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BACH - ''Chromatic Fantasia'', BWV 903 - Wanda Landowska, 1935
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- Опубліковано 4 лис 2010
- Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)
- Chromatische Fantasie, BWV 903
Wanda Landowska (harpsichord)
Recorded: St. Leu-la-Forêt - 10/July/1935
She designed this instrument according to her own beliefs about what Bach intended. She is the master. It is all one piece, composer instrument and artist. We the audience can only marvel.
As Albert Schweitzer is reported to have said, "Wanda Landowska plays the harpsichord better than anyone else plays ANYTHING."
Whether he said it or not doesn't matter. It's simply TRUE.
I've seen it attributed to Virgil Thompson.
"Oh, the burning delights...the mortal anguish I experience in playing!
Come help me bear this burden of love, this flame!" Wanda Landowska
This lady was the angel of the Harpsichord.I am learning to play this instrument also but I will never be as great as Wanda Landowska,nobody could,she was the creme de la creme.
Somehow, that rather heavy, almost organ-like sound of this harpsicord adds to the musical drama.
Yes! W. Landowska's interpretation it is the most fantastic I've ever heard. I think this is due not only to the interpretive qualities of Landowska, but also to the sound characteristics of her Pleyel harpsichord which leads us to a romantic atmosphere with an neo-medieval environment. It's a mix of fantasy ultra-romantic, baroque harpsichord resuscitation and mystical religiosity which the chromatisms of the work reinforces (even if this wasn't the original intent of Bach).
Thanks!
I never understood what the fascination was with Madame Landowska until I heard this performance. Gould, Gulda, et. al are wonderful, but this version played by Landowska in her prime obviously blows me away and the others become pale in comparison. Absolutely the most interesting and I must say exciting recording of the Fantasy I have evr heard. My best friend was an acquaintance of Landowska and her wife Denise LaRue in the '50's in Sharon, Connecticut. She liked speaking Polish with my friend
I believe you mean Denise Restout. Also, "wife?" Maybe, but is this something we can be sure about? Maybe there is historical information I'm unaware of; if not, let's not make assumptions.
@@danawinsor1380 you are correct; it was Restout. As to the reference of her "wife", all I can say is that was what my friend told me. He spent lots of time with the two of them, but this was in the 1950's. At any rate, it matters not as those relationships were and are common. If it made Mdm Landowska a better musician and a happier, more fulfilled person, great!
Consummate goddess! Ok, the instrument leaves much to be desired, but Wanda's artistry w such a limited instrument is visceral! Glorious Lady, and what passion! As she used to say to various directors: "You play Bach your way - I will play Him as he WANTED to be played!!" Not quite, but this performance is magnetic!! Love you, Wanda!
In the liner notes of one of her old recordings it states:
"you play Bach your way and I will play him his way".
....Supèrbe, c'est semplicemènt Superbe !
Merci.
It would be wonderful if you could post the fugue as well. I have clear memories of how extraordinary powerful and insightful it was, and I long to hear it again. Please consider it. Landowska was unique. I doubt very much if Bach's keyboard music ever had a better a better friend or a more inspired interpreter.
Hyramess Hiramess I know the "Fugue" from the BWV 903 Chromatic Fantasy it's also essential to hear the piece as a all. But I made this video just for fun and to try the Windows Movie Maker. As it gives me a lot of trouble and time to do it, I didn't made the video of the "Fugue". I suppose I could post it, but without images (or, at least, without images composition). Maybe one day, ok?
The Landowska was an interpreter extremely important in the recovery of interpretations of Bach's keyboard works for harpsichord (although modern, still far from the original contemporaries of Bach). But if I had to choose an interpretation of Bach's keyboard works, I would have to choose the ones that are interpreted in original harpsichords (or good copies). Of course interpretations in piano are also legitimate and very good. Both interpretation styles are merely different from one another and it is important the listener take it into consideration. Thanks for you comment and continuations of good auditions!
+Hyramess Hiramess Here on the Internet Archive is much more of her music; I listen to it daily!
archive.org/search.php?query=wanda%20landowska&sort=-publicdate
Here is her 1929 recording of this piece; the greatest in my opinion: archive.org/download/WandaLandowskaPlaysBachNo4/BachBwv903ChromaticFantasyAndFugeInDMinorWandaLandowskaVictor781929.mp3
THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I have bookmarked this precious link, and hope to keep it till End of Days. ;-) Angel reissued Landowska's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue (the 1935 recording, I believe) along with her Italian Concerto in their Great Recordings of the Century series back in the early 1960's. Alas! My copy was lost many years ago. I am a well-trained pianist, myself, now 75-years old, and I can honestly say I have never heard a recorded performance of ANYTHING that touched and stimulated my imagination more than this.
Wanda is still QUEEN of the harpsichord today.
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wanda Landowska, (IMO) was a pioneer and a visionary! Without the zeal she possessed people to this day would not be as knowledgeable concerning the harpsichord and the beautiful music that can come from such a wonderful instrument. We all owe this wonderful lady a debt of gratitude! I am sure she is playing a harpsichord in the great beyond and as such her music is pleasing to the ear of G-d !
It is important to say, the harpsichord was forgotten when she asks the manufacturer Pleyel and Company to adapt a Metal Plectrum Stud according to her instructions, old harpsi wasn't heavier and more difficult to tune. The harpsichord sound different with wins Landowska. she makes the first recording in 1931 Goldberg Variations. Cliché of her interpretations are used by pianists who don't know where that comes from, slowing tempo in the notes mi and fa on Prelude in C from Well-Tempered Clavier
I think the harpsichord was spitting fire. Ouch! Now, I'm sure of it. This is J.S. Bach at his finest.
Outch that's the word
de las pioneras interpretando a bach que vida tan fructifera la de esta dama
Wanda's interpretation of Bach's Chromatic Fantasia is simply MESMERISING.
À couper le souffle! Tant cette Fantaisie chromatique, grâce à Landowska, nous dévoile de redoutable et mystérieux. Car si le dévoilement par lui même est toujours redoutable, je ressens dans ce jeu le signal d’un énigme au point d’être révélé. Il faut dire aussi que, pour la première fois, j’ai senti la force du clavicorde, à tel point féroce, qu’aucune autre interprétation de cette pièce, même au pianoforte, l’égale en intensité et mystère.
+pedro a. cantero I agree, breathtaking. And helped by her harpsichord, an advanced model with the volume and bass favored by Bach and others, and having an occasional strange sound due to its "stops" that allowed use of various plucking materials.
Harpsichord generally sound is the most atmospheric music on planet.. it is a solid cloud on being
che potente ! stupendo mai sentiti suonare il clavicembalo così.......
very rare artist indeed. Every note is expressive and full of sense.
Even if the style is strange to our modern ears, what a music!!
Super,magnifico,💟
Wanda is the most thrilling harpsichordist of all time.Scarlatti would be thrilled to hear her renditions!Damned to the modern anal retentive so called authentic boredom
It is so good that I find it a little unsettling, like the recording is inhabited by spirits. Of course I don’t mean it literally, but the moment starting at 1:45 sends chills down my spine.
Remembering Wanda Landowska died on this day in 1959
Of course there is a fugue that follows the Chromatic Fantasy. I know well the work of Bach and I try to have the minimum information about the works before doing uploads. But the intention was to present the great Wanda Landowska, more than the "Chromatic Fantasy" by Bach in its entirety.
Moreover it gives me a lot of work to do videos with the weak software I have at my disposal.
Anyway, thank you for your attention and repair. It is a way of informing people of the existence of the "fugue".
What a incredible slide show-- this belongs in an archive. She is like a musical Salvador Dali. She probably understood music (at least the performance of it) better than Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi, and the Scarlattis themselves. Yet it is the slower, simpler pieces- like a grandmother might play for her grandchildren- simple yet so perfect and polished, that will mesmerise me until I die.
Это невероятно, сколько воздуха, силы пропитанной радостью омытой слезы.
Wanda è Gold Standard per tutti i Cembalisti di ieri , oggi, domani , sempre.
Sublime.
Marco Rotondi
Cudowna muzyka , ten klawesyn dostaje skrzydeł. Fantastique musique comm de ciels , merci au Dieu pour Wanda !
it has been since I heard such a divine interpretation of this brilliant work.
I want this t be played at my funeral, otherwise I am not going
:-) Thank You Kathy!
With some time, I will make more videos, but with the Windows Movie Maker (the software I have), it's very hard to do them. The most dificult it's to synchronize the images and the audio...!!!
Thanks again
&
Greetings from Portugal
Landowska is the ultimate goth chick.
The critic Nathan Broder called this specific performance 'one of the handful of greatest keyboard performances of the 20th century.' There is more fantasy in this performance of 903 than in all of the others ever made, combined.
The next videos I'll make will no longer have the same concern for detail, because it is really too much work and takes lots of time. But one thing is certain: they will have the same passion and pleasure I dedicated doing this.
Once again, thanks (and thanks to SuperLuckydream)!
Outstanding and beautiful ♫♪♥
Thank you. Yes of course the same bwv number. I actually looked it up after posting the question, and upon seeing it I realized I'd even heard the fugue many times before! Professor Suzuki's performance is excellent (I had the good fortune to observe from afar the conception of his band BCJ and to listen to them rehearse a couple of times 22 years ago at the university where he taught in Kobe, Japan).
Cheers.
This is simply gorgeous.
Impresionante
@chamade216
In fact, the first "neo-harpsichords" possessed a structure heavier, fuller and "ghostly" sound, in addition to being required more force to drive or "pull up" the "jacks" in which they were plectrums.
GENIAL...!!!
Es la exelencia de su tiempo. 🙏💐
Many thanks for your comment and compliment to the video.
I really like Bach, Wanda Landovska and thinking and making videos (although in an amateur way). As I have no special program to make videos, it gave me a lot of work trying to synchronize the images (which previously I had to treat) with the music. Therefore it is always very rewarding to obtain feeback, like yours.
Beautiful! Thank you!
Pleyel is a stud with a structure closest to the piano, but with plectrums metal. The resonating sound that you very well observed, is due not only to the characteristics of the instrument, but also the quality of the sound recording.
It's a "phantasmagoric" and ghostly sound, that seems out of ultra-romantic spirit - which I find particularly well achieved in this Chromatic Fantasia (as indeed should be in other works of Bach, Buxtehude, etc., composed under the called "stylus phantasticus".
Listen to the entire thing performed by Masaaki Suzuki. He plays it extremely well. BWV903.
Fantasia: /watch?v=ZHtgLlwFcG8
Fugue: /watch?v=kCP0qP334fA
If you're interested, there is an alternate version of the fantasy written by Bach called BWV903a.
/watch?v=kQqDZUvxBfo
Hi You don't need to do anything, I get the same thing when I upload videos of myself playing Mozart, Beethoven, sometimes I get more than one message. It's no big deal, keep up the wonderful work
Fantastic.
.... insuperabile...
"(...) the harpsichord was forgotten when she asks the manufacturer Pleyel and Company to adapt a Metal Plectrum Stud according to her instructions, old harpsi wasn't heavier and more difficult to tune. The harpsichord sound different with wins Landowska. She makes the first recording in 1931 Goldberg Variations. Cliché of her interpretations are used by pianists who don't know where that comes from, slowing tempo in the notes mi and fa on Prelude in C from Well-Tempered Clavier."
by cadastroe
eu fico extasiado com o que o ser humano consegue fazer!!!!!!
La mejor de lo exelente ....
Tak ..Klawesyn leci!
Nie tylko z powodu muzycznej kompozycji Bacha, ale także ze względu na możliwości technicznych i
czując, że Wanda Landowska odgrywa pracę.
W tle jest fantastyka prawie «ad libitum».
;-)
What an absolutely brilliant description of the Landowska experience! It is certain that she saw herself as part of the creative process when playing the music of the great composers. For this reason, her playing remains unselfconscious and spontaneous; it's certainly not "stuck" in some dated time-warp! I love the quote in which she described her interpretation of the Chromatic Fantasia as "incomparable"! It is indeed.
Gótico. Fantastic.
Thank you Lucky Dream! :-)
Another mystery (to me) is the dynamics in Landowska's recordings. She apparently prefers to vary them -- as at 00:40 in the present recording, for instance. Is this done post-production, do you suppose, or during the recording session ? If so, how is it accomplished ? I imagine the microphone being moved closer to the instrument, though that's admittedly unlikely . . .
Remember that this harpsichord had more or less 6 pedals which I think she used to change the register and dynamics
@@victormontielpiano Ah---thank you. I didn't know that.
@@stephenritchings8135 you´re welcome! very interesting instrument
It's true, isn't it, that Landowska's Pleyel sounds like no other harpsichord. Sometimes bell-like, often deep and sonorous (one writer here likens it to an organ, in places) -- it's not always clear when she changes register.
And this rendition of the Chromatic Fantasy is like no other, as well. 1935. I've heard the Fugue, of course; it would be fine to have it here . . .
+S DR Her 1929 recording is unbeatable. Much better than this one!
archive.org/download/WandaLandowskaPlaysBachNo4/BachBwv903ChromaticFantasyAndFugeInDMinorWandaLandowskaVictor781929.mp3
Geeeeeniaaaaaaalneeeeeeeee!
À couper le souffle!
thanks for the explanation
Other Bach pieces for keyboard sound better on the piano but this piece resonates much better on Miss Landowska's harpsichord, to my humble ears, of course.
As someone has commented elsewhere, a fugue is sorely missed after this wonderful working-up. Maybe the Man was too busy to take a few minutes to pen one down!
Very beautifull :)
Fantasía cromática. Bach
Dear dkelzenb.
I apologize, but I do not know how your comment came as "spam"!? I just now noticed that fact and I marked it as "not spam".
Thanks for the comment.
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woww!!!!
I don't know why but women's play Bach at a higher level
1 - Does anyone know what I can do in this situation?
2 - The work of the choice of images and creation of the video is entirely mine and I would really be sorry if it was deleted from UA-cam.
3 - Being a recording from 1935 is not already in the public domain?
I find in UA-cam videos incomparably more "severe", of gratuitous violence, and persecution of ethnic and religious hatred that, comparing with the desire of share universal works of art - such as those of Bach - I find ridiculous!
@dracd235
Thanks dracd235.
Maybe not the best video on youtube, but... thank you :-)
Hmm....... Interesting! Thank you uploading this archival treasure :)
Tú lo harías mejor......!!!!????
Can you please translate that into English?
Could you please tell us which BWV it is, and it would be great if you'd link your preferred performance of it as well. Thanks.
I much prefer this performance to the later one ua-cam.com/video/H2FbbAUzCYA/v-deo.html Here Landowska takes us on a leisurely and lengthy dreamlike stroll, "playing" the music -- toying with it, even ? The dying notes at 4:28 are alive with something, some kind of echo or reverb ?
Could we be hearing her voice, a ghost of the music, at several points including 5:05 ?
Does a recording of the Fugue, from the same date or period, exist ?
feel like incidental music of ghost film .........
I wish she lived nowadays.
i look for the fantastic Mozart sonatas she did at the piano.
nice.
...where is the fugue?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The FLICKER of this video game me nausea.... I couldn't watch and listen... anyway. Just my own observation... I will just listen, I guess, later.
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wonderful performance. Really annoying visuals.
@oscaringoliling0 : Rubbish and be quiet with you !
None such.
There is a fugue to this, actually.
The interpreter is excellent, the instrument is not.
+Henri Destouches
i'd rather say the recording is not very well. I guess she had a period instrument (as far as i know she owned a harpsichord built by noone less than Silbermann himself)
+Henri Destouches She is playing on a Pleyel's harpsichord grand model, the one that Pleyel had built by following her own instructions... It is a "revival" harpsichord, with nothing to do with period instruments.
+Gian Luca Marcialis She claimed that the masters would have preferred its features, including more bass and volume. I trust her. Wasn't it Bach who tried out early pianofortes?
どうしてこの演奏を素晴らしい物と感じる事が出来るのか？ピアノを人前で弾けないので、技術的に問題があり過ぎるので、この楽器を選んだ感じがする。難しい処ではテンポが変わっていく。減速するのだ。ストコフスキーのバッハ編曲のような、バッハを聴かせるための必要悪。そんな物は感じないのだ。ただひたすらに醜悪。クレッシェンド・デククレッシェンドが出来るチェンバロって、チェンバロなのだろうか？フィッシャーの弾いたロマンティックなバッハの方が、人類にとっての永遠の保存の価値を感じる。後の演奏家にとっての参考に、全くならない演奏だ。
Chromatic many times is ugly.
+Ricardo da Mata Yep. That is one of its greatest qualities. There is a theory that the full appreciation of beauty requires the contrast of ugliness. But then again, it is also said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I find the Chromatic much more 'mature' than, say, the French Suites. But then again, the French are perhaps more 'melodic'. There must be room for both maturity and melody, no?
David Spector Ugliness has not to do with art; this is just an ideological manipulation disseminated by academies to defend modernism, which is actually primitive.
+Ricardo da Mata All art is ugly, because the postmodern impressionism proved a failure. The nature of primitivism itself is retrograde.
ugly is beautifull. cute is boring