Schiff on Bach's BWV 826: It's Not Metronomic. It's A Little Bit Drunk 

Pet schiff

Ozgur Akkaya that is a good thing!!

The boy is amazing!!!

lol

Love it lol

lol He does look a bit cherubic, doesn't he?

Imre Pólik I'm not an expert and I admire Schiff, but it actually sounds more beautiful when the student plays Bach ...

MariaCasemyr MezzoSoprano Schiff is much better but the student is really good as well

I guess the student is still a little too "cautious", Schiff is more firm, which results in notes that are a little longer and louder in average

And that is the true miracle of the piano. No two people will ever sound identical even on the same instrument even on the same day.

@@mariacasemyr i think schiff exaggerates and plays that way on purpose so the student can understand faster

Bach never sounds good when playing his music out of time or "drunk" too much.

You're right. When I was younger I used to ask questions during masterclasses and then someone told me it's generally considered good etiquette to just stay quiet and take on board what the master says - keep questions to your lessons with your normal teacher. Now I think about it it seems a bit of an old-fashioned teaching method

They have music to play and get through. Students asking questions would make the session hours longer. I’m sure Mr. Schiff doesn’t come cheap and has limited time in his busy schedule. The Master teaches, the students play and do what the master instructs them to do. The exceptional students will sort out the details in due time. The Master, teachers and institution know this. This is not an instant process. If in the future one of these students is told that their playing is reminiscent of Schiff, they will instantly know that they failed to challenge themselves enough to have developed into their own musician…, or never really had “it” to begin with. It’s a long cruel road. And is kept that way by design by the pedagogy. Believe it or not, there IS wisdom in the process. The process is there to develop the tiny percentage of students who have the potential to become something very special. Everyone else is politely swept aside.

Es gilt aber J=10 und S=19. Das heisst JSBACH = 10+19+2+1+3+8 = 43. Ausserdem ist Partita I B-Dur BWV 825 auch nur in 6 Sätzen, das heisst wir haben für die Clavierübung Teil 1 folgendes 2*6+4*7 = 40.

Hello, Fred! I'm quite late... anyway, the student is Andres Carciente, and yes, there is a video of his rendition of this Partita.

He says: Now, forte!

Forte

Please elaborate i found this comment very interesting!

​@@Moorcheh Well.... my comment was more for reflection than a statement of a fact, but here we go: Playing a piece with technical excellence is already difficult, but playing a piece well, while also playing it with "soul", is significantly rarer to find. "Soul" is by nature a subjective topic, and cannot really be taught, only awakened inside the player or listener. One cannot precisely explain what it means to play "with soul", but one can more precisely describe what it means to play "without soul". For example, there are recordings of BWV 826 on youtube where the pianist plays blisteringly fast, but does nothing to add emotion or "life" to the piece (pauses, fermata(?), fluctuations in volume as a piece becomes more energetic), then there are recordings of players like Schiff. To me, playing with "soul" means one of two things -- either playing a piece with your own unique interpretation, making the listener feel as if they had just heard something new (while not defacing the piece of music in the process), or it could mean preforming a piece in a way that makes the audience feel as if it was exactly how the creator used to while they were alive, as if the player was overtaken by the creator's spirit for the duration of the performance. EDIT: I explained my answer, but forgot to answer the question. What we are witnessing here is this "awakening" of the pupil's "soul", by the elder instructor - the passing on of the flame of creation from one roost to another. Atrophy is easy, anarchy takes little effort to keep so. Despite also being mammals and technically "animals", humanity made itself free of the label "animal" through incrementally increasing order and complexity.

Muscle memory. When you play it, you don’t even really think about what notes you are playing.

@@levim.3505 yee it's like meditation

@@levim.3505 but you shall know the notes. Using muscle memory as the principal and almost absolute memory will fuck you up in recitals

Lots of dedicated PRACTICE!!!

Agamaz every piece is very good , you can learn a lot from each of them , but if you're starting out now I'd say you should start by the minuets or the inventions , they should build you up to start playing more complex pieces like the preludes and fugues with 3 voices , then with 4 voices , etc

lol i play far more advanced pieces than minuet xd

Agamaz try the Goldberg variations then xD

Cake good idea!

Cake I've played aria when I was younger

Also 2:05, which is actually cute. Wouldn't expect this from him.

@@MurciellagoSV absolutely

It seems to me that he’s focusing on the music, and reacting to that. And when he realizes he’s in front of a crowd, he stops, embarrassed.

He looks more like Fred Armisen with John Oliver's hair

Then obviously you don't know who Schiff is, it's not even close

Virtuosi BH every dance has its drunk moment

It's a "capriccio" not a dance movement.

Jonathan Di Fiore Most dance suites, and dances by composers such as Chopin and Liszt and Beethoven were inspired by dances but never actually meant to be danced to

Lmao

If you want to dance you can listen a Tango instead.