Thanks for doing this. You played it better than many of the professional recordings I've heard. One of my all time favorites. I'm determined to get this one!

Paul I give you nothing but gratitude, your An amazing youtuber, thankyou so much for putting such decent videos out, also ur articulating and dynamics are that of glenn goulds, massive applause

This is so wonderful for someone who aspires to rendering this in an acceptable manner before they are content to leave.

Really nice set of videos, I have just joined so that I can follow these as I learn to play the piano more at home. Wish I'd seen this video earlier, as I've been learning this one for a month already with all the crazy hand crosses. Keep going with the tutorials!

Thanks for this !.I'm practicing this variation right now and your suggestions and regrouping- approach helped a lot!

Bach actually marks this as 1 or 2 manuals optional on the rubric provided in the fair copy we now consider authoritative, contrary to Paul's comment. Yes, it's obviously the first of the recurring hand-crossing toccatas, but it's clearly marked 1 or 2, which provides insight into its manageability on a single keyboard, at least from JSB's perspective. I thought I would disagree with the re-distribution of notes, but the end result is very convincing. The final bars of each section particulary present a pretty strong argument for simplification/reordering in performance, as regardless of how well-practiced they are, there is such a huge level of unpredictability and room for error. Almost none of the spirit of the variation is lost in my opinion. These bars have some visually impressive jumps, especially the final two, but they are not worth mucking up the whole thing to pursue. There are a few other variations where simply arranging to uncross the hands is sensible and I'll look forward to watching Paul's other videos to see how he handles them. Though I would strongly argue against it in 23, where the visual comedy of the two arms crossed far over each other is part of the piece, in sections of 20 for example there are borderline unmanageable passages where the crossing isn't stylistically valuable.

great!!! Thank you for your perfect lessons.

Wow! That looks very useful, thanks a lot!

Very helpful, thank you. You are doing great work, and the demonstration is exactly what humanity needs in its public record. (Pls make keyboard exactly horizontal in the image for us autists 😅)

Wow... bravo!!! Superb! Superb!!!

Bravo! 👏

Brilliant !

Thanks for the unknotting! You made the variation less painful to play. 😀

I think Bach would have liked and your lessons and performance. Bravo, Paul !

@WeedMIC

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true, but bach would have used both manuals on his harpsichord.

very helpful! Unfortunately, the google drive links don't work anymore? Anywhere I can find the annotated sheets? Thanks!

Thanks for uploading this! I've been working on the Goldberg Variations for years and have always found this variation to be particularly difficult to play. Now I'm being real lazy and having my synthesizers play them for me via MIDI. I'm going to have to check out your other videos. Thanks for doing this work! Sam from machiwoomiapoo channel.

The link for the pdf doesn’t seem to work. Is there still a way to get the sheet music?

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Thanks for this! Now I don't need more fingers or another arm.

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Er. Instead of playing 4, maybe play 5 slowly? Sorry to criticise free tuition, but it seemed to be going that way then we got all 4000 notes in a minute again, ;)

i will never be able to play this variation up to speed.

@Blueaspen391

10 жыл бұрын

you can really enjoy this and many other pieces by Bach if you play them not so fast. And if you don't master them at a medium tempo, you won't ever master them at a faster tempo