De la partie conservée de l'œuvre musicale de J.-S.Bach on sait que Bach n'a composé qu'une seule pièce pour clavier, qui - pour des raisons presque exclusivement idiomatiques - était et est destinée à être jouée sur le pianoforte, inventé au XVIIIe siècle. Il s'agit du Ricercar en trois parties en ut mineur du (plus ou moins) cycle de Bach L'Offrande musicale de l'année 1747. Toutes les autres compositions pour clavier du Maître de Leipzig sont destinées à l'orgue, au clavecin, au clavichord ou au clavier de luth. Quiconque joue les œuvres pour clavier de Bach des trois dernières catégories avec des caractéristiques très spécifiques sur un grand piano à queue de concert joue en fait des ARRANGEMENTS des originaux de Bach. C'est terrible. En d’autres termes, laissez les compositions pour clavier de Bach sonner du point de vue des différents types d’instruments pour lesquels le compositeur les a destinées. Tout le reste n’est qu’une absurdité grotesque.

I have played these on the organ; even among organists they are rarely played. It is a joy that Schiff plays them on the piano. The duets are near the end of the Clavierubung III, following the organ chorales and in turn followed by the large scale E flat fugue. For each of the chorales in the collection, there is a larger setting for manuals and pedals, and a smaller setting for manuals only. Like the duets, these also would br effective on the piano.

Quale meravigliosa chiarezza di pensiero di questo interprete, la “grazia “ con cui illustra la musica di Bach lo avvicina al Divino che e’ nella Musica !

The student has become the teacher. Yeah the audio is horrible, what a shame

Thank you and the sound seems distorted with me too...?!

I've always wondered why the hell he took so long to perform this cycle. I want to listen to this recording

I've always been very fond of the French Overture; it is rarely discussed by itself. I think if Bach had lived a little longer he might have written more music along the lines of the French Suites and Overture because of the direction of fashion at the time.

Bachs music is totally incomprehensible. In as much as how did he manage to write so much complex perfect original beautiful music

Ich habe die Einspielung der Kunst der Fuge von Nosrati gekauft. Besser als Nosrati kann man dieses Werk nicht spielen, das muss man gehört haben. Diese Frau ist eine exzellente Pianistin und vor allem: Sie scheint den direkten Zugang zur Musik von BACH zu haben ! Beneidenswert. Ich glaube nicht, dass Schiff die Kunst der Fuge auf dem Level von Nosfrati spielen kann. Schiff ist manchmal zu manieristisch.

God bless this man

Almost a form of constrained writing. Bach adds progressively more constraints on the work, and yet manages to be creative and use the constraints to make the music even more astonishingly beautiful. A true master.❤

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I'm not sure but in another video Andras says that he still had to study this piece or probably Goldberg Variations

Two wonderful pianists!

Endless Miracle 🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤

Thank you!! 🎉🎉🎉 Happiness !!!❤❤❤

I could listen to him talk about Bach all day. The bit in the beginning about how to progress thru Bach (little preludes to the suites to the inventions to WTC to art of the fugue if you ever get that far) was super interesting

Brawo genialne

Thank you!

After years i feel inspired to play the inventions again

Thank you, Sir!

Wow! That was fascinating!

Brilliant in every way.

What a joy. Great to hear Sir Andras guide us through these masterpieces.

I wonder how it is possible to remember all this music without showing any effort or strain. Andra's is a genius

Schiff never recorded this. I’d love to hear his rendition of this masterpiece.

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Wonderful thank you for sharing. Andras Schiff is the best interpreter of Bach

Vielen Dank Herr Schiff!

Now, I find this very heart-warming. A Jewish-Hungarian great master of his art meets a young German-Iranian pianist in the center of Berlin to discuss music. One is almost a dissident who has never refrained from strongly criticizing his home country's more and more authoritarian far-right government, and who is, in the best sense, a citizen of the world. The other the daughter of Iranian dissidents who found refuge in Germany from the persecution by the theocratic regime in their birth country. Refuge in Germany of all places, the country that just half a lifetime earlier had gone on a murderous crusade against almost everything that its own as well as European culture had achieved since the middle ages. The same Germany which, nowadays, sponsors institutions like the Barenboim-Said Academy in whose premises this conversation took place. There is more than one astonishing, sometimes even ironic twist behind all this if you think about it. And despite their different religious and cultural roots, those two converse over one of the milestones of western music. Music conceived three centuries ago by a man who had barely ever left the closer realms of his birth region, much less the borders of what was then Germany. And yet a man who perfectly mastered all the styles of European music of his time and who joined them into something completely new and something so outstandingly perfect and beautiful that he is considered the father of western music. These two artists, old and young, both refugees in a way, both objects of hate for the small-minded nationalists and the narrow-minded theocrats, are the living examples of what the hate mongerers want to destroy. Freedom, peaceful conversation, exchange of ideas, cooperation, intellectual growth. This is what the rise of the far right all over the western world is taking aim at. If it succeeds, it will make us all poorer, not only materially, but, above all, intellectually and spiritually. Like the last coming of those forces, it would leave a desert. We must not allow them! And to give an answer to those unbelievably stupid words uttered by a former British prime minister. No, Theresa May, citizens of the world are not citizens of nowhere. They are the future of the world, nothing less.

Wonderful to learn a new pianist, I’ll have to listen to some of her recordings in better quality 😂

This young woman really knows what she is doing. I love it!

Wonderful presentation -- thank you! 🌞

Lieber Meister Schiff, Czerny war nicht der unmenschliche Etüdenschmied, für den er sooft gehalten wird. Seine Etüden(nur 10 Prozent seines Gesamtwerkes) sind im historischen (viel langsameren Tempo) einfache, aber schöne Musik.

Ein Traum. Wo sind die nächsten Konzerte?. Wundervoll, ergreifend. Und dann ist sie noch aus Deutschland dazu mit iranischen Wurzeln. Und sie spielt Bach. Und einfach so dass es mich sprachlos macht. Schiff ist ein wirklicher Großmeister in Sachen Bach. Und hier ist eine junge wundervolle "Nachfolgerin" sozusagen. Und beide sitzen hier am Flügel und diskutieren über eines von Bachs Meisterwerken.

U FORGOT THE TOCCATAS

Thanks for sharing. I truly appreciate this posting. 🙏😀

Köszönöm brake your tung... wanderful , thank you - I am Violetta from Kaunas , Lithuania - and in Lkithuanian is AČiŪ. God bless...

Andras Schiff (¨"Sir", et on se demande pourquoi...) son interprétation de Bach est celle d'un ordinateur, infaillible, mais pour ce qui est du coeur, pas d'harmonie, pas de phrasé, pas de legato... Il est vrai que sur un piano, sans utiliser de pédale, il part avec un lourd handicap, mais c'est son choix. Son refus de jouer les transcriptions de Bach par Busoni, Liszt, Saint Saens etc. auxquelles, en fonction de ce choix, il ne serait pas capable de s'adapter montre bien qu'il n'a rien compris à l'essentiel de Bach, lequel était le premier à copier et à adapter les oeuvres d'autres compositeurs. Il suffit de lire les partitions de Bach qui sont sans indications ni recommandations d'expression pour comprendre qu'elles n'en n'ont pas besoin tant on peut les deviner. Monsieur Schiff n'est pas devin, je lui conseillerais de s'atteler au clavecin, celà lui conviendrait parfaitement.

He always trashes Czerny 😅

I’m looking for this facsimile. Is there anyone who knows where I can find it by chance?

Amen

I love his lectures

Vielen Dank für Ihre Einführung, Herr Schiff. Bach ist mein Lieblingskomponist, aber ich hatte nie irgendeine Idee von diesen Inventionen.

i imagined bach thought french music was trash

i wonder where bach got the idea of french suites from or from some medieval transcription

i like the middle movement the most

the composer traveled the most documented is probably mozart and chopin i am thinking, correct me if i am wrong

i don't imagine bach traveled much since he exist in a clique of church organist and teaching

Why master? we mortals don't deserve your wisdom.