I've been trying to tell people this for years. Bach is not about just playing notes its about diction and articulation about slowing tempo and speeding it up when needed. It's not about just playing the piece it's about feeling it
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Commenting on my father's account due to lazyness: Wow! Very helpful and I like a lot your Bach, it reminds me of Schiff's playing (specially the legato part), so feel honored! Also I love Bach on the piano, it can be so much expressive sometimes, and brilliand soun, only you have to learn to separate voices properly (clarity of sound)
it's about phrasing properly and with feeling. Anyone can recite Shakespeare, but if you don't phrase it with the timing and the emotion in your voice... just boring. Bach, or Chopin are the same.
I was wondering about your tempo, or rather tempi. There is a very nice book "Bach: Wie schnell?" by Clemens-Christoph von Gleich. It has a CD with audio examples.
That is always a very interesting thing for Bach. Things can sound so different but still amazing at very different tempi. One of my favorite examples you can find if you search here on UA-cam for Bach cantata no. 54, and listen to Gould's version, it is like an entirely different piece.
How do we decide how strongly we hit the notes? I mean, Bach may be formal but it doesn't sound right to me, as an amateur, not to put any emotion into it. We also need to determine why we are playing Bach. To imitate a music we don't really know how it sounded, or to express ourself and create a new musical experience? Not for the sake of originality but for the sake of self-expression.
Hi Angelina, dynamics are always important no matter what the music is, everything should be shaped. Even if Bach wrote for instruments which were not capable of dynamics (and hardly ever wrote dynamics in the scores) we still have to adapt to our modern instruments, the question is do you follow the idea of someone else who added dynamics in the score, or do it your own way? The most important thing is to bring out the overall structure, that ends up being the most EXPRESSIVE element to the listener.
Youre saying " probably Sound better.." and some wrong stuff. It's nothing to do with the German style, it's rather the time and the means available. The piano didn't exist, le thumb and the last fingers weren't barely used. The wrist doesn't move the same way, like the fingers, etc.. You need more explanations for us to really understand how do we have to play Bach. It's different than Mozart, beethoven, scaratti or chopin or even Rachmaninov. If i sound mean i'm sorry. Take care
What’s wrong with talking about German style? I think he is a pretty good piano prof. Who plays Beethoven like Beethoven? John O’Conor??? I’m not German but I play Beethoven in a Romantic style…I like your last point best that it is not Rachmaninoff. 😊😂
I've been trying to tell people this for years. Bach is not about just playing notes its about diction and articulation about slowing tempo and speeding it up when needed. It's not about just playing the piece it's about feeling it
Commenting on my father's account due to lazyness: Wow! Very helpful and I like a lot your Bach, it reminds me of Schiff's playing (specially the legato part), so feel honored! Also I love Bach on the piano, it can be so much expressive sometimes, and brilliand soun, only you have to learn to separate voices properly (clarity of sound)
Thank you Steven! Ta chaîne est une mine d'or
Thank you for your explanation .
Glad it was helpful!
"when you come to my masterclass..." I would like to buy a ticket from germany to montreal to come to your masterclass! thanx for your videos.
Thanks to you, hope to see you sometime!
it's about phrasing properly and with feeling. Anyone can recite Shakespeare, but if you don't phrase it with the timing and the emotion in your voice... just boring. Bach, or Chopin are the same.
I was wondering about your tempo, or rather tempi. There is a very nice book "Bach: Wie schnell?" by Clemens-Christoph von Gleich. It has a CD with audio examples.
That is always a very interesting thing for Bach. Things can sound so different but still amazing at very different tempi. One of my favorite examples you can find if you search here on UA-cam for Bach cantata no. 54, and listen to Gould's version, it is like an entirely different piece.
How do we decide how strongly we hit the notes? I mean, Bach may be formal but it doesn't sound right to me, as an amateur, not to put any emotion into it. We also need to determine why we are playing Bach. To imitate a music we don't really know how it sounded, or to express ourself and create a new musical experience? Not for the sake of originality but for the sake of self-expression.
Hi Angelina, dynamics are always important no matter what the music is, everything should be shaped. Even if Bach wrote for instruments which were not capable of dynamics (and hardly ever wrote dynamics in the scores) we still have to adapt to our modern instruments, the question is do you follow the idea of someone else who added dynamics in the score, or do it your own way? The most important thing is to bring out the overall structure, that ends up being the most EXPRESSIVE element to the listener.
Thank you, I am glad that it helps and am very happy to inspire!
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Longer notes louder. Shorter notes softer. Ends of phrases notwithstanding.
Do you mean portato with non legato ?
Yes, that's exactly it
Youre saying " probably Sound better.." and some wrong stuff. It's nothing to do with the German style, it's rather the time and the means available. The piano didn't exist, le thumb and the last fingers weren't barely used. The wrist doesn't move the same way, like the fingers, etc.. You need more explanations for us to really understand how do we have to play Bach. It's different than Mozart, beethoven, scaratti or chopin or even Rachmaninov. If i sound mean i'm sorry. Take care
What’s wrong with talking about German style? I think he is a pretty good piano prof. Who plays Beethoven like Beethoven? John O’Conor??? I’m not German but I play Beethoven in a Romantic style…I like your last point best that it is not Rachmaninoff. 😊😂
Bach? Baroque music? You’re talking about CPE Bach who played forte piano during the early Classical period.
Dude, put CPE Bach in the title and not just Bach, if its not about JS Bach at all...