Víkingur Ólafsson - Bach: Organ Sonata No. 4, BWV 528: II. Andante [Adagio] (Transcr. Stradal) 

Deutsche Grammophon this work is the future of classical music. Everything is so fresh! Amazing video, amazing music, great pianist 🎹❤️! Keep walking guys and change the way we know classical music ❤️👏👏

DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON does not need you to promote him. In a few years you will need him to promote you. A truly great pianist and musician. He does credit to DG after being contaminated by an ex-nazi conductor

Vikingur Olafsson doesn't need this cinegraphic shit to accompany his piano playing. In this performance there are wonder after wonder of piano playing and musicianship. Just pay attention to the pedaling. And the trills going downward in an inner line just before the end (all done with the 3rd and 4th finger I presume). Electrifying. A couple of years ago, I heard the first ten minutes of this on a BBC recordings program. I still fall off my chair when I listen to it. PS Dear Magnús Leifsson, my advice is keep your day job. Foret the cine stuff..

Magnificent play!

THE sound is wonderful. the approach, timing, dynamics, articulation. To me ideal

Totalmente de acuerdo

Go watch him play then. This is a music video.

100% true.

100% untrue. This interpretation of Bach is very close to mainstream pop music to me. Which is just perfect.

absolutely. 100% true

Absolutely agree!!

How true.

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A sage said, "The angels pray with Bach, laugh with Mozart, and cry with Beethoven."

UND EIN GROSSARTIGES INSTRUMENT ! STEINWAY¬SONS !

I have an acquaintance who is a music scholar and he likes to say (tongue in cheek, of course) that there are 5 tiers of composers in the Western world: Bach sits (alone) in tier no.1; there is no one on tier no. 2; Beethoven and Mozart sit on tier no. 3; and most others sit on tier no. 4. Tier no. 5 is for transcribers. Quite over the top, really, but I do agree that Bach is the most important Western composer ever in terms of the influence he's had on those who followed and in terms of the sheer scope and size of his musical production. It is, in itself, an entire universe.

@@Nickauboutte I think your music scholar is on the money!

Check out Jan Dismas Zelenka. I recommend The Trio Sonatas, Missa Omnium Sanctorum and Missa Divi Xaverii.

@@Nickauboutte , though I agree with you in thinking that your music scholar is a bit over the top on this one, what he or she gets right is that no one will ever dislodge him from the summit of Western music. John Eliot Gardiner has rightly said that Bach, through incredible industry, had achieved "the habit of excellence". I mean, he wrote BWV 4 at age 22, and never looked back. Dear God...

Eric Hodge You are so right - there is nothing like the music of JS Bach!

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Heaven, and this is a foretaste.

Bach, Lizst, Alkan, Prokofiev, Beethoven - greatest composer's ever

@@chezbe who is Alkan?

@@alexandercoates8317 check his works, Concerto for solo piano for example

Danke ✌️

Be grateful for your hearing abilities then.

Some people don't hear anything when they hear Bach...like elevator music. But others hear much more. Amazing how there are such differences between people and what they are capable of appreciating.

Great...

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@@liveyourbestlife1513 For me, there are quite a few good composers, a handful are really good, a few are amazing. And then there is Bach.

You are right. Like I said above, I wonder if Bach has not said everything in music, in a way...

The answer to your question is in Luther’s theology, especially his theology of beauty.

No, the mystery is that, 300 years after a cultural apex, we postmodern know-it-alls have any appreciation at all for music created by a master, who understood its true nature and purpose.

Exacto!!! Bach es EL MAESTRO. 👏👏👏Saludos desde México

Mystery is why people ignored him for 150 years before recognizing his genius.

beatifully said 😉

It all about the flow, the change of the tide, never ending spiral of rhythm.

Your comment throws me back on the section of the story I've been writing. Hope you don't mind my writing it all out here. The narrator is a hoopoe (bird). I couldn't format the three quotations as I wanted to, so have just put them in quotations. What you say is exactly it: everyone's trying to get to the endings, but "There are no ends but new beginnings." Ah ! And just now, us, we hearing Glenn Gould-this time him not just performing but explaining some point about Bach, nay, illustrating it by alternating between speaking and playing the keys of the instrument before which he is sitting-just now are we brought to startle: "By the way, this little gadget upon which I just played that fugue is, in case you are wondering, not exactly a piano and not exactly a harpsicord: it’s a neurotic piano that thinks it’s a harpsicord, and I’m going to close it now because it’s also too noisy." Whereupon he retakes his seat at the odd piano he is at and continues on in explanation of the music he is in the process of discussing: going into how Bach’s contemporaries, including his very sons, were in great disagreement with Bach as to what constituted harmonic thinking. "That same theme, by the way, of the Brandenburg shows, clearly, I think, the great differences in harmonic thinking that existed between Bach and his more progressive colleagues, theme wanders constantly back and forth across the key center axis of D major, which is the key, as it were, and each time we feel a conclusion coming on, something else happens to delay it." (And, us, we absolutely must draw attention to the manner in which Gould composes the above single sentence of his: its musicality, its compositional metrics and estrangement from all common speech-the sustainment of-in the passage we just quoted, the sustained holding-onto the word theme, Gould never losing track of one phoneme of the theme[’s] sound, he catching the word up again twenty-six words later-we have counted them !-his language, his speech so akin-to, so like his playing of Bach; the import of each note, each sound.) "This is the sort of harmonic plan that Bach’s sons wouldn’t have been caught dead adopting. For them the satisfaction of the musical structure was in getting through to the end, in termination and achieving finality. For Bach, it wasn’t finality that mattered to music, not really. It was simply the joyous essence of being." (Ah, yes: always the pressured idea of reaching, of getting to the end that critics criticize one for not getting to. It, nay, enough to drive one mad ! We be most glad that we may be considered as company with him, Bach, the father-not the sons-in what we do, in how we carry out our own work: giving ourself patience in allowing ourself to patiently wend our way through our tale, unregardful of the need to get-on with it, to arrive-at, to conclude.)

Beautiful piece of music and wonderfully interpreted.

Profound

It's the same for me.

One of the most difficult things to get right which most people who know how to play the piano even don't know about basically.

I cry all my life listening to Bach! I feel like his music is purifying for one’s soul!

So true! Bach brings us to the very essence of the human soul.

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Im a bachaholic.... luckily there are no harmful side effects or withdrawal pains. Not even illegal, immoral or fattening.

Die Idee der Komposition, von Meister Bach war wohl.... Alle Stimmen wollen zu Gott..Also aufsteigend... Dann manchmal ruhend im Hier....Dann aufsteigend zu Gott und laut....Und überhaupt 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪

I always like to think that some superior alien race somewhere is confused because on the radio waves from earth, they are getting all the madness, hatred, tyranny, inhumanity and stupidity pouring forth endlessly, but at the same time, they are hearing the music of Bach and wondering how the same species can produce both.

As once said Wynton Marsalis: " Bach is more than music. Is the voice of God ". From Argentina

Bach is God.

​@@josecanale7055Bach is God.

​@@Londonfogey😂

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Yes!

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Maybe the ones who don't like his music be used for climate propaganda. Otherwise, I would not understand either.

What you call climate propaganda is real. Get real, dude!

It's impossible to dislike Bach. Those who say they dislike Bach are either utterly stupid and ignorant or they are just trying to be special in the most stupid and ignorant way possible.

Rafael Pérez Rubio Climate change is real

@Janna Maglinao You are right, Bach pieces were considered like exercices, and still are too often. I think that the beauty inside Bach is better feeled when you age. I am lucky, I understood Bach when I was young yet. Fortunately, we can listen to Richter, or Schiff, or to some organists, to see many performers completely in love with Bach.

exactly

Dude, that's, with words, the feeling I got -and I get- the first time I heard this piece, thank you!

I'm tearing up as I read your comment!

Your comments over dramatic but this song definitely fills the church and it shows the level of power Bach possessed

Not "over dramatic" comment whatsoever. Lovely 🌹 comment actually.

Your comment💯🌞 bursts my heart 💔💛💙 Thank you for this👍♥️, you found the words what I was thinking when listening to this super interpretation of an Iceland 🇮🇸pianist

...penetrating through all defences... it couldn't be expressed better.

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The climax section in this version is different from the original score. A faster part in the right hand. But I like it: I think it adds to the climax, and it also sound "Bachian" to me.

I’m sure am the angels are in awe of his unearthly performances which enhances our lot the Almighty thank you u tube

I consider Bach to be a major refreshment of my pitiful soul! And that it should be..

Mission accomplished.

I can't remember where this quote comes from but here it is anyway : '' God should be grateful to Bach because the music of Bach proves the existence of God '' .

@@sizzlinglizzi1345 Nice quote, but it´s not true.

@@thomasakerberg6765 Well it should be !

You haven't heard of it because it was originally written for Organ and the organ repertoire is the most unrecognised in the world of music, now that you have heard this one you may check the other trio sonatas and Bach's complete organ works, he's the greatest to ever exist

@@tahaouhabi3520 More of Bach's great organ pieces should be performed on the piano, or even by an orchestra. Organ music is an acquired taste, and many people don't care for it.

@@davehshs651 I completely agree, years ago when I started listening to classical/baroque music I obviously liked the piano the violin and then I stumbled upon a Video of Wolfgang Stockmeier's recording of Bach's organ work, the title was bach complete organ works by Wolfgang Stockmeier, couple of minutes into the video I was like "why did nobody tell me about this before" it was like I found my treasure, without exaggeration I think the day I discovered that recording is the best day of my life

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lucky you!

I heard him in Manchester in September. Everyone just seemed to hold their breath. Wonderful

I appreciate all your comments lol

I have favourited the video, even though I don't like mr. Ólafsson's interpretation, just so I can read your comments again.

Fantastic reply in the spirit of Icelandic literature and poetry.

Hahaha... Brilliant! :-)

funny

Christmas does not have to be lonely, especially if you have Jesus Christ in your heart and you have a sincere, profound relationship with Him. There is never a need to be lonely if you have Him for a friend and a Savior. He goes wherever you go and whenever you go. He lives with you here on earth and into eternity with you if you accept Him as you Lord and Savior. God's free gift or salvation, eternal life, and forgiveness of sin is rejected by so many people who just do not know the joy of accepting Jesus as the best friend that they will ever have. So sad, so unnecessary.

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Absolutely beautifully put.

I concede that it is difficult to accept that Bach's music has been conceived by a mere mortal, but it isn't conclusive proof for the existence of a god. Perhaps humanity is underrated?

@@pjmvdbroek Humanity is underrated without God. Humanism actually lowered the status of humanity by depriving him of the quasi "divine" status religion gave him. The fact we now only revel in the worst aspects of humanity is probably a consequence of that, because once you cut off man from that which is above him everything about him becomes "hypocrisy" after which you can only be "honest" and "real" by focusing on what is below him.

Wonderful!

@@sophiaperennis2360 Spot on.

Ian Hoblitzell I am completely agree with you, Bach had linked us with our soul.

I’m addicted to this movement also. It just blows me away. Greetings from Saskatchewan Canada, stay safe!

would be better with the Bach-Marcello adagio for harpsichord concerto (but just the piano solo version)

@@displaychicken Vive le Seskatchewan libre! (Omg. Vivent mes USA libres! I hope against hope I/we can walk out our door some fine Monday morning, free as Iceland to renew ourselves and rebuild what already has been destroyed. Bach is my witness!!

I keep listening to this recording and others he has done. Deutsche Grammaphone is making interesting recordings of him.

Ich stimme zu. Bach, Beethoven und Wagner waren die größten Komponisten.

Max Olivier Ça vient de Cioran. Je ne pourrais mieux dire.

What? I think it's horrendous.

Ah, Bach speaks to us from that other place.

I'm glad *you* liked it. I thought it distinctly odd. By contrast, I liked the piece - not one I'm familiar with, but I really enjoyed the interplay between the left- and right-hand melodies, and it was beautifully played. I'll be back to hear it again before long.

Mystery? What mystery? There is no mystery here. It is plain and simple that each person stands in awe of Bach's music and of the brilliance of its interpretation by the pianist, Olafsson. However, let's give credit to where credit is due and that is to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ who created Bach in His own image and placed in his soul the inspiration and ability to create beautiful music that glorified Him so that all of humanity would know that nothing can be created apart from what God has placed in each of us. To God be the glory now and forever more!!

It's a bunch of scruffs walking about

True. However, they already share everything at the beginning of the video: appearances, cloths, houses. In my opinion, this obfuscates a little bit the concept of the video. Don't you think so?

Yes, "unification" is the word. Mission accomplished: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lEMFmqiGeRY.html

Sigue estudiando y siempre disfrutando con cada nota.

What a lovely story... from one pianist to another