I love Kempf playing Bach! A beautiful playing technique combined with heart and soul. His playing touches my innermost. I ususally miss these things in today‘s world-class pianists.
One of the finest of his craft - and in his tender reading very humane - and not full of glittering bravado as so many young "virtousi" today. Less glamour - and more substance would do the music world good today.
I completely agree with the praise for Kempf, but I doubt that there was really more "substance and less glamour" in the world of yesterday than in the modern one, although we certainly have our unique set of problems. There was plenty of shallow nonsense back then, but most of it has been filtered through the sieve of time, which is probably why, for example, a good deal of Liszt's compositions are not performed frequently anymore.
@@raymondgood2359 - Nonsense. You need to learn to listen deeply. He has a large body of wonderful piano work. You probably don't know them because you've dismissed Liszt as "shallow".
Maybe Mr Kempff’s style differs from today’s standards, but Bach spoke to him and he responded accordingly within his own frame of reference, just as everyone must. In today’s times we also appreciate the viewpoints of artists whose interpretations are quite different, but Bach was so gifted that his music transcends such differences. Some have said that not only was Bach the greatest composer who ever lived, but is the greatest composer who ever will live. Thank you for providing this reminder!
Wilhelm Kempff was 80 years old in 1975. He had lived through two world wars. He shared personal wisdom and vulnerability with us in these brilliant mature performances.
In the "Composer's Room" in Our Father's Kingdom of Heaven, all the composers sit around, chat, give subtle hints to today's young composers and enjoy each other's company. When Bach enters, they all go silent, rise and not sit again until J.S. has picked his spot and taken his own seat.
Какое вдохновенное и проникновенное исполнение! С первых звуков - весь мир - МУЗЫКА Баха. Даже дышать перестала, боясь пропустить мелодию. Поклон низкий и БЛАГОДАРНОСТЬ безмерная за размещение роика в сети!! Мир мелодий Баха - это мир нашего ВЕЧНОГО БЫТИЯ!!!
I noticed the EXQUISITE Gluck - one of the loveliest melodies ever written- and wondered whether Kempff was most beautifully teasing us. His rendition is unsurpassable. 90 year old from Australia.
Гениальный исполнитель всех времён и народов! Никто кроме него не может так глубоко проникнуть в музыку, пропитаться ею, дышать и жить произведением, которое исполняешь. Поразительный человек. Громадное ему спасибо за такое представление и прочтение, и преподнесение музыки величайших композиторов! До конца своей долгой жизни он делился с нами своим видением мира звуков. Спасибо автору, что поделился с нами записями исполнения музыкальных произведений этим добрым и мудрым человеком.
Classical music is not just about the notes; it's about the stories and emotions woven into each piece. The way a simple melody can convey a range of feelings is truly remarkable. It's a form of art that speaks directly to the heart.
Très heureux de retrouver cette belle musique que j'écoutais en boucle sur la K7 de mon autoradio pendant mes trajets en voiture Verdun Paris , quelle belle interprétation que je retrouvais nulle part ailleurs : la K7 a fini par s'user et les larmes me montent aux yeux d'avoir retrouvé cette musique apaisante et qui me rappelle de merveilleux souvenirs! Merci à On The Top of Damavand for ever d'avoir mis en ligne ces extraordinaires moments musicaux!
Просто удивительные записи! Драгоценные! Бесконечной красоты мощи и великолепия произведения и транскрипции !!! Слава Богу за такую музыку! Хочется петь хвалящие Творца слова кантат пока их так блестяще играет Вилиам Кемпф! Браво!
This great master has been overshadowed in recent years by more showy younger pianists. But his interpretations are always absolutely authentic and within the style of whatever composer he is playing. I have recently rediscovered his complete Schubert sonata cycle and cannot imagine how it could ever be bettered.
Thank you for this wonderful playlist. Such a refreshing change in an age of 'typewriter' Bach. Such tone and wonderful phrasing with tempi that allow the music to breath. I can't agree with other comments here re Liszt's music. Kempff himself played Liszt and the view of Liszt as some kind of charlatan has long been put aside. Liszt himself knew his direction had to change from the one of travelling virtuoso in the 1830s. He responded with compositions that are as honest about the nature of art in music as anything from other sources.
Benjamin Briten thought Brahms a 'terrible composer" -- what one composer thinks of another is interesting but has little objective value. A great composer has a very defined view of what is good or beautiful and other composers who don't fit their mould get slandered by them.
Kempff made some wonderful recordings of Liszt's music. Two Legends and Annees de Pelerinage in particular. I believe on set dates from the 1950s and the second t the 1970s when Kempff had turned 80.
I doubt that Brahms was aware of the entirety of Liszt's output... Liszt is sadly known today for 2 or 3 showoff piano pieces but you shall be impressed he also composed Masses, Choral Music, symphonic music, chamber music, Opera, organ music, piano and violin music, lieder, and in his late years Liszt practically became somewhat of an avant-garde artist playing with exotic harmony, parallel fifth based compositions and even atonality. He was incredibly prolific. Liszt is one of my all time favorite composers.
If only Bach could have had a modern piano at his disposal, this might be a sample of something he might have done with it. Compare this to various organists’ interpretations. My favorite is Ton Koopman’s interpretation, but several others’ might be rated just as highly by other listeners. It’s a real tribute to Bach that this and many other of his works can be so inspiring in so many different ways. Even Bach’s title of this piece is a fitting description of what he meant this to say to the listener.
Funny that with all of that beautiful music and the fact that Bach is pretty much the top of the mountain of great composers, the most replayed part of this video is the Gluck transcription (which is also beautiful).
I never knew Emperor Palpatine was such a brilliant pianist. All jokes aside, this is some really beautiful playing. I need to listen to more of Kempff's performances/recordings.
Recuerdo la presentación de Whilhelm Kempff en México en el muy lejano año ya de 1981 en Bellas Artes. Yo tenía 13 años. Maravilloso ejecutante de Bach.
Brilhante! Infelizmente, como muitas vezes acontece, nem todos têm o tempo que merecerism. O gentil Kempf teve de ver quantos amigos e grandes intelectuais, seus ouvintes, sumiram ou deixaram a amada Alemanha.
Somehow this poem by Goethe came to mind: Wanderer's Night Song Hushed on the hill Is the breeze; Scarce by the zephyr The trees Softly are pressed; The woodbird's asleep on the bough. Wait, then, and thou Soon wilt find rest.
I am fortunate to have the double CD which contains all these pieces, excerpts from the WTC and various other Bach pieces by this most unshowy pianist.
Исполняет без всякой чувствености,наверное как и задумал Бах-просто и возвышенно.У Глена Гольда есть какая-то чувственность в исполнении и это на мой взгляд искажает суть этого произведения.
Unvergesslich die Konzerte, die Kempff alljährlich abseits des großen Musikbetriebs in der intimen Atmosphäre von Schloss Warthausen bei Biberach gab ...
@@uliwidmaier5192 Kempff, seit den 20er Jahren befreundet mit der Pianistin Sibylle Freiin von Koenig-Warthausen, an der Musikhochschule Stuttgart einst seine Meisterschülerin und später meine Klavierlehrerin, pflegte im Schloss jeden Sommer ein Konzert zu geben, zuletzt 1980. Seine Programme umfassten dabei ausschließlich Musik des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts. Einige Werke wirken in meiner Erinnerung besonders nachhaltig fort: Chromatische Fantasie und Fuge, Französische Suite G-Dur, Scarlatti, Beethoven-Sonaten op. 13, "Les Adieux", op. 109, 110, 111, Schubert B-Dur-Sonate, Schumann Kreisleriana, Romanzen, Vogel als Prophet, Chopin h-Moll-Sonate, Liszt Franziskus-Legenden, Brahms Intermezzi op.117 und natürlich seine eigenen, vom Publikum heißgeliebten Transkriptionen als Zugaben. Die Konzerte in familiärer Atmosphäre waren halböffentlich, es wurden Einladungen verschickt . . . Danke für Ihr Interesse!
![Bach + [Various]: Transcriptions (Weissenberg, Rösel, Bax, Grimaud, Glemser)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/exYK6Wzmh2g/mqdefault.jpg)
I love Kempf playing Bach! A beautiful playing technique combined with heart and soul. His playing touches my innermost. I ususally miss these things in today‘s world-class pianists.
I’ve played many of kempff’s transcriptions over the years. They have brought me many hours of joy. Kempff plays these pieces better than anyone!
This is a historic interpretation from one of the greatest all-time pianists!
One of the finest of his craft - and in his tender reading very humane - and not full of glittering bravado as so many young "virtousi" today. Less glamour - and more substance would do the music world good today.
I completely agree with the praise for Kempf, but I doubt that there was really more "substance and less glamour" in the world of yesterday than in the modern one, although we certainly have our unique set of problems. There was plenty of shallow nonsense back then, but most of it has been filtered through the sieve of time, which is probably why, for example, a good deal of Liszt's compositions are not performed frequently anymore.
you are too kind to liszt the king of shallowness
A couple of new names from today could be Alexander Melnikov and Alasdair Beatson in my opinion
@@raymondgood2359 -
Nonsense. You need to learn to listen deeply. He has a large body of wonderful piano work. You probably don't know them because you've dismissed Liszt as "shallow".
@@Ennah08 Alexandra Dovgan
Es gibt wenig, was mir in freudiger Demut wunderbare Tränen in die Augen treiben kann. Kempff‘s Spiel kann esY Danke für den Upload!!
Maybe Mr Kempff’s style differs from today’s standards, but Bach spoke to him and he responded accordingly within his own frame of reference, just as everyone must. In today’s times we also appreciate the viewpoints of artists whose interpretations are quite different, but Bach was so gifted that his music transcends such differences. Some have said that not only was Bach the greatest composer who ever lived, but is the greatest composer who ever will live. Thank you for providing this reminder!
Совершенство, граничащее с гениальностью !!!
Wilhelm Kempff was 80 years old in 1975. He had lived through two world wars. He shared personal wisdom and vulnerability with us in these brilliant mature performances.
In the "Composer's Room" in Our Father's Kingdom of Heaven, all the composers sit around, chat, give subtle hints to today's young composers and enjoy each other's company.
When Bach enters, they all go silent, rise and not sit again until J.S. has picked his spot and taken his own seat.
Какое вдохновенное и проникновенное исполнение! С первых звуков - весь мир - МУЗЫКА Баха. Даже дышать перестала, боясь пропустить мелодию. Поклон низкий и БЛАГОДАРНОСТЬ безмерная за размещение роика в сети!! Мир мелодий Баха - это мир нашего ВЕЧНОГО БЫТИЯ!!!
Qual o nome da musica
I noticed the EXQUISITE Gluck - one of the loveliest melodies ever written- and wondered whether Kempff was most beautifully teasing us. His rendition is unsurpassable. 90 year old from Australia.
Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, FANTASTIC!
Lob sei Gott!
@@borahkang7679fuck no
Bach est éternel, Kempff l'est aussi. Leur rencontre ne pouvait donc qu'être sublime
The most beautiful music of history..., Eternal Bach
Гениальный исполнитель всех времён и народов! Никто кроме него не может так глубоко проникнуть в музыку, пропитаться ею, дышать и жить произведением, которое исполняешь. Поразительный человек. Громадное ему спасибо за такое представление и прочтение, и преподнесение музыки величайших композиторов! До конца своей долгой жизни он делился с нами своим видением мира звуков.
Спасибо автору, что поделился с нами записями исполнения музыкальных произведений этим добрым и мудрым человеком.
Kempff. Bach. Instant like. Listening now.
Hervorragend interpretiert von einem Meisterpianisten.
Classical music is not just about the notes; it's about the stories and emotions woven into each piece. The way a simple melody can convey a range of feelings is truly remarkable. It's a form of art that speaks directly to the heart.
Same with any music, of course
Très heureux de retrouver cette belle musique que j'écoutais en boucle sur la K7 de mon autoradio pendant mes trajets en voiture Verdun Paris , quelle belle interprétation que je retrouvais nulle part ailleurs : la K7 a fini par s'user et les larmes me montent aux yeux d'avoir retrouvé cette musique apaisante et qui me rappelle de merveilleux souvenirs! Merci à On The Top of Damavand for ever d'avoir mis en ligne ces extraordinaires moments musicaux!
Grazie per la tua testimonianza, mi hai fatto viaggiare con la mente e col cuore ❤
How Wilhelm interprets those Bach transcriptions, I love it!
Well he should be good at them - they are his own transcriptions!
The Sicilienne is sublime. Kempff's arrangement and rendition is exquisite.
Bach is the music god.. i like kempff as his plaiyng is so simple but deep...
Heaven MUST be like this ♥♥♥♥♥
The Old Testament.
Masterfully played.
Merci.
Today i was listening to some old vinyl of his complete Schumann piano works. This man was a marvel...
His playing warms my soul...truly beautiful interpretations of these Bach works. The lyricism is perfection.
Thank you so much. I listen to this over and over.
Kempff l'antidivo, una personalità amediatica. Non dimentichiamolo, è stato un gigante.
Просто удивительные записи! Драгоценные! Бесконечной красоты мощи и великолепия произведения и транскрипции !!! Слава Богу за такую музыку! Хочется петь хвалящие Творца слова кантат пока их так блестяще играет Вилиам Кемпф! Браво!
Спасибо! Красиво сказано! 👍
This great master has been overshadowed in recent years by more showy younger pianists. But his interpretations are always absolutely authentic and within the style of whatever composer he is playing. I have recently rediscovered his complete Schubert sonata cycle and cannot imagine how it could ever be bettered.
Вильгельм Кампф гений, его не возможно затмить.
.. except Brendel.
The beauty of clarity and simplicity, I love it. When you fathom the essence everything becomes accessible, open. A great rendition!
simple clarity is just perfection revealing itself
Mais comment peut on passer à côté de cette merveille ! !Merci UA-cam.
Great. ❤️ True master of interpreting the Master 🙏❤️🙏
Ahh control, calm, contemplative, a slight reticence perfect tone. I needed this. Thank you!
What words cannot express music can.
William Kempff is in touch with the angels and of corse Bach this is pure poetry
I just adore this. Thank you so much.
Спасибо большое! Потрясающе! Здесь есть все для Души, успокоения, умиротворения, любви! Божественная музыка!
Sto.
Dwesti.
잠못이루는 요즘ᆢ이 아침을 바로크시대로 보내주셨네요ㅜㅜ
제 마음의평화 ᆢ 너므 감사드립니다~^^
MERCI quelle grace MERCI J,adore !!!!
I love the tone of the piano as well as the interpretation. . Heaven.. can this play for 24/7
Obnoxious commercials in the middle of this heavenly music is a CRIME
Thats why I bought Premium... now I enjoy 24x7 uninterrupted
You have a way to avoid it it is to subscribe and it's wort it believe me
sorry worth it
thanks for this upload.
Grazie per aver condiviso questo magnifico concerto. Raro trovare questi magnifici pezzi riuniti tutti assieme.
Thank you for this wonderful playlist. Such a refreshing change in an age of 'typewriter' Bach. Such tone and wonderful phrasing with tempi that allow the music to breath. I can't agree with other comments here re Liszt's music. Kempff himself played Liszt and the view of Liszt as some kind of charlatan has long been put aside. Liszt himself knew his direction had to change from the one of travelling virtuoso in the 1830s. He responded with compositions that are as honest about the nature of art in music as anything from other sources.
dear walter, you of course know what brahms thought of liszt's music- it was only good for putting one to sleep!!
Benjamin Briten thought Brahms a 'terrible composer" -- what one composer thinks of another is interesting but has little objective value. A great composer has a very defined view of what is good or beautiful and other composers who don't fit their mould get slandered by them.
Kempff made some wonderful recordings of Liszt's music. Two Legends and Annees de Pelerinage in particular. I believe on set dates from the 1950s and the second t the 1970s when Kempff had turned 80.
I doubt that Brahms was aware of the entirety of Liszt's output... Liszt is sadly known today for 2 or 3 showoff piano pieces but you shall be impressed he also composed Masses, Choral Music, symphonic music, chamber music, Opera, organ music, piano and violin music, lieder, and in his late years Liszt practically became somewhat of an avant-garde artist playing with exotic harmony, parallel fifth based compositions and even atonality. He was incredibly prolific. Liszt is one of my all time favorite composers.
I like those remarks about Liszt. He would have loved this performance.
This is divine.
Really beautiful interpretations, performances and piano.
I've never heard "In dulci jubilo" like this; magical.
There is no Chorale more beautiful than this...31:42 : Choral-Prelude ''Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ'' (BWV 639)
Maybe only Nun komm der heiden heiland.. but You are right, this is more beautiful..
If only Bach could have had a modern piano at his disposal, this might be a sample of something he might have done with it. Compare this to various organists’ interpretations. My favorite is Ton Koopman’s interpretation, but several others’ might be rated just as highly by other listeners. It’s a real tribute to Bach that this and many other of his works can be so inspiring in so many different ways. Even Bach’s title of this piece is a fitting description of what he meant this to say to the listener.
@@herbertmasing Thank you!
It's my all time favorite!
This is glorious!
Music is healing ❤️🩹 my soul…
Очень теплое и тонкое с массой нюансов исполнение! Наслаждение слушать это!!!
Thanks again.
Funny that with all of that beautiful music and the fact that Bach is pretty much the top of the mountain of great composers, the most replayed part of this video is the Gluck transcription (which is also beautiful).
26:52〜
I love this music!How beautiful!
Emocionante !!! Quando vi estava ouvindo e chorando ❤
It beggars belief! Thank you so much for posting it!!!
I never knew Emperor Palpatine was such a brilliant pianist.
All jokes aside, this is some really beautiful playing. I need to listen to more of Kempff's performances/recordings.
His Beethoven sonatas recordings are what he's probably best known for.
Let the music flow through you... Gooood
The piano transcription of Bach's works is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural...
Я слушала,но меня не было:
Я растворилась в звуках
музыки.
Благодарю!!!
Recuerdo la presentación de Whilhelm Kempff en México en el muy lejano año ya de 1981 en Bellas Artes. Yo tenía 13 años. Maravilloso ejecutante de Bach.
que bello poder verlo.en vivo a los 13 años!!
Qué afortunado fuiste! Siempre quise escucharlo en vivo.
Superb played Bach.HR
Pura belleza. Gracias.
10:56 31:41
生きることが苦しかった高校生の頃、毎晩これらの演奏を聴いて泣いていました。今でもこの演奏は私の人生とともにあります。
Ato San kokoro❤o tsuyoku shite kudsail. Kamisama ga tomo ni imasu 😊
@@helmutmetzger2071
とても嬉しいです🌸🌸
ありがとう🌙✧︎*
I'm fortunate to have stumbled on these masterpieces. Thank you for posting.
Der Klang des Instruments verleiht Gravitas zur hervorragenden musikalischem Ausdruck. Danke für’s Upload.
Brilhante! Infelizmente, como muitas vezes acontece, nem todos têm o tempo que merecerism. O gentil Kempf teve de ver quantos amigos e grandes intelectuais, seus ouvintes, sumiram ou deixaram a amada Alemanha.
I admire his rendering of "Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" so much!
Somehow this poem by Goethe came to mind:
Wanderer's Night Song
Hushed on the hill
Is the breeze;
Scarce by the zephyr
The trees
Softly are pressed;
The woodbird's asleep on the bough.
Wait, then, and thou
Soon wilt find rest.
captivating,,,,and haunting,,,,,stirs the soul
I am fortunate to have the double CD which contains all these pieces, excerpts from the WTC and various other Bach pieces by this most unshowy pianist.
Crisp and tidy playing, a great way to wind down on a grey Xmas Day 2022
深思熟慮，游刃有餘，實乃名演，非常感謝。
true!
Belíssima interpretação!!
Thank you as always.
Que bárbaro que bien toca este wey!!!
Stunning !
Great performances, so hard to find these days among so many technically flawless but very insipid and uninspired performances of more recent origin.
Many thanks for so many new and wonderful experiences.
Bach is truth
Исполняет без всякой чувствености,наверное как и задумал Бах-просто и возвышенно.У Глена Гольда есть какая-то чувственность в исполнении и это на мой взгляд искажает суть этого произведения.
Thank you
Kempff! 🤗
Beautiful
shiny and gorgeous 🍁🍂
I adore! Thanks
Unvergesslich die Konzerte, die Kempff alljährlich abseits des großen Musikbetriebs in der intimen Atmosphäre von Schloss Warthausen bei Biberach gab ...
Davon wusste ich leider nichts, sonst waere ich hingefahren. Koennen Sie mehr davon erzaehlen? Was hat er da gespielt?
@@uliwidmaier5192 Kempff, seit den 20er Jahren befreundet mit der Pianistin Sibylle Freiin von Koenig-Warthausen, an der Musikhochschule Stuttgart einst seine Meisterschülerin und später meine Klavierlehrerin, pflegte im Schloss jeden Sommer ein Konzert zu geben, zuletzt 1980. Seine Programme umfassten dabei ausschließlich Musik des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts. Einige Werke wirken in meiner Erinnerung besonders nachhaltig fort: Chromatische Fantasie und Fuge, Französische Suite G-Dur, Scarlatti, Beethoven-Sonaten op. 13, "Les Adieux", op. 109, 110, 111, Schubert B-Dur-Sonate, Schumann Kreisleriana, Romanzen, Vogel als Prophet, Chopin h-Moll-Sonate, Liszt Franziskus-Legenden, Brahms Intermezzi op.117 und natürlich seine eigenen, vom Publikum heißgeliebten Transkriptionen als Zugaben. Die Konzerte in familiärer Atmosphäre waren halböffentlich, es wurden Einladungen verschickt . . . Danke für Ihr Interesse!
Yo lo comparo como los maestros de la musica clasica excepcional!
cheer magic ..speechless and tearful
Wilhelm Kempff in a state of grace
O, Jésus, que ma Joie demeure!
le titre original de bach et : que jesus demeure ma joie , le sens en et totalement diferent !pierre xavier de chassot .
Bram beekman heeft dit het mooist gespeeld voor mij in Middelburg op het orgel in de Oostkerk.
Wat een genot moet dat zijn geweest
Divino!
how he brings out the voices, and his phrasing...
Heavenly
감사히 잘 듣습니다
Cały piękny świat! Jaka szkoda, że już odszedł!
MARAVILLOSA¡¡¡ KEMPFF ESPIRITUAL¡¡¡¡
When music sounds so simple
Simplicity is the ultimate goal.
if you try to play it... it's not so easy
wonderful, just necessary, nothing more, nothing less than sheer beauty. Last piece is Gluck, by the way, not Bach ....
Vedi che è scritto ;)
Wunderbar
He was 79 years old in 1975!
Мой любимый пианист
Herr Klumfut puts the ball in from the wing and Herr Starlight buries the ball into the net. A German in a moment of joy.