+TheViolinLife It was a notational convention of the Baroque era to use the key of D minor for G minor, it means that it is not necessarily in the Dorian mode.
The "rules" of notation were still not definite as we know them today. In fact in his sharp key pieces he indicates the F # twice and other sharps as well, in his original hand written that is, also the treble clef was movable which he would move in order to write higher notes. Similar to Mozart later using tenor clef in his piano sonatas in the left hand.
"My father's music has higher intentions, it isn't made to please (literally: "fill") the ear but to get the heart into movement." - C. F. E. Bach, one of Bach's sons.
@@mariedagoult1 Bach's music uses a lot of (borderline) dissonances. He invented well tempered tuning to make it possible to change through all keys without sounding horrible. He effectively "dirtied" music up by making the distances between intervals imperfect to make the entire system capable of conveying more emotion. I can only imagine how different his music must have impacted at the time, contrasting everything that had ever been made before. Baroque was also a lot about dance so I imagine that plays a major role in how music was seen and used too. I'm no expert in music history though, just my 2 cents.
@@Bassalicious I would argue that even today, JS Bach's solo violin music is an acquired taste. Saying that as a hobby violinist who plays or practises solo Bach!
This piece is Magical. Normally, 14 mins goes by for me slowly, but this, it didn't feel like 15 mins. It was played well and the piece itself almost just brings you to another place. Thank God For Bach.
@@apostolismoschopoulos1876 Oh I’m still working on it haha, it’s really difficult, I’m at the point now where I can go from beginning to end without having that many problems it just doesn’t sound that great if that makes sense
This fugue, the d minor chaconne, and the E major prelude are probably the 3 best movements in the whole sonata/partita collection. Absolutely beautiful works.
@@liamford4806 When you play multiple strings on a bowed string instrument. Yes, it’s a chord, but the technique is vastly different than, say, a guitar.
I'm a violist going on five years, wanting to learn violin as well. My chamber director (who is a natural violinist) played a few measures of the beginning of the Fuga today and I have fallen so in love with it. Bach is absolutely fantastic. If only I had a violin as well. 🎻
@dejuren Lmao it is a very difficult instrument to find sonatas and such for. Half the time they end up being cello sonatas translated onto a different clef. But yes, i can sure say any viola player simply walked into being the most underwhelming instrument the string orchestra can provide.
Im also a Viola student, and I ve been training into mentally transposing different clefs for Viola In this case, just imagine the g from the treble clef (the second lowest line) is your middle c, and play like that, it will sound a fifth lower, with no need of searching weir arrangements or changing to violin 😁 Hope this is useful
Nachdem ich bisher gedacht habe, dass nur Hilary Hahn diese Sonate beherrscht, habe ich durch diese Interpretation einen völlig neuen Durchblick, besonders vom 1. Satz.
This is just amazing. I've grown to love this piece. I'll admit I was once turned off by the way it started, but it was mostly because I didn't know what was going on. I gave it another chance, and now that I understand the phrases and whats going on a bit more I've really grown into it. Truly a work of art. It sounds Godly. I also love the bit of info you gave about the piece itself. Really enjoy reading informative stuff like that about music
When I was in college in the seventies I looked to order a recording of the Bach solo violin sonatas and partitas. Because I had a good stereo system, bad vinyl pressings drove me nuts, so I only ordered from labels that used good vinyl. One was Philips, so the version I ended up with was the Grumiaux. It remains my favorite. For one thing, he takes it easy with the rubato. I don’t want the flow interrupted every time the violinist goes for a chord. And he voices the fugue great.
I really loved Goldberg Variations and played some on piano too but this sonata makes me think I didn't play Bach before. Grumiaux plays Bach perfectly.
Is very interesting all the comments, no one mention the intensity and the blood, hot blood that this master is able to put into this work I’m coming over and over and every time there is a different nuances MAGIC
Grumiaux is impeccable as most of the time although I don't remember when he isn't and I don't care so I will just make a toast to George Enescu, his teacher and the greatest classical composer of not only 20th century who was also a genius fiddler as well as a pianist and a Romanian and a human being that embodied music to it's totality. Grumiaux is one of the proofs that it is so. What a blessing!
Grumiaux studied COMPOSITION with Enesco for a short period of time. The "divorce" was pretty acrimonious. I never found out the reason. It was fashionable to take a couple of lessons with Enesco ( they weren't cheap !) but let me stop here....@@marcvilleneuve1889
Bach says , it's hard to find melodies that resonate as pleasantly in your ears and mind as these fabulous performances of my works with splendid skill and specutacular technique and makes you feel peaceful and calm From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵 .
Grumiaux and francescatti are the only two to ever make me question if I was truly listening to the violin or another instrument. Middle and higher register notes sound like a horn instrument.
Absolutly one the best from the Master and the violinist plays very occurate. My personal opinion Bach had a many different (good) faces but this sounds like : you are in my soul😌
Six sonatas and partitas for solo violin. Polyphonic music for what is an essentially monophonic instrument. No composer has been able to achieve such a feat. Part of the polyphony is implied where the note is not real but virtual sound heard in the "mind's ear"! It is all to do with the way one listens to these pieces. Remember the random dot stereograms which kept appearing in magazines a few years ago? Pictures that appeared as a flat collection of randomly coloured specks until the viewer crossed his/her eyes and blurred his/her focus and suddenly a three-dimensional figure jumped out of the page. These pieces of the equivalent of such random dot stereograms for the ear. The performer must be able to hear all the voices of the fugue (starting at 3:50) to play them correctly. I have 38 performances of the set and recommend this Arthur Grumiaux's version in which you hear the polyphony as it was intended.
If you enjoy this kind if music then you can appreciate the intricacies of the intention in every note. Not just sounds put together to sound good. But the sounds tell a story
I saw that other violin players play the fugue (changing some little parts) this version is the most pure, according to the original version, very good, I'll use it to finish to learn this piece, thanks!!
Crystal clear interpretation, oh wow. Adagio is my absolute favourite, and currently attempting to learn it. Since I am self-taught, this post is tremendous help, thank you! :-)
All symphonies, operas, etc, are like disco music for teenagers, compared to this..... JS Bach, greatest artist and composer ever in earth... and in the universe....
TWOSETVIOLIN introduced me to such beautiful pieces of classical music. I seriously can't thank them enough. I would love to meet Eddy and Brett some day.
Это шедевр. Вся музыка в каждом звуке. Интересно,что было на Душе у этого гения ,когда он писал это? Думаю ,много всего здесь. Я в странном состоянии Души,все встревожено внутри.
Grumiaux had violin and composition lessons from George Enescu. But he also was an excellent pianist. When he and Clara Haskil practiced Mozart sonatas they would change instruments!!! Those were the days of true genius. It often feels like we are living in times of bungling idiots.
@@eczavyr2899 lol....pretty dumb comment. You also live in the 80 milliseconds past, we all do. Nobody lives in the "now" and the future doesn't exist as we will never get there.....
if this is in G minor, why is the Key Signature in D minor?
+TheViolinLife It was a notational convention of the Baroque era to use the key of D minor for G minor, it means that it is not necessarily in the Dorian mode.
+TheViolinLife In fact the piece has written on Dorian scale not major nor minor :)
+Yyy Ddd Dorian is minor not major. So yes minor either way.
The "rules" of notation were still not definite as we know them today. In fact in his sharp key pieces he indicates the F # twice and other sharps as well, in his original hand written that is, also the treble clef was movable which he would move in order to write higher notes. Similar to Mozart later using tenor clef in his piano sonatas in the left hand.
Maestro Prodigy The double f# notation if also present in other manuscripts, it's not just a Bach thing!
He always manages to capture your attention in the first 3 seconds, genius.
Frédéric François Chopin so true, that change in colour in the first measure itself is so beautiful and sad at the same time
Thank you Fred, you do the same in every mazurka of yours
Shreenidhi Deshpande I love the change of color right at the 5th measure.
the sonata is called violin sonata in g minor. and played in the key in d minor !!!!!!!
Strange I'm already bored and it's been 2 seconds. Amazing.
0:00 Adagio
3:48 Allegro
9:02 Siciliano
11:28 Presto
thank you
Ula Chmielewska bless you. but quick correction, 3:48 is the fuga
thoyo It says Allegro below Fuga
jakob schoonover the name of the movement is Fuga. The time is allegro.
Thank you for that :)
Eddy plays it so much that I need to listen to it
Maria: The Demon Barber of UA-cam SAME
Ling Ling can play this for 40 hours a day😂
MMLF 7619 Anything wrong with that?
same here lmao
Me to
Can you imagine what was going on inside of bach brain when writing this .this is amazing
Never thought about it that way... 🤔
a humongous amount of neurons firing! sorry i'm a nerdy Bach fan
his wife and one of his kids had just died so he wasn't the happiest
Um, I think I’ll just sprinkle some accidentals here and there and everywhere
I believe the music was delighted to find a channel.
"My father's music has higher intentions, it isn't made to please (literally: "fill") the ear but to get the heart into movement."
- C. F. E. Bach, one of Bach's sons.
It does both to me, he might've been talking about the suites like this that are about dancing. Or it was just played completely different. Idk
@@mariedagoult1 Bach's music uses a lot of (borderline) dissonances.
He invented well tempered tuning to make it possible to change through all keys without sounding horrible. He effectively "dirtied" music up by making the distances between intervals imperfect to make the entire system capable of conveying more emotion.
I can only imagine how different his music must have impacted at the time, contrasting everything that had ever been made before.
Baroque was also a lot about dance so I imagine that plays a major role in how music was seen and used too.
I'm no expert in music history though, just my 2 cents.
@@Bassalicious I would argue that even today, JS Bach's solo violin music is an acquired taste. Saying that as a hobby violinist who plays or practises solo Bach!
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This is amazing. I find it hard to believe that there is only one violin playing.
I find it hard to believe there are dislikes with one violin playing xD
It should be master or professional level violinist could playing this kind partiture very well.. and a soloist..
It sounds like a chamber orchestra. That's exactly the way how Bach does it.
You should listen to paganini’s caprice 6 if you think this is good.
I actually thought when I heard this by the first time that there was a full string orchestra playing
This piece is Magical. Normally, 14 mins goes by for me slowly, but this, it didn't feel like 15 mins. It was played well and the piece itself almost just brings you to another place. Thank God For Bach.
The gold standard for all Bach solo recordings.
After listening to many, many renditions of this, I am inclined to agree with you.
Hilary hahn's bach is the best@@Examantel
Such unbelievable chords in the fugue!
100% playing skills, no editing.
I’m learning this piece on the mandolin and the chords still give me trouble!! And the mandolin has frets!!!!
@@natespringer9934 did you learn it? I'm interested to hear your progress!
@@apostolismoschopoulos1876 Oh I’m still working on it haha, it’s really difficult, I’m at the point now where I can go from beginning to end without having that many problems it just doesn’t sound that great if that makes sense
One of the best versions of this I've ever heard. So in tune and clear. No interpretive exaggeration either. Just perfect.
The 2nd movement is just absolutely mind blowing genius!
I tried to do this part on a guitar years back. Someone transcribed it as a somewhat simplified version in A minor for guitar
This fugue, the d minor chaconne, and the E major prelude are probably the 3 best movements in the whole sonata/partita collection. Absolutely beautiful works.
Absolutely amazing
What is the 2nd movement about?
You mean the fugue? If so, then I totally understand. It’s so catchy, and also very VERY hard. How is it on only one violin?
4:19 is my favourite moment. So passionate yet with so much character
i thought i was the only one that loved those 2 measures
Saaaaaame!!!
3:59 the 4th bar of allegro is my favourite
this guy plays it absolutely perfectly
My favorite is 8:41 to 9:00. I couldn’t tell you why though, I just like the run, and the chord before that.
the fuge is sublime
All Bach's work is :)
I thought this said fudge
Fugue*
I'm a beginner pianist, didn't know it was possible to play fugues in the violin XD
The tone and perfection in those chords!! Speechless....
That fugue is pure heaven
This is brilliant… being able to bring out different voices with just one violin is such a mesmerising skill.
That’s called a fugue, which is synonymous with J.S Bach.
@@alixx_legenddark_xx2819 was referring more to the performer. I’m not a violinist but that seems like an awfully difficult technique
The triple and quadruple stops...I am speechless.
@@liamford4806 When you play multiple strings on a bowed string instrument. Yes, it’s a chord, but the technique is vastly different than, say, a guitar.
@@borisvandruff7532 still a chord
@varunsathya1912 On violin, if it's more than 2 for a doublestop, then it's arpeggiated
If you see a fugue for solo violin, you know its Bach.
What about Ysaye
@@gregwong9205 I was thinking that same exact thing!
@@blobs5440 sitdgoxiggiixiggj
What were all these? Dances?
What about Bartok
This is hands down the most beautiful violin tone I have heard to date...
The quality of the sound, the clarity of the fast passages are incredible. And the interpretation is unique!!!
Adagio 0:00
Fugue 3:51
Siciliano 9:05
Presto 11:30
I'm really in the mood for Bach chamber music at the moment, wow!
Sonata en el menor violín Bach
I must complement you fully for your own excellent sonata for solo violin mr. Bartok!
This performance of this piece tells me I know NOTHING for the playing of this exquisite instrument, the violin!
I'm a violist going on five years, wanting to learn violin as well. My chamber director (who is a natural violinist) played a few measures of the beginning of the Fuga today and I have fallen so in love with it. Bach is absolutely fantastic. If only I had a violin as well. 🎻
@dejuren Lmao it is a very difficult instrument to find sonatas and such for. Half the time they end up being cello sonatas translated onto a different clef. But yes, i can sure say any viola player simply walked into being the most underwhelming instrument the string orchestra can provide.
@dejuren what an inspiring idea!! I may follow up on that one of these days, I've dabbled just a little in composing smaller pieces.
Im also a Viola student, and I ve been training into mentally transposing different clefs for Viola
In this case, just imagine the g from the treble clef (the second lowest line) is your middle c, and play like that, it will sound a fifth lower, with no need of searching weir arrangements or changing to violin 😁
Hope this is useful
Literally my favorite piece of all time
Good choice. The fugue is legend. I pick the Chaconne.
This is a really big help. I'm trying to learn this piece. Very tricky.
did you find it?
I'm also learning this piece, I'm on the middle, veryyyyy difficult D':
Im learing this by my self veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy harrrrrrd
Same! I got the 1st couple measures down, than afterwards, it's a mess.
@@RicChess what do u find hard?
Nachdem ich bisher gedacht habe, dass nur Hilary Hahn diese Sonate beherrscht, habe ich durch diese Interpretation einen völlig neuen Durchblick, besonders vom 1. Satz.
6:55 - one of my favorite parts 😁love how the lower notes come through
Thanks for using this version to put the score to. The purest musicianship for the purest music.
This is just amazing. I've grown to love this piece. I'll admit I was once turned off by the way it started, but it was mostly because I didn't know what was going on. I gave it another chance, and now that I understand the phrases and whats going on a bit more I've really grown into it. Truly a work of art. It sounds Godly. I also love the bit of info you gave about the piece itself. Really enjoy reading informative stuff like that about music
Same here, the opening was…….a bit subpar, I’ll admit, but I decided to listen to the rest, and I loved it. I still hate the opening btw.
It’s just incredible. Just masterpiece after masterpiece. Bach was a genius. It’s just a joy to discover every piece of his.
This piece is beautiful. Mournful and eerie, but with a touch of acceptance. It's wonderful.
This piece inspired me a lot when I was younger, always special to me.
Thank you for letting me follow along with the music. It helped me hear the notes more clearly as well.
When I was in college in the seventies I looked to order a recording of the Bach solo violin sonatas and partitas. Because I had a good stereo system, bad vinyl pressings drove me nuts, so I only ordered from labels that used good vinyl. One was Philips, so the version I ended up with was the Grumiaux. It remains my favorite. For one thing, he takes it easy with the rubato. I don’t want the flow interrupted every time the violinist goes for a chord. And he voices the fugue great.
Presto 11:29
thanks
Sounds almost like something out of the Four Seasons.
Classical Music It's on the same key as Vivaldi's Summer so that is why they must sound so familiar.
And Badinerie...
:)
Vivaldi and Bach are like oranges and apples, they are not comparable.
Bach you are simply a GENIUS , this violinist as well !! So beautiful speechless
I really loved Goldberg Variations and played some on piano too but this sonata makes me think I didn't play Bach before. Grumiaux plays Bach perfectly.
Is very interesting all the comments, no one mention the intensity and the blood, hot blood that this master is able to put into this work
I’m coming over and over and every time there is a different nuances MAGIC
*Adagio* - 0:06
1:26
2:06
*Allegro* - 3:49
4:29
5:01
5:43
6:26
7:07
8:22
*Siciliana* - 8:51
10:28
*Presto* - 11:28
Grumiaux is impeccable as most of the time although I don't remember when he isn't and I don't care so I will just make a toast to George Enescu, his teacher and the greatest classical composer of not only 20th century who was also a genius fiddler as well as a pianist and a Romanian and a human being that embodied music to it's totality. Grumiaux is one of the proofs that it is so. What a blessing!
Didn’t realize Enescu was his teacher. He taught Menuhin also.
He is the student of ALFRED DUBOIS, himself being the student of Eugene Ysaie... not Enesco.
Grumiaux studied COMPOSITION with Enesco for a short period of time. The "divorce" was pretty acrimonious. I never found out the reason. It was fashionable to take a couple of lessons with Enesco ( they weren't cheap !) but let me stop here....@@marcvilleneuve1889
Love your channel. I thank you for all the work you have put in.
Bach says ,
it's hard to find melodies that resonate as pleasantly in your ears and mind as these fabulous performances of my works with splendid skill and specutacular technique and makes you feel peaceful and calm
From
Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵 .
I am learning this piece on the violin right now - thank you so much for uploading!
So delicate, so beautiful, yet so hard.
11:35 is my favorite part
this is by far my favourite sonata
I am a junior high school student,I am going to play this at the school orchestra concert,I hope I can play this as beautiful as him
Grumiaux and francescatti are the only two to ever make me question if I was truly listening to the violin or another instrument. Middle and higher register notes sound like a horn instrument.
man this sounds so good to my ears
El carácter, la profundidad de la música de Bach; el pensamiento se encadena, se nutre, de sus sentidos.
vibrato on violin sounds amazing
This so wonderful music I’m going to say that I’ve never heard music so good like this
Absolutly one the best from the Master and the violinist plays very occurate. My personal opinion Bach had a many different (good) faces but this sounds like : you are in my soul😌
Six sonatas and partitas for solo violin. Polyphonic music for what is an essentially monophonic instrument. No composer has been able to achieve such a feat. Part of the polyphony is implied where the note is not real but virtual sound heard in the "mind's ear"! It is all to do with the way one listens to these pieces. Remember the random dot stereograms which kept appearing in magazines a few years ago? Pictures that appeared as a flat collection of randomly coloured specks until the viewer crossed his/her eyes and blurred his/her focus and suddenly a three-dimensional figure jumped out of the page. These pieces of the equivalent of such random dot stereograms for the ear.
The performer must be able to hear all the voices of the fugue (starting at 3:50) to play them correctly. I have 38 performances of the set and recommend this Arthur Grumiaux's version in which you hear the polyphony as it was intended.
If you enjoy this kind if music then you can appreciate the intricacies of the intention in every note. Not just sounds put together to sound good. But the sounds tell a story
It's also crazy to think someone came up with this way of writing sound as a language we can see. A visual representation of sound
I saw that other violin players play the fugue (changing some little parts)
this version is the most pure, according to the original version, very good, I'll use it to finish to learn this piece, thanks!!
Crystal clear interpretation, oh wow. Adagio is my absolute favourite, and currently attempting to learn it. Since I am self-taught, this post is tremendous help, thank you! :-)
Me deshago, me quiebra. Impresionante la catarsis que uno experimenta con Bach
the most beautiful musk. Great, I love it.
Thanks for sharing the beautiful musk!
All symphonies, operas, etc, are like disco music for teenagers, compared to this..... JS Bach, greatest artist and composer ever in earth... and in the universe....
Best Bach ever played. Can hear voice of God in the middle of performance.
i just tried following the notes and i couldn´t, how can someone play this :O AMAZING
Lovely and beautiful music.
Is it strange that this moved me to tears of joy?
I cry every time I listen to the fugue. especially the quiet modulating arpeggios towards the end
No, that’s just Bach :D
How on earth can 68 people not like this ?
Alex Pond I know right?
jealous people that can’t play it
Too fast, too slow, too much vibrato, not enough vibrato, too this, too that. Welcome to UA-cam land.
you're literally at 69 likes
@@disorderlychinshapes4246 Nope, he is at 139
@@Alessandro90933 BRUH that comment was from a month ago
@@disorderlychinshapes4246 Just a stupid joke BRUH
@@path4606 Nope, he is at 187
That was heavenly!
Maravilhosa expressão do sentimento mediante o som solitário de uma mente inata!!!
masterpiece of humanity
I found this by searching “That one Bach violin piece” 🤣🤣
😂lol
It'll always work
I would have thought that's the Chaconne from Partita in D minor...
ha,ha🥴
Thank you for saying piece instead of fricking SONG
TWOSETVIOLIN introduced me to such beautiful pieces of classical music. I seriously can't thank them enough. I would love to meet Eddy and Brett some day.
Same
musica divinitus ispirata. C'è qualcosa di zingaresco in questo miracolo di bellezza, anche se le forme sono evidenti
Why is this even so beautiful
My religious is this music… this music is holy!!!!
Dios Santo..... Nada iguala a Bach.....
Chopin, personalmente, lo supera:
ua-cam.com/video/-gDinVAmtA0/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/tx6-Z0nsWnw/v-deo.html
kazallaADS Yo no me puedo decidir entre ambos.
Es un maestro, esta fuga es bellisima.
1:43 Air on G string 👍
11:29 IT REMINDS ME OF LAW OF TALOS GUYZ 🔥🔥🔥🔥
The dislike button was hit because they were practicing the piece on their device.
Hiyori Williams hahah I am on here to help me play this song like this 😂😂😂
@Evellyn Caydens show me this violin app that u speak of lmao
😄😄😄😄😄😃😃😁😊
Grumiaux was a master.
8:23 is just beautiful
Magic .
Best interpretation, I find the fast speed suits the piece better than Hahn's and others' slow speed.
His chords are amasing
So Beautiful ! Thank you !
Thank you so much! Love this score!
Why are bach violin piece so light and charming
This makes my heart feel bigger than my chest
Thanks sam
wow same it describes my feeling perfectly
Это шедевр. Вся музыка в каждом звуке. Интересно,что было на Душе у этого гения ,когда он писал это? Думаю ,много всего здесь.
Я в странном состоянии Души,все встревожено внутри.
Still one of the most piercingly eloquent interpretations.
Adagio 0:06
1:16
1:26
Allegro 3:49
7:06
8:59
05:28 activates something in the back of my brain. I can't wait til I can play this part at tempo!
thankyou bb...a beautifully presented and v inspiring bach with violin part.........
I'm in love with this piece 😍
Great
5:18 to 5:25 Vivaldi lives here 😍
Yes 💩👻
5:15 to 6:37 is pure perfection my good GOD
Grumiaux had violin and composition lessons from George Enescu. But he also was an excellent pianist. When he and Clara Haskil practiced Mozart sonatas they would change instruments!!! Those were the days of true genius. It often feels like we are living in times of bungling idiots.
@@bartjebartmans don't go and ruin my comment with ableism and elitism. Piss off
@@bartjebartmans I find a lot of passion in classical music and feel a lot of emotions listening to this, but you shouldn't live in the past man!
@@eczavyr2899 lol....pretty dumb comment. You also live in the 80 milliseconds past, we all do. Nobody lives in the "now" and the future doesn't exist as we will never get there.....
Legendary
Wow!! It sound like two violins, but it's only one!