Yuan Sheng on Bach "Cantabile Playing" and what Harpsichordists do to achieve "Cantabile" style.

In this lesson clip, internationally known pianist and Bach Interpreter Yuan Sheng shares and demonstrates "Cantabile Style in playing" which Bach intended for students to achieve ultimately.
In this 16-week series of Principles of Playing Bach - an Exploration through Bach’s Inventions, Yuan will explore some of the most fundamental principles of Bach playing using Bach Two-part Inventions, and expand out to works from Anna Magdalena Notebook and the Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.
The topics that Yuan will explore in his series are:
Bach’s compositional writing devices, Contrapuntal music playing, Phrasing, Ornamentation, Cantabile playing, Articulations, Fingering, Dynamics, Touch and sound, Balance between the hands, Use of the pedals, and more.
You will enjoy the beautiful demonstration and super concise talks, and be enabled to apply these principles toward playing other works of Bach.
This series is designed for piano teachers, students and music lovers who are able to play at the Bach Invention level.
Along the way, we will share some of the outstanding historical recordings of each invention so that you get a chance to enjoy and learn from different interpretations by the best Bach players in the history.
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[@Schleiermacher1000]

There are wonderful Bach recordings. For me the best are the recordings by the exceptional virtuoso Yuan Sheng

[@markbrown6978]

You are a wonderful Bach interpreter, you should be so much more well known in the public sphere!

[@comtaar2245]

The desire to make the harpsichord sing is what makes it so extremely suitable for French music, which like French, is full of ‘liaisons’.

[@jazzenthusiast4353]

His rendition of the Complete Bach Partitas No. 1-6 is absolutely sublime: th-cam.com/video/XiG8AGn5Qz8/w-d-xo.html

[@shmuliknemanov4009]

Yuan plays Bach the way a lot of us hear it in our head no bull shit just singing a song

[@philippeyared2050]

The only beautiful 825 Allemande I know on the piano (and the only I absolutely love on the harpsichord is one of Leonhardt's th-cam.com/video/K3GRJh8Klvo/w-d-xo.html )