Thank you for this! I love how every version of BWV 914 is extremely different and each pianist or harpsichordist plays different ornaments and articulations! My God, so few notes (compared to piano pieces from the late romantic period) and yet so many possibilites in this music!
Great work as usual, but I have trouble enjoying most of Bach’s solo keyboard works. I’d almost always rather listen to a piano work by any other good composer from any era, including the baroque, such as Rameau or Scarlatti. What is it that I’m missing from the Bach hype? I genuinely would love to see what all of the great scholars and performers see in his music.
Bach has with him the presence of such masterpieces, which no composer of Baroque could surpass. But no one argues with the fact that in some aspects he is inferior to other composers of his era
Its important to understand that so much of music is subjective, and that the music of Scarlatti and Bach is vastly different despite coming from roughly the same period. For me, what I love about Bach is the economy of resources - you don't feel with Bach that there is ever a wasted note. If you compare it with a composer like Handel, you quite often get swathes of arpeggios after what is quite rightly a beautiful little theme. This is a crass generalisation because you certainly get arpeggios in Bach, but for some reason it never feels like they emerge from nowhere - and that instead, they are an integral part of the music. I understand that I'm not really providing any examples here, and I'm by no means an expert on Baroque music - I'm just really basing this opinion off of how the music makes me feel. You should do that too!! Don't worry if you don't like Bach so much, you may find that at some point in the future you really like his music (or not - it doesn't matter). I would add though that, if you are a pianist, I would recommend you play through a few of his fugues from the WTC. Oftentimes you will find yourself amazed at how ingenious he was. He quite often just slips through about three keys within the space of a bar (E flat fugue from book 1 comes to mind) and you're left wondering "how is he going to pull this off" and he just does it seemingly effortlessly. What's also amazing about Bach is the sheer volume of music that he wrote (he had to compose a new cantata every week at one point in his life). But don't worry if you don't like it so much. That's the beauty of living in the 21st century - we can access whatever music we want. There's no rush to get on the hype train, I'm sure it will stop off at a station near you eventually.
for me it’s the elegantly subtle key changes. Bach is less for listening in more for studying. His works are the basis for almost all works and further studies in music. His music is essential, boring, but essential
@@donnytello1544 Ahhhh I used to have this opinion. I'm not trying to sound patronising but I really don't think Bach's music is boring. I feel like how genius and elegant his key changes are is what makes the music interesting. That, and how catchy his melodies are! But I can understand how Bach would seem boring to some people. As I said, there's no right and wrong.
@@jabarzey ofc it’s all subjective however. I prefer post romantic, and that’s just my style, personally it’s all just underwhelming but undoubtedly genius, it’s just my opinion
the fugue is extremely beautiful
This is the craziest fugue I have heard in a long time, what a subject!
Was here for the double fugue, ended up rewatching the adagio several times. Stupendous as always!
Thank you for this! I love how every version of BWV 914 is extremely different and each pianist or harpsichordist plays different ornaments and articulations! My God, so few notes (compared to piano pieces from the late romantic period) and yet so many possibilites in this music!
Thanks so much:)
BACH
if we get the full Bach toccatas on synthesia...man I hope so
Great piece
1:34 It’s pretty amazing how each voice is given a distinct character
Hewitt rules!
Nice!
Indeed
Great work as usual, but I have trouble enjoying most of Bach’s solo keyboard works. I’d almost always rather listen to a piano work by any other good composer from any era, including the baroque, such as Rameau or Scarlatti. What is it that I’m missing from the Bach hype? I genuinely would love to see what all of the great scholars and performers see in his music.
Bach has with him the presence of such masterpieces, which no composer of Baroque could surpass. But no one argues with the fact that in some aspects he is inferior to other composers of his era
Its important to understand that so much of music is subjective, and that the music of Scarlatti and Bach is vastly different despite coming from roughly the same period. For me, what I love about Bach is the economy of resources - you don't feel with Bach that there is ever a wasted note. If you compare it with a composer like Handel, you quite often get swathes of arpeggios after what is quite rightly a beautiful little theme. This is a crass generalisation because you certainly get arpeggios in Bach, but for some reason it never feels like they emerge from nowhere - and that instead, they are an integral part of the music.
I understand that I'm not really providing any examples here, and I'm by no means an expert on Baroque music - I'm just really basing this opinion off of how the music makes me feel. You should do that too!! Don't worry if you don't like Bach so much, you may find that at some point in the future you really like his music (or not - it doesn't matter).
I would add though that, if you are a pianist, I would recommend you play through a few of his fugues from the WTC. Oftentimes you will find yourself amazed at how ingenious he was. He quite often just slips through about three keys within the space of a bar (E flat fugue from book 1 comes to mind) and you're left wondering "how is he going to pull this off" and he just does it seemingly effortlessly. What's also amazing about Bach is the sheer volume of music that he wrote (he had to compose a new cantata every week at one point in his life).
But don't worry if you don't like it so much. That's the beauty of living in the 21st century - we can access whatever music we want. There's no rush to get on the hype train, I'm sure it will stop off at a station near you eventually.
for me it’s the elegantly subtle key changes. Bach is less for listening in more for studying. His works are the basis for almost all works and further studies in music. His music is essential, boring, but essential
@@donnytello1544 Ahhhh I used to have this opinion. I'm not trying to sound patronising but I really don't think Bach's music is boring. I feel like how genius and elegant his key changes are is what makes the music interesting. That, and how catchy his melodies are!
But I can understand how Bach would seem boring to some people. As I said, there's no right and wrong.
@@jabarzey ofc it’s all subjective however. I prefer post romantic, and that’s just my style, personally it’s all just underwhelming but undoubtedly genius, it’s just my opinion