Whenever I’m down, i watch this video as an ego boost.

@franciscocastillo2030

4 жыл бұрын

Excelent Bach music. Relaxing.I just love it.

@LeoFreemanAUST

4 жыл бұрын

When do you start suing everyone for copyright?

@LL-ow1qt

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for all your work, highly appreciated . 😂

@lvbdevinelove2329

4 жыл бұрын

Lol that made me laugh a little too hard

@lvbdevinelove2329

4 жыл бұрын

I really don't know why people don't worship you as a god. Oh wait

When I was a classical guitar major my prof told me that Music Theory was just everyone coming along after Bach and trying to explain what he did by nature.

@jcee6886

3 жыл бұрын

Love this

@alansmollen

2 жыл бұрын

Same here.

@andreww.8262

2 жыл бұрын

Mine told me the same

@askbrettmanning

Жыл бұрын

Amen 🙏

@Astro-X

6 ай бұрын

So true! I have learned about retrograde motion in music theory class but never saw anyone really use it prominently, until I came across Bach....

Saw him live back in the late 1720’s. Best concert I’ve ever been to. Legend forever ☺️

@jharris947

2 жыл бұрын

Was that the concert where Rod Stewart was second billing?

@deltaveedesignconsulting7697

2 жыл бұрын

@@jharris947 Naw, that was Keith Richard.

@aussiebloke609

2 жыл бұрын

"Everything you read on the internet is true." ~ Abraham Lincoln

@aussiebloke609

2 жыл бұрын

@buzz magister Ooh, shades of Umberto Eco...I'll have to go read that one again. :-D

@sherbetdab1200

2 жыл бұрын

A day in the life of J S Bach - nip down the studio, improvise for a few hours, write it down, nip home, bite to eat, shag the missus.

"Now _there_ is music from which a man can learn something." - W. A. Mozart (on hearing Bach motets in Leipzig)

@joshsilvajr1227

Жыл бұрын

If Mozart said that, who am I to disagree?

@freepagan

Жыл бұрын

Wrong Bach!

@jaikee9477

Жыл бұрын

@@freepagan True, Mozart actually said this about Bach's son CPE, who happened to be his teacher and greatest influence. He also adored JC Bach, who later became incredibly successful in London. Mozart wasn't stupid. He knew how much he owed to old Bach. Mozart, as we know him, would be unthinkable without the Bach family.

@orestezanardo4468

Жыл бұрын

No mention of counterpoint? How bizarre

@Arcessitor

25 күн бұрын

@@jaikee9477 And funnily, the Bach family probably wouldn't have been possible without Pachelbel.

The word "Bach" means "creek" in German. So Beethoven once said "Bach? Ocean is what he should have been called..."

@berndlauert8179

4 жыл бұрын

It says „Nicht Bach, sondern Meer sollte er heißen“ Meer means sea, and is also pronounced the same as mehr meaning more. So it is a double-pun

@lintflas1183

4 жыл бұрын

Beethoven greatly admired Bach. There are lots of letters written by Beethoven filled with superlatives about Bach. In many of his letters Beethoven repeatedly called him "the god of harmony". The letters were written between 1798-1802, more 25 years before Mendelssohn kicked off the Bach renaissance which lasts to the present day. Just like Mozart, he was fully aware of Bach's supreme importance.

@MrDaiseymay

4 жыл бұрын

SO, WHEN HE DIED, MUSIC WENT UP THE BACH ?

@happyhoneybigbear

4 жыл бұрын

@@berndlauert8179 EXACTLY! And "Bach" leans more toward "River Bank" than creek, though is used for both. So glad to see others enjoying the surprisingly delightful sense of humor that Herr Beethoven had. I studied Trombone at the Koelner Musickhochschule in Cologne where the man himself studied and heard several wonderful tales of Beethoven's wry sense of humor from venerable instructors present there in the early 90's. Such a wonderful time in life. Thanks for reminding me of this wonderful gem!

@blakeschreckenbach679

4 жыл бұрын

My name roughly translates to "low water crossing" I like to say.

Peter Ustinov said: Bach's music is so beautiful that it diminishes one's fear of death by virtue of its serene attachment to life.

As a cellist I can’t say enough about the Six Solo Suites for Cello. They are the gold standard for cellists. If you can play these works musically and well you can play anything else in the repertoire. These six suites have been the soundtrack of my life expressing the entire range of emotions from deepest grief to absolute exultation and joy.

@musamusashi

2 жыл бұрын

The greatest music ever written for the instrument.

@isaactakeuchimusic

2 жыл бұрын

SAME. My life

@whatever2045

Жыл бұрын

As a cellist I was told the suites ramp up in difficulty. But then when I started working on the 2nd suite, fucking menuet throws a curve ball at me.

@monicacall7532

Жыл бұрын

Whatever, I agree about the minuets in Suite No. 2. I have small hands for a cellist, so yes, learning them was tough…has been learning both bourees in Suite No. 4 and the first gavotte in Suite No. 6.

@whatever2045

Жыл бұрын

@@monicacall7532 Oh suite #4 is definitely not kind to people with small hands.

I play Bach on the guitar almost everyday particularly the lute suites. I named my daughter Anna Magdalena after his wonderful wife. I'm pretty passionate about Bach too. Thanks for this!

@pluutoop

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. He has penetrated my soul in a way that broke me into pieces and showed me who I really am and who I could become. He is the most generous composer. He wanted to save humanity with his music. I own him my life. ❤

@BeBopScraBoo

2 жыл бұрын

john williams' performance of the gigue from 996 is the single greatest guitar performance of all time.

@StephiSensei26

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad there are so many of us who put Bach into our lives everyday. Bach + Guitar = Heaven!

@jaikee9477

Жыл бұрын

Good choice! Not to mention that Anna Magdalena was more than just his wife. She was an eminent soprano singer and musician and she was involved in the writing of some of his pieces. Also she did a lot of copywork. Many of Bach's original manuscripts have her handwriting on them.

@stevekercher1448

Жыл бұрын

@@jaikee9477 Indeed. She was a great musician and copyist. We may not have some of his pieces today without her.

Jack Bruce (lead singer and bass player of Cream) said that " J.S. Bach wrote fabulous bass parts that every bass player should study cause they perfectly illustrate how to be functional and melodic at the same time."

@proverbalizer

4 жыл бұрын

I'ma study that bass in in Fugue in G minor

@VanMoon

4 жыл бұрын

Jack Bruce studied classical cello and bass at a conservatory before he picked up electric bass guitar.

@ArbeiterInnenlieder

2 жыл бұрын

Bach practically invented the bassline. We owe him everything.

@richardshagam8608

2 жыл бұрын

L learned (at the Bach museum in Eisenach, his birthplace) that he wrote the baseline first

If you ever find yourself asking the question: "If I'm looking up to all these great musicians, then who are all these great musicians looking up to?" The answer is Bach.

@robertgumpi7235

4 жыл бұрын

Tal Moore Great sentence. So it is.

@frankgliksman5919

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly.

@Phi1618033

4 жыл бұрын

@@richardwebb2348 "Not Brook but Ocean should be his name. " - Ludwig Van Beethoven ("Bach" is the German word for "brook")

@franziskakre8309

4 жыл бұрын

@@richardwebb2348 Beethoven did not know the complete works of Bach. Only "Die Kunst der Fuge", no "Goldberg-Variationen", not the "Passionen" not his concerti, nt his organ works...

@julianmanjarres1998

3 жыл бұрын

And guess who Bach looked up to... Yup, you guessed it...

I grew up in the Soviet Union and studied classical piano between the ages 7-14. Musical school curriculum was quite strict and we had to play this or that composer's works no matter how much we liked it or not. So I had to improvise sometimes and that was not encouraged at all :). Bach was the only composer I practiced without any hesitation, by placing fingers exactly the way it was requested, without any need to change anything. Bach's music was/is so complete, perfect and divine, it had tamed the rebellious teenager in me.

Composer Johannes Brahms said of Bach’s Chaconne from the D minor partita for solo violin: "The Chaconne is one of the most wonderful, incomprehensible pieces of music. On a single staff, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and the most powerful feelings. If I were to imagine how I might have made, conceived the piece, I know for certain that the overwhelming excitement and awe would have driven me mad."

@the_bottomfragger

Жыл бұрын

Such a nice quote. The piece is so incredibly stunning, I've played it many times, practiced it for hundreds of hours and still feel like I'm just getting to know it. It's the one piece I know that I'll never be finished with, ever. Beautiful words by Brahms.

Bach is one of those very rare individuals who actually is as good as the "hype".

@Allan-et5ig

3 жыл бұрын

Or even exceeds the hype? Bach - yeah - believe the hype...

@jaikee9477

2 жыл бұрын

He really exceeds the hype, not to mention that Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven, etc would totally agree with this statement.

@Peter-ih2tn

2 жыл бұрын

good to know that he passed your test

@dr.juerdotitsgo5119

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think there are "hypes" in classical music overall. The composers have well passed the test of time.

Carl Sagen asked what should be included on the famous Voyager golden disk, physicist Freeman Dyson said, "I'd send just Bach ... but that would be showing off."

@josephhargrove4319

4 жыл бұрын

The version I heard decades ago (also in paraphrase) had to do with what we should broadcast into space to try to connect with other intelligent beings. What I remember was "We should broadcast Bach, all of it. And risk being seen as boastful!" richard hargrove -- "La musique est une science qui veut qu'on rit et chant et danse." (Music is a science that would have one laugh and sing and dance.) -- Guillaume de Machaut (1300-77)

@dudeonbike800

4 жыл бұрын

That's excellent! I can't believe I hadn't heard that one before. And so true then, when we were emerging from the disco 70's and into the "me, me, ME!" 80's. But compared to now, then was nothing. Given our (the United States) current sad state of affairs, just one measure of Bach is showing off. Humanity is saying more and more each day that we simply aren't worthy of many of the masterpieces of our culture. Our greed makes us unworthy. T As the greedy at the top undermine the foundations of society, our humanity suffers. We can no longer pursue the higher pursuits and are instead left to scratch and claw for the basic necessities. What has been true in the third world for generations is now becoming true in much of the developed world as well. The US is leading the way on devolution of society. Tax cuts don't create prosperity for a country, they only enrich the few at the top - those with all the power simply attaining more. So yes, sending Bach is showing off. Because if an intelligent life form found us - and almost by definition they'd be FAR MORE advanced than us - they'd discover a smouldering mass that lives far, FAR below the genius exhibited by Bach and our other truly shining stars of humanity. Shame on us. Shame on us all.

@frugallentigo6768

4 жыл бұрын

@Dude On Bike. Do you feel better now?

@lucasgust7720

4 жыл бұрын

@daAnder71 yeah and It wasn't even Freeman Dyson, but the biologist Luis Thomas who said that.

@gavinfarkas8255

4 жыл бұрын

It was Thomas Lewis that said that.

After watching your Sting/Dominic Miller interview, I decided to revisit Bach after decades, and I end up right back here on your channel. :-)

@facelessandnameless

2 жыл бұрын

I did the same thing! Haha

@digglerdsrecordings9680

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, that's what KZread suggested to me too.

"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul." J.S.Bach

@osoialncuiq

3 жыл бұрын

Bach music certainly refreshes my soul!

@pcuimac

2 жыл бұрын

Souls and god don't exist.

@newbladey

2 жыл бұрын

@@pcuimac I'm an atheist too but you don't have to be this edgy in a youtube comments section lmao

@mastinho6761

2 жыл бұрын

@@pcuimac 1 - You can't prove that God exist BUT you also can't prove that God doesn't exist. 2 - you're edgy.

@Nobddy

2 жыл бұрын

@@pcuimac it can be taken as a metaphor too ya know? You don’t have to take everything literally (although Bach was probably being literal).

St John's passion sounds like the soundtrack of the beginning of our universe .

@jordonhodges8493

4 жыл бұрын

Haha......wellll the Gospel according to John chap 1 describes the beginning "In the beginning was the word and the word was God and the word was with God. Holistic beginning of all, all meaning, all beauty, all truth, all good, and all matter.

@metteholm4833

4 жыл бұрын

..or "something is about to happen here - and it is NOT going to be peaceful!"

@christophertaylor9100

4 жыл бұрын

St Matthew Passion is heart rending beauty; used to great effect by Martin Scorcese in "Casino"

A wonderful thing about classical music is you can feel that these pieces are amazing, even if you have no idea why.

@leadingfiremansteve

4 жыл бұрын

I completely agree !

@happyhoneybigbear

4 жыл бұрын

Yes even the non-musicians in my Family (they are few but we have some) can inherently sense in their BONES that these pieces are Epic. My son is in San Diego and recently completed his training as a Combat Medic this month (as you know the Corps pulls their medics from Dept. of Navy) & he's been droppin' little nuggets to the fellas. He doesn't talk a lot....rather shocks the $h!t out of his comrades once you sit him in front of a piano. He's been showing these good men what real music is all about & they say the same as you: I don't know WHY, but this song kicks A$$. Hehe :-)

@USMCArchAngel03

4 жыл бұрын

@@happyhoneybigbear Wow that's amazing. I'm infantry so Corpsman are very high on my favorite people list. God bless your son. Sounds like he's someone with a lot to offer.!

@paulkocabay1

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@happyhoneybigbear

4 жыл бұрын

@@USMCArchAngel03 well God bless you all and all the commenters here as well, especially you archangel. Stay frosty, brother. And if you ever meet a medic named Jake Walsh ,that's my son and we are very proud of him.

1:49 Air on the G String 2:02 Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring 2:29 Well-tempered Clavier 3:29 Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 3:50 Goldberg Variations 4:01 Mass in B Minor 4:23 Cello Suite No. 1 5:04 Art of the Fugue 6:30 Cantata No. 54 7:25 [more of the same?] 8:25 E Major Prelude 10:04 [compare Alan Rawthorne: Oboe Concerto] 11:27 St. John Passion => Watch "A Passionate Life" by Sir John Eliot Gardiner 13:44 (end)

@cosmofoxgaming1268

2 жыл бұрын

Cantata 54 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

@Moksi-iq7pl

Жыл бұрын

7:25 Motet Jesu, meine freude BWV 227

@lunodavinci1427

Жыл бұрын

@@Moksi-iq7pl THANK YOU!

@myfairlady343

Жыл бұрын

@@Moksi-iq7pl one of his greatest works also un my ooinion

@chesneytube1

Жыл бұрын

obligatory air on the g string joke

"Bach is like an astronomer who, with help from ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars!" -- Frederic Chopin

I love how Rick is equally passionate about Alice in Chains and Bach. That’s why this is such a great channel. For anyone new to Bach, I would recommend checking out Sheep May Safely Graze. It may not be Bach’s most complex piece. But it’s stunningly beautiful.

@pwk22

3 жыл бұрын

I did. Beautiful. Although, had I listened without video, I would have never tied the piece with sheep (though it's pacific).

@GeorgeBletchly

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking. There aren't many people who are equally interested in and knowledgeable about both rock and classical music. I learned Sheep May Safely Graze when I was in my teens and I still take great pleasure in playing it 50 years later.

@jacklandy5704

3 жыл бұрын

That's just your opinion. There's no need for you to attack other people's interests. Just stop.

@rhabdob3895

3 жыл бұрын

Great Destroyer : better at concertos. But not better at heroin... I mean rock music.

@jacklandy5704

3 жыл бұрын

@Great Destroyer I'm not attacking your interests. I'm trying to stop you from attacking other people's interests.

I was in seventh grade, in junior high school in Harlem, and our teacher took us out one night on a 'cultural enrichment field trip' to hear the ballet. I was 12 and not really interested in ballet, but the music for one of the dances caught my ear. I thought to myself "the violins are talking to each other." Later, I looked at the program and it was obvious I'd heard the Concerto for Two Violins. Looking back, I think that moment was the awakening of my musical life.

@mokoliveros8298

5 жыл бұрын

Are you referring to the Largo movement of Bach's Concerto for Two Violins in D minor? Whenever I hear that piece, I imagine two humpback whales--a mother and its young--swimming together in graceful slow motion, while singing a duet. =D

@sierra3644

5 жыл бұрын

this is a very beautiful story

@Hevvvyyy

5 жыл бұрын

fugue in g minor is my favorite one by him

@SAPprogramming

5 жыл бұрын

I had that same moment when I in elementary school at church with my dad at the St. Paul Cathedral. I remember I was fidgeting with the church bulletin at the almost end of mass - I remember fidgeting because of what came next on the organ - "sheep may safely graze." I saw my dad look at me with confusion as stopped to listen what sounds would come next.

@soakedbearrd

5 жыл бұрын

This is what great teachers do, they point you in a direction and watch you run with whatever catches your eye.

When life is crashing down all around me I listen to JS Bach to make things feel more ordered and calm. Bach's music is healing.

@johnboettger864

9 ай бұрын

I listen to Kamala Harris.

@Astro-X

6 ай бұрын

@@johnboettger864 begone troll

Its impossible to define Bachs greatness,it is beyond definition.

As an organist myself, having played Bach for over 8 years now... it's just incredible how each and every new piece I hear of him is so different and such a new world. Everytime I want to learn a new piece of him, I discover things where I'm like "wait, he also wrote things like this...?". His Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor is an absolute pinnacle in his repertoire, and is probably the most beautiful and exhilarating masterwork I've ever played.

@fatfrumosfat

5 жыл бұрын

Nice to hear that as musician you like learn from bach ,who made universal mathematical music creations ,which are the fountain of wisdom of knowledge ! Its so nice that he made such a great dictionary of music styles ,his music its the future lol best of luck and have funPs our generation should sings bachs masterpieces lol

@johnprice362

3 жыл бұрын

It is also quite stunning on pedal harpsichord

@talastra

3 жыл бұрын

It's so obvious to note the Passacaglia, and yet sometimes a super-famous work is also a legitimately mind-blowing piece of eternity. And this is one such. In general, I find his organ works to be flabbergasting.

@johne6081

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the nod to the Passacaglia, which is one of my absolute favorite compositions, as well. We are in good company -- when I thanked our church organist for playing it, she confided that it was her favorite, as well.

@reflecting6189

3 жыл бұрын

i love the passacaglia. absolutely amazing. the way he keeps the bass going.. especially during the arpeggios.. its really well done on the Amorbach organ.. the album is on spotify

Brian May likes Bach so much, he adapted his hair-style.

@markglenn1712

4 жыл бұрын

Since he also has an advanced science degree, I'm sure he's happy with the Bach / Newton thing going on.

@JeffSyam

4 жыл бұрын

On one of BBC's Sky at Night when they invite Brian May, one of the co-hosts said: "I've never seen a scientist having so much resemblance with Isaac Newton to Brian May". At that time he has got his PhD.

@ejrandler

4 жыл бұрын

@@markglenn1712 PhD in Astrophysics

@auxxik3805

4 жыл бұрын

You mean issac newton

@colebuckmaster966

4 жыл бұрын

Brian May sucks

Back in my late teens and early twenties, I sang in church choir. Singing bass was for a lot of the time not very challenging and a bit boring. That is until we sang some Bach. We would all learn our parts by listening to each part played individually on the organ, then sing along with it. Standard practice. At that age, I could sing bass or tenor in full voice and alto in falsetto. With Bach pieces, I sang the three parts in rehearsal just for the joy of it. With Bach, in almost every piece, each part is a complete and beautiful piece of music in and of itself. Then all of these beautiful pieces roll and flip over and blend with each other like no other music. To play a piece on an instrument is one thing. To sing with ones own voice several parts (like multitracking) and to feel the beauty of each and then to sing in the ensemble feeling all the parts is entirely something different. Bach can be movingly beautiful, disturbingly grave and pretty and joyous. Sometimes all at the same time. I know of no other who can do or has done that. Bach still proves that there is such a thing as serious fun. :)

@Robert_1685

5 ай бұрын

Actually, G.F. Händel certainly comes close.

@ianboggs9211

5 ай бұрын

@@Robert_1685 yes. I'll drink to that. He did have his moments for sure. Water Music and Messiah come to mind. But the bass parts aren't quite the goisebump producers that JS created. There really is a lot of great music out there and I guess we can all have our favourites.

“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.” - Johann Sebastian Bach

I lived for a while three blocks away from the Thomas Kirche in Leipzig, while I was working as a singer in Leipzig’s opera house. Rick, I usually watch your videos because they are very entertaining, and I have to thank you for this one. Especially. I’ve sung many works by Bach, especially Matthäus Passion. Many times. And I love how broad your music palate is. I feel deeply identified with it. Apart from EVERYTHING else, Bach was an incredible melodist, if such a word exists. And he was a man, like you and I. It’s absolutely mind blowing the amount of works with such consistent quality, beauty, inventiveness, etc... that this guy wrote. Never was and never will be something like it. Thank you for this video, man.

Bach was actually ‘forgotten’ in the years after his death. His ‘rediscovery’ is attributed to Felix Mendelssohn’s effort to promote his music. And Western music was better because of this. As someone who has played Bach’s music on the keyboard, sang and conducted his choral works, I would say that Bach’s genius lay on his almost unearthly understanding of the transition from modal music to triadic harmonic progression (today’s harmony), and his ability to utilize these into his music. Western music at that time was still moving from modes (it was a long transition since Monteverdi), and Bach was the master who knew how to wield the power of his music writing during these exciting period in history. Thank you Rick for sharing your experiences and knowledge. Leipzig can be a transformative place for a musician who is hungry for understanding.

@Quotenwagnerianer

4 жыл бұрын

Not true. He was not forgotten. At least not among musicians. It's just that performing his music, especially his cantatas, which make up the main body of his work, fell out of fashion.

@floriandevuyst

4 жыл бұрын

Correct : Mendelssohn revealed Bach's deepness and greatness to the world through "St Mathaüs Passion". Amazing harmonics and complex architecture, event if the artwork didn't come complete because of a lost part.

@uumlau

4 жыл бұрын

@@Quotenwagnerianer or more aptly, he was resented, because he was just so darn good. Later composers didn't want to be compared to him.

@ErikaWeiss

4 жыл бұрын

He was not forgotten...that is a myth.

@TheNinnyfee

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, he definitely was a visionary.

My favorite composer of all. When I hear one of his pieces I can't believe how he came up with his notes. As I play them it just blows my mind.

When my younger daughter was about three years old, John Eliot Gardiner's first B-minor Mass recording caught her ear. The first notes of the Credo grabbed her and she couldn't let go. Then she saw the cover art-the Lamb Triumphant from the Ghent Altarpiece-and asked what all that was about. From then on, whenever she wanted to hear the music, she would say, "Papa, play 'the Lamb,'" and I would put the disks on. Since then, as a church musician and music teacher, she's continued to get what she can out of Herr Bach and to give him back what she can. I marvel at how he took that brutally difficult theme that he received from Frederick the Great-possibly a sequence written by his son CPE that he and the ruler thought to use to embarrass the elder Bach-that he turned into the genius of the Musical Offering.

@Noctifern

Жыл бұрын

I love John elliot gardiner. his recording of beethovens eroica is incredible and easily my favorite

Your channel is absolutely fantastic. Here are no limits. Everything Music is well named in deed. It makes you dream, it makes you travel, it makes you go out of your boundaries, it educates you... I also greatly appreciate the fact that you respect your audience and the musicians you talk about. Clean channel here. Yet, you talk freely, boldly. Your channel is an invitation to love music, to love it more and more.

@RickBeato

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@avielkharrat5788

5 жыл бұрын

@@RickBeato you're so welcome. And thank YOU! Salut de Paris! 🤗🎸🎷🎶🎵🎼📯🎤🎹📣🎻🥁🎺

@BloodredRon

5 жыл бұрын

Avi Elkharrat That’s exactly how I feel too. Great channel!

@gentbar7296

5 жыл бұрын

agree

Bach was a machine. The guy turned out so much music and had to work so quickly to keep up with his schedule. And yet his music was of such consistent superior quality. Thanks Rick, I love your subjects!

@lupash

5 жыл бұрын

Aristotle said that quality comes with quantity, like a habit. And not viceversa (viceversa as in quantity prevents quality and quality is inversely proportional to quantity), like many use to think.

@7177YT

5 жыл бұрын

i think many pieces, intricate though they are, are just snapshots of ever evolving improvising material. i bet that's why he comes across so jazzy lol.

@u.v.s.5583

5 жыл бұрын

You do not have to publish everything you write. You practice, you write hundreds of hours of music and then publish a single hour worth of music, which is a masterpiece. Then you will have small quantity of exceedingly high quality. That is Gauss and Riemann versus Cauchy and indeed Euler in mathematics.

@7177YT

5 жыл бұрын

@@u.v.s.5583 if u ever had a looked at eulers opera omnia, u know, those big ole tomes. if u did, you'd know that quality vs quantity argument is bullshit. lol. as for cauchy vs gauss, that metaphor is off quite a bit too. ;)

@kaloarepo288

5 жыл бұрын

Bach's contemporary Telemann wrote even more music than Bach did -I believe Telemann was the most prolific composer who ever lived -to a non-musician like me Telemann's music sounds as good as Bachs but experts say it's not -it was not as complicated but does music always have to be complicated?

Among many, many other things , What makes Beato Great is his love for ALL kinds of music, other from the ones inside his field of expertise. And What makes him extraordinary is how he appreciates Bach's music and recognizes it's influence in his developement as a "modern" musician.

Bach's music is the only music that can never bore you

@abrahampalmer8761

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed especially his organ works

@F8Lwrld

2 жыл бұрын

amen

@martinkojour8879

2 жыл бұрын

Living god tho

@msmith53

Жыл бұрын

It does bore “the ignorant”! Challenging to the limited.

Bach said "Any music that doesn't bring God joy is just noise"

@dbcooper9935

4 жыл бұрын

That pretty much sums up today.

@stephen5601

4 жыл бұрын

DB Cooper thank you for saying that.

@danielmconnolly7

4 жыл бұрын

@@dbcooper9935 I think he sensed that Rap would come along someday and kill everybody's good vibe...

@unknowjlm

4 жыл бұрын

@@danielmconnolly7 Depends on what type of rap you talk about. (the one you hear on the radio? Sure)

@philosyche

4 жыл бұрын

@@danielmconnolly7 i mean come on, shitting on all of rap and not taking the minimal effort of sub-categorising it is just ignorant and lazy. rap is a huge, all encompassing term

I am so glad that my Beato Club dues go towards producing this kind of content. Thanks Rick.

@juliasessofiglio9549

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for being one of his patrons. I can't speak for everyone, but I am grateful beyond belief for his content, especially something like this.

@wesleyalan9179

5 жыл бұрын

Its awesome!

Mr. Rick Beato, this is your best take on any one musician. I never thought I would ever like classical, but Bach pushed me over the edge. I listen to all genre of music. Bach checks all the boxes for me for what I like in classical; just like how Django Reinhardt & Vince Guaraldi does it for me for jazz.

Oh man. That moment in the St. Johns Passion where the chorus enters. BOOM! It's a simple I(minor) triad, but all the meanderings and complications in the orchestra before that give it such force and presence.

@Raukura42

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree. Just like the beginning of the Mass in B Minor when the orchestra and choir enter together. Imagine hearing that in a church with the sun coming through the stained glass of the cavernous interior for the urgent full throated cry of Kyrie Eleison.

I just cannot wrap my head around the fact that one man composed so much wonderful music. To say that Bach was a prolific composer would not do the man justice.

There's so much that makes Bach great! If you listen to 30 main stream pop song, you probably hear almost the same thing 30 times. If you listen to the same Bach piece 30 times, you'll hear something new all 30 times. Bach's music is packed with gold. You can't just appreciate all of it if you only listen a few times. I've been playing Bach's Lute music on guitar for about 40 year now, and still I find new details, pieces of gold, like a different way to look at the voicings, or the harmonies. It just keeps challenging and inspiring. I don't there's any other composer like that.

@PhillipLandmeier

4 жыл бұрын

This is true! There are pieces I've listened to and played for over 50 years and I STILL discover new things I hadn't noticed before. None of it ever gets old.

@steffen5121

4 жыл бұрын

@Camille Desmoulins He wrote over 1.000 works, some of them over 2 hours long. I have no idea, but If you put them all together, you'd probably had 4 weeks of Musik non-stop.

After 40 years of teaching music and the muisic of Bach, I've learned one thing is certain: the genius of Bach at it's most sublime can NEVER be put into words.

@johnboettger864

9 ай бұрын

One thing is certain, the rest is lies. The flower that once has blown, forever dies.

One aspect why Bach's music is still great is that it's still alive and even a mediocre singer like me can participate. I live in Lueneburg, a town close to Hamburg, where Bach finished his education as a "Kantor" as a young man. He sang in the choir of my church and now I can sing his Cantatas and large choir works. We have 3 large church choirs in our town and there is a tradititon that his oratories sort of rotate over the years from one church to the other. So you can listen to the christmas oratory every year. And this is good practise in almost every town and city in Germany. Well, not this year, because of Covid-19 all concerts are cancelled.

@ac1646

Жыл бұрын

🥰

@nightshadegatito

6 ай бұрын

More evidence that the planned’demic was truly Satan’s working. In Bach I trust.

Many musicians are stars, but Bach is the big bang.

@effie-mars

5 жыл бұрын

Well, Bach didn't create music but ok

@kosatochca

5 жыл бұрын

Facu Maresca Though, he is literally called the Father of music

@effie-mars

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, not the big bang of it

@tomwilliams8591

5 жыл бұрын

@@effie-mars Well, 'father' of music would also imply that it was his child, something that came from him. You knew what point the person was trying to make, stop being needlessly pedantic.

@effie-mars

5 жыл бұрын

Stop assuming and categorizing me, in any case. Okay so I'm a musician too, and if he's the father of musicians, is Bach my daddy? :$

Rick..here’s my story : i was a mailman for thirty years and during my time I met a guy who plays in the symphony and loves to fish and I was was really new to the guitar but I was really into ..so I asked one day if he wanted to go fishing on the big lake eire and ,we went and on the way he explained how Bach harmonized all his music back then for the whole ride out there for a hour and half .. I never said more than that’s cool wow that entire 1.5 hrs their ...that’s was 8 year ago and we’re still great friends even when he’s half my age @62...soooo ur story of JSB WASSSS SOOOO GOOOD .. thanks for ur lessons and ur utube friends ...u all know who you are and thanks for sharing

@thatellipsisguy8984

3 жыл бұрын

Ron T wait, you’re 124??!

All I know is, more of J.S. Bach's melodies and chord progressions make the hair on the back of my neck stand up than those of any other composer.

@joshuajaimes121

Жыл бұрын

Same here my friend.

Bach is simply magnificent. Bach wrote music in a divine way never equalled by any other composer ever. He managed to be the real voice of God.

@Torgo1969

Жыл бұрын

Except for Toccata and Fugue in D Minor...the voice of The Devil. I love it.

@autemniaequinoctius2030

Жыл бұрын

@@Torgo1969 yes, just 1 minute before he sinned and was thrown down

I have listened to Bach’s works for 40 yrs or so, and do not pretend to know much about it other than it moves me like no other music can 🤷‍♂️

@danielmconnolly7

4 жыл бұрын

I give it a "7", it's easy to Waltz to...

@shelleysteva2251

4 жыл бұрын

Steven M. That is good enough. Music like his means civilization is worth saving

I teach my middle school students about Bach and his music. By the time we get to the end of our unit on Bach, they have a very good introductory knowledge of his life and music. They could also tell you that Bach is my absolute favorite musician. Let’s face it, we could spend a lifetime pulling apart Bach’s music and still only scratch the surface. Thanks for this great video Rick.

Imagine walking into an 18th Century cathedral on Sunday morning and hearing Toccata & Fugue on the pipe organ...or walking back out into the world after hearing Prelude #1. In addition to the mathematical genius of his music and the monumental nature of his repertoire...the man could set a mood!!!

The intro of the Johannes Passion, as well as Widerstehe doch der Sünde, brings tears of joy to my eyes immediately. It's as simple as that.

What Makes Rick Beato Great? Quality Videos.

@nznegativeions

5 жыл бұрын

Want some kneepads?

@mikeytimz4387

5 жыл бұрын

Only if you promise to watch :)

@jazzerson7087

5 жыл бұрын

Always quality, yup, but this one was beautiful, the footage from inside the church is extraordinary, looks an overwhelming place. Well worth the wait on this.

@evil6564

5 жыл бұрын

Prison Mike.

@tyflyer007

5 жыл бұрын

@@nznegativeions Dude.......I thumbed your comment down 45 times and nothing happened.......bummer.....

This is like heaven after watching a video of a man spending a week in VR headset. Thank goodness for Bach.

It took me many years to understand what it means to appreciate Bach. You hear some of his pieces so often that you take him for granted. Until you let yourself either sit and take it in, or something grabs you, you'll never really get it I don't think. But I can hear the range of emotions in his works, and am thankful for what he gave to us.

I fell in love with Bach when I was 5 years old. My mother couldn't understand my obsession but thank goodness she indulged it.

@ac1646

Жыл бұрын

😁

No need to block any of Ricks videos. The man is a legend

Well, you know you can't limit Bach's greatness to "Eight major works." But even so, how could anyone leave out the Chaconne? I'll let Brahms speak for me: "On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind." - Johannes Brahms about Bach's Chaconne

@tatianacovington53

5 жыл бұрын

Look what Einstein did with chalk and a blackboard.

@Me-uv6kc

5 жыл бұрын

He also left out the musical offering... Bach wrote a lot of titanic works

@jaimepimienta233

5 жыл бұрын

Incidentally, the Chaconne written for the left hand by Brahms on the theme by Bach is featured in an old 1940’s movie with Peter Lorre: “The Beast with 5 Fingers.” The plot is stupid since it makes reference that the composition was composed by the fictional character in the movie.

@luclaflamme4712

5 жыл бұрын

I cannot agree more...

@spielersubliminals8025

5 жыл бұрын

Keep in mind, Brahms was also a notorious perfectionist

You cannot forget Bachs violin concertos. How double concerto is one of my all time favorite pieces.

@sandragoodman2059

Жыл бұрын

I listen to the E Major whenever I need a lift.

I love Bach's music ! And in my mind I often thank my piano teacher who made me love bach's music. Her key sentence was : "Dans Bach il n'y a pas la mélodie et l'accompagnement, dans Bach tout chante ! " (in Bach's music there is not the melody and the support, in Bach's music everything is singing !" Thank you Mr Beato ! Alexis (from Nantes, France)

I think the Well Tempered Clavichord was written to demonstrate the advantages of tuning the instrument in a specific way -- well tempered and not even tempered. The pitch increases by the twelfth root of two each step up the chromatic scale, but that is an irrational number, so you have to fudge it somehow. The different methods of fudging are called temperaments. Bach put lots of fancy chords into the piece to show his method was best. But of course, it had to be beautiful to have any value as a demonstration. So in a way there is as much science as art in it. You can think of a keyboard as a digital slide rule. Moving up one octave, which is twelve steps, doubles the frequency of the tone. Moving half that is increasing by the square root of two. So if middle C is one, F# above it is the square root of two. G is 3/2, which is 1.5, according to Pythagoras, but it is actually seven steps up the chromatic scale, or 2^(7/12), which is about 1.498. That is why you have to fudge. E is supposed to be 5/4, 1.25, but it is actually 2^(4/12), the cube root of two, roughly 1.2599. Here's how you use a keyboard to calculate the square root of three: If G above middle C is 3/2, then G an octave higher is three, nineteen steps up the chromatic scale. Half that is about nine steps up from middle C, which is A. Follow the circle of fifths and you get C->G->D->A, which is (3/2)^3, or 27/8. But that A is an octave too high, so the A about middle C is half that, 27/16, or 1.6875. The square root of three is 1.732, only about 3% higher. Getting good approximations translates into having an instrument that sounds like it is in tune. It has to work for lots of different cases, meaning lots of different chords. That is the problem Bach was wrestling with.

@fulanodetal4856

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment, man! Though i'm struggling to fully understand all of this! What would you recommend me to read to achieve that understanding? Thanks again!

@khabriel

2 жыл бұрын

Thank for the lesson Sir.

@john9675

2 жыл бұрын

You what ?

@DuncanEduardo

2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant comment Bernard.

@ron88303

2 жыл бұрын

@Doogyrevko wow Not boring; just above your pay grade.

Bach was sent from heaven to unfold music! He was sent to compose and create sounds that will stand till the end of time! Bach was an inspired man! His sounds are so angelic!

@thomasmcdevitt5543

4 жыл бұрын

xolanimtha amen

Rick, I discovered your channel and I am compelled to write you a comment. Very rarely do I find someone online that is as spot on with music as you are. And this Bach video just confirmed EVERYTHING. I have much respect for you and your work. Keep on making these great videos and educating the people on "what makes music great." We need more of this in our insane world.

Beato, just saying thank you the channel and all you do. You are greatly appreciated. Rock On 🤘🏼

RICK. I'M 72 AND AM IN THE PROCESS OF LEARNING HIS 2 PART INVENTIONS.

@beback_

5 жыл бұрын

RICHARD GORDON Right on, man

@nicholasrees1838

5 жыл бұрын

Not sure how far through you are but I'd recommend the d minor (no. 4 I think) and the c minor as being particularly good. Of course all the rest are good too!

@raulperez2308

5 жыл бұрын

hows it goin man? 19 y.o. here, currently with the well tempered clavier, some of the stuff is bloody hard

@garymoeller892

4 жыл бұрын

Maikind K. There is no better advice than this!

I've smoked a lot of weed in my life but I never get as high as when I listen to or play Bach.

@eisbaerbel

3 жыл бұрын

Agree...😎

@dominikk8547

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe try both at the same time :)

@ilkeadrall710

3 жыл бұрын

I've ever smoked not a single tiny bit of weed and I won't but I concur that your sentence and Bach deserve a big like from me. I appreciate both and why not, your enlightment too.

@cjscarff6453

3 жыл бұрын

I would like but it’s currently at 69 likes and I don’t want to disturb that

@ilkeadrall710

3 жыл бұрын

@@cjscarff6453 I wouldn't like to disturb that by giving you a first like and by hoping you sixty 68 more.

Every composer who has ever lived: “Bach is the father, we are his children”.

@msmith53

Жыл бұрын

He had 18 of his own!

@codythedoggo7671

Жыл бұрын

@@msmith53 20!

The two most impressive sounds I've ever heard were the launch of a Saturn 1B rocket, and Bach's E-flat "St. Anne" organ prelude/fugue played on the great organ in York Minster - this titanic sound bouncing off the stone walls of the cathedral that you could literally feel in your bones. It was like the voice of God.

@tomowenpianochannel

Жыл бұрын

Can honestly say I had a similar experience. Bach Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, on a organ, in the main Cathedral in Madrid. Heard the notes outside, entered the cathedral. There are no words to describe the power, the possession of your soul, the all-encompassing world of sound, shaking the walls when the bass comes in, literally an earthquake of organised, positive, major key music, in the sunlight of Spain. If I could choose 50 moments from my life to repeat, that is one of them.

He was jailed briefly for dueling with a bassoon player. Apparently, he insulted the fellow by claiming his bassoon playing reminded him of the bleating of a sheep.The two men drew on each other and went at it.

@DonVal86

4 жыл бұрын

Captain Bienvenue Canadian Avenger He also went into rehab briefly because of a cocaine addiction. Thank God he came out of it. 🙏

@gavinfarkas8255

4 жыл бұрын

Nanny goat bassoonist is the best insult ever by a classical musician. He also kinda just didn't go to work for a few months because he went full on fan boy to Buxtehude.

@ingonagel7169

3 жыл бұрын

He was a lively chap. Never heard this story, believe it though.

@arlissspeace4724

3 жыл бұрын

I dated a sheep for a time and she sounded EXACTLY like a bassoon.

@thatellipsisguy8984

3 жыл бұрын

Arliss Speace sure it was a ewe? bassoon is pretty low...

Toccata and Fugue in d minor has been my favorite piece of music since I was a young child, listening to my father play it on pipe organ.

@thatellipsisguy8984

3 жыл бұрын

I’d say it has to be his. You hear notes in it that aren’t written or played but exist in the interplay between overtones - and that came out of his head...

@its1110

3 жыл бұрын

@@thatellipsisguy8984 I've thought that myself. Bach played with his fugues as a way to teach or illustrate the Art of Fugue. I can't think that "simplicity" would be an argument against a fugue being Bach's... it was part of his approach to and fun with music.

@mkshffr4936

3 жыл бұрын

Try the Dorian. It will knock your socks off.

@scottparis6355

3 жыл бұрын

Really awful that people now hear the first bar and think "Ew, spooky. Phantom of the Opera. Halloween."

@its1110

3 жыл бұрын

@@scottparis6355 Yes. Very profound. That is surely not in any way Bach's mindset in that piece.

What a wonderful video, Rick! I've watched about 10 of your videos, but as a classical and jazz musician my respect for you has just increased tenfold, because I didn't realize how good your musical background really is..thanks so much for all you do to promote music education on KZread! btw, when you showed the clip of Rostropovich playing the cello suites, I just started crying, because it was just him and Bach sitting together...you know what I mean? And I didn't stop crying until after the video was over. That's the power of great, great music!

Thank you so much, Rick! This is wonderful. Your understanding of all genres of music is so inspiring.

Not only is Bach’s music the most spiritually and intellectually rewarding in the Western canon, from the perspective of sound; it’s also remarkably beautiful on paper. Every Bach score is a visual masterpiece - perhaps that’s harder for non-musicians to appreciate, but look at a full score of, say, the opening of the B Minor Mass or, (and far more condensed), the Adagio-Fugue from the first (G Minor) Sonata for solo violin. Both are so gorgeous to look at that, even if you didn’t realize that the black and white dots and lines encoded instructions for translation into sound, you could hang the printed music on your wall and just stand in awe. And Bach’s own autograph scores are even more beautiful than print.

@achenarmyst2156

5 жыл бұрын

Peter Shoobridge Absolutely! After 4 years of playing the violin I started to study the 6 Sonatas and Partitas. My teacher recommended that I should buy the IMC edition. Having done that I was surprised to find a facsimile of the autograph manuscript at the back of that edition. For 40 years this continues to be my most precious music edition and I regularly present Bach‘s heavenly aesthetic score to friends of mine.

@danciuriak2011

5 жыл бұрын

I've had that same thought about the WTC preludes and fugues - each so remarkably different in appearance from the other.

0:36 "Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685 and died in 1750" Rick, I think you may have your dates a bit incorrect, because in fact, Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685 and never died.

@cyllansse

4 жыл бұрын

yess !!!!!!!

@Glicksman1

4 жыл бұрын

He certainly did not and never will.

@ashrafjehangirqazi1497

4 жыл бұрын

touche!

@glennwillis920

3 жыл бұрын

Drop the mic and walk off...there is no retort to that...Bravo!

@MarekMichalakMusic

3 жыл бұрын

I love that comment 😀

Maybe Bach is the most influential musician ever. I love Gould playing Bach. His Toccata and Fugue in D Minor for organ is very famous, too, what an intro!

By far, my most favorite Composer of all time. The body of work he left behind is phenomenal in its scope, depth and complexity. I spent a number of years just studying his reharmonizations of hymns, and just scratched the surface. Thank you Rick. In my humble opinion, this is probably one of the most important educational videos you've done to date.

Bach was a virtuoso of the organ. He fathered 20 children.

@composingwithjames

4 жыл бұрын

He was prolific in more than one way

@marizacabral5141

4 жыл бұрын

Yet they say he has no living descendants today.

@Quotenwagnerianer

4 жыл бұрын

@@marizacabral5141 That is not true. There are still descendants alive today, but they don't bear the name anymore since the paternal line, which carries the name, died out.

@marizacabral5141

4 жыл бұрын

@@Quotenwagnerianer Do you happen to have the source of this information/research? I happen to have quite a bit of curiosity over the question of whether JSB has living descendants today.

@toon2u1

4 жыл бұрын

his organ had no stops

A fantastic video and hommage to J.S. Bach. Thank you so much! I'm 56 now. J.S. Bach's music has been a huge part of my life since early teens. His music is such a comfort. Way better than any therapist! :-)

@alastertan5779

21 күн бұрын

Same here. Visited Leipzig, Thomas kirche Had an opportunity to pay my homage to Bach - finally.

Rick, thank you for your consistent love for music and its essence. Not coming off as intimidated , you up the interview could be measured by how Sting opened up more and more as the interview continued.

Absolutely one of your top videos. It has the polish of a top class production, done with authority and reverence. The best tribute to a giant amongst musical icons, as relevant to millennials as rockers like me

Rick, this video needed to be an hour. 13 minutes just barely gets started :) appreciate your work!

@ryanmadsen3982

3 жыл бұрын

I took a college class on Bach that really just scratched the surface. If this video motivates even one person to start listening to Back then Rick has done a great service.

this youtube channel....... is addictive! i'm not a musician, i'm not big into music - but i find this content fascinating keep it up! : )

Thanks Rick, nice to see you take a diversion into my favourite composer. I play his 'cello suites often. Imagining a world without his music, would be like living in a world without flowers or sunsets. Great art should effect you emotionally, and boy Johann Sebastian could do that in spades 😊

One of your best videos in my opinion.🎹👍 Thank you so much for this! Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪

I heard a great quote by John Batiste that I'll have to paraphrase since I didn't write it down, Bach was better at music than anyone else has ever been at anything.

@shnimmuc

5 жыл бұрын

JBL never said that.

@michaelsobran8178

5 жыл бұрын

Lol. Yes

@michaelsobran8178

5 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@musiclistsareus1029

5 жыл бұрын

Who is jbl?

@curbmassa

5 жыл бұрын

My take is- Bach designed and constructed the building. Everyone is still arguing over the drapes and wallpaper ever since.

The tears started popping out at that chunk of St. John's Passion. What a sublime composer (and presentation). Thanks for the recognition/appreciation of his greatness.

Bach is overwhelmingly awesome, this year I had the pleasure of learning one of his preludes and fugues, only four pages and yet it took me over 7 months to finish it and to be able to play it decently. I do not quite understand everything that is going on in the fugue, but god! It sounds so nice, and the act of playing turns into a mathematical and logical puzzle that you not only have to solve but also have to communicate that puzzle in the language of arts. I get lost everytime I play that piece, and it's amazing.

Thanks again Rick, that was extremely informative. It IS astounding that one man could come up with all of that. Simply unbelievable.

I got high on the roof of the electronics factory I worked at in 1976 (I was 21), then put on my headphones and started assembling audio equipment, when Bach's Concerto for for Two Keyboards in C Major came on the radio, and I was astounded and hooked! He is my favorite composer of all time, and ever will be. I liked Rick's take on this, as it is always the incredibly harmonically dense and varied territory that Bach's music travels through that gets me. I greatly enjoy many other baroque composers as well, but Bach's music is something special.

@jimstewart336

5 жыл бұрын

I think that there's a certain brain wiring in some of us that causes the instant and lifelong love of his works.

Bach is the greatest of all time! without Bach there wouldn't be Mozart, Beethoven, etc....awesome video

@thomassiegler9898

3 жыл бұрын

Without Monteverdi, Schütz, Pachelbel, Palestrina, Buxtehude, Couperin and Vivaldi there would be no Bach.

Love the way Rick makes his videos. Always so well done!!

Thank you. I fell in love with Bach’s music when I was very young and over 50 years later I still can’t get enough.

He used more than 4 chords

@colby69420

5 жыл бұрын

barely

@musiclistsareus1029

5 жыл бұрын

Many, many more than 4 chords.

@necroyoli08

5 жыл бұрын

And more than THOSE four chords

@isaiahhopkins6053

5 жыл бұрын

Elías Baez Tabe and there not all triads

@helvete_ingres4717

5 жыл бұрын

Since most of his great music is contrapuntal and therefore horizontal, thinking of it in blocks of chords is wrong. So in a very meaningful sense, he used 0 chords. Even if you did think of it in chords, many pieces of his would use no more than 4 and would have very simple harmony. The effect of his music is certainly not because of a diverse use of weird chords, harmony followed very predictable rules in this period of music.

I’m a jazz musician that’s digging into Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Scott Joplin pieces. Each one of those composers is having a profound impact on my playing and improvising. Especially Bach! Just on my 6th piece out of WTC book 1

I love Bach. His music is uplifting and sooo elegant! It makes you feel like walking on air. God bless this musical genius and all creative geniuses that ever existed!

Bach just touches my heart. ♥ He was a genius.

Seeing Bach's memorial plaque brings tears to my eyes. Thanks for your wonderful tribute, Rick.

@danielmconnolly7

4 жыл бұрын

There's no crying in Classical Piano...

@raygunsforronnie847

9 ай бұрын

@@danielmconnolly7 Gould would hum along, though!

I really like all your shows but this one struck me especially on an inspirational note. Love the video scenes in Leipzig. It's beautiful to see how truly you appreciate music and history. In my eyes you're a maestro 👏👏👊

Brillant video, Rick. You made it with style and class, a beautiful tribute to a genius. Thank you for bringing his life and music to musicians that may not have known either one.

Really amazing that rick came to my country for that and obviously he is a very deep thinking person not only about pop/jazz/rockmusic. That makes him a perfect ambassador for the universal power and spirit of music itself. I studied/lectured music in germany and of course have a deep relationship to bachs incredible work and message. Also being a jazz, rock, electronic guy i will never oversee, what he composed and his life circumstances those days even finding the time to teach his children. The „simplest „ 2 voice invention can take years to play it properly or to understand the depth of its cleverness. Good, that rick also spreads that message. Music - be in it!