(Grigory Sokolov | 1995 | Live) Bach: 8 Preludes & Fugues from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Book 2

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  • @ugo957
    @ugo957 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Его игра дает такое наслаждение от музыки Баха. Как будто сам Бог ведет его руку.Спасибо!

  • @democolor42
    @democolor42 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Grigory Sokolov, one of last generation Great Soviet School legends! Legend himself alive!!! Bow with the biggest admiration!!! His art is the greates gift in classical music for us!!! ❤❤❤🌹🌹🌹

    • @DelsinM
      @DelsinM ปีที่แล้ว

      The Great Russian School was a thing long before the Soviet Union

  • @lockjiang
    @lockjiang ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This eight preludes and fugues happen to be my personal favourites amongst the 48, and I practice them most. could listen to Sokolo's interpretation all the time, it's so crispily and energetically played and well-thought about.

  • @toshiyukiakisue9756
    @toshiyukiakisue9756 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    とても感じ入る演奏と思いました。とても興味深く心地良い演奏と感じます。バッハの曲が大好きです。素敵な演奏に感謝します。
    この出会いを与えてくれた、youtube にも感謝です。
    ありがとうございます。

  • @zappakama35
    @zappakama35 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you … so much … specially in 2023 !!!

  • @Yuriy21
    @Yuriy21 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    In my opinion, the best performance of the genius Bach cycle

  • @stefanoparissemusic
    @stefanoparissemusic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Poetry. In perfect balance between knowledge of die Aufführungpraxis and the highest aesthetic taste.

  • @dgollaher
    @dgollaher ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Sokolov's mastery of ornamentation, holding everthing together in strict time, is simply mindblowing. If you play these preludes and fugues you know what I mean. Listening to the top keyboard artists' Bach also throws interesting light on Bach's genius itself. No other composer I know of works with so many different instruments and performance styles.

    • @rinassimiento2896
      @rinassimiento2896 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm calmly concentrated and listen the Master of 20th & 21st century 😔🤫

    • @talastra
      @talastra 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have to put Ravel up there.

  • @ownificationify
    @ownificationify 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    God he really is the best isn't he?

    • @Jordan-jx3sx
      @Jordan-jx3sx ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yes

    • @4sukek130
      @4sukek130 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@Jordan-jx3sxOh,God.

    • @dereg6474
      @dereg6474 ปีที่แล้ว

      Depends what is "the best " in universal art of Music

  • @philippeb1507
    @philippeb1507 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Incredible. There is so much to learn. And just enjoy. Thanks

  • @kutrzebaf
    @kutrzebaf ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The best, Sokolov -- wie immer. Jeszcze nie słyszałem, aby cokolwiek było boring w jego wykonaniu. Lord sy danke!

  • @neilford99
    @neilford99 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Phenomenal. It's so far from the pedantic, dutiful ritualistic stuff you hear from some many pianists. By far my favourite Bach playing since Gould.

    • @mattprout8872
      @mattprout8872 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      precise, but not pedantic

    • @daniele8716
      @daniele8716 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@mattprout8872 In comparison Gould was much more pedantic, with his machine-like playing. After a couple of Preludes&Fugues you got completely saturated. Great technique but Bach is more than showing off. Sokolov knows that.

  • @Diatonic1958
    @Diatonic1958 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Music and playing that is the nearest thing to Heaven on Earth. Glorious.

  • @boogieboxmusic4331
    @boogieboxmusic4331 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you christian for this upload.l sokolov is an absolutely beautiful pianist. Such focus and musicality . There are so many interpretations of these lovely pieces but sokolov s touch is a joy to listen to.. many thanks..

  • @Walter50
    @Walter50 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Thank you so much. I had not heard this recordings before and despite having listened to Sokolov almost daily for a number of years I still had to pinch my arm in order to establish that I was not dreaming. His Bach playing really often is unbelievable good. It would be so nice to hear the remaining parts of WTC 1 too. As far as I know only BMW 846- 853 are on record.

  • @lockjiang
    @lockjiang ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Did you guys hear C sharp major no. 3? he completely transforms the prelude and infuses it with the idea Siloti uses to transcribe Bach's B minor prelude but still adheres to Bach's score except accentuating each fourth note on the right hand and he completely renders the prelude unrecognizable!!

  • @screumeuleu
    @screumeuleu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I love your choices & reading your commentaries. thanks a lot

  • @santiagodeloscaballeros3743
    @santiagodeloscaballeros3743 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Je viens de découvrir cette merveilleuse et sublime interprétation grâce à vous Christian. Merci infiniment pour ce très beau partage!

  • @JouniSomeroMusic
    @JouniSomeroMusic ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sokolov!☺

  • @suremate
    @suremate 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I wish he would programme Bach again.

  • @maral_nasharova
    @maral_nasharova 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Это космос!

  • @artje123
    @artje123 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Awesome thank you 🙏

  • @marcodaniello4288
    @marcodaniello4288 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Glorious...!

  • @НатальяПронина-и7с
    @НатальяПронина-и7с ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Лучший пианист в мире!

  • @georgezotinca2351
    @georgezotinca2351 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Best of All.

  • @lockjiang
    @lockjiang ปีที่แล้ว +1

    his is such a revelation. Lazar Berman once said that in conservatory kids would challenge each other to play Bach by transposing them into any of the 24 keys and racing. I think this is explains partially why Sokolov's Bach can be this good.

  • @功夫淳
    @功夫淳 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    神に出逢いました!
    I met God!

  • @samuelfabian9737
    @samuelfabian9737 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The preludes and fugues of the WTK are anything else than "little academic studying pieces". They are a journey into the unknown, namely to all tonalities which in Bach's time didn't even have the names that we're using today.

    • @christian-johansson
      @christian-johansson  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They are little academic studying pieces. They were conceived precisely as that.

    • @samuelfabian9737
      @samuelfabian9737 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Who said that?

    • @christian-johansson
      @christian-johansson  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bach. He used them as teaching material with his students, and wrote on the title page that this is their intended use. The first book was moreover part of his application for the post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig, provided specifically as an illustration of his ability and experience as an academic.

    • @talastra
      @talastra 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@christian-johansson Unfortunately, Bach can't help himself, and creates pieces that transform even academic exercises into eternal verities. Except for maybe the Coffee Cantata. No, even that :)

  • @josephhapp9
    @josephhapp9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you.
    🌹🙏🌹

  • @jorgeisaacgonzalezprieto6590
    @jorgeisaacgonzalezprieto6590 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Maravilloso...aunque sin video

  • @PaulVanBladel
    @PaulVanBladel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you so much for uploading this. This a great source of inspiration.

    • @christian-johansson
      @christian-johansson  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As your comment is to me. Thanks, Paul.

    • @PaulVanBladel
      @PaulVanBladel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@christian-johansson​Obviously, the great masters of the masters are J.S. Bach and Grigory Sokolov but I'm very impressed by your intro text on the heading of this page and the recording quality of this contribution. There are probably more than 20 very decent recordings of WTC by various pianist, but what we are hearing in this Sokolov recording is unparalleled, such deep human beauty. Thank you very much Christian.

    • @DuncanEduardo
      @DuncanEduardo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@PaulVanBladel The intro text is incredible really. Very well said

  • @eytonshalom
    @eytonshalom ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you!

  • @susanmaddison5947
    @susanmaddison5947 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    wonderful, but I differ with the argument against Feinberg. His subjectivity is superior. It expresses the concreteness of each voice as a subject confronting other concrete subjects, not just a sequence of soundwaves mixing with other such sequences in a universe of infinitessimally connected wavelengths of sound.
    In this, I agree with Spengler's argument on what makes counterpoint and classicism (Greek, not modern) great. That doesn't mean that the more "faustian" modern science and classicism and romanticism, with their greater focus on harmonization and filler notes, are not also great, or are degenerate, as Spengler and Heidegger and the Nazis thought. Clashing and counterpoint are only one part of life and greatness. Anything insisted on by itself to the exclusion of everything else is prone to degeneration.

  • @giovanniguglieri5287
    @giovanniguglieri5287 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sublime

  • @jrk9357
    @jrk9357 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It is time that Sokolov realised that Bach's preludes (and fugues) written for organ, harpsichord or lute should not be played in the same way. They all need to be adapted and specific if they are to be played on the piano. The days of Litz or Rachmaninov turning them into acrobatic encore pieces are over.

  • @BrianPaick
    @BrianPaick 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One can only hope for a celibidache-esque stash somewhere of this god's work that might be found, before or after his death ...

  • @akikoyanagisawa3916
    @akikoyanagisawa3916 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow

  • @kevinworth1713
    @kevinworth1713 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There are a few interpretations I prefer over Sokolov’s (e.g. Anderszewski’s Diabelli Variations) but most of the time Sokolov is so convincing and makes you want to hit repeat. The prelude of BWV 873 here is easily the slowest of all interpretations, an epic treatment, like Sviatoslav’s Prelude of Schubert’s G major sonata D.894

    • @christian-johansson
      @christian-johansson  ปีที่แล้ว

      Generally I find the slow movements in Sokolov's Bach to be his weak point, in that by keeping his analytical guard he often becomes static, making them a tour de force in tension, concentration and form, rather than musical or interpretative thinking. This extends even to his patented Bach/Siloti Prelude, where I personally find Gilels to be far more beautiful. Nevertheless, perhaps it's since I've become used to them over 25 years, but there is a certain devotion and consistency to playing them like Sokolov does. I am happy he doesn't resort to romanticism. But the only example which springs to mind where I really love it is in Reincken's Hortus Musicus.

  • @voduytruong68
    @voduytruong68 ปีที่แล้ว

  • @mcglover001
    @mcglover001 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why does the D Major prelude fade out mid-way through?

    • @m.l.pianist2370
      @m.l.pianist2370 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, what a shame!

    • @screumeuleu
      @screumeuleu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      it is explained in the introduction

    • @josephhapp9
      @josephhapp9 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Explained in the side notes.

  • @romeobortolani1907
    @romeobortolani1907 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    N 8 has a hole in the prelude. Very difficult prelude. He choose the best tempo.
    It is in D sharp minor, not e flat minor

  • @БорисШалагінов
    @БорисШалагінов 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    А изображение полагается?

  • @marksmith3947
    @marksmith3947 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very odd playing.

  • @Milo-fh8zl
    @Milo-fh8zl ปีที่แล้ว

    Good playing, but historically very uninformed. He plays many mordents with a full tone which is historically wrong. In baroque music, you have to play the mordent with semi tones in 99% of the cases.