Bach - English Suites (Andras Schiff) 

Wonderful

So true!

It's so kickass, english suites have the intensity of a beethoven sonata amazing stuff.. Music for the soul

Yes! You nailed it. I'm so happy and feel so privledged to live in the same world as JSBach.

Believe me, some of us do. Oh, yes we do!

@@kevinmaestroful They really do have the intensity of a Beethoven Sonata, and honestly Bach’s Partitas for Keyboard are even better.

Hazem Najjar Still, you were nice to do so. Thanks a bunch!

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Hazem Najjar .

Ahahah you're funny

Thank you for the information!

rodovre Seems?!

Andras seems like a douche to me

So go somewhere else and leave us alone to listen. You are an ignorant fool. Maybe read about his life and feel ashamed of yourself, as you should.

Who's your headshot?

Bucky Love Shut up you JC BACH lover

And not only the French and English suites but also the Partitas for Keyboard as well. And the partitas are even more amazing than the French and English suites.

I too shiver.

I free shiver.

And Mozart!

I schiffer.

And glenn gould

and .. a Bach program!

Compositor e intérprete llegan a la perfección. A disfrutarlo!!!

Well said.

The music inspires and uplifts. If you really want there to be "a loving Creative force underlying all reality, a force that actually cares about us", then it will feel like it. I couldn't see in a million years how you get this kind of assumption from music, great as it may be, unless it's what you've been _taught_ to associate with it. And that's not tangible at all. I think the idea diminishes Bach's achievements.

Schiff does anything but bring justice to Bach

@@teddythemlgcorgi7309 May I ask what you dislike in his playing of Bach? Interested. Thx.

mckavitt13 somebody asked me what I think about Andras Schiff playing and this what I responded with, it basically explains everything Terrible. Like mostly every other modern pianist (Pollini, Perahia, and others). He does nothing interesting to music and just plays exactly what the score says and not only that he also plays everything the same, he can’t switch from one emotion to another, he can’t change his playing depending on the composer, he can’t add anything interesting to the music. Is this really what classical music is about? I just listened to Tatina Nikolayeva play this and THAT is music, great interpretation by a great pianist!

I don't know how the audience can sit still? Around 20min at the end Mr. Schiff moves his middle finger back and forth on the key in string vibrato style! 😁

To me both books of The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6ZjN0e4QL6U.html& by Dror Biran (very contemplative performance. He also is going to performe a second book in future) Book 2 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ju6xpqqVZU4.html&t by Evelyne Crochet and Goldberg Varitions ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BLElZaqQxE4.html (MinSoo Sohn) spoke the most until I've dove into The Art of Fugue BWV 1080 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p1Sq1HOYglU.html - by Marta Czech ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MYlPSQNTbiI.html - by Filippo Gorini two piano live performance. I don't know which one I like more And here are instrumental arrangements: Arranged for instruments with a Vocal in a several compostitons - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N6sUlZa-IrU.html Arranged for 16 strings, 4 winds, harpsichord and organ - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ABUBXhIzpb8.html Give it a try. HIgly recommend. It's the whole otherworldy realm of music by its own.

haendel was only one week in London. Bach Liked the sound of local i central euorope and the Prostentante.

I aalso have the frenshs on my piano. But I like the English better. The comp is better! There you got the to think. Ok. Thats cool.

You just could? I do! :)

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And I do!

@@sashka6666 how are you doing today

Well said. Cathy.

Bach's musical intentions. 🎓👓✒🙆 Nice idea.

@@mckavitt13 Thanks! I always avoid listening English Suites, but when I've heard Schiff's interpretation, it's like "Oh, now I understand the movement of the music". His playing is so didactic! Some others good pianists play them too "plain", mixing the musical ideas, and I can't get the idea. Schiff plays separating the melodies: this is this, that is that, this is coming to that, etc. Cheers

It’s very interesting how you brought up punctuation because musical notations were used a lot less in the baroqueperiod, and a good pianist needs to decipher the unpunctuated notes to reveal Bach’s true intentions. Well said

Compleatly agree! :)

@Don P Indeed. And the French Suites, and the Partitas, and the Golberg Variations as well. it's all a bit depressing for the rest of us mortals, really!

Richard James most classical pianist I saw on a Bach documentary said they practice book 1 and 2 for a few hours each day . Since they are scales and harmonies

Training and muscle memory.

Trust me, his memory is one of the less remarkable things about his piano playing.

I was going to comment, but I've already forgotten what I was about to say!

There is a deep spirituality that transcends religion.

This atheist finds hearing some works by Bach almost a religious experience. Can't explain it, his music is just like that.

​@@rickmarti77私も そのように思います

and saw him in chicago conducting and playing bach keyboard concerto #5 AND Beethovenn cto #1...stunning performance!!

Может, не разозлился, а разгорячился, воодушевился.

Don't forget the audience's as well, but seriously I love Bach.

I allow myself to respond since your comment is focused on it but he does use the pedal to create legato while playing bach, like at 13:30 or in his live performances of the whole WTC, Goldbergs, Italian concerto..., like everyone who's playing Bach on a piano (Gould, Richter, Pogorelich, Ashkenazy,...), you can see/hear it for Gould playing the Emajor fugue book 2 or the AoF on youtube you'll see his right foot working. Maybe what you meant was pressing the pedal and hold it for a few seconds which can indeed hurt the clarity in Bach but I never heard such pedaling except for HJ Lim live performance of WTC1 or Feinberg recordings and I wouldn't call them lesser pianists. Cheers

His memory & concentration are indeed extraordinary.

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Thanks, great support

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Yes I agree, can only be surpassed... by Andras himself playing it on the harpsichord !!

Agreed 😊

perfect technic makes it look effortless.

I wonder if most people know how much effort it takes to learn Bach's keyboard music, let alone play it with this level of mastery. The dedication behind the scenes by Schiff is the real triumph.

The sweat visible at 34:28 and 34:49 indicates it may not be entirely effortless

Gardika Gigih Music Absolutely right! Especially Nō 6 is incredible. All best wishes, a Bach - loving lute player

Quite so! Schiff provides excellent talents skills with passion that can be seen from his literally pouring himself into the music so it’s not merely mechanical.

I get flustered with a couple onlookers of my playing.. I can play 6 P&Fs somewhat convincing now but would do anything to pull off a schiff flawless performance even if just 1 night...

The 20 ppl that pressed like are lying 🤥 . This guy is gifted and must have spent his entire lifetime practicing

babayaga66 and the highest intellect

Well said.

@@reginacoelimanilla9084 i know them all, and stick to Schiffs interpretation. Some of the artists you name shine with either neurosis or narcissism, in their oral expression as well in interviews. Schiff's work expresses sincere humility, and its therefore more beautiful.

@@GabrielLeni I like Schiff the best out of that lineup, as well. How do you feel about Gould, though?

@@blindiris22 one just can't love Gould. He is beyond genius in many respects. I still enjoy Schiff better than Gould. I think that Schiff captures the humble, religious and deep spirit of Bach's music. Gould's Bach is almost a mystical approach, he seemed to be captured in an intellectual trance and his unique interpretation of what Bach had to sound like. I like Tatiana Nikolayeva's Bach too.

Angela Hewitt and Andras are my absolute favourites...

Zimmerman?

@@mckavitt13 yes, even if you don't like one of his performances, there's note perfection and an extremely clear delivery of his own musical idea.

@@republiccooper I like many!

Celestial would do. Who needs 'outstanding'?

Gift given?

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Wow, how I wish I were there too. What was it like live? Did you overhear what others in attendance thought of the concert ?

I've heard quicker. But I rather like that he doesn't fly through every piece.

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