what's absolutely insane to me is that you can learn all the notes, become proficient in playing all of them in the correct order, make 0 technical mistakes, and you're still only 1/3 of the way to crafting a performance this beautiful
@@milesdust3465 Its actually called practicing. There is more to just practice. A million kids practice football they aint going pro. There is a higher calling here you aren't hearing. A level of focus thats required that is more than just practice. Anyone can practice anything and only have 80% focus. That aint gonna cut it in the upper levels of performance.
Hey kid you’re just mad that i can do shit with my guitar and fingers that you’ll never be able to do in your whole entire life, so yeah, uhh, you’re gay.
Baroque pieces are actually the easiest to memorize because they are so formulaic. Bach was genius but stayed well within the limitations of respective keys. You’re not going to hit a wrong note or chord if you know your theory.
@@Steve-im3wjgod your comment was painful to read. Bach was very progressive in his time, "staying within limitations" and "not going to hit a wrong note if you know theory" sounds absolutely ridiculous.
Based on the viewcount, alone, I feel great joy knowing that we, all of us, without ever having met each other, or coming from the same place on earth, independently recognize great beauty when in its presence. This is beautiful.
We just sit and appreciate the result, and one can only guess how many years of hard work, discipline and tears it takes to eventually perform Bach on this amazing level.
YES!!!!!! Welcome to the wonderful world of Baroque performance! I went from being a concert violinist in training to a recorder/Baroque flute player and singer … and I totally love it! Best way to channel this young lady who was so obsessed with Vivaldi that she wanted to play nothing else on violin …. ;)
This is the second time I played this song while my baby of 3 months is crying like hell and suddenly he stop crying to fall asleep slowly. Thanks so much !
Angelina Mascardi est divine. Une interprétation des œuvres de Bach de cette qualité avec cette justesse et cette sensibilité est un cadeau du ciel.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
No showing off, no music industry, no lights, no bobs. She carries the music to the highest level of divine. Thank you to bring perfect MUSIC to this imperfect world.
Bach, despite being "well known" was not as famous at his time, his complex counterpoint stuff was over most people's heads, and only fully appreciated centuries later This song is what I'd call medium complexity, since its mostly a bass and melody, more digestable than a lot of his more complex stuff Of course Air in G is less complex, still unique distinct and amazing but easier to digest and understand....... I have synesthesia which helps me see notes as colors, so Bach music is extremely complex to experience the emotions/colors ... I love his music but at times I wished certain notes and chords were held for longer than .2 seconds
@@tremblence I don't have synesthesia but totally agree about wishing some parts were longer... there are certain moments that hit like a freight train for me, but Bach always keeps moving along. Could you recommend some higher complexity pieces? Preferably lesser-known... I love Bach but there's still so much I haven't heard
@@tremblence To be honest, the fleeting, fragile beauty of those certain moments appears symbolic for the baroque motif of transience, impermanence. It's kind of poetic that no matter how beautiful the moment is, it will inevitably pass.
I just want to say how lucky I am that (a) music like this exists at all, (b) it is performed by such an artist, and (c) I can hear it at all, and whenever I want to. Without the internet, I wouldn't have been able to listen to this masterpiece, played by this master. So, for all its faults, I am thankful that the internet exists.
Very beautiful and skilled interpretation of very demanding music and instrument ! Let me answer to some posts and give a little knowledge about Lute : Most people heredown wonder why guitar replaced lute: that's not the case, they co-existed and were often played together. The baroque guitar was small instrument, very nicely ornamented, with 5 to 6 double cords; the lute comes from the arabic "oud", had 7 double strings at end of middle-age, then 8 to 10 at renaissance, then up to 15 strings (archilute, theorbo) in late 17th cent. with a very long (up to 2 meters) neck for bass strings. She plays on a "baroque lute" double strings, with a small neck for bass, and a specific tuning. Bach and Weiss wrote for baroque lute. Basically you play with left hand only the upper 6 strings, like a guitar (although it's not the same tuning), and you play the open bass strings with your right hand thumb. Before electronic devices it was, indeed, a nightmare to tune, not only due to number of strings, but due to "temperament issue" (another long and complex story) ; people used to joke against us saying that "lutenist spend half of the evening tuning their instrument, and the other half playing false !" Regarding the cost, it seems that Evangelina plays with gut strings, and that's very expensive and very fragile... but SOOOO beautiful. Most players use nylon strings and a complete set is less than 150 € and lasts for several years. Lute disappeared because orchestra grown more and more bigger and "noisy" 🙉... and lute could not follow. Hope it helps.
This might be a mistranslation since I assume English isn't your native language, but we usually call them "strings" not chords. Chords are usually what we call triads in music.
There is also some social and economic history at play here. In the early baroque period, most 'serious' music would have been played in an aristocratic salon - a relatively intimate setting. As the middle classes became more economically prominent, and more desirous of having access to 'high culture', public concerts became more common, with larger concert halls. Orchestras grew in size and composers began to offer more dramatic work. With the increased sound levels, soft-voiced instruments like the lute just couldn't keep up! Thanks however to the magic of recorded music, we can enjoy this wonderfully intimate music "in the comfort of our living room". Artist like Ms. Mascardi can reach large audiences and don't have to rely on the (fickle) patronage of a prince or count!
@@jamestulk4169 That's the only flaw I can see with the guitar is that it's sound doesn't carry like a violin for example. Classical guitarists are forced to amplify their instrument with a microphone if they want their sound to carry in an orchestra setting or something.
I got my first real 24 string, it was the summer of 1669. All jokes aside…this was an absolute treat to listen to. Made my brain all tingly and stuff. Amazing dedication to your art!
OMG that fugue is a monster! Absolutely gorgeous. Anybody who has attempted Bach on a modern classical guitar can only stand back and listen to this in wistful awe. An amazing performance, thank you and brava!
I can't imagine restringing or tuning, let alone learning to play this thing. It sounds incredible and this woman is a virtuoso. Also, she does rock'n'roll faces while playing which is a bonus.
there's an old joke (from when lute-players used gut-strings, which went out of tune easier than the modern synthetic ones): "A Lute player spends half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."
Unreal. This is hands down the best version I’ve ever heard. I know people cry about the timing when it comes to baroque stuff, but stick it where the sun doesn’t shine. This version is alive and she lets the music breathe. The space between the notes is what makes her rendition so amazing
I'll admit I don't really understand any of that.. but how can anyone criticize this? This is obviously a musician at the peak of her craft. While obviously all the stuff that happens at a deeper level in this music is important, nobody should let it spoil their ability to just close their eyes and enjoy a master playing the composition of a master.
I agree completely about being able to just close your eyes and enjoy beautiful music regardless of the genre. Music theory/timing isn’t hard to understand at all some people just like to be snobs about it. Basically there is a divide between musicians about how to perform baroque music. Some people are total sticklers for playing the precise way the sheet music was written.. hence the “music box” reference. There are other people who believe the sheet music was more or less a guideline and free to interpretation. We can only really guess at the composers intentions from earlier music as they are dead and there are no recordings of their music. It’s only my opinion but I feel a lot of the baroque recordings are boring and lacking emotion, as technically skilled as the player might be. Listen to the way Glenn Gould performs The art of the fugue (Bwv 1080) or the two different ways he plays the Goldberg variations if you want to get a better sense of what I was trying to say
Incantevole! Melanconica! Divina Musica di Bach che ti riconcilia con la vita fatta spesso di sacrifici e di sofferenze quotidiane. Danke dear Johann Sebastian Bach ( Great Kappellmeister of Lipsia ) 😊❤🙏✨🎇🌌🌞🪐
Gottes Segen ist in diesen lieben Worten. Gnade allen Ohren. Frieden in der Herzlicht Kammer. Bach es fließt in deinem Sinn. Vergebung ist ist hier und jetzt allen
@@evangelinamascardiofficial4766 Más gracias a usted por compartir con nosotros su gran don y sensibilidad. Desde la ciudad de México hoy 30 de octubre de 2024
Eternity is not void. It is either filled with joy and peace or with eternal grief and pain. Bach was a Christian and I do believe his music was inspired by God.
Just so you know, Bach didn't write for the lute. Evidence suggests he composed on a keyboard instrument called the lautenwerk. To be played on the lute most of these pieces have to be adapted and even keys changed. It's a common myth.
Bach’s great great grandfather played guitar (cittern) and established the Bach family musical dynasty, of course he heard it before. Bach had a Lute harpsichord that he wrote this stuff on…even a fun story where he made his buddy Weiss sit in the next room cuz he was “shy” playing his “lute” and then blasted through this material on keyboard to trick/impress him.
Brando@@brandonacker..cuanto sabes; seguro viajastes en el tiempo... Cristoforí le presentó el piano a Bach y este lo desestimó.. Bach tocaba todos los instrumentos, siendo un experto en Organos de tubos....etc...
Bach lives through the mind and fingers of Evangelina Mascardi. Anyone wishing to study this music needs the listen to this performance. It doesn't get any better. It's as if this music is raining down from the angels. Bravo!!
sorry bruh, but this is 100% muscle memory and nothing more. this is something the guy has played so much that it basically plays itself while he thinks of other things. not to mention its all for show, 90% of the instrument goes unused because of how hes holding it making it impossible to fret about half the strings.
La velocità di esecuzione della Maestra è perfetta,la sento eseguire a velocità troppo sostenute( a mio parere) da molti interpreti come non capissero che il sentimento ha bisogno del suo spazio e del suo tempo per potersi esprimere. ❤
Musicisti meno sicuri di sè ricorrono al virtuosismo quando non sanno rendere le emozioni, come invece fa con sapiente maestria Evangelina in questa mirabile esecuzione, che arriva al cuore prima che alle orecchie...
Невозможно перестать слушать это! Вся жизнь прошла перед глазами, все близкие и дорогие сердцу люди… Иду домой с трамвая, а навстречу прохожие. И они другие. Совсем другие, чем обычно - такие любимые Кем-то. И всё другое, каждая тень от качающейся ветки - всё имеет глубокий, неведомый и в тоже время интуитивно предчувствуемый смысл. И о чём эта музыка? В ней гораздо больше, чем можно вместить в этот момент. Бах! Что же ты слышал? Кто открыл тебе всё Это? Как ты смог всё это рассказать? Спасибо! Спасибо Евангелине Маскарди! Спасибо всем, творящим жизнь!!!
to play this partita is to dive into the soul of Bach and his exquisite way of resolving asymmetrical harmonic structures. Evangelina gives this work a gentle yet passionate performance.
23 minutes of crystal clear performance. It's like at the reception of a king. Windy weather outside, flowers are falling down and this music... Nice atmosphere.
This never happened in lute history, I guess this is the first video recording available of the BWV997, even if there's a Prelude played by Hopkinson Smith in the Rai Archives. This recording is a true Jewel!
sorry im a guitar player :c, i know im missing big time besides the beautiful performace, why it hasnt happened? for tuning? for scale? for complexity (i know nothing on lute performing techs, but this seemed advance but not expert difficulty)? for the actual instrument?
@@AlbertoOlivieri grazie Alberto, ecco il link con il nuovo video della BWV 996 here you have the new video with BWV 996 , saluti! th-cam.com/video/qvPv7_HL8GI/w-d-xo.html
I've learned the prelude to this on guitar, but it sounds so much better played by a professional on the original instrument. I was completely floored listening to this
We witness three wonders. Breathtaking craft of the artist. Exquisite voice of the instrument. Enchantment of the composer. The halting beauty of his work undimmed by a passing of lifetimes.
I'm not an expert on the history of string instruments, but even though I love to hear music played on the Lute I believe that one pf the main reasons why the guitar overtook the Lute in popularity is the reason that you mentioned. (Keeping a harpsichord in tune is no stroll in the park either.)
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@@ghoulish6125 Will you go to Heaven when you die? Here’s a quick test: Have you ever lied, stolen, or used God’s name in vain? Jesus said, “Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” If you have done these things, God sees you as a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart, and the Bible warns that one day God will punish you in a terrible place called Hell. But God is not willing that any should perish. Sinners broke God’s Law and Jesus paid their fine. This means that God can legally dismiss their case: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” Then Jesus rose from the dead, defeating death. Today, repent [turn away from your sins and don’t practice them] trust Jesus, and God will give you eternal life as a free gift. Then read the Bible daily and obey it. God will never fail you
@@iankelley9704 Will you go to Heaven when you die? Here’s a quick test: Have you ever lied, stolen, or used God’s name in vain? Jesus said, “Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” If you have done these things, God sees you as a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart, and the Bible warns that one day God will punish you in a terrible place called Hell. But God is not willing that any should perish. Sinners broke God’s Law and Jesus paid their fine. This means that God can legally dismiss their case: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” Then Jesus rose from the dead, defeating death. Today, repent [turn away from your sins and don’t practice them] trust Jesus, and God will give you eternal life as a free gift. Then read the Bible daily and obey it. God will never fail you
I have listened to this video for so many times, and never have given any reviews. The greatest of respects to the amazing performance of these pieces. I have not hear any better performance of this part of Bach's Partita anywhere.. Please accept my most sincere compliments to the Evangelina Mascardi amazing performance.
Evangelina thank you for all the hours of practice and dedication you have spent to achieve such mastery of the instrument. Your interpretation was wonderful. Bravo!
I played this in my late teens and early twenties. I heard many of the masters of the day play it. I don't listen to European music much now, late in life, but TH-cam offered, and I clicked. I am amazed at how wooden my picture of this music was until today. No words can describe how captivating this was for me just now. The articulation of every line at every moment was as clear as if I were a child listening to a bedtime story, or watching a movie with a plot laid out naturally and sensibly, but not predictably. This has made my day, if not week and month. Thank you, TH-cam, for bringing this to my attention. And thank YOU, Ms Mascard,i for bringing to life some music that I have come to think of as a bit musty and dusty. It was as engaging and accessible to me as Fred Astaire singing Irving Berlin.
@@evangelinamascardiofficial4766 ¿Usted es argentina? No lo sabía. No solo es un orgullo que varios y talentosos instrumentistas Eguez, Costoyas, Abramovich y Pustilnik también sean argentinos y ahora usted, además de orgullo para mi es una novedad
Well, I'm awe-struck. My goodness!!! I have heard this music on guitar, and even struggled through some of it myself, but I never heard it sound like this -- expressing the full grandeur of Bach on this quiet instrument. We can only humbly thank such a dedicated player.
Это чудесно! Бах один из наших любимых композиторов. Наш сын рос на его Бранденбургских концертах и на операх Генделя. Эта музыка прекрасна и исполнительница так искусно и возвышенно играет. Это просто непередаваемое удовольствие! Спасибо большое!
How a human being can contain this much information and just make it appear from their hands over an ancient instrument is a tesament to the fact we are beautiful and amazing beings. Even then, we as the outsider can listen to what they are outputting and be in awe. A beautiful piece and an even more staggering performance. Baffling.
I have NEVER heard a real flesh-and-blood, body-and-soul, fire-and-passion lute performance EVER, until now. Thank you for the gift of your technique, musicality, and breath. Inspiring in every way.
By the way it is more efficient to play with closed eyes, I am a beginner and my teacher scold me when I look at the strings. And he is right because when I look at the strings I am slower and make more mistakes... :)
It am not really surprised by this aspect : memorization belongs to her work. Who knows? Maybe she trains 6 hours a day. Think of theater actors memorizing thousand of lines. It 's an aspect they don't like to speak about because it 's mostly a technical matter and as such a someone boring thema. All respect due.
@@FertassiFarah right. Eyes are not quick enough to follow your fingers, and also you need to pay attention to the sound. Sometime it's convenient to have a quick look at the position of your hand though
i don't want to spoil the magic but I think you can tell the cut & her head angle at 3:10 or so that it's not a continuous recording, at least enough for me to be cynical!
Thank you Evangelina, for choosing this marvelous composition of the great German master. Your interpretation is very respectful, collected, and most profound.
Lockdown flashbacks - still returning here once in a while and very happy to encounter Evangelina's album on Spotify. I've begun to rehearse the first page of the partita on my small romantic guitar. This playing is masterful, and without a glance at any sheet music.
This is one of my favorite pieces of music and this performance (on a baroque lute and not guitar!) was draw-drop astonishing to me. The careful phrasing and voicings available with the additional courses is where Bach's heart was creating this gorgeous music. I was literally in tears hearing this as it is very near to my heart. thank you
Я не большой знаток классической музыки, но, случайно нашёл этот ролик и с восторгом прослушал до конца Все пять шедевров Баха в исполнении прекрасного виртуоза Евангелины. Впервые слушал Баха на щипковом сложном инструменте-это фантастика. Получил большое наслаждение и много положительных, приятных эмоций. Браво исполнительнице шедевра!!!
Gary moore in " The messiah will come again " live at montreux is not bad either, but not at the top of this masterpiece. But on electric guitar it is masterclass.
Fortunati glii allievi che sono passati per le sue mani . Non so quanti nel mondo siano al suo livello ... mah. Un brano del mitologico Bach, suonato a memoria con tale disinvoltura. Sconvolgente. Io ho avuto la fortuna di studiare fisarmonica con il Maestro Caporilli. Ma mi chiedo quanto sia complicato già accordare uno strumento del. genere. Che beltà.
Here it is, a time machine that takes us 250 years ago. We listen to the same sounds that people did at the time. Music is the universal language of generations.
I can remember a concerto's worth of notes (treble clef cuz I play mandolin so I use violin music), but I don't think I could remember a suite (I rely on sheet music too much), and I certainly can't play anything like as beautifully as she does. Lordy! Lute is so soft and calming. I wish i could afford one. If you've studied and played music for many years as she undoubtedly has, you'd have a brain trained to memorize thousands of notes. I played piano and memorized all my music because my music reading skill was so shitty that I had to learn it like a measure at a time and memorize it. I never had formal lessons. Learning a piece was grueling, but I love playing so I kept at it. On that note .... uh .... My ADHD is very active tonight. Rambling a lot. Sorry, but I feel this is important so I'm going to go on rambling. My reading improved when I started playing in a mandolin orchestra (lots of music!), but the biggest improvement came when I started using software to input music notation for piano and for baroque concerti just to hear certain parts plainly. I don't know why it helped so much, but it provided me with about a 1000% reading improvement such that I read and play without looking at my fretboard. For anyone having trouble learning to read music or wanting to improve, you can or could download and install Musescore®. It was free. Windows and Linux. Probably for Apple, too. There are other notation software packs out there. Musescore is great and it's public license and FREE! Or was. If not, get some staff paper or make it with word processing software and copy your favorite composer's music. Doing so forces you to concentrate on each note. Good thing about software is that you can play it back to make sure you entered it properly. It sucks to get 50 or 60 measures entered and realize that, awww crap, you lost your place at measure 23, duplicated 2 or 3 measures (cut/copy & paste) in the treble with the correct bass (or screwed 'em both up - ahhhh!) and spend a hour figuring it out where you went wrong and have to go back and repair it especially if you're copying a full score with multiple instruments. Waaaa!! Misery! MISERY!!! Ok. If you're reading this blurb, you've read the whole thing so bless you! Thanks for reading my nonsense. I'll leave now. Hopefully someone will get some benefit out of this! Cheers everyone! Stay safe and stay healthy! Get your vaccine!
@@MichelleFrets And all the nuance of performing it, the dynamics, fingering, etc. Don't forget playing the music with a camera on you the whole time! Nerve wracking! I'd be throwing things and shouting, "SHHHIIIIIIIIIITTT! Shit! Shit! Shit! Take 227! Shit!" LOL!
@@infledermaus I'm only an amateur and not a particularly gifted one, but I do record audio and video pretty regularly. I claim that recording only audio takes 20% of my guitar powers away and if video recording then about 50%. It's amazing what nerves do. I've never played for an audience aside from friends, but I'd guess my powers would diminish to the point where I couldn't play a thing. The mind is a powerful thing. It needs to be reigned in.
That's not very impressive for a Greek, like myself. Many Traditional/Laiko-music Greek instrumentalists know a LOT of songs by memory, or they can even play along with others even if they haven't heard the piece before just be listening to the rest of the orchestra.
Average musician plays a song several hundred times from start to finish before preforming it, then thousands of playing specific sections of a song Playing from memory isnt as hard as one thinks
Definitely, it's amazing! The player, the theme, the place, the instrument... Thank you Evangelina, such beauty! And I still trying to learn this pieces since install demo version of guitar pro 3, twenty years ago...
Although fame or popularity is not precisely the goal of this kind of artist, I am happy this video has more than 1 million viewers in a month. Complimenti, Evangelina Mascardi.
@@mariaevangelinamascardi304 This profoundly beautiful. I am a harpsichordist (I have recorded this work as part of my Compleat Bach) and my brother a builder of lutes and viols in Australia. I have never heard better than this! Brava! Peter
Audiolettura Decadente. An intriguing comment. I was never able to enjoy Bach until I began to study counterpoint and play piano: before that, I found him tedious and mathematical. Now Bach is all I want to listen to. And all I want to play! This performance on the lute is stunning. I played classical guitar for a couple of years and then switched to a steel string. What an inspiring video. She’s amazing.
Despite the current state of affairs here and around the world listening to this performance makes me proud to be a human being. Such grace...my soul is eternally grateful.
Спасибо за исполнение. Очень красиво и на века. Мы наверно самые счастливые на этой планете Земля--у нас есть звуки , у нас есть ветер и дождь , у нас есть музыка....
@@evangelinamascardiofficial4766 i have a 1 year old child. Every morning he listens this piece in his way to Nursery. Long term effect : my kid is happy all the time ,playfull. Bach has an effect on child's brain. I'm remembering when i made first contact with J.S. Bach - i was in my 2nd grade. It changed the way i percive music. Thank for this beautiful interpretation
Absolutely amazing. The tone on each note. The pace. Evangelina brings each element to life, like all the muscles in the body working in perfect harmony to let a person walk. That lute is a very happy lute.
2 1/2 things: 1: God, how great this is to hear after all those years ago playing this while trying to become a classical guitar player. 2: How great it is to hear a musician not treat Bach as if he were a math problem. 2a: This is the rendition I heard in my head the whole time.
...How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel....if we be judged for our acts, let this music speak for us as evidence that the universe did bring forth such beauty....
This is truly captivating but the universe didn’t bring it forth. Practice, dedication and an assiduous dedication to her craft did. The universe doesn’t care or know about us. As Carl Sagan said “the universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent”
Даже слов нет! Это восхитительно!! Даже представить не могу, как надо чувствовать музыку, и не могу представить как можно научиться играть на этом инструменте.............!Это сколько ж надо времени.....Уважение и только Уважение за такое исполнение!!! Мира всем и добра!!! И не забывать , что все мы, в первую очередь люди, назло политикам , мы должны оставаться всегда Людьми!!!!
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, it is the preservation of fire" - Gustav Mahler.
Thank you for sharing this.
Burn it all and let the phoenix rise from the ashes.
@@hjarnansjarn5969 Go watch Ariana Grande then. Shoo!
“was” being the point. You’d prefer his works were burned and forgotten?
Amen bro!!!
what's absolutely insane to me is that you can learn all the notes, become proficient in playing all of them in the correct order, make 0 technical mistakes, and you're still only 1/3 of the way to crafting a performance this beautiful
It is called practising.
@@milesdust3465 Its actually called practicing. There is more to just practice. A million kids practice football they aint going pro. There is a higher calling here you aren't hearing. A level of focus thats required that is more than just practice. Anyone can practice anything and only have 80% focus. That aint gonna cut it in the upper levels of performance.
Hey kid you’re just mad that i can do shit with my guitar and fingers that you’ll never be able to do in your whole entire life, so yeah, uhh, you’re gay.
its the ability to run through all these long sections and remember it all lol amazing
All of the mentioned above is useless if you have no heart.
Committing baroque pieces to memory is no easy feat...executing them flawlessly like this is superhuman!
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Я исполнял его на гитаре в музыкальной школе
it is indeed
Baroque pieces are actually the easiest to memorize because they are so formulaic. Bach was genius but stayed well within the limitations of respective keys. You’re not going to hit a wrong note or chord if you know your theory.
@@Steve-im3wjgod your comment was painful to read. Bach was very progressive in his time, "staying within limitations" and "not going to hit a wrong note if you know theory" sounds absolutely ridiculous.
Based on the viewcount, alone, I feel great joy knowing that we, all of us, without ever having met each other, or coming from the same place on earth, independently recognize great beauty when in its presence. This is beautiful.
indeed
Well said! 👍
❤ я из России...
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Sou do Brasil ... 🇧🇷
A master lutist (Evangelina Mascardi), playing the music of a master composer (J.S. Bach), both making this world a better and richer place to live.
Waiting for the song to repeat the same 3 bars
Amen❣️
Amazing woman.
We just sit and appreciate the result, and one can only guess how many years of hard work, discipline and tears it takes to eventually perform Bach on this amazing level.
@@jaikee9477 Amen❣️
This. Is. Epic.
Ling Ling level of epicness
Im loving how older instruments are making a come back
Hell yeee
YES!!!!!! Welcome to the wonderful world of Baroque performance! I went from being a concert violinist in training to a recorder/Baroque flute player and singer … and I totally love it! Best way to channel this young lady who was so obsessed with Vivaldi that she wanted to play nothing else on violin …. ;)
Hopefully now Brett knows what lute is 😃
This is the second time I played this song while my baby of 3 months is crying like hell and suddenly he stop crying to fall asleep slowly. Thanks so much !
❤
Ah. I didn't know it was a song and not just a tune. Do you have the words ?
Твой ребёнок черт?😂😂😂
@@verve3245
Still looking for your dad?
Don't be a cad, grow up and be a productive person.
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Angelina Mascardi est divine. Une interprétation des œuvres de Bach de cette qualité avec cette justesse et cette sensibilité est un cadeau du ciel.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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Exactement! Merci! 😇
Да к тому же не часто звучащая, в наши дни, лютня. Очень люблю и часто слушаю музыку композиторов Джона Даулэнда и Фрэнсиса Каттинга.
Me acordione vivdaluce,
@@старикКукушкинд-е5йiAgree😮
No showing off, no music industry, no lights, no bobs. She carries the music to the highest level of divine. Thank you to bring perfect MUSIC to this imperfect world.
No bobs, nor vagena
Baroc rules!
Imperfect world ? Look inside, look closer and the veil will dissolve :)
Is there such thing as perfection?
@@m0-m0597 Without the ego, the mind. Yes. It is Perfection is always the case but we have to be in order to realize it
Bach was a genius for composing this stuff, she's a genius for being able to play that thing and the pieces from memory. Insane
Bach, despite being "well known" was not as famous at his time, his complex counterpoint stuff was over most people's heads, and only fully appreciated centuries later
This song is what I'd call medium complexity, since its mostly a bass and melody, more digestable than a lot of his more complex stuff
Of course Air in G is less complex, still unique distinct and amazing but easier to digest and understand....... I have synesthesia which helps me see notes as colors, so Bach music is extremely complex to experience the emotions/colors ... I love his music but at times I wished certain notes and chords were held for longer than .2 seconds
@@tremblence Wonderful reply, thank you.
@@tremblence I don't have synesthesia but totally agree about wishing some parts were longer... there are certain moments that hit like a freight train for me, but Bach always keeps moving along.
Could you recommend some higher complexity pieces? Preferably lesser-known... I love Bach but there's still so much I haven't heard
@@tremblence To be honest, the fleeting, fragile beauty of those certain moments appears symbolic for the baroque motif of transience, impermanence. It's kind of poetic that no matter how beautiful the moment is, it will inevitably pass.
@@tremblence check his compositions for organ if you want longer notes. Composing for lute is really all about short sounds
Вечность, порхающая бабочкой над столетиями... Какое счастье попасть во времена, когда звучит такая Музыка! Низкий поклон Баху и Евангелине!
The heart and soul of this musician is flowing through the instrument as though it was living and breathing.
I just want to say how lucky I am that (a) music like this exists at all, (b) it is performed by such an artist, and (c) I can hear it at all, and whenever I want to. Without the internet, I wouldn't have been able to listen to this masterpiece, played by this master. So, for all its faults, I am thankful that the internet exists.
I was thinking the same thing. I would have lived and died ignorant. And the artist would have had a tiny audience.
That's the attitute I wish I could see more often in people
Strongly agree.
There has never been a better time in history. The older you are the better you appreciate this wonderful time. Our sons won´t understand.
Amen to that!
Very beautiful and skilled interpretation of very demanding music and instrument ! Let me answer to some posts and give a little knowledge about Lute :
Most people heredown wonder why guitar replaced lute: that's not the case, they co-existed and were often played together. The baroque guitar was small instrument, very nicely ornamented, with 5 to 6 double cords; the lute comes from the arabic "oud", had 7 double strings at end of middle-age, then 8 to 10 at renaissance, then up to 15 strings (archilute, theorbo) in late 17th cent. with a very long (up to 2 meters) neck for bass strings. She plays on a "baroque lute" double strings, with a small neck for bass, and a specific tuning. Bach and Weiss wrote for baroque lute. Basically you play with left hand only the upper 6 strings, like a guitar (although it's not the same tuning), and you play the open bass strings with your right hand thumb. Before electronic devices it was, indeed, a nightmare to tune, not only due to number of strings, but due to "temperament issue" (another long and complex story) ; people used to joke against us saying that "lutenist spend half of the evening tuning their instrument, and the other half playing false !" Regarding the cost, it seems that Evangelina plays with gut strings, and that's very expensive and very fragile... but SOOOO beautiful. Most players use nylon strings and a complete set is less than 150 € and lasts for several years. Lute disappeared because orchestra grown more and more bigger and "noisy" 🙉... and lute could not follow. Hope it helps.
This might be a mistranslation since I assume English isn't your native language, but we usually call them "strings" not chords. Chords are usually what we call triads in music.
There is also some social and economic history at play here. In the early baroque period, most 'serious' music would have been played in an aristocratic salon - a relatively intimate setting. As the middle classes became more economically prominent, and more desirous of having access to 'high culture', public concerts became more common, with larger concert halls. Orchestras grew in size and composers began to offer more dramatic work. With the increased sound levels, soft-voiced instruments like the lute just couldn't keep up! Thanks however to the magic of recorded music, we can enjoy this wonderfully intimate music "in the comfort of our living room". Artist like Ms. Mascardi can reach large audiences and don't have to rely on the (fickle) patronage of a prince or count!
Ooops, yes Josh, thank you : string in french is called "corde" a "faux-ami"...
@@jamestulk4169 That's the only flaw I can see with the guitar is that it's sound doesn't carry like a violin for example. Classical guitarists are forced to amplify their instrument with a microphone if they want their sound to carry in an orchestra setting or something.
I have learned a lot of your explanation.
I got my first real 24 string, it was the summer of 1669.
All jokes aside…this was an absolute treat to listen to. Made my brain all tingly and stuff. Amazing dedication to your art!
hahaha classic! I was born in the summer of 1669!
Could you play Ragnar the Red?
almost didn't want to LIKE ur comment as it literally turned 69 into 70
Your post gives me faith in humanity.
yea, you get it. this is how star comedians are discovered.
OMG that fugue is a monster! Absolutely gorgeous. Anybody who has attempted Bach on a modern classical guitar can only stand back and listen to this in wistful awe. An amazing performance, thank you and brava!
I can't imagine restringing or tuning, let alone learning to play this thing. It sounds incredible and this woman is a virtuoso. Also, she does rock'n'roll faces while playing which is a bonus.
I was thinking the exact thing. I restrung a 12 string once and that was enough for me!
JS Bach IS 1700s Rock and Roll.
Jimmy Page on the lute.
there's an old joke (from when lute-players used gut-strings, which went out of tune easier than the modern synthetic ones): "A Lute player spends half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."
No, the rockers did not invent facial expression in music, they just exaggerate and pose with it.
Unreal. This is hands down the best version I’ve ever heard. I know people cry about the timing when it comes to baroque stuff, but stick it where the sun doesn’t shine. This version is alive and she lets the music breathe. The space between the notes is what makes her rendition so amazing
Yes. A musician said that the space between notes is just as important. I have to Denver that.
It is precisely what sucks me in with this performance quite honestly.
I'll admit I don't really understand any of that.. but how can anyone criticize this? This is obviously a musician at the peak of her craft. While obviously all the stuff that happens at a deeper level in this music is important, nobody should let it spoil their ability to just close their eyes and enjoy a master playing the composition of a master.
I agree! It is so fragile this way, and so vulnerable... not trapped in the cogs of a music box.
I agree completely about being able to just close your eyes and enjoy beautiful music regardless of the genre. Music theory/timing isn’t hard to understand at all some people just like to be snobs about it. Basically there is a divide between musicians about how to perform baroque music. Some people are total sticklers for playing the precise way the sheet music was written.. hence the “music box” reference. There are other people who believe the sheet music was more or less a guideline and free to interpretation. We can only really guess at the composers intentions from earlier music as they are dead and there are no recordings of their music. It’s only my opinion but I feel a lot of the baroque recordings are boring and lacking emotion, as technically skilled as the player might be. Listen to the way Glenn Gould performs The art of the fugue (Bwv 1080) or the two different ways he plays the Goldberg variations if you want to get a better sense of what I was trying to say
More than 23 minutes of speaking music, complex and ornate, without a glitch.
Unreal.
Incantevole! Melanconica! Divina Musica di Bach che ti riconcilia con la vita fatta spesso di sacrifici e di sofferenze quotidiane. Danke dear Johann Sebastian Bach ( Great Kappellmeister of Lipsia ) 😊❤🙏✨🎇🌌🌞🪐
Grazie mille
Gottes Segen ist in diesen lieben Worten. Gnade allen Ohren. Frieden in der Herzlicht Kammer. Bach es fließt in deinem Sinn. Vergebung ist ist hier und jetzt allen
@@evangelinamascardiofficial4766 Más gracias a usted por compartir con nosotros su gran don y sensibilidad. Desde la ciudad de México hoy 30 de octubre de 2024
What a total boss lady! I can't imagine how many hours of practice she's put into playing a lute. Truly a master musician!
The soul of Bach still speaks in the eternal void.
Eternity is not void. It is either filled with joy and peace or with eternal grief and pain. Bach was a Christian and I do believe his music was inspired by God.
The soul of bach and the body of professor snape.
The genius of Bach will never fade.
what about in a million years?
@Cosmic Jack something tells me that will not be possible
@@kareno1456 so you think his music will still be around in a million years, sister ?
@@kareno1456 sadly not true
@@Ana_crusis I have to agree with you.
This is The Instrument That JS Bach wrote for.
I'm a Classical Guitarist.
Bach never heard a Guitar in his Life.
He heard this.
Guitars existed back then already, the baroque guitar
Just so you know, Bach didn't write for the lute. Evidence suggests he composed on a keyboard instrument called the lautenwerk. To be played on the lute most of these pieces have to be adapted and even keys changed. It's a common myth.
as a guitar player i must have one of these !
Bach’s great great grandfather played guitar (cittern) and established the Bach family musical dynasty, of course he heard it before. Bach had a Lute harpsichord that he wrote this stuff on…even a fun story where he made his buddy Weiss sit in the next room cuz he was “shy” playing his “lute” and then blasted through this material on keyboard to trick/impress him.
Brando@@brandonacker..cuanto sabes; seguro viajastes en el tiempo...
Cristoforí le presentó el piano a Bach y este lo desestimó..
Bach tocaba todos los instrumentos, siendo un experto en Organos de tubos....etc...
Bach lives through the mind and fingers of Evangelina Mascardi. Anyone wishing to study this music needs the listen to this performance. It doesn't get any better. It's as if this music is raining down from the angels. Bravo!!
Brava!
This isn’t just music, it’s a spiritual experience. Thank you.
Imagine the amount of knowledge, committed to heart, necessary to perform in the manner which we have here witnessed. I am awed by such mastery.
Exactly!
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I know I am baffled.
pretentious..
sorry bruh, but this is 100% muscle memory and nothing more. this is something the guy has played so much that it basically plays itself while he thinks of other things. not to mention its all for show, 90% of the instrument goes unused because of how hes holding it making it impossible to fret about half the strings.
La velocità di esecuzione della Maestra è perfetta,la sento eseguire a velocità troppo sostenute( a mio parere) da molti interpreti come non capissero che il sentimento ha bisogno del suo spazio e del suo tempo per potersi esprimere. ❤
Grazie mille
Musicisti meno sicuri di sè ricorrono al virtuosismo quando non sanno rendere le emozioni, come invece fa con sapiente maestria Evangelina in questa mirabile esecuzione, che arriva al cuore prima che alle orecchie...
I've heard this piece on classical guitar many times but hearing it on lute is like watching a sunset for the first time. Spectacular.
And ... , why not , a sunrise ?
@@lenn4429 I'm usually not awake early enough for sunrises :-D
Agree.
Accurate
@@shnur1987 Worth getting up for, then back to bed?
Невозможно перестать слушать это! Вся жизнь прошла перед глазами, все близкие и дорогие сердцу люди… Иду домой с трамвая, а навстречу прохожие. И они другие. Совсем другие, чем обычно - такие любимые Кем-то. И всё другое, каждая тень от качающейся ветки - всё имеет глубокий, неведомый и в тоже время интуитивно предчувствуемый смысл. И о чём эта музыка? В ней гораздо больше, чем можно вместить в этот момент. Бах! Что же ты слышал? Кто открыл тебе всё Это? Как ты смог всё это рассказать?
Спасибо! Спасибо Евангелине Маскарди! Спасибо всем, творящим жизнь!!!
Красиво. Очень красиво и точно написано)
Даже не знаю, что больше тронуло - бессмертная музыка Баха или Ваш отзыв.
Спасибо за возвышенную душу!
Absolutely loved how you described this, thank you..
Music unites souls in a quest for happiness.
Скажи спасибо Баху, это он написал эту музыку
I think Bach would be proud. love your phrasing.
to play this partita is to dive into the soul of Bach and his exquisite way of resolving asymmetrical harmonic structures. Evangelina gives this work a gentle yet passionate performance.
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23 minutes of crystal clear performance. It's like at the reception of a king. Windy weather outside, flowers are falling down and this music... Nice atmosphere.
This never happened in lute history, I guess this is the first video recording available of the BWV997, even if there's a Prelude played by Hopkinson Smith in the Rai Archives.
This recording is a true Jewel!
It truly is!
@@elricky1996 you are correct. This should be preserved by all of us in a separate file.
sorry im a guitar player :c, i know im missing big time besides the beautiful performace, why it hasnt happened? for tuning? for scale? for complexity (i know nothing on lute performing techs, but this seemed advance but not expert difficulty)? for the actual instrument?
@@vicentedobroruka3501 Well said!
Yes sir it is a treasure.
One so rarely hears a lutenist play with such exquisite musicality. Brava.
Music for the Soul.. In another life I will play Baroque Lute like Her.. Amazing!!
One so rarely hears a lutist play.
thanks! here you have the new video with BWV 996 , saluti! th-cam.com/video/qvPv7_HL8GI/w-d-xo.html
@@AlbertoOlivieri grazie Alberto, ecco il link con il nuovo video della BWV 996 here you have the new video with BWV 996 , saluti! th-cam.com/video/qvPv7_HL8GI/w-d-xo.html
Man i love this piece .. bach wrote smazing snd brought every musician to there knees with technical requirements.. unreal in its beauty among all
Music like this makes me grateful to be alive.
Absolutly...
I've learned the prelude to this on guitar, but it sounds so much better played by a professional on the original instrument. I was completely floored listening to this
Carl? That you? Bernhard misses you. ;)
@@throwaway692 pythagoras and gauss the best couple of westen music
genius to write genius to play
I'm in awe of this musician. So much heart, dedication and skill.
❤
...and so many strings!
You have brought light into an ever darkening world. Thank you, may God protect you from all harm.
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This piece just needed to wait for 400 years before it was played perfectly. Bravo! Bravo!! Bravo!!!
😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks Evangelina for such a feeling , perfect balance, hearth, soul, timbre, tone, I loved, state of art music.
( from Sao Paulo , Brazil )
one time and again l keep coming back to watch something divine as this performance
We witness three wonders.
Breathtaking craft of the artist.
Exquisite voice of the instrument.
Enchantment of the composer. The halting beauty of his work undimmed by a passing of lifetimes.
And the craftmanship of the luthier!
Succinctly expressed! The music reaches the deepest recesses of one's being.
Don't overlook the audio and video recording that captured the sound so focused and clearly.
Do you mean her work?
Dude, cringe. This is a TH-cam comment section & you are not JRR Tolkein. Just say “that was some sick ish!” & move on.
I'd be impressed with myself if I could just tune that thing
I'm not an expert on the history of string instruments, but even though I love to hear music played on the Lute I believe that one pf the main reasons why the guitar overtook the Lute in popularity is the reason that you mentioned.
(Keeping a harpsichord in tune is no stroll in the park either.)
right? what a beautiful monster
@@excelsior999 Also also why the metallic frame of the Pianoforte put so many harpsichords in the closet.
😆 SO right on…! 😂
@@ezekielbrockmann114 That's why you always play the harpsichord with a wrench nearby.
i have no words for her playing, she's incredible
Looks like you managed
There's barely any words in the title either.
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@@iankelley9704 Will you go to Heaven when you die? Here’s a quick test: Have you ever lied, stolen, or used God’s name in vain? Jesus said, “Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” If you have done these things, God sees you as a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart, and the Bible warns that one day God will punish you in a terrible place called Hell. But God is not willing that any should perish. Sinners broke God’s Law and Jesus paid their fine. This means that God can legally dismiss their case: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” Then Jesus rose from the dead, defeating death. Today, repent [turn away from your sins and don’t practice them] trust Jesus, and God will give you eternal life as a free gift. Then read the Bible daily and obey it. God will never fail you
I have listened to this video for so many times, and never have given any reviews.
The greatest of respects to the amazing performance of these pieces.
I have not hear any better performance of this part of Bach's Partita anywhere..
Please accept my most sincere compliments to the Evangelina Mascardi amazing performance.
thanks a lot
How about this performance: th-cam.com/video/JculV_8HlX4/w-d-xo.html
beautiful how she nurtures each note as if it's her only child.
Evangelina thank you for all the hours of practice and dedication you have spent to achieve such mastery of the instrument. Your interpretation was wonderful. Bravo!
Присоединяюсь.
dear Ian, here you have the new video with BWV 996 saluti th-cam.com/video/qvPv7_HL8GI/w-d-xo.html
here the new video with BWV 996 Cheers!th-cam.com/video/qvPv7_HL8GI/w-d-xo.html
It takes at least 5 000 hours to get to that standard.
I played this in my late teens and early twenties. I heard many of the masters of the day play it. I don't listen to European music much now, late in life, but TH-cam offered, and I clicked.
I am amazed at how wooden my picture of this music was until today. No words can describe how captivating this was for me just now. The articulation of every line at every moment was as clear as if I were a child listening to a bedtime story, or watching a movie with a plot laid out naturally and sensibly, but not predictably. This has made my day, if not week and month.
Thank you, TH-cam, for bringing this to my attention. And thank YOU, Ms Mascard,i for bringing to life some music that I have come to think of as a bit musty and dusty. It was as engaging and accessible to me as Fred Astaire singing Irving Berlin.
Thank you for expressing so eloquently what I feel as well!
@C.H. Curtis Thank you kindly. (I often wonder if anyone clicks on a commenter's channel.)
@@dactylntrochee how would i do that? I am intrigued
TH-cam is great! Let's make it a public utility so they stop censoring people and interrupt such great performances with vulgar ads every two minutes!
@@marjamerryflower By clicking on the presenter's icon at the left of the video's title.
Qué cosa hermosa Bach y el laúd, y qué orgullo que Evangelina sea argentina.
gracias
@@evangelinamascardiofficial4766 ¿Usted es argentina? No lo sabía. No solo es un orgullo que varios y talentosos instrumentistas Eguez, Costoyas, Abramovich y Pustilnik también sean argentinos y ahora usted, además de orgullo para mi es una novedad
Well, I'm awe-struck. My goodness!!! I have heard this music on guitar, and even struggled through some of it myself, but I never heard it sound like this -- expressing the full grandeur of Bach on this quiet instrument. We can only humbly thank such a dedicated player.
that is beautifully put, thank you.
Это чудесно! Бах один из наших любимых композиторов. Наш сын рос на его Бранденбургских концертах и на операх Генделя. Эта музыка прекрасна и исполнительница так искусно и возвышенно играет. Это просто непередаваемое удовольствие! Спасибо большое!
How a human being can contain this much information and just make it appear from their hands over an ancient instrument is a tesament to the fact we are beautiful and amazing beings. Even then, we as the outsider can listen to what they are outputting and be in awe.
A beautiful piece and an even more staggering performance.
Baffling.
Seeing inside their head, as what's in there comes out the hands, and into the instrument. It's amazing when one pauses to consider it.
God bless you and I thank you ❤.
She's fantastic. Her tone is beautiful. She tells a story with her phrasing. Thousands of other clean players do not.
Not she, but the Lute and Bach
@@zealotzealot4848 Bach is dead and the Lute is an unanimated object, so yes, it's her
Reminds me of Alvin Lee (face expression)
@@wysiwyg2489 now you're talkin!
Very clean and fantastic player..
I have NEVER heard a real flesh-and-blood, body-and-soul, fire-and-passion lute performance EVER, until now. Thank you for the gift of your technique, musicality, and breath. Inspiring in every way.
Thank you
Thats so true!👏👏
Una grandissima emozione ascoltare la tua interpretazione
Not only does she have superb technical skill,but she also memorized the piece and plays with her eyes closed. A gentle bow to you my lady.
By the way it is more efficient to play with closed eyes, I am a beginner and my teacher scold me when I look at the strings. And he is right because when I look at the strings I am slower and make more mistakes... :)
Interesting! Maybe I will try with eyes closed
It am not really surprised by this aspect : memorization belongs to her work. Who knows? Maybe she trains 6 hours a day. Think of theater actors memorizing thousand of lines. It 's an aspect they don't like to speak about because it 's mostly a technical matter and as such a someone boring thema. All respect due.
@@FertassiFarah right. Eyes are not quick enough to follow your fingers, and also you need to pay attention to the sound. Sometime it's convenient to have a quick look at the position of your hand though
i don't want to spoil the magic but I think you can tell the cut & her head angle at 3:10 or so that it's not a continuous recording, at least enough for me to be cynical!
Thank you Evangelina, for choosing this marvelous composition of the great German master. Your interpretation is very respectful, collected, and most profound.
I keep returning here to recover from days of teaching young children. It's so revitalizing and inspiring. Thank you.
Lockdown flashbacks - still returning here once in a while and very happy to encounter Evangelina's album on Spotify. I've begun to rehearse the first page of the partita on my small romantic guitar. This playing is masterful, and without a glance at any sheet music.
*Спасибо большое за видео! И отдельное спасибо Евангелине Маскарди! Просто чудесное наслаждение слушать такую музыку.....*
Bravo millions of times Evangelina, you speak Bach language flawlessly. He’d be in tears listening to your performance.
This is one of my favorite pieces of music and this performance (on a baroque lute and not guitar!) was draw-drop astonishing to me. The careful phrasing and voicings available with the additional courses is where Bach's heart was creating this gorgeous music. I was literally in tears hearing this as it is very near to my heart. thank you
thanks a lot
lute ! 鲁特琴，让我想起了卡拉瓦乔的《弹鲁特琴的姑娘》这幅画。很美的音色！
A heavenly instrument! What a gift she has. God bless her!
Я не большой знаток классической музыки, но, случайно нашёл этот ролик и с восторгом прослушал до конца
Все пять шедевров Баха в исполнении прекрасного виртуоза Евангелины. Впервые слушал Баха на щипковом сложном инструменте-это фантастика. Получил большое наслаждение и много положительных, приятных эмоций. Браво исполнительнице шедевра!!!
💕💕💕💕
Божественно!
This may be the greatest solo performance of anything that I've ever seen in my life. Bravo
same here
Agreed. It’s otherworldly and sublime.
Bravissima .
Gary moore in " The messiah will come again " live at montreux is not bad either, but not at the top of this masterpiece. But on electric guitar it is masterclass.
“Brava”
Fortunati glii allievi che sono passati per le sue mani . Non so quanti nel mondo siano al suo livello ... mah. Un brano del mitologico Bach, suonato a memoria con tale disinvoltura. Sconvolgente. Io ho avuto la fortuna di studiare fisarmonica con il Maestro Caporilli. Ma mi chiedo quanto sia complicato già accordare uno strumento del. genere. Che beltà.
I admire anyone who can play classical without sheet music.
Hello Elizabeth how are you doing over there?
Not an easy task I'm amazed
There's just something magical about the lute.
Here it is, a time machine that takes us 250 years ago. We listen to the same sounds that people did at the time. Music is the universal language of generations.
Спасибо Вам большое!Какое внутреннее спокойствие и гармония! Великий композитор и прекрасный исполнитель! Хочется жить, дышать и творить! 🙏🌹🌹🌹
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The playing is astoundingly musical. But what really impresses me is the memorization.
No kidding . Some days I can't remember 3 measures of anything and here she has hundreds of measures of fingerstyle
I can remember a concerto's worth of notes (treble clef cuz I play mandolin so I use violin music), but I don't think I could remember a suite (I rely on sheet music too much), and I certainly can't play anything like as beautifully as she does. Lordy! Lute is so soft and calming. I wish i could afford one. If you've studied and played music for many years as she undoubtedly has, you'd have a brain trained to memorize thousands of notes. I played piano and memorized all my music because my music reading skill was so shitty that I had to learn it like a measure at a time and memorize it. I never had formal lessons. Learning a piece was grueling, but I love playing so I kept at it.
On that note .... uh .... My ADHD is very active tonight. Rambling a lot. Sorry, but I feel this is important so I'm going to go on rambling.
My reading improved when I started playing in a mandolin orchestra (lots of music!), but the biggest improvement came when I started using software to input music notation for piano and for baroque concerti just to hear certain parts plainly. I don't know why it helped so much, but it provided me with about a 1000% reading improvement such that I read and play without looking at my fretboard. For anyone having trouble learning to read music or wanting to improve, you can or could download and install Musescore®. It was free. Windows and Linux. Probably for Apple, too. There are other notation software packs out there. Musescore is great and it's public license and FREE! Or was. If not, get some staff paper or make it with word processing software and copy your favorite composer's music. Doing so forces you to concentrate on each note. Good thing about software is that you can play it back to make sure you entered it properly. It sucks to get 50 or 60 measures entered and realize that, awww crap, you lost your place at measure 23, duplicated 2 or 3 measures (cut/copy & paste) in the treble with the correct bass (or screwed 'em both up - ahhhh!) and spend a hour figuring it out where you went wrong and have to go back and repair it especially if you're copying a full score with multiple instruments. Waaaa!! Misery! MISERY!!!
Ok. If you're reading this blurb, you've read the whole thing so bless you! Thanks for reading my nonsense. I'll leave now. Hopefully someone will get some benefit out of this!
Cheers everyone! Stay safe and stay healthy! Get your vaccine!
@@MichelleFrets And all the nuance of performing it, the dynamics, fingering, etc. Don't forget playing the music with a camera on you the whole time! Nerve wracking! I'd be throwing things and shouting, "SHHHIIIIIIIIIITTT! Shit! Shit! Shit! Take 227! Shit!" LOL!
@@infledermaus I'm only an amateur and not a particularly gifted one, but I do record audio and video pretty regularly. I claim that recording only audio takes 20% of my guitar powers away and if video recording then about 50%. It's amazing what nerves do. I've never played for an audience aside from friends, but I'd guess my powers would diminish to the point where I couldn't play a thing. The mind is a powerful thing. It needs to be reigned in.
That's not very impressive for a Greek, like myself. Many Traditional/Laiko-music Greek instrumentalists know a LOT of songs by memory, or they can even play along with others even if they haven't heard the piece before just be listening to the rest of the orchestra.
Not only did she play these pieces, but she played them from memory!
Average musician plays a song several hundred times from start to finish before preforming it, then thousands of playing specific sections of a song
Playing from memory isnt as hard as one thinks
@@theodosios2615 Even one month will do XD
Definitely, it's amazing! The player, the theme, the place, the instrument... Thank you Evangelina, such beauty! And I still trying to learn this pieces since install demo version of guitar pro 3, twenty years ago...
How could you play a piece with real feeling, if you had to read the notes?
Everyone can memorise the notes. Playing them on this level is a whole different matter!
I think she's one of, if not THE coolest person I've ever seen. This is actually awesome!
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Evangelina, dir zuzuhören lässt mich den Lauf der Zeit vergessen.
She plays Bach with passion and really feels the music, which is so wonderful to see.
greatest composer ever. you could play bach every day of your life .
Although fame or popularity is not precisely the goal of this kind of artist, I am happy this video has more than 1 million viewers in a month. Complimenti, Evangelina Mascardi.
here the vnew video with BWV 996 Cheers th-cam.com/video/qvPv7_HL8GI/w-d-xo.html
It really deserves...
Евангелина !огромное спасибо за прекрасное исполнение музыки Баха. Творческих успехов .
Thanks a lot😊
Прекрасное исполнение прекрасной музыки ....стоя у окна наблюдать за приходом осени, как опадают листья с дерева.... благодарю
THIS recording should have been put on the gold record sent out on Voyager.
Thank you! Here the new video with BWV 996
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@@evangelinamascardiofficial4766 Have you ever recorded any of Bach's work I can purchase on Compact Disc ?
@@MrNicks-gn8jc the Cd will be ready in January!
@@evangelinamascardiofficial4766 Can I pre-pay for it?
@@MrNicks-gn8jc mmmd will be out
I'm just happy that I can listen to this beautiful instrument on my couch having a beer
This is what I need, she is such an inspiration, her timing is precise, her motions are beautiful.
It's no wonder she has over 3 million views.
Splendid.
The phrasing and musicality of this performance is outstanding. I want more.
Soon!
@@mariaevangelinamascardi304 MAGNIFICENT. I am deeply and profoundly moved.
@@mariaevangelinamascardi304 This profoundly beautiful. I am a harpsichordist (I have recorded this work as part of my Compleat Bach) and my brother a builder of lutes and viols in Australia. I have never heard better than this! Brava! Peter
dear Sydnis, here you have the BWV 996 saluti th-cam.com/video/qvPv7_HL8GI/w-d-xo.html
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Bach is like a drug. And if I'm in ecstasy listening to it, I can't imagine how she feels playing it with such mastery.
You can see it on the face btw. 😗
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Абсолютно согласна.
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Audiolettura Decadente. An intriguing comment. I was never able to enjoy Bach until I began to study counterpoint and play piano: before that, I found him tedious and mathematical. Now Bach is all I want to listen to. And all I want to play!
This performance on the lute is stunning. I played classical guitar for a couple of years and then switched to a steel string.
What an inspiring video. She’s amazing.
Perfect for morning salutation and the smooth and gentle start of another beautiful day ❤
This is what true mastery looks and sounds like.
Despite the current state of affairs here and around the world listening to this performance makes me proud to be a human being. Such grace...my soul is eternally grateful.
Спасибо за исполнение. Очень красиво и на века. Мы наверно самые счастливые на этой планете Земля--у нас есть звуки , у нас есть ветер и дождь , у нас есть музыка....
Quando inaspettatamente, la musica illumina il cuore.
Evangelina is a rockstar to me. Such immaculate playing, a true master of the lute and damn impressive.
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@@evangelinamascardiofficial4766 i have a 1 year old child. Every morning he listens this piece in his way to Nursery. Long term effect : my kid is happy all the time ,playfull. Bach has an effect on child's brain.
I'm remembering when i made first contact with J.S. Bach - i was in my 2nd grade. It changed the way i percive music.
Thank for this beautiful interpretation
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Mastery by a master. Thank you Evangelina Mascardi.
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Maravillosa Evangelina ....y JSBach ❤ Adoro su musica
Absolutely amazing. The tone on each note. The pace. Evangelina brings each element to life, like all the muscles in the body working in perfect harmony to let a person walk. That lute is a very happy lute.
I would not have thought it humanly possible to play like this.....but here it is. Absolutely magnificent.
Thanks
2 1/2 things:
1: God, how great this is to hear after all those years ago playing this while trying to become a classical guitar player.
2: How great it is to hear a musician not treat Bach as if he were a math problem.
2a: This is the rendition I heard in my head the whole time.
YES
Bach is a math problem though. Not the only or main thing he is, but he is that too 🙃
...How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel....if we be judged for our acts, let this music speak for us as evidence that the universe did bring forth such beauty....
I love the eloquence of your statement.
@@ryanandangelamccullough5671 Just to make things clear, it's quoted from Hamlet.
This is truly captivating but the universe didn’t bring it forth. Practice, dedication and an assiduous dedication to her craft did.
The universe doesn’t care or know about us. As Carl Sagan said “the universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent”
@@Talmurid lol.. It's from "HAIR" :-D
@@margomargo2 What’s that?
Bravissima Evangelina !eccellente musicalità e suono meraviglioso, grazie!!
grazie Claudine! ecco il link con il nuovo video dela BWV 996, bacio th-cam.com/video/qvPv7_HL8GI/w-d-xo.html
Даже слов нет! Это восхитительно!! Даже представить не могу, как надо чувствовать музыку, и не могу представить как можно научиться играть на этом инструменте.............!Это сколько ж надо времени.....Уважение и только Уважение за такое исполнение!!! Мира всем и добра!!! И не забывать , что все мы, в первую очередь люди, назло политикам , мы должны оставаться всегда Людьми!!!!
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Ну вообще русские лет 300 уничтожают украинцев. В их человечность уже сложно поверить.
Da spricht mir jemand aus meinem Lebenslauf und ❤
Thank you for so beautifully ref km ect such a fundamental truth of our shared humanity@ God bless you!
Sorry. My phone won't let me correct the typo in my first statement. The word should have been "reflecting."