That's because he doesn't have "The Chair". Only sitting on "The Chair" does one acquire the mystic power to play the Goldberg Variations. Unfortunately, "The Chair" is locked up and on display in Ottawa.
I saw him perform the Goldberg Variations live in 2010. I think he also played the Davidsbündlertänze, or something else by Schumann. Amazing performance, brilliant pianist. Funny to hear this take on the Goldberg from him.
What a lovely and genuine human being it's nice when you have musical heroes that appear to be worth admiring in real life besides the music. I was really mad about the bass violin of a particular violinist and I heard them in San Diego with a fabulous pianist who died last year of cancer But after the concert you got to line up and buy CDs and these poor guys after playing their hearts out had to sign them and try to be cheerful and the pianist was so nice and violinist in question a German man was so prickly and unfriendly I really can't listen to his recordings anymore just such an unpleasant experience he was much more interested in flirting with the girls then being civil to the people buying his albums
A curious title, and for those who take it at face value, I recommend watching Jeremy's video analysing the Goldberg aria; he reveres this music greatly, have no doubt. And then there's also the passing reference in his other video on Schubert's Winterreise: 'It's a very special piece, and the word special isn't even enough... I would call it a limit piece. There are certain pieces - the Goldberg Variations, or Mahler's 9th Symphony, or Beethoven's last sonata, Op. 111 - they're at the end of some road, some avenue of musical thinking... it's extreme, and it inhabits a very different space from most music.' Perhaps 'hate' suggests he's daunted by them? In a somewhat childish way, i.e. standing in the shadow of a far greater figure to whom you devote your soul and love, and yet find frustrating by the demands they place on you? I don't know - it's such a short, sketchy video I wouldn't read too much into the headline. I think the comment about 'the harmonies in any old pop song' is actually saying 'the harmonic structure that underpins each variation is astonishingly simple - plain triads in the home key, dominant and relative - yet the imaginative counterpoint built upon it is inspired'. Almost annoying: Bach can take the same ingredients as anyone else, yet make a rich feast of sublime quality, not just a jacket potato with cheese. For those who don't like the Goldbergs... oh well. But perhaps one day you'll find an appreciation - tastes aren't fixed. I think even if they're not your cup of tea, they're to be admired for the craft they exhibit.
Wow, I get to be the first to comment?!! Loved this little "offering"...of course, he's being sarcastic (I hope).....huge fan of Mr's Denk and Goldberg
Hahaha that feeling when you know something so so so well that you start thinking that you have gone completely wrong all the way and that you actually don't know it at all. Complete confusion. And that's when others can finally and confidently say "yes, you are there! ".
I'm not fond of this work neither but I wouldn't presume that others just might care about my opinion since like him I'm just an every day musician who cannot be compared to the greatest musician of all time.
I sure as hell never want to hear a performance by an artist of a piece of music for which he has a poor opinion. That's a profound insult to his audience, and proves that he plays the piece only to get paid to play it. And take note that he plays it on a piano which looks pretty much like a toy piano. Hmm, pop music techniques, huh? Such as ... ? Bach was first, so if anything, pop music imitates HIM - Irritations in the music? Such as ... ? Makes me wonder if he also has the same sorts of shallow meaningless opinions regarding very serious matters of politics, rather than the Joe Biden version of politics. Has this dude been to Carnegie Hall? I very seriously doubt it -
Bach is the most overrated musician. So sad. And I know what I'm talking about. I'm a musical genius. I know many notes. I know the best notes. I even wrote a cantata. The covfefe cantata.
When I was a kid, I told my first cello teacher that I didn’t like Beethoven. He very sensibly replied, “I don’t mean this to sound condescending, but who the hell are you?” If Jeremy genuinely feels this odd antipathy to the Goldbergs, then I anticipate the immense satisfaction he’ll experience on rediscovering them when he’s bloody good and ready to.
That's because he doesn't have "The Chair". Only sitting on "The Chair" does one acquire the mystic power to play the Goldberg Variations. Unfortunately, "The Chair" is locked up and on display in Ottawa.
I see your comments everywhere.
Bro you sit on the god chair once and it cracks down under you like a plastic cup
What…? I’m so confused by this video, it’s so strangely edited. I can’t tell what’s going on.
Me too!!!!
The fuxking annoying Bach doesn't help either
@@Ritzmar humor
I really appreciate the playfulness as you say of the Goldberg variations. Never boring!
I saw him perform the Goldberg Variations live in 2010. I think he also played the Davidsbündlertänze, or something else by Schumann. Amazing performance, brilliant pianist. Funny to hear this take on the Goldberg from him.
What a lovely and genuine human being it's nice when you have musical heroes that appear to be worth admiring in real life besides the music. I was really mad about the bass violin of a particular violinist and I heard them in San Diego with a fabulous pianist who died last year of cancer But after the concert you got to line up and buy CDs and these poor guys after playing their hearts out had to sign them and try to be cheerful and the pianist was so nice and violinist in question a German man was so prickly and unfriendly I really can't listen to his recordings anymore just such an unpleasant experience he was much more interested in flirting with the girls then being civil to the people buying his albums
The hell did I just watch exactly
A curious title, and for those who take it at face value, I recommend watching Jeremy's video analysing the Goldberg aria; he reveres this music greatly, have no doubt. And then there's also the passing reference in his other video on Schubert's Winterreise: 'It's a very special piece, and the word special isn't even enough... I would call it a limit piece. There are certain pieces - the Goldberg Variations, or Mahler's 9th Symphony, or Beethoven's last sonata, Op. 111 - they're at the end of some road, some avenue of musical thinking... it's extreme, and it inhabits a very different space from most music.'
Perhaps 'hate' suggests he's daunted by them? In a somewhat childish way, i.e. standing in the shadow of a far greater figure to whom you devote your soul and love, and yet find frustrating by the demands they place on you? I don't know - it's such a short, sketchy video I wouldn't read too much into the headline.
I think the comment about 'the harmonies in any old pop song' is actually saying 'the harmonic structure that underpins each variation is astonishingly simple - plain triads in the home key, dominant and relative - yet the imaginative counterpoint built upon it is inspired'. Almost annoying: Bach can take the same ingredients as anyone else, yet make a rich feast of sublime quality, not just a jacket potato with cheese.
For those who don't like the Goldbergs... oh well. But perhaps one day you'll find an appreciation - tastes aren't fixed. I think even if they're not your cup of tea, they're to be admired for the craft they exhibit.
www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2012/03/16/148769794/why-i-hate-the-goldberg-variations
Wow, I get to be the first to comment?!! Loved this little "offering"...of course, he's being sarcastic (I hope).....huge fan of Mr's Denk and Goldberg
Play that funky music
I think the slower movements are beautiful, especially the counter point. I don't know, I this this guy might have a tin ear
Hahaha that feeling when you know something so so so well that you start thinking that you have gone completely wrong all the way and that you actually don't know it at all. Complete confusion. And that's when others can finally and confidently say "yes, you are there! ".
I love the Goldberg Variations.
The amount of toxicity in the comments is something else
These guys were probably as high as a SpaceX
A successful one of course considering today's crash...
Dude is so plain that compares this intricate work with 'old pop songs' (?).
LOL love this video!!😅
Humor, but folk don't get it.
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They were MEANT to put you to sleep. WAY too much G major.
I'm not fond of this work neither but I wouldn't presume that others just might care about my opinion since like him I'm just an every day musician who cannot be compared to the greatest musician of all time.
Dude you didn’t get it !
@@sroulik1977 ….well, enlighten us,then.
I cant stand them... I dont want to hear them... I really hate them.... but still love Bach :))
That’s oxymoronic. The Goldberg Variations *ARE* Bach … So something’s off somewhere in your reasoning
Too Jewish?
I sure as hell never want to hear a performance by an artist of a piece of music for which he has a poor opinion. That's a profound insult to his audience, and proves that he plays the piece only to get paid to play it. And take note that he plays it on a piano which looks pretty much like a toy piano. Hmm, pop music techniques, huh?
Such as ... ? Bach was first, so if anything, pop music imitates HIM -
Irritations in the music? Such as ... ? Makes me wonder if he also has the same sorts of shallow meaningless opinions regarding very serious matters of politics, rather than the Joe Biden version of politics.
Has this dude been to Carnegie Hall? I very seriously doubt it -
Highly overrated, the Goldberg Variations imho.
And what, exactly, makes you say that, if I may ask? Have you actually played them, or studied them?
Bach is the most overrated musician. So sad. And I know what I'm talking about. I'm a musical genius. I know many notes. I know the best notes. I even wrote a cantata. The covfefe cantata.
@Alain Bruguieres aww gee, so you don't think Bach wrote some awesome little songs? Covfefe, covfefe muss ich ha-a-ben😎
@@frenchimp ..brilliant.
When I was a kid, I told my first cello teacher that I didn’t like Beethoven. He very sensibly replied, “I don’t mean this to sound condescending, but who the hell are you?” If Jeremy genuinely feels this odd antipathy to the Goldbergs, then I anticipate the immense satisfaction he’ll experience on rediscovering them when he’s bloody good and ready to.
hey jeremy --when you grow up and become a MATURE MAN instead of a PERMANENT ADOLESCENT BOY then you WILL UNDERSTAND THE DEPTH AND BEAUTY OF IT