@@OpenGoldberg I'm in love with it. My chefs in kitchen find it amazing I love to listen to classical while I prep, sadly not on while cooking lol. I'm trying to get myself more involved with symphony just so busy with kid and work. I tell myself if I came into alot if cash I will retire and tour Europe alone for 6 months just seeing symphony. Be so nice. Anyways cheers and take care and bon appetit.
Kimiko Ishizaka is an interesting person. Not only a professional concert pianist, she's an Olympic weightlifter & powerlifter. So she's the only pianist in the world who can perform the Goldberg Variations at a concert-level caliber, then carry her piano to the next performance.
My 18yr old dog left this world and sent this music to comfort me. As I was listening this in the car crying, it was as if she was speaking to me how she felt about each season of her life, ultimately telling me things were good so I must let it go and accept the absolute and embrace the unkown as she’ll always be around.
How the actual F*CK did Bach do this. Almost 90 whole minutes of variations in the same key, same harmonic progressions, by all accounts it should bore us all to tears. Instead, you don't want it to end. It's absolutely mind blowing to me, the work of a true genius. Bach was a miracle.
yes he really was a genius writing sublime exquisite music for us all even today........I am a classical musician and I never tire of playing the wonderful music which is comforting, beautiful and speaks to the soul all at once. I am so grateful he wrote so much wonderful music
@@joha4574 Thanks for that. Though the key seems to be either G or G minor. In fact, isn't it safe to say that 'harmonic progressions' were not so prevalent in music like this, but rather that counterpoint approaches harmony in a completely different way? Other than the typical I-IV-V ending to most pieces Bach didn't really write in a way that you can analyze his music in that way, especially not where counterpoint is most prevalent, as in fugues. I tried one time writing out the chord relationships in some of his music. It's pretty much impossible with all the constant key changes, modes, and modulations. It very quickly makes no sense doing it that way.
I think regardless of age or era if a person truly enjoys good music they'll love it when they hear it. Masterpieces like this are simply sublime to listen to and relax with.
Funny how 351 people were so blinded by tears over how beautiful this is that they managed to miss the like button and accidentally click the dislike button instead!
Every morning when I'm waking up , I listen these splendid Goldberg Variations played by Kimiko Ishizaka and it's a such wonderful moment to be happy all day long ...
This version, performed by Kikiko Ishizaka on piano, is the one I think of when The Goldberg Variations comes to mind. Engaging, high-energy, faultless and at times electrifying interpretation of this epic piece. My favorite rendition. Thanks, Ishikazaka-chan and props also to OpenGoldberg for making this track (w/scoring!) so available.
Many friends suggested me some recordings from other famous piano players like Glenn Gould, but I never found a version played with the grace and profound sensibility and respect for this work of Bach than Kimiko Goldberg Variations. Thank you Mrs Ishizaka.
Watching the sheet dance to THE GREATEST PIECE OF MUSIC ever conceived by a human mind is by far one of my greatest joys. It is the complexity of life personified.
A time ago, I went to a psychiatrist. He was recommended by a friend. I thought that I do not need any psychiatric help, but it turned out that it was great to talk to a person, who was intelligent and understood my feelings. I told him everything. Then we had dinner for two. The fava beans were very delicious. Especially the liver of a pig, that was exquisite. We talked about music. He also enjoyed classical music and recommended me to listen to Goldberg Variations. The doctor brought me here, but I stay for the musical masterpiece.
3:12 to 3:34 for me is an example of human perfection both Bach's composition and Kimiko's performance. It is just heaven, sheer perfection, so utterly beautiful that words arguably fail at this point and one just has to stop and marvel at how this was humanly possible.
@@matthew2h2o40 music such as this, absolutely is the highest form of art. Sound being the perfect medium to create healing through vibration and composers of this era understood this, by incorporating 3:6:9 ratio's in sound and music.
I absolutely love baroque period music. I listen to it when im working on a difficult project and going to bed. It helps soothe my ptsd and depression from military service and clear the bad thoughts from my head.
@@matdyke5046 Thank you for your service. I totally agree about Baroque music helping soothe and clear away bad thoughts! The only issue for me when listening to Baroque while working is that I get so delighted by a part here and a part there that I stop concentrating, LOL!
Ein Trost, zu sehen wieviele kultivierte Menschen dass es gibt. Komponisten und Interpreten auf diesem Niveau genießen zu dürfen ist ein Segen und führt uns auf den richtigen Weg - danke für dieses Angebot!
All interpretations have got their value. I listen almost every day to them in order to enjoy this wonderful piece of music. The versions of Glenn Gould, Lang Lang and Andras Schiff give me best impressions.
Regarding our beloved Patron and Saint J.S.B, this Wonderful Artist, Kimiko Ishizaka, is the most refreshing apperance on earth since Glenn Gould! And being myself a great fan of the Canadian Master, I can say that Ishizaka rendition, both of the Golberg variations and of the Well Tempered Clavier, are even more enjoyable for me than anyone's else! Thank you!!!! Thank you!!!! THANK YOU! You are bringing Heaven to Earth!
Kimiko Ishizaka's performance is stellar. I always use this recording to help me sleep, but for once, it is marvellous to hear everything while awake. Bach's genius in the Goldberg Variations never fails to amaze me. How one man could hear these marvellous sounds-- and apparently did not compose using a harpsichord-- beggars belief!
And thank you! It's definitely a piece for a lifetime. You might be interested to know that I've begun composing my own music. This video is the first piece I've published on TH-cam. Hope you like it! th-cam.com/video/-KGhylecT5w/w-d-xo.html
Absolutely impossible for anyone other than Bach to write this, and anyone other than Kimiko Ishizaka to play this. I am crying, gasping, and screaming all simultaneously.
OK, this is like the best thing I've ever heard. I've listened to this like 8 times in three days. This is really, really good. Bach, Kimiko Ishizako, this is pure. Thank you. Awesome upload too, love the marker.
Gould's rendition is more idyosincratic, as everything he did. Ishizakas's is the most near to perfection.One hears,and hears and it is almost unbelievable! What a Joy!
Hi, there! Ever since I first studied J. S. Bach as a teenager, I fell absolutely in love with his music. To this day, after having heard and played many other composers ans styles of music, the Old Bach is still my favorite composer, hands down. His music is absolutely intoxicating and intense, and vibrant, and expressive, and... well, you get my point. Mrs. Ishizaka, an absolutely master pianist as she is, has produced a masterwork performance. Ever since I heard her play, I just loved her expressiveness and lush tone. Also, she has a beautiful imagination that reinvigorates this age-old music, and even pleasantly surprises you here and there. This is no typewriter-style performance, by no means! Let's face it: Bach's music is the most immediate artistic production ever created: it immediately mesmerizes your mind and impacts your soul in ways no other artist can. And the Goldbergs... well, the Golbergs are the Golbergs, man! Mrs. Ishizaka has let this music sing by itself, without any sentimentality whatsoever, with great clarity in the contrapuntal texture, bravura in the fast movements, and deep, soulful expression throughout, but especially in the minor movements. Thank you, Mrs. Ishizaka! This recording is a gift to humanity!
I agree with you: it is very difficult to play Bach without making it become a display of fireworks... the temptation is always there, specially in the aria, which is the most demanding part artistically, though I would say not technically, in my most humble and unaothorized opinion. Ishizaka achieves it, and brilliantly: Not a single stroke of the fingers on the keyboard is superfluous.
Seriously Bach makes most composers, even celebrated ones look and sound so shallow it's ridiculous. I was saying to my wife today that it seems Bach in Music is not really paralleled in any other art - in literature one might say Shakespeare, but then, there is not really enough of it; in painting - Rembrandt? He doesn't have the same stature. Maybe Michelangelo in sculpture? Anyway, you get where I'm going... what are other thoughts on this?
@Deborah To learn from a great mind does not make one inferior to one's example. Beethoven learned from Haydn and Albrechtsberger a.o. but exeeded them all by far. Admitted, JSB is to be singled out among all composers.
Att som icke musikutbildad försöka följa med i denna fantastiska ljudexplosion blev en upplevelse som aldrig försvinner. Att läsa noter skall hädanefter bliva min musik.Bach äger.
Someone once told me if the examiner at your graduation from conservatory wants you to shine, he sets you Bach. If he wants to shoot you down in flames, he sets you Bach.
I quite like having the on-screen synchronisation. It helps me to recall my sight-reading, which has become very rusty over the many years since I was able to do so! Thank you for adding this facility.
Tavan Shah, it's several softwares in the end. First, the score was made with MuseScore. Then it was prepared as an iPad App by the MuseScore team who custom made the synchronization between the score and the music. I then recorded the iPad app as a video using the "Reflector" program for Mac OS X.
I understand why Hannibal listens to to this when he's preparing the feast. I listen to the same music....but excuse me now. I have some friends for dinner.
Okay, first you explain why Hannibal listens to it before killing those cops. In the book it's written he loves the structure of the music as Starling observes or hears him say...
I've listened to these countless times and I can play a few of them, but this was the first time I listened while looking at the entire score. It's quite an experience. Thanks.
Ya sure done said a lot wid only a few of them fancy words like those kids at the university n i reckon my boss at da' castle. Whenever he gets to obsessin' over reanimating the dead like dat crazy Dr. fellow in ReAnimater, listenin' to Ishikaza always calms him down even better than that ol' chloroform rag he takes a big whiff on every now and then.
Bach (and other baroque composers) were actually capable of writing "happy" music. www.britannica.com/art/doctrine-of-the-affections When it comes to later music, eg. Romantic, you have to be suspicious of happy sounding music, because it's probably just trying to lift you up a bit before it smashes you onto the cold rocks below. I feel that some of the pieces in the Well-Tempered Clavier, for example, are pure joy.
@@Kimiko-piano I only listen to baroque, since i feel that what came after are just sound effects without depth. In contrast, many baroque composers had this mystical quality of eternity that I find so appealing. It revolves around our short life in relation to infinite time, and the related sadness. Bach is of course the grand master, the harmonies and dissonances are at a cosmic level.
I was brought here by the book "Call me by your name". Elio plays goldberg variations at a bar in Rome. I'm totally glad that i searched this and getting into the atmosphere of the book.
I can't get enough of this beautiful sound Btw I was brought here neither by Bach nor a movie/book, but by music history classes WE NEED MORE MUSICOLOGY CLASSES IN SCHOOLS
I once read about an experiment: a school class was divided into two parts. In the first part they didn't change anything (a reference group), in the second one they studied less maths, chemistry, physics (all the "serious" and "necessary" subjects) and more music, art, physical education etc. (all this "soft" and "unnecessary" stuff). The scientists wanted to see how much would the second part of students stay behind the first part in maths, science etc. The result shocked them: the second part became BETTER in "serious" subjects. They had less classes of maths, chemistry, physics etc., but they succeeded in these subjects better, because they had more classes of music, art and PE. We DREADFULLY need to study more "soft" subjects - more music, music history, art, sports - to be better in "hard" subjects. And, probably, in life in general.
@@MrTarlecon The older I get, the more I am getting sick of the over-emphasis on mathematics and science, and the devaluation of music. It does not reflect history at all: scholars of centuries past valued music and literature as highly as they did mathematics and science. The medieval French poet Eustache Deschamps said the seven essential arts were: grammar, logic, rhetoric, geometry, arithmetic, music, and astronomy. And didn't the Greek mathematician and philosopher (or the school of so designated), Pythagoras, determine important facts about octaves still used for stringed instruments today? The disrespect shown towards the arts is not only a sign of pure narrow-mindedness and, dare I say, outright stupidity, but also explains the equally narrow-minded echo chamber of online content today. The idea of art for art's sake has been replaced with turning every past-time into a "skill" to create a giant productivity contest in order to generate money. And our society is poorer for it.
This is a real gift to the world. I have her CD, and I like to follow along in the score. But to watch a dynamic score in real time is a boon for those, like me, have only just enough skill in reading music to enjoy, but not perform at this level.
Desde mi infinita ignorancia musical creo apreciar en la Variaciones Goldberg la más sublime transición posible del barroco al clásico. Aún siendo un apasionado de Bach nunca las había escuchado, ni en parte, con la atención y tranquilidad de hoy. ¡ Y pensar que podría haberme muerto antes de haberlas disfrutado! Una maravilla la presentación del video: no solo se oyen, sino que también se pueden "ver". Gracias.
Juan Ramón, si hubieras fallecido sin oírlas, las habrías escuchado en el Cielo, pues allí todo calla cuando las manos y el alma de la intérprete hablan !... Es la Música que suena mientras Gabriel crea Universos nuevos...
How wonderfully clean this recording is -- none of the vocal tics or misbehavior of Gould, no overblown reinterpretations of Bach -- just the original melodies, rendered on high quality gear with a high quality piano by a high quality performer. There is a reassuring mathematical purity to the recording. It is good to have.
This is a fantastic recording. The tempi are extremely well-chosen, her tone has a very whole/pure - Schiff-like quality (V.11 is, to me, particularly mesmerizing), and the voicing is exquisite (the voicing in V.5 & V.9 for example!). It's a shame the pianist isn't more popular, but to those of you who are interested, you should look her up. She has recorded the WTC and The Art of Fugue too.
Thank you, @Angelo B. I'm glad you mention the voicing - it's a big part of what makes each repeat in the variations special. This, and the other recordings you mentioned, can be downloaded freely from my music website: music.kimiko-piano.com And if you subscribe to my channel, (click on my user avatar), you'll get updates of my own compositions. The next release I will be making (soon!) is one of a set of songs I have written.
@@angelob.1089 I'll be recording and releasing a new album of songs I've written. If you want updates, join my mailing list: eepurl.com/-9uzf I only send mail when there's real news.
Yeah I agree. While Glenn Gould will probably always be the gold standard for me - both his early and later versions just hold so much - I do think she is really under-appreciated. She is a wholly remarkable performer.
The variations on 2 claviers played on a simple clavier of piano are always blowing my mind ! Well done Kimiko Ishizaka sensei and thank you OpenGoldberg to share sheets of this masterpiece
I’ve been listening to her Well Tempered Clavier and Goldberg Variations online for several years - one of the best recordings - not overly emotional - let’s the music speak for itself
9:11 . Now that's what I call a sexy bassline. Left hand for daaaaaaays! I aint kidding when I say Bach loved to tug with our emotions all the time. Each and every one of these pieces are genius in indescribable ways. Can you imagine spending your life on your own original masterpieces, dying, and seeing people hundreds of years later celebrating and praising you for it? Bach earned it. Let's listen again.
He wrote all his music to glorify the Lord and bring others to know and love Him. He didn't wish to become famous for himself, rather for the work and the way it praised the Lord.
Bach aced every style of music he composed in. I've listened to Beethoven and Brahms Variations and a lot more but no one comes near to the ingenuity of these. They are simple yet have such complex and creative ideas behind them (the canons in increasing intervalls). Also when I first heard this work, I didn't even realized that I was listening to Variations. This is the best indicator that the Variations are indeed good.
You do point out the great genius of J. S. Bach, his melodic genius allied to such harmonic confidence! Of course the rhythm is very good too, bouncing and yet smooth, so inventive. It seems like a rocket to me, going higher and higher!
@@Soyleonardito1 maybe Leonardo... I Know a ex Gobernor Esparza. Is a great man and good man... Thank you Leo. One embrace and good year for you and all yours.
This was played in the '81 film remake of "the day the earth stood still. Where Keeanu Reeves ( who plays an alien ) remarked that it 'was beautiful '. So even aliens find Bach's music 'beautiful'
@@Kimiko-piano I wish the best for your piano album and for you. I will be happy to be informed to buy it and to make it discover to my piano students. :)
Sophisicated, and passionated interpretation This is Truly good news from God that Bach with his imagination wings and Mis,Ishizuka, her hands brought to me. Thanks God who created a person like Bach in human.
0:00 Aria
5:00 Variation 1
6:57 Variation 2
9:03 Variation 3
11:00 Variation 4
12:10 Variation 5
13:44 Variation 6
15:22 Variation 7
17:35 Variation 8
19:31 Variation 9
21:38 Variation 10
23:24 Variation 11
25:33 Variation 12
27:49 Variation 13
32:04 Variation 14
34:20 Variation 15
38:54 Variation 16 "Ouverture"
42:03 Variation 17
43:47 Variation 18
45:37 Variation 19
47:03 Variation 20
49:08 Variation 21
53:02 Variation 22
54:36 Variation 23
56:55 Variation 24
59:41 Variation 25 ("Black Pearl" - slideshow)
1:09:01 Variation 26
1:11:03 Variation 27
1:12:55 Variation 28
1:15:20 Variation 29
1:17:30 Variation 30 "Quodlibet"
1:19:32 Aria da Capo
@@kryts27 yes yes very nice
Beautiful. Love this piece...
@@waynehowells6301 It feels nice to be united with so many people about how great the Goldberg Variations are =)
@@OpenGoldberg I'm in love with it. My chefs in kitchen find it amazing I love to listen to classical while I prep, sadly not on while cooking lol. I'm trying to get myself more involved with symphony just so busy with kid and work. I tell myself if I came into alot if cash I will retire and tour Europe alone for 6 months just seeing symphony. Be so nice. Anyways cheers and take care and bon appetit.
@@waynehowells6301 where is your kitchen?
Kimiko Ishizaka is an interesting person. Not only a professional concert pianist, she's an Olympic weightlifter & powerlifter.
So she's the only pianist in the world who can perform the Goldberg Variations at a concert-level caliber, then carry her piano to the next performance.
What a champion WOW
😂😂😂😂😂
Yes,yes! She can carry a tune, the piano, and demolish half the hall on her way out.
Yes! They call her
The Keyboard She-Hulk
Excellently put 🤣
My 18yr old dog left this world and sent this music to comfort me. As I was listening this in the car crying, it was as if she was speaking to me how she felt about each season of her life, ultimately telling me things were good so I must let it go and accept the absolute and embrace the unkown as she’ll always be around.
Sorry for your loss, and happy that the music could be of comfort to you. ❤️
I'm deeply sorry for your loss.
Your words make your loss so real😢 I hope you’ve found another love bug but she’s telling you that now you’re doing all right again🥰
Thank you for this beautiful generous comforting share. It too has a special place in my heart. ♥️
She is waiting for you on the other side of the rainbow. Ever faithful. Ever loving.
How the actual F*CK did Bach do this. Almost 90 whole minutes of variations in the same key, same harmonic progressions, by all accounts it should bore us all to tears. Instead, you don't want it to end. It's absolutely mind blowing to me, the work of a true genius. Bach was a miracle.
It's simply incredible. And then you have to consider all of the other works that he created that are equally incredible.
They are not all in the same key. What are you talking about? Neither are they the same harmonic progressions.
We all ask in awe. Maybe Quantum Computers will find out. If they are able to compose in such quality we make the next step beyond. Finish.
yes he really was a genius writing sublime exquisite music for us all even today........I am a classical musician and I never tire of playing the wonderful music which is comforting, beautiful and speaks to the soul all at once. I am so grateful he wrote so much wonderful music
@@joha4574 Thanks for that. Though the key seems to be either G or G minor. In fact, isn't it safe to say that 'harmonic progressions' were not so prevalent in music like this, but rather that counterpoint approaches harmony in a completely different way? Other than the typical I-IV-V ending to most pieces Bach didn't really write in a way that you can analyze his music in that way, especially not where counterpoint is most prevalent, as in fugues. I tried one time writing out the chord relationships in some of his music. It's pretty much impossible with all the constant key changes, modes, and modulations. It very quickly makes no sense doing it that way.
Judging by the comments it cheers me greatly that Bach is so much appreciated, even to this day.
I think regardless of age or era if a person truly enjoys good music they'll love it when they hear it. Masterpieces like this are simply sublime to listen to and relax with.
Always.
"Even to this day" ??????
What the hell does that mean!!!!!!!
Bach will be listened to with interest and appreciation for a long as there are people to listen.
Он не ручей, он - океан! (Mozart о Бахе).
Funny how 351 people were so blinded by tears over how beautiful this is that they managed to miss the like button and accidentally click the dislike button instead!
Every morning when I'm waking up , I listen these splendid Goldberg Variations played by Kimiko Ishizaka and it's a such wonderful moment to be happy all day long ...
You are a woman of very exquisite taste!
You are a wonderfull woman with a very good taste!
you might be a woman
Do you consume liver for breakfast?
Voudriez vous bien m'accorder cette danse 💃?
Have heard many interpretations of the Goldberg Variations, but I always come back to Kimiko's as my favourite. Beautifully played, and no ego. 😍
This is the most pure recording I've heard of this piece. It's nice to hear the variations without lots of ornamentation for once
Glad you like it!
Ditto. Although I prefer it on the harpsichord (or better yet Lautenwerk).
Agreed.
THIS pianist Is great. Really
@@EttorealbertoGelli-vr6sz Ishizaka is fantastic. I am blown away by her skill each time I return to this recording.
This version, performed by Kikiko Ishizaka on piano, is the one I think of when The Goldberg Variations comes to mind. Engaging, high-energy, faultless and at times electrifying interpretation of this epic piece. My favorite rendition. Thanks, Ishikazaka-chan and props also to OpenGoldberg for making this track (w/scoring!) so available.
J’admire toutes les œuvres de BACH jouées par Glenn GOULD, mais j’avoue que j’adore aussi cette interprétation de Kimiko ISHIZAKA 🥹🤍🥰🤍
Many friends suggested me some recordings from other famous piano players like Glenn Gould, but I never found a version played with the grace and profound sensibility and respect for this work of Bach than Kimiko Goldberg Variations. Thank you Mrs Ishizaka.
Thank you, Davide. Such a thoughtful and encouraging comment - I really appreciate it!
@M S yea.... nobody asked.... but ok
Well said, and I agree.
Agreed, 100%!!
Hi
The diversity of Bach music is infinite
Goldberg is full of joys and sorrows of the human world
Watching the sheet dance to THE GREATEST PIECE OF MUSIC ever conceived by a human mind is by far one of my greatest joys. It is the complexity of life personified.
A time ago, I went to a psychiatrist. He was recommended by a friend.
I thought that I do not need any psychiatric help, but it turned out that it was great to talk to a person, who was intelligent and understood my feelings.
I told him everything. Then we had dinner for two. The fava beans were very delicious. Especially the liver of a pig, that was exquisite.
We talked about music. He also enjoyed classical music and recommended me to listen to Goldberg Variations.
The doctor brought me here, but I stay for the musical masterpiece.
The reference passed over my head.
@@thenomad4606 What reference?
@@eliasmazhukin2009 I'm guessing a Hannibal one?
That was not pig.
@@thenomad4606 Hello, Clarice.
3:12 to 3:34 for me is an example of human perfection both Bach's composition and Kimiko's performance. It is just heaven, sheer perfection, so utterly beautiful that words arguably fail at this point and one just has to stop and marvel at how this was humanly possible.
Thank you for the kind words and appreciation. Bach is truly a marvel!
Indeed. A great composer would have ended that part in one measure. Bach used 6!
Wow!!!! Allora il PARADISO ESISTE ED ANCHE LA PERFEZIONE!!! DIO SI MANIFESTA
@@Kimiko-piano Thank YOU for this superlative performance of an iconic Bach composition!
Un délice cette musique. Tout le génie de Bach s'exprime dans ces variations ,qui nous transportent dans dans le rêve, et la joie.
This has the power to remove stress and depression. Music is a form of therapy.
Well it ain’t that powerful then
@@matthew2h2o40 ???
@@matthew2h2o40 music such as this, absolutely is the highest form of art. Sound being the perfect medium to create healing through vibration and composers of this era understood this, by incorporating 3:6:9 ratio's in sound and music.
I absolutely love baroque period music. I listen to it when im working on a difficult project and going to bed. It helps soothe my ptsd and depression from military service and clear the bad thoughts from my head.
@@matdyke5046 Thank you for your service. I totally agree about Baroque music helping soothe and clear away bad thoughts! The only issue for me when listening to Baroque while working is that I get so delighted by a part here and a part there that I stop concentrating, LOL!
Ein Trost, zu sehen wieviele kultivierte Menschen dass es gibt. Komponisten und Interpreten auf diesem Niveau genießen zu dürfen ist ein Segen und führt uns auf den richtigen Weg - danke für dieses Angebot!
Und ebenfalls ein Trost, von so netten Fans gehört und wahrgenommen zu werden! Ein frohes neues Jahr, @Manfred Lipp
Herzliche Grüße...!
Creo que no necesitas ser culto para admirar esta música sin querer que se detenga. Solo necesitas tener un espiritu sensible.....
All interpretations have got their value. I listen almost every day to them in order to enjoy this wonderful piece of music. The versions of Glenn Gould, Lang Lang and Andras Schiff give me best impressions.
Order, beauty, synchronicity, symmetry, it's simply perfect.
Yeah, it's definitely B.O.S.S.
Regarding our beloved Patron and Saint J.S.B, this Wonderful Artist, Kimiko Ishizaka, is the most refreshing apperance on earth since Glenn Gould! And being myself a great fan of the Canadian Master, I can say that Ishizaka rendition, both of the Golberg variations and of the Well Tempered Clavier, are even more enjoyable for me than anyone's else! Thank you!!!! Thank you!!!! THANK YOU! You are bringing Heaven to Earth!
And thank you, Manuel, for your kind words =)
She deserves so much more than my poor comments! Thank you for bringing her to all of us!
Koroliov does a good job too. However I have to agree with you , this is wonderful and to my ears light
Have you had a chance to listen to my own compositions on my channel? Check out the Blues Variations, for example.
Kimiko Ishizaka's performance is stellar. I always use this recording to help me sleep, but for once, it is marvellous to hear everything while awake. Bach's genius in the Goldberg Variations never fails to amaze me. How one man could hear these marvellous sounds-- and apparently did not compose using a harpsichord-- beggars belief!
Agree! So wonderful that history has given us this gem.
This is a brilliant addition to the Goldbergs, which have been my favorite music for more than 60 years now. Thank you!
And thank you! It's definitely a piece for a lifetime. You might be interested to know that I've begun composing my own music. This video is the first piece I've published on TH-cam. Hope you like it! th-cam.com/video/-KGhylecT5w/w-d-xo.html
Next to impossible to find music more pure than this
Darude Sandstorm is another good one, I think Bach wrote that as well actually
W h o l e s o m e
Seriously!? That garbage of a piece of "music"!? You might as well eat an entire record while you're at it, Brian!
Well put, Herald!
Brian Bernstein Knowing the context and seeing your comments on other vids with the same genr-- NICE ONE BRIAN!
Absolutely impossible for anyone other than Bach to write this, and anyone other than Kimiko Ishizaka to play this. I am crying, gasping, and screaming all simultaneously.
OK, this is like the best thing I've ever heard. I've listened to this like 8 times in three days. This is really, really good. Bach, Kimiko Ishizako, this is pure. Thank you. Awesome upload too, love the marker.
Glad you took the time to really get to know it!
@@Kimiko-piano your performance is really wonderful, thank you very much!
I have zero idea how these performances work, but whatever Kimiko Ishizaka does with the Goldberg Variations is magic.
Thank you!
Fimila. THIS pianist Is on Everest summit
Gould's rendition is more idyosincratic, as everything he did. Ishizakas's is the most near to perfection.One hears,and hears and it is almost unbelievable! What a Joy!
Agreed. And yes, one hears and hears again.
What humans can accomplish if they really stick to something like Bach did and do it with devotion and concentration like him...beautiful
Aria is one of the most beautiful things I ever encountered during my life time.
Hi, there! Ever since I first studied J. S. Bach as a teenager, I fell absolutely in love with his music. To this day, after having heard and played many other composers ans styles of music, the Old Bach is still my favorite composer, hands down. His music is absolutely intoxicating and intense, and vibrant, and expressive, and... well, you get my point. Mrs. Ishizaka, an absolutely master pianist as she is, has produced a masterwork performance. Ever since I heard her play, I just loved her expressiveness and lush tone. Also, she has a beautiful imagination that reinvigorates this age-old music, and even pleasantly surprises you here and there. This is no typewriter-style performance, by no means! Let's face it: Bach's music is the most immediate artistic production ever created: it immediately mesmerizes your mind and impacts your soul in ways no other artist can. And the Goldbergs... well, the Golbergs are the Golbergs, man! Mrs. Ishizaka has let this music sing by itself, without any sentimentality whatsoever, with great clarity in the contrapuntal texture, bravura in the fast movements, and deep, soulful expression throughout, but especially in the minor movements. Thank you, Mrs. Ishizaka! This recording is a gift to humanity!
Thank you, for your kind words! Keep enjoying the music.
Joel Seda congratulations sir
I agree with you: it is very difficult to play Bach without making it become a display of fireworks... the temptation is always there, specially in the aria, which is the most demanding part artistically, though I would say not technically, in my most humble and unaothorized opinion. Ishizaka achieves it, and brilliantly: Not a single stroke of the fingers on the keyboard is superfluous.
Seriously Bach makes most composers, even celebrated ones look and sound so shallow it's ridiculous. I was saying to my wife today that it seems Bach in Music is not really paralleled in any other art - in literature one might say Shakespeare, but then, there is not really enough of it; in painting - Rembrandt? He doesn't have the same stature. Maybe Michelangelo in sculpture? Anyway, you get where I'm going... what are other thoughts on this?
@Deborah To learn from a great mind does not make one inferior to one's example. Beethoven learned from Haydn and Albrechtsberger a.o. but exeeded them all by far. Admitted, JSB is to be singled out among all composers.
Att som icke musikutbildad försöka följa med i denna fantastiska ljudexplosion blev en upplevelse som aldrig försvinner. Att läsa noter skall hädanefter bliva min musik.Bach äger.
no matter what brought you here im happy that all of us were able to discover bach and this wonderful music!
Agree!
The first 5 minutes: quiet and philosophical. After 5 minutes - awakening, energy. The fine language of music!
Someone once told me if the examiner at your graduation from conservatory wants you to shine, he sets you Bach. If he wants to shoot you down in flames, he sets you Bach.
I quite like having the on-screen synchronisation. It helps me to recall my sight-reading, which has become very rusty over the many years since I was able to do so! Thank you for adding this facility.
Variation 16 is so majestic it cannot get out of my mind for a while, it also sounds great when played on a violin!
I was brought here by "Recommended for you". Glad my computer or TH-cam knows me so well.
Props to YT for good taste :D
Tavan Shah, it's several softwares in the end. First, the score was made with MuseScore. Then it was prepared as an iPad App by the MuseScore team who custom made the synchronization between the score and the music. I then recorded the iPad app as a video using the "Reflector" program for Mac OS X.
OpenGoldberg LOL!
+OpenGoldberg thankyou for this!
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lindo
Muito bonito.
Such a person will never walk the earth again... BACH!
Meraviglioso, queste variazioni sono di una freschezza ed unica di chi l 'ascolta ! Bach grazie di essere esistito!
I understand why Hannibal listens to to this when he's preparing the feast. I listen to the same music....but excuse me now. I have some friends for dinner.
Okay, first you explain why Hannibal listens to it before killing those cops. In the book it's written he loves the structure of the music as Starling observes or hears him say...
15:30
Ready when you are, Sgt. Pembry...
I like your good sense of humor!
You have friends for dinner? or you have friends for dinner??
@@charlesopels9676 I like this sense of humour too;)
I've listened to these countless times and I can play a few of them, but this was the first time I listened while looking at the entire score. It's quite an experience. Thanks.
I can never think of a list of the top ten geniuses in human history in all fields that excludes and still consider it a fair list.
I love this interpretation. Simple, elegant. She delivers the intent of the music, rather than drawing attention to herself
With her talent she can draw as much attention to herself as possible.
Yet her humility does not allow it.
Ya sure done said a lot wid only a few of them fancy words like those kids at the university n i reckon my boss at da' castle. Whenever he gets to obsessin' over reanimating the dead like dat crazy Dr. fellow in ReAnimater, listenin' to Ishikaza always calms him down even better than that ol' chloroform rag he takes a big whiff on every now and then.
Vivat for J.S.Bach ! and Bravo for Ms Kimiko Ishizaka !
Todo lo que componía este hombre es arte puro, sublime...adoro a Bach
coincidimos macarena
Prefiero macaroni a la macarena que es puro desastre.
So say we all!
Cuando escucho a Bach es el unico momento en que creo en extraterrestres.
Touching the divine through music. Breathtaking. One of my favorite pieces of his works .
Bach must've been in a happy period writing this. Pure joy.
it certainly makes me happy :)
Bach (and other baroque composers) were actually capable of writing "happy" music. www.britannica.com/art/doctrine-of-the-affections
When it comes to later music, eg. Romantic, you have to be suspicious of happy sounding music, because it's probably just trying to lift you up a bit before it smashes you onto the cold rocks below. I feel that some of the pieces in the Well-Tempered Clavier, for example, are pure joy.
@@Kimiko-piano I only listen to baroque, since i feel that what came after are just sound effects without depth. In contrast, many baroque composers had this mystical quality of eternity that I find so appealing. It revolves around our short life in relation to infinite time, and the related sadness. Bach is of course the grand master, the harmonies and dissonances are at a cosmic level.
I was brought here by the book "Call me by your name". Elio plays goldberg variations at a bar in Rome. I'm totally glad that i searched this and getting into the atmosphere of the book.
Who is Elio?
I was brought here by my music teacher.
She shakes her head while listening to this song
Saw that movie in an outdoors theater in Berlin. Consider watching it when you're done.
I am reading this passage right now. Glad that I am not the only one who had searched this beautiful music
I picked up piano again because of that book.
I can't get enough of this beautiful sound
Btw I was brought here neither by Bach nor a movie/book, but by music history classes
WE NEED MORE MUSICOLOGY CLASSES IN SCHOOLS
I know, right?
I once read about an experiment: a school class was divided into two parts. In the first part they didn't change anything (a reference group), in the second one they studied less maths, chemistry, physics (all the "serious" and "necessary" subjects) and more music, art, physical education etc. (all this "soft" and "unnecessary" stuff). The scientists wanted to see how much would the second part of students stay behind the first part in maths, science etc. The result shocked them: the second part became BETTER in "serious" subjects. They had less classes of maths, chemistry, physics etc., but they succeeded in these subjects better, because they had more classes of music, art and PE. We DREADFULLY need to study more "soft" subjects - more music, music history, art, sports - to be better in "hard" subjects. And, probably, in life in general.
@@MrTarlecon, yes ,you are right, 100%, i totally agree !!
@@MrTarlecon The older I get, the more I am getting sick of the over-emphasis on mathematics and science, and the devaluation of music. It does not reflect history at all: scholars of centuries past valued music and literature as highly as they did mathematics and science. The medieval French poet Eustache Deschamps said the seven essential arts were: grammar, logic, rhetoric, geometry, arithmetic, music, and astronomy. And didn't the Greek mathematician and philosopher (or the school of so designated), Pythagoras, determine important facts about octaves still used for stringed instruments today? The disrespect shown towards the arts is not only a sign of pure narrow-mindedness and, dare I say, outright stupidity, but also explains the equally narrow-minded echo chamber of online content today. The idea of art for art's sake has been replaced with turning every past-time into a "skill" to create a giant productivity contest in order to generate money. And our society is poorer for it.
@@Musicienne-DAB1995 You are 200% right!
Bach brought me here
#MeToo
same
@@musik350 ;)
And I'm sure you'll be Bach
same too
Peaceful and sublime at first, then full of energy and vibrant at the end. Wonderful!
What a beautiful piece of music, and beautifully played. Thank you for posting.
This is a real gift to the world. I have her CD, and I like to follow along in the score. But to watch a dynamic score in real time is a boon for those, like me, have only just enough skill in reading music to enjoy, but not perform at this level.
reverse for me lol im horible at sight reading
So lovely, melts my heart hearing this piece. Bravo Sir Bach.
Diese Musik ist wunderschön und unsterblich.... Bach war genial....
This is the best interpretation I've heard, by a long shot at that.
Damn straight
Desde mi infinita ignorancia musical creo apreciar en la Variaciones Goldberg la más sublime transición posible del barroco al clásico. Aún siendo un apasionado de Bach nunca las había escuchado, ni en parte, con la atención y tranquilidad de hoy.
¡ Y pensar que podría haberme muerto antes de haberlas disfrutado!
Una maravilla la presentación del video: no solo se oyen, sino que también se pueden "ver".
Gracias.
I'm glad you found the Goldberg Variations and enjoyed them!
Juan Ramón, si hubieras fallecido sin oírlas, las habrías escuchado en el Cielo, pues allí todo calla cuando las manos y el alma de la intérprete hablan !... Es la Música que suena mientras Gabriel crea Universos nuevos...
This is brilliant! I love the synchronized sheet music. Thank you to whoever did this.
ikr?
It's beyond comprehension of a normal human being what Bach's genius was. Really
i love the fact that this sound comes not just from pianist hands but also weightlifter, strength and elegance together
How wonderfully clean this recording is -- none of the vocal tics or misbehavior of Gould, no overblown reinterpretations of Bach -- just the original melodies, rendered on high quality gear with a high quality piano by a high quality performer. There is a reassuring mathematical purity to the recording. It is good to have.
This is a fantastic recording. The tempi are extremely well-chosen, her tone has a very whole/pure - Schiff-like quality (V.11 is, to me, particularly mesmerizing), and the voicing is exquisite (the voicing in V.5 & V.9 for example!). It's a shame the pianist isn't more popular, but to those of you who are interested, you should look her up. She has recorded the WTC and The Art of Fugue too.
Thank you, @Angelo B. I'm glad you mention the voicing - it's a big part of what makes each repeat in the variations special. This, and the other recordings you mentioned, can be downloaded freely from my music website: music.kimiko-piano.com And if you subscribe to my channel, (click on my user avatar), you'll get updates of my own compositions. The next release I will be making (soon!) is one of a set of songs I have written.
@@Kimiko-piano -- Thanks for sharing this info here. Your playing is truly remarkable and I'd love to hear more from you.
@@angelob.1089 I'll be recording and releasing a new album of songs I've written. If you want updates, join my mailing list: eepurl.com/-9uzf I only send mail when there's real news.
I agree. This is a wonderful interpretation.
Yeah I agree. While Glenn Gould will probably always be the gold standard for me - both his early and later versions just hold so much - I do think she is really under-appreciated. She is a wholly remarkable performer.
Eccellente! interpretazione ed esecuzione di rara ed assoluta finezza! Brava, brava, brava e bravissima!
Bravo per lei, Lucio... Bravo, molto bravo... finezza di cuore tua... Tante grazzie ...
The variations on 2 claviers played on a simple clavier of piano are always blowing my mind ! Well done Kimiko Ishizaka sensei and thank you OpenGoldberg to share sheets of this masterpiece
OpenGoldberg: thank you very much for your monumental work of inserting the moving bar. my respects!
I’ve been listening to her Well Tempered Clavier and Goldberg Variations online for several years - one of the best recordings - not overly emotional - let’s the music speak for itself
9:11 . Now that's what I call a sexy bassline. Left hand for daaaaaaays!
I aint kidding when I say Bach loved to tug with our emotions all the time. Each and every one of these pieces are genius in indescribable ways. Can you imagine spending your life on your own original masterpieces, dying, and seeing people hundreds of years later celebrating and praising you for it? Bach earned it. Let's listen again.
hmm 9.11 what do i think about...
So funny, I am listening to this now and just thought the same thing at the same variation! "Got-dayum what a great left hand!"
He wrote all his music to glorify the Lord and bring others to know and love Him. He didn't wish to become famous for himself, rather for the work and the way it praised the Lord.
My favorite version! This is a real singing of music, sound of bach, dancing of heart!
Thank you!
I love how showing slideshow of Ishizaka because of failed video rendering actually makes the video 200% better.
Kimiko Ishizakaさま、素晴らしい動画を感謝いたします。楽譜も読めない楽器も弾けない私は、雲上人であったバッハが、目の前の、手で触れることのできる存在のように肉薄できました。有り難うございました。私の好みとしては、「頁めくり」より、「譜面を追」って下さる方が、とても有り難いです。感謝
_GOD bless Kimiko! Very beautiful performance of this masterpiece!_ 🥰
Thank you, @Scott Payne.
Bach aced every style of music he composed in. I've listened to Beethoven and Brahms Variations and a lot more but no one comes near to the ingenuity of these. They are simple yet have such complex and creative ideas behind them (the canons in increasing intervalls). Also when I first heard this work, I didn't even realized that I was listening to Variations. This is the best indicator that the Variations are indeed good.
I didn't realize that either, despite knowing the title of the work, LOL. Indeed, no one has come near to Bach's absolute mastery of form and style.
You do point out the great genius of J. S. Bach, his melodic genius allied to such harmonic confidence! Of course the rhythm is very good too, bouncing and yet smooth, so inventive. It seems like a rocket to me, going higher and higher!
Bach es el padre de la música, sus obras sublimes llegan al alma,saludos desde Chile🎼🎶
No es el padre, es el abuelo, el dios de la musica, dueño de toda la alegría jamás expresa en la música
Watching the score unfold you realise that it seems deceptively simple, yet it sounds so profound and ethereal.
Much thanks to Ms. Ishizaka and to her OpenGoldberg Project! All the best!
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG I'VE SEARCHED FOR ARIA'S NAME.
Came for the Silence, stayed for the music.
came for silence, stayed for the lambs
lol =)
Edgar Allan Poe schweizjugendchor
Found and bought a book in a second hand book shop with what looks like an autograph by Allan Poe: how do I discover if it is genuine?
er... research might help
How wonderful it is to hear these splendid variations of Goldberg😍
😍🎼
No performance is as interesting and intriguing and captivating and inspirational as her magnificent performance
Beautiful!!
I love Bach's music!!
Thanks for sharing this charming music!!
Beautiful.
out of this world, allmost fiction too beautifull to be real
Hey, I know you
@@Soyleonardito1 maybe Leonardo... I Know a ex Gobernor Esparza. Is a great man and good man... Thank you Leo. One embrace and good year for you and all yours.
What's not to love here? Beautifully played, Kimiko. :)
Здорово! Это такая помощь, разобраться в этом сложнейшем произведении! Благодарю.
This was played in the '81 film
remake of "the day the earth stood still. Where Keeanu Reeves ( who plays an alien ) remarked that it 'was beautiful '. So even aliens find Bach's music 'beautiful'
So delicate - both the writing and the performance. Love it.
Beautiful sheer genius By Bach and the pianist What a great way to start the day
Hope you had a great day, and many more!
Greatest composer in history.
...after Wolfgang bro...!
With G. F. Hændel!
Disagree
I find it hard to believe that Sgt Pembry was ever ready. Beautiful music, thanks for posting.
Bach is the pinnacle of musical expression, a perfect mathematical harmony.
What is mathematical?
This interpretation is so enjoyable; pure with minimal embellishments.
Thank you =)
El barroco en estado puro
Je ne me lasse jamais de ces variations! Toujours un plaisir de revenir les écouter!...
truly timeless =)
@@Kimiko-piano that's right! :)
@@Kimiko-piano I 've listen to your blues variations and i love them! A real pleasure to dicover your own compositions! Bravo!
@@dominiquelarueenchantez-vous I'm really glad you like them. I'm composing a new solo piano album now. If I succeed I can release it in 2021 still.
@@Kimiko-piano I wish the best for your piano album and for you. I will be happy to be informed to buy it and to make it discover to my piano students. :)
This splendor of words can not arrive
The comfort of this performance is irreplaceable , and beyond compare
You all are spreading so much joy. Thank you for being so wonderful!
Sophisicated, and passionated interpretation This is Truly good news from God that Bach with his imagination wings and Mis,Ishizuka, her hands brought to me.
Thanks God who created a person like Bach in human.
Thank you for your kind comments, Taeko Asano. I am also thankful that Bach exists.
All Hail A Deeper Thought
Very Spectacular Work Kimiko
Thank you!
Wonderful music and a fine interpretation of which I think Bach would approve.