Practice, Tempo & Bach - Daniel Barenboim | Replies To Comments No.1 [subtitulado] 

I agree completely about the "great pianist" definition!! Barenboim himself is the one, for me, who makes me feel like I could play that music (which is the highest compliment I could think of)

J ai adore vos performances sur les sonates de Schubert à Paris merci merci merci

Señor Baremboim: como buen maestro usted enseña a todos y no solo sobre música. Feliz de que haya abierto este canal en You Tube, para que también aquellos que no somos músicos disfrutemos de su sabiduría. Un cálido saludo desde Argentina.

Cher Daniel BARENBOIM merci pour ces cours qui rende la musique magique c est mon grand regret de ne pas avoir pu jouer d un instrument alors que dans ma famille jouait d un instrument ma mère était plus que très très douée et ma grand mère était professeur de piano

Thanks to YOU TUBE for providing appreacitation talk by Daniel barenboim on w.classical.we from orient need more on this to enjoy more w classical mosaic.

Mr. Barenboim, this question may not be as interesting as the others but if you could answer,I was fairly curious of how you came to the wonderful conclusion of creating a RU-vid channel? It was an extraordinary idea and the videos you put up bring joy to all our ears(I believe) because it brings a change from the usual commercialized videos and advertisers that fill the socializing networks we use everyday! Greetings from Romania!

Delightful and insightful!! Listening to your commentary is detoxification for my mind!!!

Gracias al maestro y al equipo por subir estos videos en español o al menos subtitulados, gracias por pensar en los hispanos!!!!

Your work popularizing music, making non-musicians and non-specialists discover, enjoy and decode the great repertoire pieces has always been important. I recall you teaching Beethoven on the TV, many, many years ago when we were both younger, and it's great to have you back doing this for another generation. Thank you, Daniel.

Maestro Barenboim i thank you from all my heart for making these usefull video for free ! Ive been trying to reach you for the past 2 years but never works, wanted to ask about the west eastern dive! Im from the middle east , My name is Mikhael &im self taught musician , Its Bachs music that kept me alive ! Question : any musicians can enter the west eastern divine ?

Maestro, gracias por sus charlas: son todas apasionantes! Quería preguntarle dónde cree usted que reside ese poder evocativo de la música que puede producirnos alegría, tristeza o muchísimas emociones, al igual que hacernos sentir protagonistas de cosas que no hemos vivido. Saludos desde Argentina!

primeramente muchas gracias x todo el material q comparte maestro y muchas felicidades, lo admiro demasiado; podria hacer algun analisis de los conciertos de violín de mozart.

Maestro Barenboim: ¿de qué formas puede beneficiar un mejor entendimiento de la historia de la música a la interpretación de obras solísticas en el piano? Muchas gracias y felicitaciones por su nuevo proyecto.

That Spanish opening was awesome

Hola Daniel, desde tu Argentina natal, me gustaría saber si alguna vez escuchaste Metal Sinfónico y si es así, qué opinas de la fusión de la música clásica con otros géneros como éste? Gracias por abrir tu sabiduria con todos nosotros, no muchos están dispuestos a ofrecer su conocimiento de esta manera. Abrazo!

Maestro Cuando viene a Miami?.

Je ne peux qu'écouter et être fassiné

today i discovered a great teacher

Maestro, muchisimas gracias por los fantasticos videos que hace. Tengo dos preguntas: cual es la diferencia de sensaciones que siente cuando toca el piano y dirige una orquesta, son las mismas o distintas? Por último, tiene usted un obra favorita?

what do you suggest for becoming a perfect composer?

maestro Baremboin, Escuche en un video de 1976 al guitarrista español Narciso Yepes comentar de su gran alegría en trabajar junto a usted en Lóndres y tocar el concierto de Aranjuez. Podría comentar, su experiencia o algo mas de esos años , su recuerdo hacia el maestro?' Arturo Zeballos guitarrista argentino.

To the question of the difference between the education of a good pianist and a extraordinary one: 1. What they have in common is: They are taught how to play the piano correctly that is how to do the right key attack to produce a real and formable piano sound on the instrument by understanding how to do this and knowing how the mechanics of a piano works, what by the way is almost never taught to the great mass of piano pupils and teachers, so that is often no chance to achieve it. 2. The difference: The great pianist must be a great conductor as well (not necessarily with an own orchestra) and must be highly gifted. 3. If a great conductor could not play the piano extraordinary well he wasn't taught the how to play it technically (key attack) in his education in most cases. 4. Both must practice. 5. Understanding physics helps.

How do you play the octave glissandi at the end of the Waldstein Sonata without winding up in the emergency room with two broken 5th fingers?

Do you have any suggestions for playing the second movement of Beethoven Sonatas? I feel like my tempo sometimes drags and that I am not able to reach an emotional depth that you often succeed in.

Maestro, Given the encompassing role you have assigned to tempo, how does one make sense of the startling difference between Glenn Gould's two recordings of the Goldberg Variations? Thank you.

Maestro Barenboim: porque le gusta Anton Bruckner? Que cosa tiene de diferente su música?

wow...Great pianist to barenboim. I just know that Barenboim using to RU-vid. so I have a one question to you. How using body to play the piano?

Hello! I'm braziliam and i whant to know, how i can express my emotions on the piano.

Maestro Baremboim: qué consejo le daría a un piansta que quiere tocar los 12 estudios Op 10 de Chopin?

Con que obras empezastes de pequeño?

Youre italian or spanish?

bonjour Maestro que pensez vous du système d éducation musicale au Venezuela , pourquoi n existe pas la même chose en europe la musique classique sera don c toujours reservée à une clientéle aisée ici . la moyenne d age au concert classique est de 60 ans sera t il possible que cela change un jour ?

Thank you, Maestro, and thank you RU-vid for making this kind of communication possible. Love these talks!

Lieber Herr Barenboim, ich hatte das große Glück vor fast 40 Jahren, als 17jähriger ein Jahr in Australien als Austauschschüler zu verbringen. Ich habe dort zeitweise bei einer Klavierlehrerin gelebt. Weder damals noch später glaubte ich viel von Musik zu verstehen. Aber Mrs. Campbell hat mir viele klassische Stücke vorgespielt und, als letztes Mittel mein Interesse zu wecken, hat sie Beethoven-Aufnahmen von Ihnen auf dem Plattenspieler aufgelegt. Ich möchte Ihnen sagen, das dieses Erlebnis bis heute zu meinen schönsten gehört und ich Ihnen sehr dafür danke, auch dafür, das Sie Mrs. Campbell so glücklich gemacht haben.

Dear Mr.Barenboim, in your opinion, what is musical talent?

What a gift what great a gift is Barenboim, the top of music - what a gift.

Great video! I really enjoyed it. Keep up the great work, maestro.

Maestro, I found your comparison of tempo to a suitcase profound and staggering in its simplicity. This is a wonderful analogy. Thank you for all that you do and best wishes from the UK.

He is a great musician, but I'm also astonished of how many languages he can.

maestro, ¿porque los músicos virtuosos contemporáneos se dedican mas a la interpretación de obras que a la composición?

Mr. Barenboim, could you make a video about the music of Boulez?

Hello Maestro, a question: If Beethoven was still alive in the 19th century, which side do you think he would have been on in terms of musical politics? Would he have sided with Brahms and the musical conservatives, Liszt/Wagner and the progressives, or embraced both sides? Thank you for your time with this question and greetings from the USA!

You are a joker, Daniel! I enjoyed very much your answers. Thanks.

Always one of my favorites! He's definitely a Gentleman of the Arts and a true Steward of the Great Masters!

Merveilleux... Génial.... Monsieur Daniel Barenboim.... Un vrai bonheur de vous écouter... Tellement juste..

Very nice and very very informative over the matters that were discussed. Many thanks for your generosity and great insight

Gracias maestro por compartir su experiencia, quisiera que nos hable respecto a la importancia de la digitación pianística y como esta influye en el fraseo. Gracias

These videos are quickly becoming among the highlights of my week. Maybe a year and a half ago, I listened to the fourteenth string quartet of Beethoven and since then it has remained my favorite work of art and my favorite work of music. No other piece engenders humanity as a whole as this does; no other ventures into the deepest crevices of sorrow and beauty at once as this does; no other represents life itself as this does! I believe this piece to be the pinnacle of the collective creative efforts of men. I would love a video on your opinion of this work as well as one in which you tell us about your own favorite work of music. Thank you for these videos.

Hi, dear Mr. Barenboim, I am so surprised but real happy to watch this episode of replying video to your auditors on line! You are so serious and respectful to your fans!!! I do agree with you the way about how to make difference between a good pianist and a great pianist...thank you for all about your knowledge and intelligence about music here!!! So great you are!!! Bravo!!!

A master class about modesty. Thank you maestro.

I never thought Mr. Barenboim can be this sweet and straightforward. I realized great geniuses have this childlike characters in them. Thank you for being you sir!

Dear Barenboim, How do you practice a new piece?

Maestro, I would like to ask you for your opinion on the following. Why has no composer managed to recreate the style of J.S.Bach? From Mozart to Gould they have tried but without success. What did he possess to compose such music using the musical form of counterpoint? Why has no one else been able to recreate this form in such a wondrous manner? I listen to your rendition of his Well Tempered Clavier everyday. I have crossed all musical borders throughout my life but now at past 60 his music is more than adequate enough for my daily fix of music. I am also working through his inventions at the piano, revisited after many years.

Gracias, Maestro Barenboim, por subtitular al español sus clases! No todos los argentinos sabemos inglés y no nos ha excluido!

Podrías hablar de la escuela del Virtuoso Op.365 de Czerny? Es un libro muy interesante y que aún sigue en el olvido

My son watched your videos over and over. You became his teacher by watching your videos again and again! You are the gift God give us! You are a great master with a great heart! Thank you!

I didn't expect to chuckle so when I decided to watch this! How delightful. I love your sense of humour.

Love the eccentric use of “commentaries” in these videos

I like the way Daniel approaches music in a philosophical way. This is actually quite rare, Music implies aesthetics and meaning. It seems to me that it has an existence even beyond great composers; for when composing it's never possible for mere mortals to trap entirely what they 'heard' - heard with the inner ear, that is. The thing they didn't trap also exists...it has a half-life and this is why we can sometimes imagine writing quite different versions of Mozart in our minds. So what on earth was going on when Mozart wrote K574 in an organist's guest book? It was a private thought - not music, really to be played. Played on the organ? It's like Scarlatti; and it's like the last Bach Fugue of Book 1. I think it is by no means a prestissomo Gigue - nor even a Gigue. It is more like, 'The Musical Offering' and needs an Andante con vivo tempo. If we analyze its counterpoint (I found nothing on the internet about the relationship between Mozart and Scarlatti) we will maybe see it shows signs of the fingerprints of extra-terrestial life. And if you play it on the organ, you must sustain that last C to the end.

Maestro, resulta un mundo tan complejo y marivilloso el de la música que, por momentos, siento que no la comprendo en absoluto. Solo sé que me transporta hacia lo más profundo y honesto de mi ser. ¿Cómo puedo hacer para abrirme más a ella? Deseo adentrarme aún más y más. Soy estudiante de violín, y recién estoy incursionando en el mundo de la armonía, me resulta muy difícil identificar las relaciones armónicas y me gustaría poder tener mayor acceso a todas las relaciones musicales posibles. ¿Cómo puedo lograr entregarme por completo a este mundo y aprender de él?

Sr. Baremboim, sólo sou amante de la música y no entendida en nada . No sé tocar un sólo instrumento, pero aprecio la bellleza y la música es el mejor vehículo de comunicación universal que tenemos. Por ello me he acercado a este canal, y sigo sus consejos y clases con gran placer. Muchos de ellos pueden aplicarse a muchas otras facetas de la vida. Gracias por hacerlo posible, y conseguir que una profana en los clásicos como yo, los vaya conociendo. Me encanta el Rock y siempre supe que eran todos ellos , buenos conocedores de la música clásica. Gracias!

Dear Maestro I am from China. I like your BBC documentary A Hundred Million Musicians: China's Classical Challenge. My question: Aside from the success of a handful of individuals like instrumentalists, singers and composers etc, what would be your advice for China to produce a world's leading orchestra?

When he said what he said in German I was like: “Wow.”

Buenas tardes maestro Barenboim, me gustaría saber desde su punto de vista cómo se logra una excelente interpretación, ¿es, por así decirlo, obligatorio analizar la historia de la pieza o cuentan más los sentimientos que el intérprete pueda proyectar? Gracias por su atención, lo admiro mucho.

Thank you for being there!

I really love your interpretation of the Beethoven's Sonata op 2,no 3,especially the second movement. How can you stay so focused and calm for the entire piece?Thank you!

Dear Mr. Barenboïm, First of all thank you very much for sharing such musical moments and thoughts with us. Your opinions regarding music and Humanity are really interesting and inspiring. It feels like everything you do as a musician has a deeper purpose than just an artistic expression. In your opinion, what is or could be, the role of an artist in nowadays ? Warmest, Philippe Baden Powell

What a mind, what a mensch.

You are the Gardel Of Classical Music !

Gracias maestro. Cada compositor de manera diferente y a niveles distintos logra impactar a las personas con su música, ya sea por la complejidad de las sonatas, por sencillez, originalidad o por qué la esencia que transmite es hermosa e inexplicable. Seria correcto pensar que la musica de hoy en día por ejemplo la música pop que hace uso de letras más que de instrumentación logra menor mente un impacto en el alma de las personas? Diria que la música clásica maravillosamente es la única que por sus complejas estructuras y enlaces transmiten de forma mas clara un mensaje, que alcanza la frecuencia adecuada para acariciar nuestros sentimientos? Que es la única que nos invita a abrirnos mentalmente para entender sus misterios?

Dear Daniel! I am starting to feel that nowadays classical music is going in the wrong direction. It is getting more and more dissonant and unpleasant for listening. Feels like we’re not focusing on a beauty of music anymore, but rather on something else. e.g. how to emit new sounds from our instruments, that possibly (!), had reached their limits over the years. What is your vision for the future? Thank you for your time!

I will add to the many voices here. Thank you, maestro, for taking the time to educate and inspire us to learn and do more in the wonderful world of music.

Dear Mr. Barenboim, Is there a secret to listening to Bach's music and liking it? Or baroque in general? I really do not enjoy it at all, and actually only enjoy classical and romantic music, but I really want to expand my taste of music more.

Dear Barenboim, does a piece of music's length contribute significantly (if at all) to its grandiosity? Works like the Liszt Sonata, Beethoven's Hammerklavier or Rach's variations on Chopin's funeral prelude are very long pieces indeed but is a work like Beethoven's 22nd piano sonata any less grand? Or even Claire du Lune by Debussy?

Maestro, más que un comentario, quiero manifestarle mi profunda admiración por la comprensión que ha alcanzado en su vida del significado profundo de la música, y de la música como forma de vida. Estos videos en RU-vid son una maravillosa manera de acercar a todos los conocimientos esenciales que nos permiten comprender un poco más la riqueza "deep inside" de grandes compositores. Es un placer intelectual y del alma escuchar sus interpretaciones, en especial, la obra de Beethoven, a quien admiro desde mis 8 años gracias a mi padre, José Bragato. Toda mi admiración hacia usted, maestro. Elsa Bragato, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

I always wondered how many languages mr Barenboim can use to communicate. Watching this sequence, I am even more with uncertainty on how many languages this great artist musician has in his luggage.Thanks for such educative programs.

O Brasil te ama muito Daniel! Quando vira com Orquestra do Divan ou Estatal de Berlin ao nosso país? Um grande abraço! E espero te conhecer em breve!

Mr.Barenboim, would you give some advices for practising and memorizing long pieces? Thank you for all these greats videos!

Danke für Ihre Antwort, Herr Barenboim!

tempo is the most important decision a musician should take...and the last one....thank you.... don´t you think that in some unfortunate tragic cases the tempo should be zero...no tempo...not playing that piece at all... because there is no inspiration, no muse. has it happened informally to you?...and even if you have started playing have you ever stopped because of it...

i was happy to comprehend the Spanish! This man speaks at least five languages fluently that I’ve witnessed!

Daniel is such a troll lol

U r a gr8 Maestro ❤

Gracias, Daniel. Además de la música, ¿hay alguna otra forma de arte que te apasione? Por ejemplo la literatura, la pintura, o el cine.

wow wusste garnicht dass er deutsch spricht

Einstein said "don't worry about your difficulties in mathematics..." perhaps Mr. Barenboin had him in mind :)

Maestro Barenboim, can you please share your thoughts about complex music---music by such composers as Mahler, Bruckner, Shostakovich.

Bonjour Monsieur Barenboim J'adore votre chaîne RU-vid qui est tres instructive pour les musiciens ou les personnes s'intéressant à la musique. J'ai une question: Pour vous, pourquoi choisissez vous de diriger/ jouer telle ou telle œuvre ( contexte historique, la façon où elle est écrite ) ? Encore merci et continuez Bien musicalement

bravo maestro

Anybody who has diggen little depth in music knows that Barenboim is a genius!

Dear Mr. Barenboim, what can musicians do to improve the diffusion of the Contemporary Music repertoire? Thank you, Simone

Why Bach is great Mr barenboim? I can't understand it! Just so understandable music, so straight, why it is fantastic? I don't mean music should be uneasy but when I listen to bach, I don't get any feeling like Beethoven or mozart, it's so logical and... I don't know how to say that... Just I don't know how to listening to his music to understand it in my way.

Hola Maestro. ¿Qué podría hacer un joven pianista como yo para llegar a ser director de orquesta en el futuro? ¿Existen carreras o cursos? Muchas gracias y ojalá pueda seguir contestando y preguntándole en el futuro.

maestro! que bueno que habla español. soy estudiante de musica (violinista), tengo una duda. ¿cuanto tiempo hay que estudiar al dia? gracias. saludos de Mexico

I was just thinking while listening to words I don't really understand...and mean this in the best possible way. I have learned so many interesting and good things about Russian, German, various south American country's culture from Jewish musicians.. that is they represent their countries of birth fantastically. Why was that something I noticed? I really do not know.

J ai composé et enregistré un Requiem à l Eglise St Sulpice. Je peux vous l envoyer ? Hugues Reiner ancien violoniste de votre orchestre junior de Paris

in a documentary about west-eastern divan orchestra..Edward Said said there is many talented in arabs countries but governments dont give chance to this young talented ...I`m from morocco and I know many youngs talented in piano violon ...and also conducting...could you talk about this problem

maestro Baremboim podría hacer un vídeo de la música de los compositores mexicanos como felipe villanueva y su vals poético o manuel m ponce y sus schzesinos o intermezzo o tambien uno de 5 minutos en las rapsodias hungaras de liszt

Hello sir...i have been moved by your videos..they have so much insight...i m a confused person who wants to pursue an instrument for understanding music and harmony...i sing a little bit of indiam classical music...i took violin classes for some months and even piano...i want to choose 1 as i am already 33...please advise me..apologies for silly question

Simplicity in complexity ? Yes Hamlet consists of single words, one after the other. In Bach's case, I find that my brain only processes one line whilst several others are going on. A pleasurable process all the same.