What a treasure these episodes are :) "Addiction" implies something unhealthy, I'd prefer to think of Bach as "my daily bread". Great for your mind, great for your heart, can't really lose.
I love this conversation--thank you. I was 17 when I discovered Bach. A friend from college came home with me for a weekend. At the local record store she bought Gould's Goldberg Variations, which had just been released. It opened my mind and heart to Bach forever. She left the record behind when we returned to school. I'm still grateful to her.
This just came up on my feed, and though I'd never heard of either person I thoroughly enjoyed it. A really great, concise and articulate conversation. I was struck early on by Ben using the word "groove", which I very much appreciated as it's a term usually used in musics other than classical. It was also great to hear Anne-Marie say that Art Tatum was one of her favourites and also that she studied some jazz. That open and "non-denominational" approach to music is what I really like, thank you.
Don’t believe I’ve ever heard of this artist. Thoroughly enjoyed the interview! So many great female pianists who fully deserve the recognition their best male colleagues get.
As a total non-musician (other than 10 years on the flute), I love Prokofiev and most of the Russian composers. I am going to search for Anne-Marie McDermott's recordings of the 9 Prokofiev piano sonatas. They are exquisite. I first heard them decades ago with Gyorgy Sandor. This was an A+ interview. Thanks so much for Anne-Marie's and Ben's perspectives!
Wow, since I was 5-years old, I have been addicted to Bach. I have to listen to several hours per diem~ I admitted it when I was 8-years old. I feel less alone, Thank you!
My elder daughter has had a love of Bach since she was 2 weeks old (!). The Bach E major violin concerto was what settled her every time she was crying when nothing else worked. Just the first few bars of the 1st mvt were enough to get her from bawling to silence. Now she asks to sleep to Bach cello suites. She is 6.
Yes let's do it again! What a cool person. So many great nuggets in just this half hour. She needs her own series on tonebase, conversations with Anne Marie or something like that 😋
Ive known her name for a long time and had heard her on youtube.I think over 10 years ago I had a cd of hers after reading about her in a classical magazine . Best of all is discovering her amazing musicianship in interviews ! Rubato didn't start with Bellini or Chopin ! Yu are lucky if you get to study with her . Yay for her recognizing Pogorelich and Art Tatum ! She knows and has so much to offer !!!
Gosh!! Who *IS* this woman??! She is so extraordinarily articulate & informative!! How I wish I could have studied with her! I first saw Ivo Pogorelich at the Montreal International Piano Competition in 1980, and he absolutely blew me away from the very first note he played in the first round!! Thank you for this interview, and for showcasing this wonderfully interesting woman!!🌺
She is indeed a fantastic pianist and teacher! Love her demonstrations here! Also, Pogorelich is a true pianistic genius! Great to hear that Art Tatum is one of her idols! Yes, music HAS to grioove!!!!
When i heard Pogorelichs English Suits I was blown away too. Its perfect. Ever since im checking out whether he recorded more Bach, but couldnt find more.
Same here, that's how I discovered him. I'd recommend his Haydn sonatas, he plays them beautifully. I've never heard Haydn played like that. Also, his Chopin piano concerto No. 2 in F minor. Simply sublime.
Bro absolutely, I heard the English suite no 3, having only ever hearing a couple preludes and fugues (I’ve only ever played romantic/ classical pieces like ballade no 1 and Mozart concerto 21 for example) and I was blown away. I picked up the Allemande, and it’s so amazing how humbling Bach is, even compared to Mozart, yet how fulfilling and fruitful it is when you put the work in and get it right. I’ve just finished the Allemande and have decided to learn the entire English suite and only because of pogolerich, because other recordings are a bit, how to put it, banal. But pogolerich breathes life into it!!!
What a beautiful insight on the interpretation of Bach! The ideas were really similar to the ideas explained by my university professors but with much more insight and clarity! I can tell she has worked with many leading pianists in the field and has been exposed to many different pedagogies and ways of approaching not only Bach but to the piano in general. She has so much expression and emotion in her playing it's incredible!!! Would love to work with her someday! I really learned a lot from this interview and conversation, Thank you Anne-Marie McDermott!!!!!
I may be in Love with Anne-Marie. Such an impressive musician and individual overall. I've just begun my musical journey later in Life. Playing piano and studying Bach all on my own. After about 10 months I am olaying Invention no. 1 in C major. Now want to learn it all. Anyway, great interview. Thank you!
The final moment of the second variation in the 1955 recording is incredible In general his ability to articulate every voice so masterfully playing on a single clave is remarkable
As a harpsichordist I can absolutely confirm what this nice woman says about tempo rubato. It is so true, and if we consider Bach wrote his keyboard music for the harpsichord, clavichord or the organ, this is exacty the way of expressing affects on this instruments in Bach's time. And even not on keyboard instruments, but that's also how every singing, flute or violin playing treatise explains that!
"It's more a refined Rubato". Choosing the right accents and phrasing between harmony, bass and melodies. And playing with rubato in between. "Silence in Music" - nailed it. Helleluja!
she‘s absolutely right. the two pieces that inspired me to start playing piano the right way and made me how I am today are the first movement of the moonlight sonata in c sharp-minor and the nocturne Op. 48 No. 2 in c-minor.
I'm addicted to Bach. This is not a problem. For a long time, not even sure why, I'd fallen into a habit of reaching for the 1955 Gould Goldbergs. Just recently I've been really digging into the 1981, and it's really working for me. Right from the get-go, starting with the glacial tempo in the aria, it's just all clicking. It's also nice to have end-to-end video from that session, I enjoy that. I much prefer Schiff's second passes too, Goldbergs and WTC.
I once heard someone playing Bach's Second Sonata for violin - andante, and was captivated within 4 or 5 notes. When asked why I loved that piece so much, I immediately replied, "the heartbeat!" Beyond that though - as a non-musician - I couldn't describe my impressions. Imagine my delight then, when in the first few minutes of this video, they were giving expression (pulse, 'the pocket,' the concept of the "heartbeat" being the base upon which the other things happen) to what I had been unable to describe. Clearly that piece was my "gateway drug" to Bach, and it's an addiction I don't intend to give up.
she talks in the last part (21:03 - 25:00) about such an important topic! GUYS LISTEN! I don‘t know, who is going to read this comment, but I BEG you, please start learning about MINDFULNESS! It really helps you a lot for your music, focusing on your sound and body. Really this video is amazing, no, it is a gem! Thank you so much Mrs. McDermott, your thoughts here are absolutely precious! I really hope this video reaches a lot of people. During my studies, I am so confused with colours. I am curious how the professional people exercise literally to add a colour in their pieces, or add their imagination in their pieces. Mrs. McDermott started to talk about that topic in the end of the video, but I guess it would be absolutely worth creating a whole video about that exercise-style, if you know what I mean 😅🙈
Thank you so much for this. These are the things (quite literally) that go through my head when I’m practicing, between “takes.” It is so empowering to know that others are on that same path, whether ahead of me or behind me, because it tells me it’s the RIGHT path. When you start playing music, things begin to happen that you could never have imagined. It feels like you’re pulling knowledge straight out of the universe. There’s a point in my practice sessions when something changes. I describe it this way: “gentlemen, Old Bach has arrived.” That being the line that King Frederick said to the band when CPE’s dad showed up at long last. Suddenly it feels like Old Bach is either playing the music, or he is somehow informing you of how to play it. Everything starts lining up in the groove, and for a while there’s just nothing you can do wrong. I live for those moments. The things you talked about in this interview are all among the conversations I have with myself in search for those moments. This is really reassuring to hear far better players than myself saying those same things. Once again, thank you!
I love what she says about silence. I agree completely. There was a video of a live performance of Nine Inch Nails Somewhat Damaged which had this amazing silence between phrases of the opening that don't exist in the studio recording or other live performances. That video has been taken down and I haven't found another of that performance and it makes my heart ache longing for that exact experience if that song.
Speaking of Glenn Gould, I walked by his former apartment building today and thought of him. John Browning's Tchaikovsky piano concerto #1 was one of the first classical records I bought.
Exactly how the process works. Fall in love with one piece & soon you're hooked on several. Mine was the Harpsichotd Concerto in F minor: Largo. (2: minutes 44 seconds).
Any powerful “substance” can instantly elate us to a point, telling us this is exactly how it should always be. The more impactful that sudden rush is, the shorter the duration the “buzz” is, unfortunately. Therefore more is needed sooner and sooner in a larger and larger quantity. This is Bach.
Interesting! Honestly, I wouldn't have expected such a detailed explanation about what groove, strict rhythm and rubato is and how it all interferes - of a classical pianist. Just by the words - I would have guessed they came from Jazz musicians.
It's one thing to be a pianist, I'm a pianist, only 11 years, so just a hobby, but playing anything baroque,, like Bach, in my opinion is the hardest,, there is so much going on in both hands, the only piece of Bach I can play is the 1st movement of Goldberg variations, oh yeah and bach's prelude in c but that's easy, I mainly play classical,, but the baroque and early/renessaince period's are my favourite, she is ABSOLUTELY incredible,, and this was such an interesting interview, 🎼🎹🎼🎹🎼
I don't know the guy much, but he looks and speaks like an artist or at least very knowledgeable person. And he doesn't get too excited when talking with artists.
How do you feel about the sound of applause that explodes immediately when a piece is finished? Should there be an interval of silence in the hall before the clamor starts?
I could write a text about this video. It's nice to see two people talking about something deep, than to see two people standing on the corner always talking about nothing. Music is the time machine. If you tell someone I'm sad, I'm happy, it won't be the same message a song can say. That's why music is the end of infinity telegraphing infinite feelings back through the source of the universe, since infinite is the depth of one who has the sensitivity of feelings. Today unfortunately I see less and less depth of feelings, feeling sad is something to take medicine instead of being cured with love and peace. A sensitive and apparently sad music is a music of reflection, also something beautiful, a transmission of feelings that only music has the power to radiate.
The best interviews are done by people who ask a question and then don't interrupt the person answering it. This way you get more information out of the person being asked. Shame this interview had to be like this, it could have been great.
I think the problem with a lot of classically-trained musicians, and chief among those, pianists, is that they lack a real understanding of figured bass and continuo. Compare most pianists' left hand when playing Bach, with how inhabited that hand becomes when it belongs to a harpsichord player, and you can tell it's not the instrument nor the skill of the player, but the training to hear the continuo voices. Bach like musicians of his era, transcribed music all his life, and what was scored for a keyboard could just as well be played for a small ensemble, voice or an organ. As eloquent and prodigiously skilled Ivo Pogoleric's interpretations of Bach are, they feel incredibly tense compared to what Scott Ross, Gustav Leonhardt, Kenneth Gilbert or Trevor Pinnock have done with the same score, with an equal if not richer sense of 'groove'. What did these players have in common ? They all played continuo in baroque ensembles, realizing figured bass on the spot, as intended. As a result they hear the viola da gamba, the bassoon and the violone when they phrase the tenor and bass lines in keyboard scores. Vikingur Ólafsson in contrast seems to strike the right balance on the piano, even as his phrasing errs on the cool side.
Could be because so far I haven't seen that many of your videos, but I would love to see you once not mentioning Gould hahhaa. I get it's your obsession, something that it's pivot in your live, but would really like to hear interviews that are soooo interesting, without that Glenn Gould approach/factor to allow them to bring their own references
She may be addicted to Bach, but I'm addicted to the goldmine of amazing resources found in these interviews. But also to Bach.
What a treasure these episodes are :) "Addiction" implies something unhealthy, I'd prefer to think of Bach as "my daily bread". Great for your mind, great for your heart, can't really lose.
@@paulmayerpiano I think I'm addicted to Bach in a really unhealthy way. :-(
addicted as well
She’s really such a nice pianist and educator! I had the amazing opportunity to have a masterclass with her, she was extremely supportive
I love this conversation--thank you. I was 17 when I discovered Bach. A friend from college came home with me for a weekend. At the local record store she bought Gould's Goldberg Variations, which had just been released. It opened my mind and heart to Bach forever. She left the record behind when we returned to school. I'm still grateful to her.
This just came up on my feed, and though I'd never heard of either person I thoroughly enjoyed it. A really great, concise and articulate conversation. I was struck early on by Ben using the word "groove", which I very much appreciated as it's a term usually used in musics other than classical. It was also great to hear Anne-Marie say that Art Tatum was one of her favourites and also that she studied some jazz. That open and "non-denominational" approach to music is what I really like, thank you.
Don’t believe I’ve ever heard of this artist. Thoroughly enjoyed the interview! So many great female pianists who fully deserve the recognition their best male colleagues get.
Stop making women as victims.
@@Alix777. Go bother someone who wants to be bothered. 👋
As a total non-musician (other than 10 years on the flute), I love Prokofiev and most of the Russian composers. I am going to search for Anne-Marie McDermott's recordings of the 9 Prokofiev piano sonatas. They are exquisite. I first heard them decades ago with Gyorgy Sandor.
This was an A+ interview. Thanks so much for Anne-Marie's and Ben's perspectives!
Wow, since I was 5-years old, I have been addicted to Bach. I have to listen to several hours per diem~ I admitted it when I was 8-years old. I feel less alone, Thank you!
grazie!!!
@@fredericchopin7538 grazie!!!!
My elder daughter has had a love of Bach since she was 2 weeks old (!). The Bach E major violin concerto was what settled her every time she was crying when nothing else worked. Just the first few bars of the 1st mvt were enough to get her from
bawling to silence. Now she asks to sleep to Bach cello suites. She is 6.
Yes let's do it again! What a cool person. So many great nuggets in just this half hour. She needs her own series on tonebase, conversations with Anne Marie or something like that 😋
Yup. I totally agree. My guess is that she is a most excellent teacher, too.
What a sublime vision and skill Anne-Marie McDermott manifests. Thank you, I love these interviews.
For me, it was Glenn Gould’s Columbia Masterworks 1955 recording of the Goldberg Variations.
Ive known her name for a long time and had heard her on youtube.I think over 10 years ago I had a cd of hers after reading about her in a classical magazine . Best of all is discovering her amazing musicianship in interviews ! Rubato didn't start with Bellini or Chopin ! Yu are lucky if you get to study with her . Yay for her recognizing Pogorelich and Art Tatum ! She knows and has so much to offer !!!
A fabulous interview; such an interesting artist
Gosh!! Who *IS* this woman??! She is so extraordinarily articulate & informative!! How I wish I could have studied with her! I first saw Ivo Pogorelich at the Montreal International Piano Competition in 1980, and he absolutely blew me away from the very first note he played in the first round!! Thank you for this interview, and for showcasing this wonderfully interesting woman!!🌺
She is indeed a fantastic pianist and teacher! Love her demonstrations here! Also, Pogorelich is a true pianistic genius!
Great to hear that Art Tatum is one of her idols!
Yes, music HAS to grioove!!!!
When i heard Pogorelichs English Suits I was blown away too. Its perfect. Ever since im checking out whether he recorded more Bach, but couldnt find more.
Same here, that's how I discovered him. I'd recommend his Haydn sonatas, he plays them beautifully. I've never heard Haydn played like that. Also, his Chopin piano concerto No. 2 in F minor. Simply sublime.
Bro absolutely, I heard the English suite no 3, having only ever hearing a couple preludes and fugues (I’ve only ever played romantic/ classical pieces like ballade no 1 and Mozart concerto 21 for example) and I was blown away. I picked up the Allemande, and it’s so amazing how humbling Bach is, even compared to Mozart, yet how fulfilling and fruitful it is when you put the work in and get it right. I’ve just finished the Allemande and have decided to learn the entire English suite and only because of pogolerich, because other recordings are a bit, how to put it, banal. But pogolerich breathes life into it!!!
Great. Really great. Thanks for speaking to us.
What a beautiful insight on the interpretation of Bach! The ideas were really similar to the ideas explained by my university professors but with much more insight and clarity! I can tell she has worked with many leading pianists in the field and has been exposed to many different pedagogies and ways of approaching not only Bach but to the piano in general. She has so much expression and emotion in her playing it's incredible!!! Would love to work with her someday! I really learned a lot from this interview and conversation, Thank you Anne-Marie McDermott!!!!!
I may be in Love with Anne-Marie. Such an impressive musician and individual overall.
I've just begun my musical journey later in Life. Playing piano and studying Bach all on my own. After about 10 months I am olaying Invention no. 1 in C major. Now want to learn it all. Anyway, great interview. Thank you!
This was beautiful, I could listen to her all day. Thank you.
I couldn't stop the video ,this woman has an incredible intensity and is so articulate...
We need more conversations like this. Thank you so much.
I also am a great fan GG's Goldberg. There are moments when I am not aware it is being played on a piano. Pure music.
The final moment of the second variation in the 1955 recording is incredible
In general his ability to articulate every voice so masterfully playing on a single clave is remarkable
I have seen her perform several times. She is one of my favorite pianists. Always beautiful performance.
her passion is a beautiful thing to behold
As a harpsichordist I can absolutely confirm what this nice woman says about tempo rubato. It is so true, and if we consider Bach wrote his keyboard music for the harpsichord, clavichord or the organ, this is exacty the way of expressing affects on this instruments in Bach's time. And even not on keyboard instruments, but that's also how every singing, flute or violin playing treatise explains that!
I had never heard of this wonderful person. I could listen to her all day. 🥰
This is an amazing video. Thank you for such an illuminating description of Bach’s music
The kind of teacher you want to have, she's great.
So much inspiration here. All is so true from the heart. I feel motivated to aspire for higher, and higher... 😊
What a beautiful conversation ... and what beautiful people these are .... It was an absolute blessing to watch and listen to this .....
This channel is a gift to human civilization. Thank you so much.
"It's more a refined Rubato". Choosing the right accents and phrasing between harmony, bass and melodies. And playing with rubato in between.
"Silence in Music" - nailed it. Helleluja!
A fabulous talk by a marvellous artist.
I just loved the interview!
Oh, it's impressive how everything she says make so much sense to me !
Please, do it again👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🤩🤩
Simply one of the most enjoyable and enlightening conversations ever. Thanks for letting me be a fly on the wall!
she‘s absolutely right. the two pieces that inspired me to start playing piano the right way and made me how I am today are the first movement of the moonlight sonata in c sharp-minor and the nocturne Op. 48 No. 2 in c-minor.
The sound she produces is amazing.
These dialogues are so enriching to the human mind.
Love this channel
I'm addicted to Bach. This is not a problem. For a long time, not even sure why, I'd fallen into a habit of reaching for the 1955 Gould Goldbergs. Just recently I've been really digging into the 1981, and it's really working for me. Right from the get-go, starting with the glacial tempo in the aria, it's just all clicking. It's also nice to have end-to-end video from that session, I enjoy that. I much prefer Schiff's second passes too, Goldbergs and WTC.
Such a brillient conversation.
I once heard someone playing Bach's Second Sonata for violin - andante, and was captivated within 4 or 5 notes. When asked why I loved that piece so much, I immediately replied, "the heartbeat!" Beyond that though - as a non-musician - I couldn't describe my impressions. Imagine my delight then, when in the first few minutes of this video, they were giving expression (pulse, 'the pocket,' the concept of the "heartbeat" being the base upon which the other things happen) to what I had been unable to describe. Clearly that piece was my "gateway drug" to Bach, and it's an addiction I don't intend to give up.
Great and revealing interview. The art of being a musician.
she talks in the last part (21:03 - 25:00) about such an important topic! GUYS LISTEN! I don‘t know, who is going to read this comment, but I BEG you, please start learning about MINDFULNESS! It really helps you a lot for your music, focusing on your sound and body. Really this video is amazing, no, it is a gem! Thank you so much Mrs. McDermott, your thoughts here are absolutely precious! I really hope this video reaches a lot of people.
During my studies, I am so confused with colours. I am curious how the professional people exercise literally to add a colour in their pieces, or add their imagination in their pieces. Mrs. McDermott started to talk about that topic in the end of the video, but I guess it would be absolutely worth creating a whole video about that exercise-style, if you know what I mean 😅🙈
Thank you so much for this. These are the things (quite literally) that go through my head when I’m practicing, between “takes.” It is so empowering to know that others are on that same path, whether ahead of me or behind me, because it tells me it’s the RIGHT path. When you start playing music, things begin to happen that you could never have imagined. It feels like you’re pulling knowledge straight out of the universe. There’s a point in my practice sessions when something changes. I describe it this way: “gentlemen, Old Bach has arrived.” That being the line that King Frederick said to the band when CPE’s dad showed up at long last. Suddenly it feels like Old Bach is either playing the music, or he is somehow informing you of how to play it. Everything starts lining up in the groove, and for a while there’s just nothing you can do wrong. I live for those moments. The things you talked about in this interview are all among the conversations I have with myself in search for those moments. This is really reassuring to hear far better players than myself saying those same things. Once again, thank you!
Fellow Bach addict ... his music engages my music brain, Brahms has my heart.
Fantastic interview, thank you and keep up the good work!...
I love what she says about silence. I agree completely. There was a video of a live performance of Nine Inch Nails Somewhat Damaged which had this amazing silence between phrases of the opening that don't exist in the studio recording or other live performances. That video has been taken down and I haven't found another of that performance and it makes my heart ache longing for that exact experience if that song.
I love similarly the silence is Jacob Colliers “Home is”.
Speaking of Glenn Gould, I walked by his former apartment building today and thought of him.
John Browning's Tchaikovsky piano concerto #1 was one of the first classical records I bought.
Exactly how the process works. Fall in love with one piece & soon you're hooked on several. Mine was the Harpsichotd Concerto in F minor: Largo. (2: minutes 44 seconds).
Fabulous interview!
I can relate so much to this im also totally addicted to bach for some wierd reason
Fantastic interview! Thank you!!!
Any powerful “substance” can instantly elate us to a point, telling us this is exactly how it should always be. The more impactful that sudden rush is, the shorter the duration the “buzz” is, unfortunately. Therefore more is needed sooner and sooner in a larger and larger quantity. This is Bach.
Lovely, stimulating conversation. Thanks!
That was absolutely fascinating!
anne is so authentic, full, charismatic, enthusiastic, and deep
and great interviewer really sensitive and sensible
Thank you very much for this wonderful content 😊
Wow she is like a nice book or fine art. I can see why she sdores Bach ! I could not stop the video, so captivating ❤
You are very invigorating.
@5:50 it’s an existential insight described by many philosophers and applies to life beyond music alone
beautiful interview....
What a beautiful mind Anne-Marie has. I’d love to meet her one day.
Haha nice, that exact piece played by Pogorelich was also my gateway drug into all of Bach's keyboard music. Feels good not to be alone
Gould's best Goldberg Variations recording is the live one from Salzburg.
Chk the live Schoenberg's op 25 in Salzburg
@@dkant4511 Schoenberg? No, thank you.
I love your guys videos. So informative and insightful. Thank you!
Interesting! Honestly, I wouldn't have expected such a detailed explanation about what groove, strict rhythm and rubato is and how it all interferes - of a classical pianist. Just by the words - I would have guessed they came from Jazz musicians.
Brilliant, charming and human.
It's one thing to be a pianist, I'm a pianist, only 11 years, so just a hobby, but playing anything baroque,, like Bach, in my opinion is the hardest,, there is so much going on in both hands, the only piece of Bach I can play is the 1st movement of Goldberg variations, oh yeah and bach's prelude in c but that's easy, I mainly play classical,, but the baroque and early/renessaince period's are my favourite, she is ABSOLUTELY incredible,, and this was such an interesting interview, 🎼🎹🎼🎹🎼
Great interview!
O God! Y’all are talking my language. Don’t stop!
I love the Prokofiev mixed in
I love Anne-Marie.
Ben Laude is a very good interviewer!
slightly ridgid.
Brilliant
That was so amazing
I have a Bach addiction too.
0:19 - Bach - English Suite No. 2 in A minor - Prelude (BWV 807)
It seems i'm addicted too. Every day i have to get my Fix!!
Delightful!
I have a fever, and the only prescription is Bach playing that’s in-the-pocket! I gotta have that pulse, baby!
Bach every day.
i play bach every day too! i’m a violinist though
I don't know the guy much, but he looks and speaks like an artist or at least very knowledgeable person. And he doesn't get too excited when talking with artists.
How do you feel about the sound of applause that explodes immediately when a piece is finished?
Should there be an interval of silence in the hall before the clamor starts?
Very fun video.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
lovely..
I know shit about piano but that was really interesting haha
I could write a text about this video. It's nice to see two people talking about something deep, than to see two people standing on the corner always talking about nothing. Music is the time machine. If you tell someone I'm sad, I'm happy, it won't be the same message a song can say. That's why music is the end of infinity telegraphing infinite feelings back through the source of the universe, since infinite is the depth of one who has the sensitivity of feelings. Today unfortunately I see less and less depth of feelings, feeling sad is something to take medicine instead of being cured with love and peace. A sensitive and apparently sad music is a music of reflection, also something beautiful, a transmission of feelings that only music has the power to radiate.
The best interviews are done by people who ask a question and then don't interrupt the person answering it. This way you get more information out of the person being asked. Shame this interview had to be like this, it could have been great.
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Subtitulos en español por favor.
I think the problem with a lot of classically-trained musicians, and chief among those, pianists, is that they lack a real understanding of figured bass and continuo. Compare most pianists' left hand when playing Bach, with how inhabited that hand becomes when it belongs to a harpsichord player, and you can tell it's not the instrument nor the skill of the player, but the training to hear the continuo voices. Bach like musicians of his era, transcribed music all his life, and what was scored for a keyboard could just as well be played for a small ensemble, voice or an organ. As eloquent and prodigiously skilled Ivo Pogoleric's interpretations of Bach are, they feel incredibly tense compared to what Scott Ross, Gustav Leonhardt, Kenneth Gilbert or Trevor Pinnock have done with the same score, with an equal if not richer sense of 'groove'. What did these players have in common ? They all played continuo in baroque ensembles, realizing figured bass on the spot, as intended. As a result they hear the viola da gamba, the bassoon and the violone when they phrase the tenor and bass lines in keyboard scores.
Vikingur Ólafsson in contrast seems to strike the right balance on the piano, even as his phrasing errs on the cool side.
Interesting idea. I can’t listen to most pianists doing Bach. (I’m a gamba player)
It was BWV 772 for me
Could be because so far I haven't seen that many of your videos, but I would love to see you once not mentioning Gould hahhaa. I get it's your obsession, something that it's pivot in your live, but would really like to hear interviews that are soooo interesting, without that Glenn Gould approach/factor to allow them to bring their own references
21:16 Ah, now I want a cheeseburger...
Then God said "Let there be Bach"
Where are her sisters now? Do they still play?
21:55
I dislike "rubato"-- it means stolen. I think it's a gift!