+john rupprecht Absolutely! Many piano students get fed up with Bach, and I think it is mainly because their teachers compel them to play his works in such a dry, stern, mechanical way, that no one could enjoy them. On the other hand, Nikolayeva plays with such a wonderful delicacy, with such a poetic feeling, that she manages to shed a very different light on this music, and to keep the listener on the edge of his or her seat.
I always disliked the 2-part Invention in F major until I heard her version of it. Totally transformed my opinion. She's good for that kind of thing so often.
I just happened upon this, I had never heard of Nicolayeva before. I am just mesmerized by the absolute musical perfection. She honors Bach's notes wiith great expression but without ego.
"She honors Bach's notes with great expression but without ego" is the best description I've seen for the way she played, which happens to be the very reason she became my favorite Bach interpreter for piano.
01. No.01 C major BWV 924 00:00 02. No.02 C major BWV 939 01:10 03. No.03 C minor BWV 999 01:55 04. No.04 D major BWV 925 03:55 05. No.05 D minor BWV 926 05:13 06. No.06 D minor BWV 940 06:44 07. No.07 E minor BWV 941 07:56 08. No.08 F major BWV 927 08:50 09. No.09 F major BWV 928 09:38 10. No.10 G minor BWV 929 11:15 11. No.11 G minor BWV 930 12:47 12. No.12 A minor BWV 942 15:05
An interesting point about these preludes ; For me these are an opening to a certain bach technique of counterpoint and musical texture. I read a lot of people saying that these compositions are just ridicule litle preludes for beginners but I can assure you that they seem easy but they have quite some complexity in the form.
comme aimerais tous jouer comme tatiana ! tempo parfait , pas trop d enjolivures , un sens du phraser , cet enregistrement n a pas pris une ride ! bach et vraiment la avec nous pour notre plus grande joie ! merci tatiana : pierre-xavier de chassot .
So beautifully played, raising the soul to heaven! A truly masterful interpretation. Never heard the 999, one of my favorites, so sublimely and emotionally given on the piano. A great lady.
Татьяна Петровна очень аккуратно работала с текстом , уважительно , поэтому и получился шедевр , всё по Баху, спасибо , светлая память замечательному музыканту и педагогу .
Бах, в этом смысле, в творчестве Николаевой не является исключением. Татьяна Петровна всегда чрезвычайно аккуратно работает с первоисточником - это своего рода Стиль. Более того, она, в своем постоянстве подхода к исполнительскому искусству, находится в топ-числе лидеров этого направления. Отточенная аккуратность прочтения в деталях и создает ее уникальность в больших объемах.
As recordings go, they don't come much better than this. Well balanced, delicate and in my view one of the finest performers of Bach's music to have ever lived.
As a child I played these. They were my first Bach. They were so evocative, they called up some deep emotions. I still connect to those days when I hear them. There was nobody like Bach.
I imagine Bach would want his music played like Tatiana does - clear, melodic and soulful. Cantabile. She finds the meaning and melody of each line to tell a musical story. Such a beautifully tuned piano too.
I'm sorry mate but there's no way any of us can imagine how Bach would like his works played (and by the way, these preludes were written predominantly as instructional vehicles rather than performance pieces). I like how Tatiana does it - Gould does it quite differently and I like his interpretations too (in fact I prefer _his_ c minor) and then again when I sit at the piano I also do it differently, trying to bring out what I hear in the pieces. That's the beauty of it, especially with Bach: the exploration!
i have 1 thing to say on the first prelude. second 33, she accents the first note, and that is not what the music says. the music says to accent on the 1st beat of every measure and on the beats, and she accents the second sixteenth note of the bar, which is, an amateurs mistake, or a mistake in the music, so, ... not sure what to think
x iLeon, totally agree with you ; we have each our own history, and each our personality and the way to be touch..... But perhaps it's interesting to notice the universal point of view of Bach's opus, even for instructional pieces, even in these "little pieces" he finds the way to give peace . .....To me the C minor of Madame Tatiana is really so deep and touch me particularly. Thank you
@@christophemoniod5706 C minor: same here! When I first heard it I was immediately spellbound. As for accentuating one note or another. I do not care. If it musically makes sense - and with here everything does - it is all good.
I love how she plays Bach. I've been studying all this year and, even when I love his work, I felt some kind of bored of playing his pieces again and again but thanks to Tatiana's work my heart is full of passion again and I rediscovered this works. Thank you!
facundogn I've started going through his books and I agree. Even tho the technical level of composition is astonishing, its so hard to instill some life into the whole thing. All those repeating structures...
I agree with you whole heartedly. Bach doesn't have to be played like a freight train out of control... just trying to reach the final cord. The soul has been missing for so long it almost makes me want to cry. Why do these mechanistic (mechanical) players think they can play Bach without soul. All the subtle melodies, tambres and rits. all have meanings. Where did all this playing Bach as if he were a machine start? God help us. The've lost the joy, the fun, the play of light and shadow of the human condition. I've played the piano and organ for almost 70 years now... and now I use a Korg T3 with a $85,000.00 Rogers... and each time I play one of these mighty works I hear new ideas... that can be played at different speeds and with different instrumentations. "Full of passion," indeed! Ideas that will outlive most of us... unless you're into reincarnation (of course). Long live J.S.B. and these wonder filled musical ideas. God bless Tatiana. Blessings facundogn.
I've been learning these pieces and heard so many awful clinical version but Tatiana plays these so beautifully and with so much feel - none of the ghastly ego some people play them - just wonderful!
( this was posted in some facebook thread; hope it's ok and valid): JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685 - 1750) Twelve Little Préludes TATIANA NIKOLAYEVA (Татья́на Петро́вна Никола́ева) 1924-1993, piano Recorded at a public performance in Imaichi-shi Public Hall, Japan, November 1991 1) In C major, BWV 924 (0:00) 2) In C major, BWV 939 (1:10) 3) In C minor, BWV 999 (1:56) 4) In D major, BWV 925 (3:55) 5) In D minor, BWV 926 (5:14) 6) In D minor, BWV 940 (6:46) 7) In E minor, BWV 941 (7:57) 8) In F major, BWV 927 (8:53) 9) In F major, BWV 928 (9:40) 10) In G minor, BWV 929 (11:18) 11) In G minor, BWV 930 (12:51) 12) In A minor, BWV 942 (15:08) Audio CD: Victor VICC 115 (“J.S.Bach: 12 & 6 Little Preludes”) WONDERFUL INTERPRETATION. BIG... NIKOLAYEVA!
I hear these pieces performed by conservatory teachers, but many of them can't get the music out of as well as Nikolayeva did. She made them sound as great as any Bach's, instead of student pieces. Thank you so much for uploading. I am using these performances as my lifetime goals :)
I was listening to this when I took nap at the office, and had a dream about someone come to my home and play Bach on the piano, and I thought he plays so good I was listening and I cried :) , until I woke up and realize I was listening on UA-cam. Amazing performance, amazing Bach.
Nikolayeva famous Bach ( akso Landowska on harpsichord) and great Teacher with Nikolai Lugangsky as Alfred Cortot with Samson François not only solists pianists but more
Örülök, hogy hallottam, mert ez egy "emberi" előadás. Nem tartja be a Hernádi-féle kotta minden díszítő jelzését, de így nem gépies, és megvalósítható. Visszaadta a kedvemet. Köszönöm. :-)
I love them! They make sense to me and they are SO beautiful! So many other performers sound like machine guns or race cars when they're playing Bach. Bach lived in a SLOW era with no planes, cars, etc!!
HI Sonja....I agree totally .....lovely comment...btw she also plays the 3 part inventions UTTERLY BEAUTIFULLY ...I replay them over and over............love,light and peace
Bach can be played slowly but fast too. Bach himself must have been quite a virtuoso . And furthermore a lot of his pieces are very motoric and in those pieces you need speed (not the drugs of course). I agree that the 12 pieces performed here are beautifull executed but a little bit to romantic for me(not crisp enough for me) Sonja listen also to the harpsicord versions of this beautifull pieces. Bach wrote for and played the organ and the harpsicord . He also played violin and "cello" and as a young boy he was also a singer. Anyway Bach is my favorite composer. And Bach is the greatest. And that is why we love him.
What does that even mean? I am sorry but Beethoven didnt know about planes and cars. So what? Would you like the 3rd movement of the Moonlight sonata to be played slowly? The vast majority of classical music was composed by people not knowing about cars, let alone airplanes. Does that mean "play everything slowly because they didnt have fast mean of transportation"? I dont think the "speed" of the music you write has to do with how frantic is your life. It can be, maybe. But it can originate from your emotions like joy, passion and the rest. Take Bach, WTK prelude in C minor... I like it played very fast... who cares about what life was in Bach's time?
You misunderstand the comment your are criticizing. If you think about the times a person lives in, you understand the person better. Some music is played so fast, you can't even hear it.
Nikolayeva lived in Stalinist Soviet Russia. Her interpretation of Bach impressed Shostakovich so much that he wrote a series of Preludes and Fugues for her to play.
Another great pianist. These 'Little Preludes' are very endearing & warm. I would invoke them to introduce Bach to kids. The word 'little' reminds me of Beethoven's nickname for his 8fh symphony -- "my little symphony".
Klein can also be translated as "short." Short Preludes would be apropos, as in short in length or duration. English and German share the same aspect of one word have many meanings depending on its usage. Besides short, klein can also be translated as small, little, tiny, minuscule; not valuable, insignificant, unimportant, petty, trivial, secondary; minor, junior, under legal age. And as in a number of Bach's work, the title (or even the collection) does not source from J S Bach. One of his many "short preludes" is actually a trio that J S Bach inserted in a Partita in G minor by Partita by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel found in Clavier-Büchlein vor Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Some translate Clavier-Büchlein as "Little Keyboard Book for W F Bach, when Keyboard Booklet makes more sense. The "short" preludes are titled as either preambulum or prealudium , the early version of the preludes for the WTC Bk 1 listed as prealudium, and the 2 part invention are preambulum (the Sinfornia listed as Fantasias). Two pieces from Richter's harpsichord suite (Piece pour le Clavecin) and two of Bach's Choral Preludes for organ without pedal are present among the potpourri of Minuets, a Fugue in C minor, and some of the only fingering indications by Bach.
Nikki reveals a romantic quality to Bach's playing which by other interpreters is often passed over. I think Johann would have liked her interpretations because at heart I think he was a bit of a romantic. After all he had 20 children! God bless the old bugger.
I nave at one time or another played all of these -- and much of the Well-Tempered Clavier as well -- on the ORGAN in my work for for the Church. As with most Bach they sound very well on almost any keyboard instrument and would doubtless work bautifully too were they orchestrated or transcribed for string or wind ensemble. Nicolayeva plays with great persnal warmth and INSIGHT revealing the IMPLICATIONS inherent in the bare notes of an urtext score - as all significant interpreters must do. .Bach's music -- especilly his keyboard works -- is SO well written most of it can be played with great success at a wide variety of tempi and dynamic levels. There is no ONE RIGHT WAY to perform Bach, as long as your playing is accurate, and heartfelt. I am a pianist who has also played church services since age twelve and the harpsichord for many Baroque chamber music concerts in and around New York City and beyond. I've also played solo piano recitals and accompanied lieder recitals with great pleasure. For me the ONLY thing to aim for in performing beyond the prerequisite of mere accuracy, of course, is to do your best to discover what the music MEANS to YOU, the performer, and to express it with all the freedom and fervor you can muster. Aiming for academic standards of "AUTHENTICITY" is BUNK, unless it is accompanied by the INSIGHT I've mentioned.
Прекрасное, но не бесспорное исполнение гениальной Музыки!! Безусловно, профессор Николаева своим подвижническим Служением Музыке. заслужила право на свою интерпретацию!!! Однако, главное заключается в том, что музыка великогоБаха настолько глубока и многогранна, что позволяет каждому выдающемуся исполнителю отстаивать на деле право исполнять её по своему!! Так же, как и в Любви!! Все , в общем , имеют некоторое общее представление о Ней, но каждый , кто способен любить, любит по своему!!
We can only speculate what Bach would do with modern instruments. Perhaps he would have hung out with the Rolling Stones? The kind of keyboard instruments we have today were not available until around the beginning of the 20th Century. Madame N. lets Monsieur Bach's music to expand to its fullest potential on instrumental perfection that was unimaginable at Bach's time.
Thankful to u for letting me know this true russian monument, no Putin, no Stalin, just a marvelous unknown larger-than-life gritty pianist, the world is proud to have. It seems to me, my very modest personal opinion, that female pianists have an incredible broader manifestation of Bach and Schubert keyboards. Maria Joao Pires is another piano giant just like Magicienne Tatiana Nicolayeva. URGENT !!! The world needs a vast magic public park where among fabulous trees there should be statues and monuments of great musicians: Nicolayeva, Pires, Bach, Chopin, Schubert and others should be there.......!
I agree, something etched in stone and botany. wouldn't it be wonderful,... if there were giant stone discs inscribed with music playing on eternal phonographs?... and how about plants that grow berries in rows and columns that when properly read have that music in their genetic code?
Imagine that Bach composed most of his wonderful works just for some special purposes, maybe a little prelude for one of his childs or some pupil to have some studymaterial, maybe a cantata or organwork for the next service in his church, or maybe just without any special purpose. After finishing and performing them he put them aside. No desire to have them sent out "into the world", the concept af marketing didn't exist, he wrote to the "Glory of Our Lord", full of humbleness and devotion. A mentality completely lost in our times.
I read somewhere that in order to be played with real appreciation Bach's music it has to be done with special fingering, that most editions totally lack.
Beautiful. My piano teacher gave me the first one as homework for the summer break. Been stuck on the first 4 measures for two weeks now. But making slow progress, steadily, nevertheless. Hope I can make it to the end before september...
Several of the threads on here keep repeating they are easy or hackneyed practice pieces. Number 4 is grade 6 and another is 7 hardly easy. The key to this music is no pedal, stretching the melodic line and constant variation of volume and tempo. This is a brilliant romantic interpretation and few can do this better, only Angela Hewitt is more, much more and this may be the Fazioli piano.
Remember that none of these are “easy”. Been studying them for 2 years and learn something new everytime and endlessly improve them
You just described what learning Bach really means: everytime noticing something new ❤
@@np7133 That's why it never gets boring to practice Bach. Love it!
Any piano student who is bored with having to learn these needs to listen to her performances. Always interesting, frequently captivating
+john rupprecht Absolutely! Many piano students get fed up with Bach, and I think it is mainly because their teachers compel them to play his works in such a dry, stern, mechanical way, that no one could enjoy them. On the other hand, Nikolayeva plays with such a wonderful delicacy, with such a poetic feeling, that she manages to shed a very different light on this music, and to keep the listener on the edge of his or her seat.
I always disliked the 2-part Invention in F major until I heard her version of it. Totally transformed my opinion. She's good for that kind of thing so often.
I just happened upon this, I had never heard of Nicolayeva before. I am just mesmerized by the absolute musical perfection. She honors Bach's notes wiith great expression but without ego.
She was a favorite of Shostakovich; he wrote music especially for her!
Grace and beauty in every note. What a wonderful musician she was. Great teacher too.
"She honors Bach's notes with great expression but without ego" is the best description I've seen for the way she played, which happens to be the very reason she became my favorite Bach interpreter for piano.
You must be young she was a huge figure
01. No.01 C major BWV 924 00:00
02. No.02 C major BWV 939 01:10
03. No.03 C minor BWV 999 01:55
04. No.04 D major BWV 925 03:55
05. No.05 D minor BWV 926 05:13
06. No.06 D minor BWV 940 06:44
07. No.07 E minor BWV 941 07:56
08. No.08 F major BWV 927 08:50
09. No.09 F major BWV 928 09:38
10. No.10 G minor BWV 929 11:15
11. No.11 G minor BWV 930 12:47
12. No.12 A minor BWV 942 15:05
¡Gracias! Muy cómodo y muy práctico.
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She plays small pieces as expertly as large works. The true test of a great musician.
She takes pieces out of the realm of mundane "easy" pieces for young piano students to masterpiece miniatures. Full of heart and soul.
Yes you are right. Little and formal pieces...and yet within the range and wonderment of a whole universe. Thank you JS Bach and Tatiana Nikolayeva.
instaBlaster...
That is what a great performer is all about.
An interesting point about these preludes ;
For me these are an opening to a certain bach technique of counterpoint and musical texture. I read a lot of people saying that these compositions are just ridicule litle preludes for beginners but I can assure you that they seem easy but they have quite some complexity in the form.
@@fsr4773 can't be more accurate! #SiempreBach
For me, these are the best interpretations available. In my opinion nobody plays Bach better than Nikolayeva.
also Wenda Landowska
S Richter
Also Feinberg
Too heavy on the sustaining pedal for me. Sounds more like Chopin. I still like it
She plays wonderful but Glenn Gould is the Best.
Such passion and warmth in this beautiful pieces. Brilliantly interpreted. Beautiful Bach music. My favourite composer.
comme aimerais tous jouer comme tatiana ! tempo parfait , pas trop d enjolivures , un sens du phraser , cet enregistrement n a pas pris une ride ! bach et vraiment la avec nous pour notre plus grande joie ! merci tatiana : pierre-xavier de chassot .
Since I have heard her records for the first time - many years ago - always take her for one of the biggest pianist in general.
So beautifully played, raising the soul to heaven! A truly masterful interpretation. Never heard the 999, one of my favorites, so sublimely and emotionally given on the piano. A great lady.
Her rendition of 999 is PERFECT! Couldn't get as profound.
Татьяна Петровна очень аккуратно работала с текстом , уважительно , поэтому и получился шедевр , всё по Баху, спасибо , светлая память замечательному музыканту и педагогу .
Луганский у нее учился!
И Батагов тоже! Какой у него Бах! Она передала своё умение сполна…
не надо ставить два пробела после каждого слова достаточно одного, и запятые ставятся сразу после слова.
Бах, в этом смысле, в творчестве Николаевой не является исключением. Татьяна Петровна всегда чрезвычайно аккуратно работает с первоисточником - это своего рода Стиль. Более того, она, в своем постоянстве подхода к исполнительскому искусству, находится в топ-числе лидеров этого направления. Отточенная аккуратность прочтения в деталях и создает ее уникальность в больших объемах.
I love the way she plays 999. So sensitive and haunting.
100%
Chris Martinez beautiful
I agree - it sounds out of this world. Absolutely beautiful.
As recordings go, they don't come much better than this. Well balanced, delicate and in my view one of the finest performers of Bach's music to have ever lived.
Though a little bit more 'romantic' feeling but Nikolayeva's playing is so sublime, profound , and absolutely beautiful.
As a child I played these. They were my first Bach. They were so evocative, they called up some deep emotions.
I still connect to those days when I hear them. There was nobody like Bach.
Schwarzenegger WAS Bach
Me too, I am crying now, and I sent to my mom, I know she’s knows this music
You touch the keys and our heart simultaneously...
This is so wonderful perfect played. Every tone has his mention. Really rare on Bach-music!
I imagine Bach would want his music played like Tatiana does - clear, melodic and soulful. Cantabile. She finds the meaning and melody of each line to tell a musical story. Such a beautifully tuned piano too.
she was incredible
I'm sorry mate but there's no way any of us can imagine how Bach would like his works played (and by the way, these preludes were written predominantly as instructional vehicles rather than performance pieces). I like how Tatiana does it - Gould does it quite differently and I like his interpretations too (in fact I prefer _his_ c minor) and then again when I sit at the piano I also do it differently, trying to bring out what I hear in the pieces. That's the beauty of it, especially with Bach: the exploration!
i have 1 thing to say on the first prelude. second 33, she accents the first note, and that is not what the music says. the music says to accent on the 1st beat of every measure and on the beats, and she accents the second sixteenth note of the bar, which is, an amateurs mistake, or a mistake in the music, so, ... not sure what to think
x iLeon, totally agree with you ; we have each our own history, and each our personality and the way to be touch..... But perhaps it's interesting to notice the universal point of view of Bach's opus, even for instructional pieces, even in these "little pieces" he finds the way to give peace . .....To me the C minor of Madame Tatiana is really so deep and touch me particularly. Thank you
@@christophemoniod5706 C minor: same here! When I first heard it I was immediately spellbound. As for accentuating one note or another. I do not care. If it musically makes sense - and with here everything does - it is all good.
So schön! Ein Fest für die Seele
貴重な演奏UPありがとうございます
こころが洗われる思いです
Splendid!, I can't find any other way to qualify this than say she had what we jazz musicians call the feeling...
Ma che meraviglia! Tanti piccoli gioielli.
Восхительно ,изысканно ! Эта пианистка трогает своим исполнением всегда. Очень люблю.❤💯
I love how she plays Bach. I've been studying all this year and, even when I love his work, I felt some kind of bored of playing his pieces again and again but thanks to Tatiana's work my heart is full of passion again and I rediscovered this works. Thank you!
facundogn I've started going through his books and I agree. Even tho the technical level of composition is astonishing, its so hard to instill some life into the whole thing. All those repeating structures...
I agree with you whole heartedly. Bach doesn't have to be played like a freight train out of control... just trying to reach the final cord. The soul has been missing for so long it almost makes me want to cry. Why do these mechanistic (mechanical) players think they can play Bach without soul. All the subtle melodies, tambres and rits. all have meanings. Where did all this playing Bach as if he were a machine start? God help us. The've lost the joy, the fun, the play of light and shadow of the human condition. I've played the piano and organ for almost 70 years now... and now I use a Korg T3 with a $85,000.00 Rogers... and each time I play one of these mighty works I hear new ideas... that can be played at different speeds and with different instrumentations. "Full of passion," indeed! Ideas that will outlive most of us... unless you're into reincarnation (of course). Long live J.S.B. and these wonder filled musical ideas. God bless Tatiana. Blessings facundogn.
you are just dumb,,
And her recorded Prelude and Fugue are also simply exquisite.
Beautifully played. The 999 is exquisite. Beautiful tempo
I love these preludes. Played them years ago and never tired of their melodic lines. Simple, yes, but oh so rich and soul satisfying.
merci mille fois Tatiana...Magnifique !
I've been learning these pieces and heard so many awful clinical version but Tatiana plays these so beautifully and with so much feel - none of the ghastly ego some people play them - just wonderful!
Вот что получается, когда "Маленькие прелюдии" играет Большой Музыкант !
Да, согласна!!!
@@ZakhidovaDasha Я ставлю Николаеву много выше Гульда. Великий человек.
@@mikhailvichniakov4134 )....все Цветы на лугу прекрасны...
У Татианы Николаевой - сияющий мягкий добрый звук Любви... О..., это - ПРЕКРАСНО!...
@@mikhailvichniakov4134 и не только Гульда. Она великая пианистка своего времени.
Enfin quelqu'un qui ne joue pas Bach trop vite !
Oui...Enfin ! cela se fait rare:-)
That 924 moves me to tears... incredible.
I listened to "The Well Tempered Clavier" in "Berwaldhallen" in Stockholm in the early 80s. A truly mesmerizing experience!
( this was posted in some facebook thread; hope it's ok and valid):
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685 - 1750)
Twelve Little Préludes
TATIANA NIKOLAYEVA (Татья́на Петро́вна Никола́ева) 1924-1993, piano
Recorded at a public performance in Imaichi-shi Public Hall, Japan, November 1991
1) In C major, BWV 924 (0:00)
2) In C major, BWV 939 (1:10)
3) In C minor, BWV 999 (1:56)
4) In D major, BWV 925 (3:55)
5) In D minor, BWV 926 (5:14)
6) In D minor, BWV 940 (6:46)
7) In E minor, BWV 941 (7:57)
8) In F major, BWV 927 (8:53)
9) In F major, BWV 928 (9:40)
10) In G minor, BWV 929 (11:18)
11) In G minor, BWV 930 (12:51)
12) In A minor, BWV 942 (15:08)
Audio CD: Victor VICC 115 (“J.S.Bach: 12 & 6 Little Preludes”)
WONDERFUL INTERPRETATION. BIG... NIKOLAYEVA!
+Pablo Grande López Thanks you to timed the video !
Это - ПРЕКРАСНО!!!... - Лучезарное исполнение доброты.
Браво ! Лучшего исполнения не знаю !
love her interpretation of these delightful simple pieces
I hear these pieces performed by conservatory teachers, but many of them can't get the music out of as well as Nikolayeva did. She made them sound as great as any Bach's, instead of student pieces. Thank you so much for uploading. I am using these performances as my lifetime goals :)
I am enraptured by her Bach playing. She has opened up worlds to me.
me too, she is the one
Wspaniałe utwory!!! Uwielbiam
I was listening to this when I took nap at the office, and had a dream about someone come to my home and play Bach on the piano, and I thought he plays so good I was listening and I cried :) , until I woke up and realize I was listening on UA-cam. Amazing performance, amazing Bach.
An admirable rendition; unveils the sublime intended soul, beyond the apparent jumble of notes.
Oh, this is such a treat. I LOVE Tatyana Nikolaeva!
An intimate vison of Bach.
The piano sounds very good too.
Проникновенно, душевно, легко и воздушно!
I love the tempi of BWV 939, 940, 941 and 942. For me exactly what they should be!!
Nikolayeva famous Bach ( akso Landowska on harpsichord) and great Teacher with Nikolai Lugangsky as Alfred Cortot with Samson François not only solists pianists but more
Was für eine großartige Interpretation einer wunderbaren Musik.❤
I’ve posted before about Tatiana, she plays beautifully, immerses herself into the genius of Bach. I’ll. Bet she’s a great cook, too. Lol.
Это можно слушать бесконечно.
Очень часто слушаю ,она бесподобно,искренна.
OMG, this is so beatiful!
As a Bach tragic I have never heard these! So wonderful, thanks
Admirable lady.
Exquisite performances of exquisite little gems
Whe she plays I can feel everything.
Örülök, hogy hallottam, mert ez egy "emberi" előadás. Nem tartja be a Hernádi-féle kotta minden díszítő jelzését, de így nem gépies, és megvalósítható. Visszaadta a kedvemet. Köszönöm. :-)
She plays so beautifully!
Her performance of BWV 927 at 08:52 is so light and calm, a refreshing interpretation!
I love them! They make sense to me and they are SO beautiful! So many other performers sound like machine guns or race cars when they're playing Bach. Bach lived in a SLOW era with no planes, cars, etc!!
HI Sonja....I agree totally .....lovely comment...btw she also plays the 3 part inventions UTTERLY BEAUTIFULLY ...I replay them over and over............love,light and peace
Bach can be played slowly but fast too. Bach himself must have been quite a virtuoso . And furthermore a lot of his pieces are very motoric and in those pieces you need speed (not the drugs of course). I agree that the 12 pieces performed here are beautifull executed but a little bit to romantic for me(not crisp enough for me) Sonja listen also to the harpsicord versions of this beautifull pieces. Bach wrote for and played the organ and the harpsicord . He also played violin and "cello" and as a young boy he was also a singer. Anyway Bach is my favorite composer. And Bach is the greatest. And that is why we love him.
What does that even mean? I am sorry but Beethoven didnt know about planes and cars. So what? Would you like the 3rd movement of the Moonlight sonata to be played slowly? The vast majority of classical music was composed by people not knowing about cars, let alone airplanes. Does that mean "play everything slowly because they didnt have fast mean of transportation"? I dont think the "speed" of the music you write has to do with how frantic is your life. It can be, maybe. But it can originate from your emotions like joy, passion and the rest. Take Bach, WTK prelude in C minor... I like it played very fast... who cares about what life was in Bach's time?
You misunderstand the comment your are criticizing.
If you think about the times a person lives in, you understand the person better.
Some music is played so fast, you can't even hear it.
Nikolayeva lived in Stalinist Soviet Russia. Her interpretation of Bach impressed Shostakovich so much that he wrote a series of Preludes and Fugues for her to play.
Another great pianist. These 'Little Preludes' are very endearing & warm. I would invoke them to introduce Bach to kids. The word 'little' reminds me of Beethoven's nickname for his 8fh symphony -- "my little symphony".
Klein can also be translated as "short." Short Preludes would be apropos, as in short in length or duration. English and German share the same aspect of one word have many meanings depending on its usage. Besides short, klein can also be translated as small, little, tiny, minuscule; not valuable, insignificant, unimportant, petty, trivial, secondary; minor, junior, under legal age. And as in a number of Bach's work, the title (or even the collection) does not source from J S Bach. One of his many "short preludes" is actually a trio that J S Bach inserted in a Partita in G minor by Partita by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel found in Clavier-Büchlein vor Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Some translate Clavier-Büchlein as "Little Keyboard Book for W F Bach, when Keyboard Booklet makes more sense. The "short" preludes are titled as either preambulum or prealudium , the early version of the preludes for the WTC Bk 1 listed as prealudium, and the 2 part invention are preambulum (the Sinfornia listed as Fantasias). Two pieces from Richter's harpsichord suite (Piece pour le Clavecin) and two of Bach's Choral Preludes for organ without pedal are present among the potpourri of Minuets, a Fugue in C minor, and some of the only fingering indications by Bach.
fantastic!!!!!!!!!!! a great bach pianist
Such class I really love this
THE BEST - GREATEST BACH -subcribed from brazil.
Thank you for these!
Nikki reveals a romantic quality to Bach's playing which by other interpreters is often passed over. I think Johann would have liked her interpretations because at heart I think he was a bit of a romantic. After all he had 20 children! God bless the old bugger.
"bugger' isn't the first term that comes to mind for a father of 20 children.
@@PaulHummerman I concur Fred but I didn't mean it literally, only a term of speech, you old pedant!x
Wonderful music.
so beautiful, so good !
no 3 in c minor beautiful and not showed off with a tempo of youth - nice to hear
Big Job :-) And nice sensitive interpretation :-)
Beautiful! Thank you for posting!
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Magnifique.
I nave at one time or another played all of these -- and much of the Well-Tempered Clavier as well -- on the ORGAN in my work for for the Church. As with most Bach they sound very well on almost any keyboard instrument and would doubtless work bautifully too were they orchestrated or transcribed for string or wind ensemble. Nicolayeva plays with great persnal warmth and INSIGHT revealing the IMPLICATIONS inherent in the bare notes of an urtext score - as all significant interpreters must do. .Bach's music -- especilly his keyboard works -- is SO well written most of it can be played with great success at a wide variety of tempi and dynamic levels. There is no ONE RIGHT WAY to perform Bach, as long as your playing is accurate, and heartfelt. I am a pianist who has also played church services since age twelve and the harpsichord for many Baroque chamber music concerts in and around New York City and beyond. I've also played solo piano recitals and accompanied lieder recitals with great pleasure. For me the ONLY thing to aim for in performing beyond the prerequisite of mere accuracy, of course, is to do your best to discover what the music MEANS to YOU, the performer, and to express it with all the freedom and fervor you can muster. Aiming for academic standards of "AUTHENTICITY" is BUNK, unless it is accompanied by the INSIGHT I've mentioned.
More than perfect.
Mil gracias. Maravilloso !!!!
Bendiciones
Прекрасное, но не бесспорное исполнение гениальной Музыки!! Безусловно, профессор Николаева своим подвижническим Служением Музыке. заслужила право на свою интерпретацию!!! Однако, главное заключается в том, что музыка великогоБаха настолько глубока и многогранна, что позволяет каждому выдающемуся исполнителю отстаивать на деле право исполнять её по своему!! Так же, как и в Любви!! Все , в общем , имеют некоторое общее представление о Ней, но каждый , кто способен любить, любит по своему!!
Music Beyond words
Perfect. ❤❤❤
Thank you very much . feels happy !!
Amazing!
We can only speculate what Bach would do with modern instruments. Perhaps he would have hung out with the Rolling Stones? The kind of keyboard instruments we have today were not available until around the beginning of the 20th Century. Madame N. lets Monsieur Bach's music to expand to its fullest potential on instrumental perfection that was unimaginable at Bach's time.
Perfect!
Her BWV 926 5:14 perfomance is magnificent!
Oh, so nice ,I love Bach so much ,he is always here,when we listening him...
Thankful to u for letting me know this true russian monument, no Putin, no Stalin, just a marvelous unknown larger-than-life gritty pianist, the world is proud to have. It seems to me, my very modest personal opinion, that female pianists have an incredible broader manifestation of Bach and Schubert keyboards. Maria Joao Pires is another piano giant just like Magicienne Tatiana Nicolayeva.
URGENT !!! The world needs a vast magic public park where among fabulous trees there should be statues and monuments of great musicians: Nicolayeva, Pires, Bach, Chopin, Schubert and others should be there.......!
I agree, something etched in stone and botany. wouldn't it be wonderful,... if there were giant stone discs inscribed with music playing on eternal phonographs?... and how about plants that grow berries in rows and columns that when properly read have that music in their genetic code?
Qué hermosísimo suena el 999
me parece genial buenisima ¡¡ su forma de ejecutar, su estilo
She was perfect
There are many mistakes, she does not always refer to polyphony, she was not
really delightful !
Merci
Imagine that Bach composed most of his wonderful works just for some special purposes, maybe a little prelude for one of his childs or some pupil to have some studymaterial, maybe a cantata or organwork for the next service in his church, or maybe just without any special purpose. After finishing and performing them he put them aside. No desire to have them sent out "into the world", the concept af marketing didn't exist, he wrote to the "Glory of Our Lord", full of humbleness and devotion. A mentality completely lost in our times.
Yes perhaps written for a child, and then along comes Tatiana Nikolayeva and plays them like a goddess!
soooooooooo beautiful
I`M BACK she is utterly beautiful
BWV 999 when you wait for something and it happens suddenly
Merci !
merveilleux Bach
The Teacher of Nikolai Lugangsky
Bach the ultimate
999 😍😍😍 so smooth
I read somewhere that in order to be played with real appreciation Bach's music it has to be done with special fingering, that most editions totally lack.
Beautiful. My piano teacher gave me the first one as homework for the summer break. Been stuck on the first 4 measures for two weeks now. But making slow progress, steadily, nevertheless. Hope I can make it to the end before september...
Several of the threads on here keep repeating they are easy or hackneyed practice pieces. Number 4 is grade 6 and another is 7 hardly easy. The key to this music is no pedal, stretching the melodic line and constant variation of volume and tempo. This is a brilliant romantic interpretation and few can do this better, only Angela Hewitt is more, much more and this may be the Fazioli piano.
本当に素晴らしい！