I got into this after a music Diploma to "write in the classical style" to this footage. And what he says it prepares you is so on. Just this piece has my improvising in the "classical style" far, far better than before.
Wirklich schön und einzigartig. Als ich auf dem Konzert von Lang Lang war, da hab ich sofort erkannt, dass die Struktur anders war als wenn ich spiele. Ich weiß auch nicht was ich da rede😅
Wie oft wurde dieses Stück von Bach falsch interpretiert. Hier spielt ein wirklich großer Meister dieses wundervolle und einzigartige Stück im Geiste und Ausdruck von Johann Sebastian BACH… viele rattern das nur vom Blatt herunter und haben es nie in der tiefsinnigen Weise je verstanden…
Don't let Andras Schiff see that foot on the pedal ! Of course Bach didn't have a pedal or even a piano, but I'm quite sure he wouldn't have objected !
With regard to that the playing of each classical piece is nothing more than an Interpretation, using the sustain pedal should not be a proscription. This is the way that made it famous at all.
@@Rafael-uv3uf Agreed with the comment above. Lang Lang explains that when Bach composed this piece, the modern piano didn't exist. They used the harpsichord, which had little to no dynamics and no sustain pedal since the strings only had short sustain/decay. The whole idea of the arpeggi was to replace the loack of sustain with a sonstant flow of notes. Your means of expression are the way you articulate the notes. Lang Lang suggests holding the notes in your left hand and playing non legato (very short gaps between the notes) in your right hand as opposed to completely legato (super smooth note transitions or even slightly overlapping) and of course no sustain pedal, since a beautiful long sustain is a feature of the modern acoustic piano, which hadn't been invented when Bach wrote his music. At least this is how I understood it.
He explained it, he holds the notes with his hands as long as possible and only uses half pedal. Because he does consider the difference in playing when this piece was written. But as a master of the piano he obviously uses it to its highest potential and doesn't try to make it sound like an instrument that it isn't. Who are we to judge how Bach would play this piece on an instrument that wasn't invented back then?