this fugal passage

25:26 : Gigue is fantastic !

Ooooh finally an opening movement who isn't a fugue. 02:13 - DAMN!

Interesting sound in the gavotta.

@dennyhamrick2552

9 жыл бұрын

It is a mechanism called the lute switch that creates that sound

@Symphing12

9 жыл бұрын

Denny Hamrick it's plucked with rubber or felt or something? Correct me if not.

@ReubenLL28

7 жыл бұрын

it's plucked the same as normal, but the lute stop pushes little felt dampers against the strings to give the sound a much quicker decay time

Lovely Gigue in French rhythm!

esta partir a supera a todas, junto con la obertura a la francesa o bwv 831

why he played the gigue so different from the score?

@ReubenLL28

8 жыл бұрын

That syncopation is a traditionally French way of playing the harpsichord. In French or French-style harpsichord music the performer is allowed a lot of artistic license regarding note values and ornamentation, often causing the music to sound a lot different from how it's written.

Glenn gould plays this very well.

I could hear traces of Christian Pezold's Toccata in B(?) . Once it moves it cannot stop, so there is a sense of rolling down the hill you have to force it to stop. Then there are simpler melodies which are turned into more complex by an Arpeggio.

Holy pancakes! This is a really good song!

@louiscouperin3731

3 жыл бұрын

I hate to be the one, but this is a piece, not a song.

@kylechurch6296

3 жыл бұрын

@@louiscouperin3731 1) Clearly you do want to be the one. 2) This must be a song because this is my favourite song. Real fans only thhhhpt

@therealrealludwigvanbeethoven

3 жыл бұрын

@@kylechurch6296 1) Clearly you're trolling. 2) This must be a piece because there's nobody singing except for the voice of the harpsichord.

@mhdfrb9971

Жыл бұрын

@@kylechurch6296 there's no singing you dumbass

Thank you. What is your next project?

I'll never understand why Bach wrote a Partita in which the Gavotta is clearly a gigue an the Gigue is cleary a gavotte. :D

@Renshen1957

6 жыл бұрын

The Gavotte, "Tempo de Gavotta", is a Gavotte and starts on the third beat. The Gigue is written in a style typical of Bach in found in many of his suites in 4 beats to the bar, but unlike a Gavotte does not start on the third beat. The Gigue is in imitative polyphony (fuge like) which in the b section the thematic material is inverted (upside down). J S Bach knew what he is was doing.

Nobody does Accelerando like this bloke. It's like a musical Drag Race Meet.

If I did not know this to be by Bach and someone played it for me for the first time, I would have said it is a 21st century composition.

@martijnpieterman

9 жыл бұрын

darashayda1 Agree.

@FreeTheJambon

8 жыл бұрын

+MCTournaments Ryan Why not ?

@FreeTheJambon

8 жыл бұрын

What do you mean ? Composing such a thing wouldn't be possible in these days ?

@darashayda1

8 жыл бұрын

+Jer TheJambon Jumping in the middle of this, I think it is quite possible, however it will be far more sophisticated. Our problem these days is retail software and millions of listeners, once we get over that hump many Bachs will be appear and use the software capabilities and advanced synthesizers , and create amazing compositions. There is a problem with the classical music community, that of atavism, but in due time they think differently. I like to thank GeruBach again because his videos make it easy to study such important works.

@FreeTheJambon

8 жыл бұрын

More sophisticated maybe, but I don't know. For me something from the 21st century that would be able to echo the power of Bach's musicality should not be about the software or synthetizers or whatever. Bach's power, at least to me, dwells in its "simple difficulty". I feel Bach was a clever composer who managed to get complex only by starting from the purest and simplest musical thought. The thing with him is that it sometimes appears as obvious whereas he has that cleverness that makes it way more deep. Someone from the 21st century should focus on that mainly, the musical idea and his way to develop it.

bach makes me feel things

The gigue is played weirdly. For the dotted notes, Trevor plays them correctly, but on the pairs of eighth notes, he swings them like dotted triplets, and where there are two sixteenths and an eighth, he plays them as triplets. He must have been using a different edition of sheet music than what's displayed here.

@trashbagsmiley1999

6 жыл бұрын

I heard that in baroque music, 'syncopation' is a common way to play, particularly in French music

@geophotoexplorer

5 жыл бұрын

I noticed it too, the score do not indicate the "French" style

@trashbagsmiley1999

5 жыл бұрын

@@geophotoexplorer Freedom of interpretation?

@btat16

4 жыл бұрын

Jan Kubny A gigue is a French dance so maybe that's why

@aimilios439

Жыл бұрын

I honestly like it better that way then what is written. Trevor really pulled some strings to give this piece life.

Trevor Pinnock = World's Fastest Music Player

23:20 Tempo di Gavotta

Among his other talents, gerubach has an unerring ear for the best performance. I only recently realized that Pinnock is the guy . . .

tempo di gavotta: 23:19. I REPEAT, WE HAVE A 23-19!!!!!

What is that strange looking time signature in the Gigue?? I have never seen it before! Do you know what it means?

@JohnLeonardMusic1

7 жыл бұрын

Judging by counting the notes, it looks like it denotes 4/2 time. I've never seen it before either.

@geophotoexplorer

5 жыл бұрын

I am not sure but it seems to me that the gigue is not played exactly as the score the performer is playing all paused fashinon.

@talkingtadpole3001

5 жыл бұрын

It's a medieval time signature equivalent to 9/4. Bach was just using it incorrectly. He might have assumed that since 2/2 is a semicircle with a line through it then this time signature (a full circle with a line through it) must have meant 4/2.

@barney6888

4 жыл бұрын

@@talkingtadpole3001 "Bach was just using it incorrectly" seriously?? I'll believe Bach before any and all other musicians, scholars or hackadumics.

@talkingtadpole3001

4 жыл бұрын

@@barney6888 Your philistinism is showing, sir. Bach was a human being and he made mistakes like any other human being. Since no autograph of this piece has survived, it's also possible that the time signature might have been the mistake of a copyist. Whether it was Bach or his copyist, someone definitely made a mistake somewhere along the line since the Gigue's time signature does not correspond to the way the music is written at all.

11:21 bach pedal to the metal

5:56 my ears are begging for a picardy third :(

2:13 fugue

The gigue has a sort of but not really swing feel. The eighth notes give the swing feel but the 2 sixteenth note-one eighth note group sound like eighth note triplets which is odd. I like it though.

The Sarabande sounds like a upside down-twisted haunted house lol

+Denny Hamrick, I think the instrument in the gavotte is actually something called a "lute-harpsichord". See here: www.baroquemusic.org/barluthp.html which leads to another page with a sample of its sound here: www.baroquecds.com/740Web.html. And it's really magnificent! First time I heard it, I was like, "What the heck was *that*??"

Trevor Pinnock is probably the best harpsichordist in the last 100 years. But once you have heard Glenn Gould play this piece, that's it. It's over. He owns it.

@therealrealludwigvanbeethoven

3 жыл бұрын

I've heard Glenn's fabulous version, but when it comes down to the greatest recording, I prefer this one.

Is there a reason the performer is playing the 16th note rhythms the same as the triplet rhythms in the Gavotte (not subdividing a dotted eighth-sixteenth figure for example, instead playing it as if it was a triplet)? Is that a stylistic thing?

@aimilios439

3 жыл бұрын

I think he does it to show more of the dotted swing French style. I personally love it.

@phebus2005

3 жыл бұрын

It’s quite historical. And also a matter of printing in the old days. You got that right in both cases. Publishers never printed otherwise until late in the nineteenth century. But the sixteenth note was definitely meant to go with the third so called triplet note (which should note really be regarded as a triplet). It’s a performing rule in all treatises that runs as late as Schubert, although seldom musicians would dare play Schubert that way, today, even if it works pretty well, in fact (Winterreise). So, the third triplet note goes with the sixteenth note exactly as Trevor plays it here. It’s also revealing, should you come closer to look at the harmony. But it remains a stylistic figure of musical speech indeed. It’s not really related to French style, though, as far as I remember from my harpsichord studies. Read Couperin (The Art of Playing The Harpsichord) to tell the difference. Sorry about my English. It may not be clear enough (not my mother tongue : I’m French - Greetings from Paris !).

11:23 11:27 11:36 11:43 11:48

@andywalls8707

11 ай бұрын

11:55 12:06 12:10 12:15 12:21

@andywalls8707

11 ай бұрын

13:27 13:31 13:35 13:40 13:42

@andywalls8707

11 ай бұрын

13:49 13:54 13:58 14:03 14:06

@andywalls8707

11 ай бұрын

14:17

corrente sounds much better on period instruments than on piano.

I prefer Gould for the first half of the partita (the toccata and fugue up to the courante). But his mechanical, pointillistic approach starts to get really grating on the 2nd half (by the time the gigue comes up I'm well past done). This Pinnock rendition with the harpsichord maintains a warmth and spontaneity that completes the partita for me. Awesome.

15:50

In his musical testimony Bach basicly reflects order of universal creation of Creator.

I have a question, what exactly is the instrument used for the sixth piece of this suite? It's some sort of plucked string isntrument, is it a keyboard instrument?

@ScaredPilot

8 жыл бұрын

Harpsichord, like a plucked string ancestor of piano

@lopikosmusic9354

8 жыл бұрын

Oh, it just sounded so different to me I had no idea it was a harpsichord too. Thank you for your answers!

@aimiliosspiliopoulos1091

6 жыл бұрын

It's the lute stop. Something like a cloth presses upon the strings and bumps them; they don't sound like metal anymore, more like gut, just as a lute. French harpsichords had this feature at that Era...

Just a quick search will reveal Perahia and GG playing 4/2 or 8/4. Bach is capable of writing 24/8 if he wants. Why wouldn't he? I have always found Pinnock to be impeccable and if there is an argument for presenting this in triplet time, fine. I'll settle with creative/interpretive leeway. Or, that the time signature historically stood for both. However, I find it suspicious as I do not, for a second, see any reason to support any argument that Bach made an error, and it has nothing to do with idol worship of the composer. Oh, and I forgot, the time signature means 2 whole notes per bar. If you want to bend the rhythm into triplets, be my guest, fill your boots. Play the piece on upside down, well tempered Campbell soup tins for all I care. Don't argue that it's called a "gigue", therefore by some academic law it MUST be triplets. These movements have names that barely correspond with the original dance or cantabile, especially when it comes to Bach. It's called creativity.

@louiscouperin3731

3 жыл бұрын

Go and listen to some of Couperin’s gigues. Some are triplet-less! Oh, the horrors, our precious academic rule is violated!!!!!!!! Blasphemy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There. Gigues need not contain triplets.

why is there accelerando in the toccata ?....

Who is the performer??? Great performance!!! thank you.

@maua2848

4 жыл бұрын

Wallace Choi pretty late but trevor pinnock i think

@wallacechoi7610

2 жыл бұрын

@@maua2848 Oh thank you..!!

Is it normal the wild changes in tempo?

Was this played with a harpsichord??