I find myself playing this often. It is so beautiful. I want to thank everyone from Bach to Fischer to Klever34. So many wonderful things happen for our benefit in life often without our doing anything. I am very grateful.
seeing him being able to play the piano again after 30 years of forced hiatus brings tears to my eyes. The desire and longing in his playing shows how much he enjoys it
I, minor pianist and teacher, had a brest cancer surgery a few month ago and now on chemo. Prof. Fleisher's pure sound gives me encouragement to be back on the stage, again. Hope he rests peacefully in the heaven just like his sound making.
To hear that you desire performing again is wonderful! I really hope your treatment is well-tolerated and utterly effective, and that you do return to the piano and the repertoire that brings so much happiness to the world. Bach needs you, and so do we.
Simply sublime. This piece was composed over 3 centuries ago, but it will surely be played in a thousand years from now. J. S. Bach's music is timeless.
I heard this piece performed innumerable times as a youth participating in the Junior Bach festival in Berkeley. With soprano and two flutes or recorders playing the treble voices, a cello and piano. I hear Fleisher and all those glorious voices come back, but it’s out of one instrument. Different cvolumes, different colors, different timbres all under control. Amazing performance.
I have heard Fleisher playing this wonderful transcription in a concert in Toulouse (France) during the festival "Piano aux Jacobins" : it was one of the most extraordinary musical moments in my entire life !
Un grand pianiste et un musicien d'exception. J'ai eu l'immense honneur de préparer à trois reprises le grand concert Steinway du Théâtre Maisonneuve après son retour au concert dans les années 1990. Un homme d'une gentillesse et d'une classe hors du commun. Ses derniers enregistrements nous firent entendre un musicien et un artiste d'une grande maturité. Je possède la majorité de ses enregistrement et rien n'est à rejeter. Il fut aussi un pédagogue de grande renommée que plusieurs de nos pianistes d'ici ont pu côtoyer.
i had the priviledge yesterday to hear this piece in full arangement with two flutes, lute, cello, organ and soprano, i am in love. truly, in love.. such beauty.
from pg 300 of Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks: At the end of our visit, Fleisher agreed to play something on my piano... he played a piano transcription of Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze," as arranged for piano by Egon Petri. Never in its 112 years, I thought, had this piano been played by such a master... Fleisher seemed to distill the beauty, drop by drop, like an alchemist, into flowing notes of an almost unbearable beauty - and, after this, there was nothing more to be said.
And, I can only believe that 300 years from now, if we're still around (?), this will still be enjoyed and very much appreciated, in some form or another. It is timeless.
@@magusl9628 In movie-industry you can find great composers. Listen to the soundtrack of LOTR for example. But yeah, not for the purpose of enlighten the heart. True.
@@maranatha_777 I know what you mean. I like John Williams for instance, not a big fan of the music of LOTR. Still, can't be compared to Bach... it's great music, but Bach and all the legendary composers are on a completely different level.
The climax at 03:21 omg!!! 😭😭😭 Prof. Fleisher’s face says it all ❤ There is another equally wonderful interpretation of this piece by Fleisher, with a slighter faster tempo, but this one… This one is eternal. He was making peace with his Maker ❤
Grazie, Maestro. Oggi ho ascoltato questa Tua interpretazione più e più volte. Su di me, nella mia anima, è venuta dal cielo una colata di tenerezza, di dolcezza, di pace. Possa anche Tu vivere felice nei pascoli della grazia di Dio.
Bach offenbart mit dieser schlichten Melodie seine ganze Fähigkeit, dem Zuhörer ein Gefühl der Geborgenheit und des Wohlaufgehobenseins zu vermitteln. Wer diese Weise in sich aufnimmt, kann in der Tat "Ruh und Friede spüren", wie es im dazu gehörigen Text heißt.
Especially on this day of madness, this comes as balm, and the words never felt more appropriate. Schafe können sicher weiden, Wo ein guter Hirte wacht. Wo Regenten wohl regieren, Kann man Ruh und Friede spüren Und was Länder glücklich macht. Translation by Pam Dellal: Sheep can graze securely where a good shepherd watches. Where rulers govern well quiet and peace can be experienced and all that makes countries happy.
still in my ear the Matthay students and couple, Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson playing this lovely Bach work in their two piano recital in Town Hall...1955??! and lovely to hear Leon Fleisher , too, of course!
+Scott Holzknecht In 1964, Fleisher lost the use of his right hand, due to a condition that was eventually diagnosed as focal dystonia. In the 1990s, Fleisher was able to ameliorate his focal dystonia symptoms after experimental botox injections to the point where he could play with both hands again.
It's that time of year. Take me hastily to 2:38 and lavish yourself upon my impoverished senses. Cherish me with the blandishments of your hands and eyes, then express me through your inexorable lament: such that I may feel the fleeting touch, of your machine's miraculous ghost.
Sorry, I can't seem to copy the passage. Mr. Fleisher acquired focal dystonia in his right hand in the 1960s. His ability to use his right hand again in major literature is nothing short of miraculous.
Hello all, I found a 'Freidman' transcription of this piece and I have absolutey no idea whether if this one or the Petri transcription is superior.. Can someone send me the Petri transcription? or we can to a trade...
è Il pianista americano Leon Fleishe, affetto da DISTONIA O MALEDIZIONE DI APOLLO..un grande pianista ritornato a suonare dopo la malattia... Si puo' notare il movimento distonico residuo che gli impedisce di tenere esteso il dito mignolo della mano destra, senza peraltro influenzare l'esecuzione.
