Igor Levit - Goldberg Variations (Aria) - Bach (Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2016)
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Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Aria)
Igor Levit, piano.
Performance recorded during the Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2016 at the St John's Smith Square (London, Great Britain), on August 25, 2016.
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I love this man ❤
Gorgeous, he is so sensitive! Could listen to it for hours! Thank you.
He's so enjoying Bach himself!
What a gorgeous tone he has!
a sublime performance!
Every note was an eternity......
Wonderful ❤❤❤
He takes apart the time and phrasing, so we can hear the music--usually so familiar that it's hidden. His left hand keeps the melody, even in this curious form, in front of us.
Simply genius, thank you
Wow, wow, wow!!!❤❤❤
wow
I don’t get the comments saying this is like Gould. It’s very good in its own way but Romantic.
Great pacing and voicing
Beautiful, and yet another performance incapable of escaping Gould’s wonderful influence...
Wonderful playing and great sound quality too. Glen Gould without the voice-over.
More refined, I think, but definitely in the Gould mould. I quite enjoy this.
WhatsApp at the beginning. .. ei ei .. the dark side of the great invention called smartphone.
Mr Levit chose a tempo of around 50 beats per minute for this aria. There is a website surveying the tempi chosen by several leading pianists for this aria. It does not surprise me that the vast majority of leading pianists chose around 60 per minute for this aria, because this is your heart rate when you are feeling serene and relaxed. A tempo of 50 does not feel natural or relaxed; you need a pacemaker!The incomparable Glenn Gould played this at a tempo of around 30 (half of 60) one year before his death, and paradoxically, his interpretation was much less static than this one, because every note sings. And because everything registers the first time round, there is no need for repeats. As Maggie famously said, you can't make a soufflé rise twice.
Mr Levit is undoubtedly a great, not just good, pianist. Alas, ars longa, vita brevis, as the saying goes. He is playing like an old man. He sounds like Arrau or Richter in their seventies. While there's no higher compliment, one might also think he is just playing too slowly without enough substance to sustain the elongated melody. This performance is also indulgent and inauthentic in that on a harpsichord, one can't play this slowly without using more trills and ornaments. A curious and perhaps even grotesque interpretation.
Yes, a lot of young pianists fall into the trap of slow=profound. Only a true god of piano like Richter can pull off that kind of thinking. In general I favour the brisk, flowing, unsentimental tempi of the so-called ‘golden age of the piano’.
JesseBach...So dumb ego..you dont know nothing ,absolutly nothing, about Bach and Music.
The expert has pronounced and we shall all listen!!
Beautiful tone and phrasing but reminds me what my teacher Nadia Reisenberg said to me once when I was playing the Prelude and Fugue from Book 1.
"Beautiful, sounds like a Chopin Nocturne". I learned volumes what NOT to do from that commment
But did you find you had to listen all the way through? I did.