This music is really unique, "every composer is unique" obviously but Bach is something else, I've never heard something like this melody on the first bars of the prelude the mix of the two voices is just different from everything I have ever heard and on top of that the pianist did a wonderful job, the interpretation is beyond playing the notes, there is something spiritual here, absolutely magnificent thank you so much for uploading!
it was uploaded the date of my birthday. how can't I appreciate it? 3:54 the theme of the episode of the fugue: that's so melancholy. Love from Italy Love BACH
After hearing this interpretetion, some time ago, I - for my private use ;) called the Prelude 'Sunday prelude' ,as for me It has something unique, intimite,spiritual - just like Sunday. I obviously started playing it every Sunday :) Then I realized why Bach, while composing Mass in b-minor Bach chose THIS scale
wooooohhhhhhhhhooghhhh ohhhhhhhhh ohohhhhhhh caught in a bad romance lol I love that she used a classical music intro from something I've actually learned
I know this has nothing to do with the music. I love this prelude and fugue and appreciate Miss McGregor`s playing (even though I prefer slower versions). That said, her hands and movements are beautiful, They in themselves are a work of art, a form of dance.
Me encanta el fluir sereno y el toque tranquilo pero sin pausa del preludio. En la fuga creo que pone demasiado ataque en el tema, demasiado rudo, pero en el devenir logra momentos de indiscutible belleza. En sintesis me gusta! Una curiosidad... las páginas no se dan vuelta?
The fugue (5:20) sounds incredibly modern. Large parts of it sound like early atonal Schönberg. I have the association of cubistic paintings of the 1920s. In this video (th-cam.com/video/yk_Uk5gOPT0/w-d-xo.html) Joanna MacGregor makes some very insightful comments about the fugue. The fugue theme and counterpoint build up an "angular world" , which opens up only three times in the episodes 6:45, 7:31, 10:53, but the fugue has no "happy ending" and reverts back to and ends in the "angular world".
One of the most musical performances I have heard of this prelude and fugue. Lovely use of dynamics. Bach could not have played it like this, given the limitations of his instruments, but he might have enjoyed it. For a performance that is probably more like Bach's check out th-cam.com/video/UGieOVATEOM/w-d-xo.html.
Very nice but for me, it's the insane ornaments, trills or whatever the correct nomenclature is, that are sadly lacking in this performance. There's a version by Gulda that is almost torturous , the long trills in the second half of the fugue just send things over the edge, torturous but sublime. Does anyone know, did Bach include the ornaments in the original score?? I just love those insane long trills, lacking here but worth seeking out Gulda's interpretation.
Bach wrote a trill at the end of the subject. Nothing in the score for subsequent iterations of the theme, but I feel they are implied. McGregor puts in some, but not all trills in the corresponding places in the fugue.
hey I play this fugue on my channel but not as good as her tho ^^' also I feel she presses to hard on the keys I know its supposed to be like a heavy climbing feeling to the melody but I feel there should be more variety to every climb.
@@MrAmerica51 perhaps she means the separate lines of in counterpoint. Chopin would be emphasizing a dramatic whole. That's my interpretation of this comment. Perhaps if there were, and I'm not saying there is, overuse of dynamics that would be pianistic in a Chopin-like way. I don't know, I kind of think in her AOF MacGregor avoids this but I have to listen more and I can't say about WTC. And we just have these YT videos since she's not recorded WTC that I know of. I quite like her French Suites too. It's not overly romantic.
Obviously performed in a very cold venue, and post-processing of the audio has corrected the pitch. So, it sounds pleasant and in tune. However, ultimately this an artificial performance which does not reflect the reality of the situation.
This music is really unique, "every composer is unique" obviously but Bach is something else, I've never heard something like this melody on the first bars of the prelude the mix of the two voices is just different from everything I have ever heard and on top of that the pianist did a wonderful job, the interpretation is beyond playing the notes, there is something spiritual here, absolutely magnificent thank you so much for uploading!
WTC is the code of the Universe. WTC is the Universe. I couldn't imagine life without it.
This comes as close as anything I've seen to my own sense of this music.
What the heck you talking about
Most important musical masterwork in the history
@@CharlieBrown-zr9wk either you get it and you get it, or you don't
I am not sure about the code. I suppose, these two books were written by geniuses. Some of them are still unknown. Bach was involved too surely.
I thank you for this: It is beautiful! Heart touching
Favourite interpretation of this work: beautiful articulation, acoustic space, piano's sonority...
it was uploaded the date of my birthday. how can't I appreciate it?
3:54 the theme of the episode of the fugue: that's so melancholy.
Love from Italy
Love BACH
wonderful performance with a natural impetus
Sublime Bach.une très belle interpretation. Comment vivre sans Bach,sans l écouter, le jouer ? .Il m a accompagné toute ma vie.
i cried straight, of the beautify that i heard.. what is even this music? what kind of message is this?
After hearing this interpretetion, some time ago, I - for my private use ;) called the Prelude 'Sunday prelude' ,as for me It has something unique, intimite,spiritual - just like Sunday. I obviously started playing it every Sunday :) Then I realized why Bach, while composing Mass in b-minor Bach chose THIS scale
great trousers
Beauty playing beauty.
That's the way the way the world should be.
5:20 - 5:51 x2= Ooooh caught in a Bad Romance! Cit* GaGa
wooooohhhhhhhhhooghhhh ohhhhhhhhh ohohhhhhhh caught in a bad romance
lol I love that she used a classical music intro from something I've actually learned
I know this has nothing to do with the music. I love this prelude and fugue and appreciate Miss McGregor`s playing (even though I prefer slower versions). That said, her hands and movements are beautiful, They in themselves are a work of art, a form of dance.
Amazing!! You are so beautiful and talented!!!😇
"MacGregor is particularly known for her Bach interpretations and recordings" (Wikipedia)
A fellow Bach piano fan . Glad I stumbled on to her . Totally inspiring playing .
Creo que amo a Bach con toda la fuerza de mi alma.
...as , in fact BACH IS - (a part of) Your Soul
Me encanta el fluir sereno y el toque tranquilo pero sin pausa del preludio. En la fuga creo que pone demasiado ataque en el tema, demasiado rudo, pero en el devenir logra momentos de indiscutible belleza. En sintesis me gusta! Una curiosidad... las páginas no se dan vuelta?
The pages do turn.
The fugue (5:20) sounds incredibly modern. Large parts of it sound like early atonal Schönberg. I have the association of cubistic paintings of the 1920s. In this video (th-cam.com/video/yk_Uk5gOPT0/w-d-xo.html) Joanna MacGregor makes some very insightful comments about the fugue. The fugue theme and counterpoint build up an "angular world" , which opens up only three times in the episodes 6:45, 7:31, 10:53, but the fugue has no "happy ending" and reverts back to and ends in the "angular world".
Daucus carota Interesting idea. Of possible interest here is the piece played on a Harpsichord. th-cam.com/video/UGieOVATEOM/w-d-xo.html
Any modern composer is nothing if he doesn't know anything about Bach music.
Actually Schönberg called this Fugue as one of his inspirations for his 12 tone music
"He enters the realms of atonality" (Rosalyn Tureck).
Bravo!
andante is walking, not slow. this is exactly right
A lovely performance .
Smuk, følsom og meget skøn musik......
One of the most musical performances I have heard of this prelude and fugue. Lovely use of dynamics. Bach could not have played it like this, given the limitations of his instruments, but he might have enjoyed it. For a performance that is probably more like Bach's check out th-cam.com/video/UGieOVATEOM/w-d-xo.html.
💓💓💓
6:40
Very nice but for me, it's the insane ornaments, trills or whatever the correct nomenclature is, that are sadly lacking in this performance.
There's a version by Gulda that is almost torturous , the long trills in the second half of the fugue just send things over the edge, torturous but sublime. Does anyone know, did Bach include the ornaments in the original score?? I just love those insane long trills, lacking here but worth seeking out Gulda's interpretation.
No ornaments in the entirety of the fugue in the Urtext, no.
Bach wrote a trill at the end of the subject. Nothing in the score for subsequent iterations of the theme, but I feel they are implied. McGregor puts in some, but not all trills in the corresponding places in the fugue.
hey I play this fugue on my channel but not as good as her tho ^^' also I feel she presses to hard on the keys I know its supposed to be like a heavy climbing feeling to the melody but I feel there should be more variety to every climb.
🌹🌹🌹...
She is beautiful. I love her
Lady Gaga Bad Romance brought me here
Prelepo
5:18 >> Fuga
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh caught in a bad romance
Smukt, smukt både musikken og flot spillet......
По медленнее, Рихтер лучше играет
Great playing, terrible videography. Literally made my head spin.
Her hair looks like Bach's wig: today, hair restorer advertising is inserted.
A lyrical performance - but the linear writing that makes Bach a genius is lost. Please don’t play it like you would Chopin.
You should explain your point of view please: "linear writing", "don't play like Chopin".
Nothing in common with Chopin..
@@MrAmerica51 perhaps she means the separate lines of in counterpoint. Chopin would be emphasizing a dramatic whole. That's my interpretation of this comment. Perhaps if there were, and I'm not saying there is, overuse of dynamics that would be pianistic in a Chopin-like way. I don't know, I kind of think in her AOF MacGregor avoids this but I have to listen more and I can't say about WTC. And we just have these YT videos since she's not recorded WTC that I know of. I quite like her French Suites too. It's not overly romantic.
@@begshallots Thanks for you explanation!
maybe "play like Chopin" because in the fugue she uses a lot of pedal
At first I thought it was a dude in the thumbnail ngl.
Obviously performed in a very cold venue, and post-processing of the audio has corrected the pitch. So, it sounds pleasant and in tune. However, ultimately this an artificial performance which does not reflect the reality of the situation.
You really are a sick individual to call this an artificial performance.