This is definitely not an easy piece, yes the notes are easy, but maintaining a steady tempo (from start to end) and using the right expression while playing it without the pedal is harder than it seems.
@@crazyRyoga He uses the pedal at times here. On modern pianos it only makes sense to take advantage of the extra resonance you get from allowing all other strings to sympathetically vibrate with the notes struck in the melody. Not overusing it, timing the release and depression of the pedal, and avoiding getting a blurry sound is the tricky part. You can clearly hear him using the pedal and in fact see him using the pedal at 1:20 in the video.
@@jsswift87 I never said he did't use the pedal, I said that it's hard to make it sound good without it (it's also the best way to learn it first). You can add a bit of pedal if you prefer of course. He talks about it here ua-cam.com/video/PHgLpd1xRr4/v-deo.html&ab_channel=KlassikAkzente.
@Edna Turner There's nothing wrong with playing it with a bit of pedaling, and there's nothing wrong with playing it like it was written, without any pedaling. It is not "necessary". Glenn Gould, no pedal ua-cam.com/video/-xglOaDKKUI/v-deo.html&ab_channel=IamSylvan András Schiff, no pedal ua-cam.com/video/Ugc5FZsycAw/v-deo.html&ab_channel=FelicesCantusBach
@Edna Turner "..he does indeed use the pedal for the first lower notes, then plays the higher notes staccato. Schiff also uses the pedal with the lower notes, and no pedal with the higher notes." The fact that managed to write those statements (with even a video proof that shows clearly Schiff NOT using the pedal) while believing that those 2 notes can't sound like that without the pedal just make me realize you probably never even touched a piano. Then as it wasn't funny enough you wrote "you obviously have no clue!". I don't think I'll continue the "debate" here. Take care.
Bach's C major prelude. One of the most inclusive pieces of music you will ever find. Playable for a beginner and yet still stimulating for a world-class virtuoso, music belongs to us all. Thankyou Lang Lang for the inspiration. (Update Dec 2023 : Here is a tutorial on how to play the piece by the way the illustrates how across the board this piece is ua-cam.com/video/h-mEvSfLlTU/v-deo.htmlsi=YdQkM78n1OlTF1Kn)
@spicecrop not everything in the world is a political conversation. Here is another way to put it "Bach's C major Prelude is not so hard to play" - which means if you are not a virtuoso, it's still a doable piece for a novice but still enjoyable for a virtuoso. Hence the word - inclusive.
I am a piano teacher in Austin, Texas, and have in the past year started a tradition of opening each student recital with a performance of this piece, because I hope that no matter what dreams my students may pursue in their lives after they finish piano lessons, they will always come back to this transcendent piano piece we have been graciously given as humans on planet earth. Lang Lang, I don't know if you will read these comments, but thank you, thank you, for recording this album and especially for making these short films. I am showing them to my students and their families this week as we just had our second recital starting with this piece. Thank you for dedicating this part of your career to this collection of music as you have in "Piano Book" and I will be referring to it many times for decades to come.
@PAULO MARIO MEDINA The patterns are the same. Just observe the minute changes after each chord. In the beginning, the left hand only has one change (move one note down a tone, i.e. from E to D) and the right hand moves one key up. You get to the next chord by another one-note change on the LH (this time from C to B) while repeating the RH notes. Next chord, you're back at the first position. And so on... It also helps to listen to what you're playing, because if you've memorised the melody, you'd kind of know where your fingers should go next. It also helps if you know chords for the same reason.
Fairly easy to memorize. Very well structured, typical of Bach. It just takes a lot of practice to pedal it well and bring out the emotion. I learned this piece last year and play it often, love it!
It looks easy, but to get the notes even and calm -- "con perfetta uguaglianza" ("with perfect evenness") is the way my edition puts it -- that's the hard part.
Was almost in tears when I watched it towards the end. My husband, who was so ambivalent about starting piano at his middle age, was even wiggling his fingers when he watched this…I think we were both very moved. Great interpretation and story telling!
Yes. But why do we think the same. But this is a soothing love. It gives hope last part is powerful and passionate then soothing again....magnificent. I am learning it
This short 2 min of music bring me back to my childhood, adolescence and adulthood, and even give me an imagination of the scene I will see after I die.
Bach Preludio No.1 has come from Heaven, beautiful beautiful beautiful forever, I was moved so much with Lang Lang ! That's what I thought, I would feel Piano Instrument is the King among every musical instrument. (90yrs.Japanese)
Dear Mr. Johan Sebastian Bach. Thank you for your precious communication from your XVIIIth Century, which has now been received in the XXIst Century with great acclamation. We do not doubt that the centuries that will come in the future will be no less enthusiastic about your work as a music composer as we are in 2021. Our best contemporary interpreters of your life's work make you live among us, and it is a widely shared desire that all of what we know of your production be passed on to other generations with great care. Seen from our vantage point, it seems that nothing will challenge eternity as much as the memory of what you did for human understanding of music. May your name live in glory forever. With ultimate admiration, Yours truly.
The way he plays a different piece seems like the way I do. Honestly I was a little bored with learning this, but I listened him and it gave me motivation!
thank you Lang Lang for this divine rendition , empathy and depth of recognition of Bach’ s masterpiece - I was simply melting away…. sensational performance 🌹
I will never forget my first piece of piano. I love this instrument with my heart and I will never get tired of its beautiness; the nostalgia and piece it brings me to hear this piece once again. Thanks Piano for so many great moments, and thanks Lang Lang for this beautiful interpretation. 😊😊😊
I've gotten many of my students hooked on Lang Lang's performances! He's so expressive! It seems like he deeply connects with every single note he plays.
Your love for music from that era Baroque. You see, you can’t keep Haydn from the fact that there is many jokes available about classical music. Well I’m going to go shopping, let me take my Chopin Liszt. I’ll be Bach in a minute.
I started learning piano and now I have learnt to play it while keeping it entangled with my emotions. I feel great joy in being able to enunciate this wonderful music.
Ooo the beautiful simplicity of Bach, excellent job on the players part, the dynamics were very clearly emphasized, and it sounds awesome! The simple resolutions that Bach makes are still awesome
This music transports me to heaven every time I hear it it’s so lovely. All the cares stresses and strains of life evaporate when you listen to it Lang Lang brings it to life
Mr.Lang Lang who excells mostly in pyrotechnics (which I don't allways care for) surprises me time and again how splendidly he plays so-called 'easy pieces'.
There have been a lot of musical composers but Bach is probably at the top of that list. I’ve heard greats from all genres cite him as a major influence. The goat 🐐
This is an emotional story told completely by chord progression rendered as a heartfelt sharing. Thank you Lang Lang for making this into that story. Maybe not Bach by some notable purists standards but who cares I've listened to it two different times now and each time at the end I shed a tear.
Un jardin extraordinaire, comme le chantait Charles Trenet, un compositeur universel et une oeuvre de toute beauté, avec une interprétation et un public comme en enchantement...
I found the beauty of pattern when I first playing this piece. The beauty lie between is hard to tell but once you play this piece on instruments you will simply see it
The music of Faso is an inexhaustible source of sweetness. It allows us to plunge deep inside ourselves and at the same time resonate with our fellow man, Yé Lassina Coulibaly❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
how could anyone not feel deeply touched by this heavenly music??? Can visual arts shake people's souls the way music does? I just keep thinking about that ...
A delightful video to go along with the performance. As an older person on this journey it made me reflect and so, in the end, I was in the audience as well.
Lang Lang is truly an inspiration. I play piano for 10 years and I got perfect pitch, and I love classical music too, and he just gives me more encouragement to play piano. I only practice for 1 1/2 hours a day though, because my mom can't hear piano for long amounts of time, and this forces me to buy a digital piano...
I don’t know much about pianists, but I started listening to George Harliono’s music, which is wonderful. I know you have inspired him and came to know you through his interviews. I can see why he loves your music and how you have influenced him. I hope George achieves great things, and I will be listening to more of you as well.
Very different, but lovely, awesome control, would like to hear all of the new CD, know it was released today, can’t have too much of your piano music!,,!! Love from Australia, and love to the kids all playing their part, bet they enjoyed it! Xxxx
Lang Lang just released his Goldberg Variations album. I own both Glenn Gould’s recordings for decades, but I like Lang Lang’s interpretations more and more after listening to the entire album several times.
I appreciate Lang Lang’s performance and DG’s video production. Thank you! I would be very curious to learn more on the reason(s) for the presented interpretation of this WTC Prelude#1
Es justo lo que pensaba de su música, que me hacía sentir de nuevo en la niñez. Veo ese video y era mi pensamiento al escuchar esa melodía. Lang Lang que hermoso descubrirte!
Exspresivo. It is very difficult to play the two books by Bach very well and with feeling. I don't know if you have listened to the 48 Preludes and Fuges. Just listening to this and interpreting is challenging.
Yes, I wondered about the music, so unlike Lang Lang, but the video ends with a “little” Lang Lang so thought perhaps that was the reason? Qld Australia
Everyone was captivated by this piece because they all know every note of it. It is a "simple" piece we may all know by heart and yet moved by how Lang Lang presented it beautifully.
Normalmente no me gustan los vídeos que hacen para piezas clásicas y prefiero ver al pianista simplemente tocar, pero esta producción es sencillamente emocionante.
That little silence at the end of the piece is just as much a part of the music. The audience by respecting that pause actually 'performs' part of the music.
Classics of the Classical Genre This particular piece brings Deja Vu out of a first-time listener... Bach was clearly infusing human archetypical state into the keyboard
Hear me out... this is NOT a hard piece to learn you can easily sight read, but to get the emotion he does through, that is talent
This is definitely not an easy piece, yes the notes are easy, but maintaining a steady tempo (from start to end) and using the right expression while playing it without the pedal is harder than it seems.
@@crazyRyoga He uses the pedal at times here. On modern pianos it only makes sense to take advantage of the extra resonance you get from allowing all other strings to sympathetically vibrate with the notes struck in the melody. Not overusing it, timing the release and depression of the pedal, and avoiding getting a blurry sound is the tricky part. You can clearly hear him using the pedal and in fact see him using the pedal at 1:20 in the video.
@@jsswift87 I never said he did't use the pedal, I said that it's hard to make it sound good without it (it's also the best way to learn it first). You can add a bit of pedal if you prefer of course. He talks about it here ua-cam.com/video/PHgLpd1xRr4/v-deo.html&ab_channel=KlassikAkzente.
@Edna Turner There's nothing wrong with playing it with a bit of pedaling, and there's nothing wrong with playing it like it was written, without any pedaling. It is not "necessary".
Glenn Gould, no pedal ua-cam.com/video/-xglOaDKKUI/v-deo.html&ab_channel=IamSylvan
András Schiff, no pedal ua-cam.com/video/Ugc5FZsycAw/v-deo.html&ab_channel=FelicesCantusBach
@Edna Turner
"..he does indeed use the pedal for the first lower notes, then plays the higher notes staccato.
Schiff also uses the pedal with the lower notes, and no pedal with the higher notes."
The fact that managed to write those statements (with even a video proof that shows clearly Schiff NOT using the pedal) while believing that those 2 notes can't sound like that without the pedal just make me realize you probably never even touched a piano.
Then as it wasn't funny enough you wrote "you obviously have no clue!".
I don't think I'll continue the "debate" here. Take care.
Bach's C major prelude. One of the most inclusive pieces of music you will ever find. Playable for a beginner and yet still stimulating for a world-class virtuoso, music belongs to us all. Thankyou Lang Lang for the inspiration. (Update Dec 2023 : Here is a tutorial on how to play the piece by the way the illustrates how across the board this piece is ua-cam.com/video/h-mEvSfLlTU/v-deo.htmlsi=YdQkM78n1OlTF1Kn)
@spicecrop not everything in the world is a political conversation. Here is another way to put it "Bach's C major Prelude is not so hard to play" - which means if you are not a virtuoso, it's still a doable piece for a novice but still enjoyable for a virtuoso. Hence the word - inclusive.
@spicecrop The word 'inclusive' predates the past ten years. This isn't the place to grind an axe
He trolled you two. Don't feed the trolls.
@spicecrop gee were you in a bad mood writing this
@spicecrop ... Ew
I am a piano teacher in Austin, Texas, and have in the past year started a tradition of opening each student recital with a performance of this piece, because I hope that no matter what dreams my students may pursue in their lives after they finish piano lessons, they will always come back to this transcendent piano piece we have been graciously given as humans on planet earth. Lang Lang, I don't know if you will read these comments, but thank you, thank you, for recording this album and especially for making these short films. I am showing them to my students and their families this week as we just had our second recital starting with this piece. Thank you for dedicating this part of your career to this collection of music as you have in "Piano Book" and I will be referring to it many times for decades to come.
I am touched, you are a great teacher and a great human being🙏🏽 I wish one day if I can play as good as Lang Lang.
woudnt call this prelude transcendent but it is true that it is rarely played by pianist because its so simple.
太好了
Cool
Understand that WE don't care of you!!!!!
So pure and innocent, so sincere,just like a childhood, just like the music of Bach.
Exactly💝
This piece is mathematical perfection. Can’t expect any less from Bach
I'm learning this right now. Very easy technique but it requires a lot of memory and self control
@PAULO MARIO MEDINA The patterns are the same. Just observe the minute changes after each chord. In the beginning, the left hand only has one change (move one note down a tone, i.e. from E to D) and the right hand moves one key up. You get to the next chord by another one-note change on the LH (this time from C to B) while repeating the RH notes. Next chord, you're back at the first position. And so on... It also helps to listen to what you're playing, because if you've memorised the melody, you'd kind of know where your fingers should go next. It also helps if you know chords for the same reason.
Fairly easy to memorize. Very well structured, typical of Bach. It just takes a lot of practice to pedal it well and bring out the emotion. I learned this piece last year and play it often, love it!
Correct
Well im a beginner but i learned this piece in just 5days
It looks easy, but to get the notes even and calm -- "con perfetta uguaglianza" ("with perfect evenness") is the way my edition puts it -- that's the hard part.
Was almost in tears when I watched it towards the end. My husband, who was so ambivalent about starting piano at his middle age, was even wiggling his fingers when he watched this…I think we were both very moved. Great interpretation and story telling!
For just one moment, our universe finally stood still. Thank you.
This is what love sounds like
Yes. But why do we think the same. But this is a soothing love. It gives hope last part is powerful and passionate then soothing again....magnificent.
I am learning it
This short 2 min of music bring me back to my childhood, adolescence and adulthood, and even give me an imagination of the scene I will see after I die.
Bach Preludio No.1 has come from Heaven, beautiful beautiful beautiful forever, I was moved so much with Lang Lang !
That's what I thought, I would feel Piano Instrument is the King among every musical instrument. (90yrs.Japanese)
Well said 💝
Dear Mr. Johan Sebastian Bach. Thank you for your precious communication from your XVIIIth Century, which has now been received in the XXIst Century with great acclamation. We do not doubt that the centuries that will come in the future will be no less enthusiastic about your work as a music composer as we are in 2021. Our best contemporary interpreters of your life's work make you live among us, and it is a widely shared desire that all of what we know of your production be passed on to other generations with great care. Seen from our vantage point, it seems that nothing will challenge eternity as much as the memory of what you did for human understanding of music. May your name live in glory forever. With ultimate admiration, Yours truly.
Should be XVIIth century! He died in 1650.
@@nansomasundaram5955 This is incorrect. J. S. Bach lived 1685-1750.
Bach would say "Soli Dio Gloria" (All glory to God)
The way he plays a different piece seems like the way I do. Honestly I was a little bored with learning this, but I listened him and it gave me motivation!
thank you Lang Lang for this divine rendition , empathy and depth of recognition of Bach’ s masterpiece - I was simply melting away…. sensational performance 🌹
I will never forget my first piece of piano.
I love this instrument with my heart and I will never get tired of its beautiness;
the nostalgia and piece it brings me to hear this piece once again.
Thanks Piano for so many great moments, and thanks Lang Lang for this beautiful interpretation.
😊😊😊
I've gotten many of my students hooked on Lang Lang's performances! He's so expressive! It seems like he deeply connects with every single note he plays.
Bach will be proud of Lang Lang
Me: I hate Baroque.
Music Teacher: Let me take you Bach.
**slow clap**
😃
Your love for music from that era Baroque. You see, you can’t keep Haydn from the fact that there is many jokes available about classical music.
Well I’m going to go shopping, let me take my Chopin Liszt. I’ll be Bach in a minute.
I started learning piano and now I have learnt to play it while keeping it entangled with my emotions. I feel great joy in being able to enunciate this wonderful music.
Wonderful, moving little film. Really didn't expect the visuals, but totally enthralled by the story you told. Well done DG.
Ooo the beautiful simplicity of Bach, excellent job on the players part, the dynamics were very clearly emphasized, and it sounds awesome! The simple resolutions that Bach makes are still awesome
It literally brought tears to my eyes…I’m not afraid to admit it.
This music transports me to heaven every time I hear it it’s so lovely. All the cares stresses and strains of life evaporate when you listen to it Lang Lang brings it to life
so adorable !!!! never saw the classical music video like this ever. A big applause for the director and of course LANG Lang too
Very probably mankind's finest achievement - Bach's music.
What a beautifully simple yet memorable piece of history
Mr.Lang Lang who excells mostly in pyrotechnics (which I don't allways care for) surprises me time and again how splendidly he plays so-called 'easy pieces'.
@@user-uz1qt6xt9d I have.And he plays it wonderfully.
There have been a lot of musical composers but Bach is probably at the top of that list. I’ve heard greats from all genres cite him as a major influence. The goat 🐐
This is an emotional story told completely by chord progression rendered as a heartfelt sharing. Thank you Lang Lang for making this into that story. Maybe not Bach by some notable purists standards but who cares I've listened to it two different times now and each time at the end I shed a tear.
Un jardin extraordinaire, comme le chantait Charles Trenet, un compositeur universel et une oeuvre de toute beauté, avec une interprétation et un public comme en enchantement...
Why would anyone want to watch and listen to anything but this sublime piece of music.
this is one of the best music videos i've ever seen. so simple, but so deep
I ADORE the visual aspect of these recordings. That along with his sheer musical genius makes for chillingly beautiful experiences.
The emotion while playing just shows how truly dedicated he is to the music he plays. What an incredible performance. Bravo Lang!
One of the first pieces of music I taught myself (along with Chopin #4, op 28) Still my favorite
eccezionale, per comprendere quanto è sublime questa interpretazione ho dovuto chiudere gli occhi.
anche perchè il video è di uno stucchevole inquietante!
I found the beauty of pattern when I first playing this piece. The beauty lie between is hard to tell but once you play this piece on instruments you will simply see it
I'm not crying. You are.
A very beautiful piece of music. I was never a talented pianist but I could play this piece quite well as a young man.
How can someone dislike this vide. What an amazing performance.
Got goosebumps the entire time. The visuals made it more severe....
The music of Faso is an inexhaustible source of sweetness.
It allows us to plunge deep inside ourselves and at the same time resonate with our fellow man, Yé Lassina Coulibaly❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
how could anyone not feel deeply touched by this heavenly music??? Can visual arts shake people's souls the way music does? I just keep thinking about that ...
these "actors and actress" performances are 10/10👍
Le "maître" arrive à élever jusqu'au sublime les choses les plus simples, en y ajoutant "sa" touche de génie. La meilleure version que je connaisse.
A delightful video to go along with the performance. As an older person on this journey it made me reflect and so, in the end, I was in the audience as well.
I’ve loved playing Bach’s Preludes and Minuets Lang Lang the famous pianist played it so well!
Lang Lang is truly an inspiration. I play piano for 10 years and I got perfect pitch, and I love classical music too, and he just gives me more encouragement to play piano. I only practice for 1 1/2 hours a day though, because my mom can't hear piano for long amounts of time, and this forces me to buy a digital piano...
I don’t know much about pianists, but I started listening to George Harliono’s music, which is wonderful. I know you have inspired him and came to know you through his interviews. I can see why he loves your music and how you have influenced him. I hope George achieves great things, and I will be listening to more of you as well.
This is SO great poetry - by both Bach - and Lang Lang!
Very different, but lovely, awesome control, would like to hear all of the new CD, know it was released today, can’t have too much of your piano music!,,!! Love from Australia, and love to the kids all playing their part, bet they enjoyed it! Xxxx
I thought that only me reminded me of childhood this song. Bach is great
平心而論，這算郎朗難得不作做的作品，值得好評。
I cried, I am a 41 yo man and I cried...
One of my favorite pieces, beautifully played!
If Lang Lang played more Bach it would be wonderful
Lang Lang just released his Goldberg Variations album. I own both Glenn Gould’s recordings for decades, but I like Lang Lang’s interpretations more and more after listening to the entire album several times.
I appreciate Lang Lang’s performance and DG’s video production. Thank you! I would be very curious to learn more on the reason(s) for the presented interpretation of this WTC Prelude#1
That was the best rendition of this piece I have heard yet. If I could play it one tenth as well I would be happy. Well done!
Check Tzvi Erez´s version.
You havent heard too many puanists huh ?
@@Don_Turbulento76 that is a crook
@@MrBeen992 For me Tzvi´s version is perfect. In my opinion Lang´s version is too slow. Pollini´s is way too fast, Argerich and Wang´s is a joke.
@@Don_Turbulento76 is Tzvi still in jail ?
Bach + Lang-Lang = sourires et apaisements, merci. de Montréal, Québec
1:05 this chord is just 👌
Es justo lo que pensaba de su música, que me hacía sentir de nuevo en la niñez. Veo ese video y era mi pensamiento al escuchar esa melodía. Lang Lang que hermoso descubrirte!
Exspresivo. It is very difficult to play the two books by Bach very well and with feeling. I don't know if you have listened to the 48 Preludes and Fuges. Just listening to this and interpreting is challenging.
Yes, I wondered about the music, so unlike Lang Lang, but the video ends with a “little” Lang Lang so thought perhaps that was the reason? Qld Australia
Maravillosa pieza musical, una mujer que respiraba luz su compositora
this made me cry.
I got this from the library when I was a kid and sight read it perfectly the first time.
This music is perfect for art and slow dance
Mesmerizing performance!!!!
And I liked the visualisation of how all the adults turned into children at the end.....
Everyone was captivated by this piece because they all know every note of it. It is a "simple" piece we may all know by heart and yet moved by how Lang Lang presented it beautifully.
Lang Lang has amazing touch and finger control. Goals.
What an unutterably sweet and moving presentation. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Himmlische Musik 😊👌
ПРЕЛЕСТНЫЙ ..СО СВОИМИ ОЩУЩЕНИЯМИ ИСПОЛНИТЕЛЬ...ЯРКИЙ,РАЗНЫЙ,УМНИЦА.
The most beautiful interpretation of this piece by Bach. Thanks a lot Lang Lang. I would be very pleased to hear you in live.
This song is compatible for beginners and all it need is just a little emotion
Delay in the chord at 0:39 after the first tone. Right?
Bravo Mr Lang Lang😊✌️
Astonishing perfection, natural and human emotion.
This video made me cry. It's a good thing.
This piece should be more popular than Pachelbel
One of the best performances of this piece,
We are all so proud of you and love you.
This is so beautiful!
Wonderful Lang Lang
I like this classical music classical music is my favorite And music just love it ❤❤❤❤
The Mentalist, thank you!🤍
와..뭐지..피아노가 완전 다른 거라고 생각될 정도로 다른 연주들이랑 차원이 다르다...그리고 랑랑 연주는 처음 듣는데(이름만 들어봄.), 되게 젊네..
Normalmente no me gustan los vídeos que hacen para piezas clásicas y prefiero ver al pianista simplemente tocar, pero esta producción es sencillamente emocionante.
Just beautiful.
the concept behind this video is brilliant
I have 9 years old and I play this in the piano.
I like this music
Lo que transmite esta musica e interpretacion maravillosa esta perfectamente reflejado en el clip y en mi ser. 👏💖
Thank you 🙏!
Isen't it the best version of the prelude? YES IT IS
No I've seen others that played it better...
The tones are very gentle and beautiful.
Music brings everyone together！🌈
therapist: "it's just a piano performance, it can't hurt you."
the piano performance:
That little silence at the end of the piece is just as much a part of the music. The audience by respecting that pause actually 'performs' part of the music.
Classics of the Classical Genre
This particular piece brings Deja Vu out of a first-time listener... Bach was clearly infusing human archetypical state into the keyboard
Lang Lang is really the best in the world, his feelings when he performs is so deeply!!
One of the most beautiful video I've seen in classical music