Bach is really most wonderfull on a harpsichord ..sometimes when I play his music on the piano I think, I wish I also had a harpsichord at my deposale.. hmm loveley !
I am not a well experienced musician, but I studied Bach, and this might go too far but, for me, piano makes Bach boring... Harpsichord brings Bach to life again!
Great, with all the baroque elements of musical ornaments and decoration. I've played this piece over and over again. It never ceases to amaze how easy it seems, how "simple" it is and yet so concentrated and dear it is to me. On a harpsichord it is how it should be played. I always used the piano but it is entirely different the way you play it then. More like a Brahms waltz.....but to catch the spirit of the piece is less easily attained. Didn't Bach write it for his wife Anna Magdalena?
I'm coming to think that embellishments are more important on the harpsichord than on the piano; and for two reasons. ONE: the sustain pedal on the piano can easily add different dynamics to the sound. Even slight taps. But this is not possible on the harpsichord, as there is not sustain. TWO: the piano has a bigger sort of body to the notes, and you can play it more legato by holding the note longer. What was neat about the Bach (esp. with JS Bach) was how his music mergers embellishments/ornamentations into the composition itself. To where it becomes necessary to the musical idea--no matter what you play it on.
Yeah, you're right. There are some pieces in it by Bach (including pieces from The WTC, The Goldberg Variations and The French Suite), so the logic in my previous post isn't a 100 percent. However, my point is still that Petzold is today believed to be the composer and that the Notebook from 1725 is of a different kind than the first one, which is why I'm not sure what Tigermantt was trying to prove.
My first teacher told me..this piece is actionly from petzold...he also said..bach was a smart man he knows this piece would be a evergreen so he copyed it in his book...with premission of course
I play the piano in suzuki pianoschool in Finland, and i can play this song, and too many else songs of Bach, but i must say that this is littlebit different.
this piece is fantastic by itself... it is better played on harpsichord... it is awesome played in this way... all this trills, scales etc, makes it feel so interesting... it is like living for a minute in bach's era...
Hoi ton koopman wat kan u heel mooi spelen is dit de barok menuet in g ik zoek de bladmuziek van deze versie menuet in g magdalena ik ben zo onder de indruk hoe.mooi u klavecimbel kan spelen waar is deze klavecimbel 👍👏
Hmm, I wonder why al these comments got downvoted that much? Please guys, when discussing (even on the internet) please do it in a civilized way. Insulting eachother won't get you anywhere.
Yowza, never thought to see such obnoxious comment on a video by a guy playing beautiful music on a beautiful instrument written for a family member...
Relaxe, I´m from germany like our friend J.S. Bach... Welcher gestallt Eüre: Magnificenz, und Hochgeschätzte Patronen zu dem (...) meine Wenigkeit hochgeneit haben bestellt...
Are you serious or just trolling? This piece was taken from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach that is dated 1725. None of the pieces that have been identified in that book is by J.S. Bach; the book is a kind of mixtape of popular music of that era, so what are the chances he threw in some of his own compositions in that book? Slim to none, I would say, since he used an older Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach for his own compositions.
