Bach/Busoni "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" P. Barton, FEURICH 133 piano

[@vcvvvALT]

Absolutely glorious, my friend. Beautifully played.

[@irenechoi9423]

Always listening to Bach’s music makes me humble! So beautiful. Thank you!!

[@krisjustin3884]

I managed to play most of the tune out of this arrangement, but was shocked by the confusion, earlier caused by what seemed like an excess of tied notes making a visual barrier to finding the real melody! Nicely played and very helpful!

[@barney6888]

When Bach composes, it's a galaxy. This is an extremely difficult piece to play in such a way that the voices flow totally independent of each other, yet are musically cohesive. Only Horowitz controls the inner voices in the most intimate way.

[@aoristt]

Huge thanks for the great BACH! Best music ever!!!

[@PaulBartonPiano]

Thanks, Aorist!

[@arletquintero2738]

What a Beautiful Classic Masterpice Mr. Paul!!!

[@PaulBartonPiano]

Thank you!

[@arletquintero2738]

@@PaulBartonPiano You're welcome.

[@berglen12345]

Wunderschön gespielt Danke 🎹🎶🎵🎼

[@vayasaberlo8]

Exquisite performance. . . wonderful work

[@何乙峰-j3x]

Wir lieberman Bach Klavier Musik sehr. Und Begruessen aus Taiwan.R.O.C. Vielen Dank fuel Ihre Spielen.

[@CRM2020]

Beautiful! Thank you Paul ❤️

[@margarethansen7480]

As always Paul Barton brings us with nice music in a good interpretation

[@markquincy3072]

Just amazing. Thank you, sir.

[@alberto.fdez-diaz]

I do not know for sure if Busoni understanded Bach in its totality, but it is clear to me that Busoni felt a lot through Bach

[@prs_81]

Has there ever been anyone who understood Bach in all its totality?

[@SamTahbou]

Unless you personally meet and discuss the music with Bach, you cannot be sure you understand it. And even then he was rumoured to be enigmatic about his thoughts and emotions, and enjoyed riddles. So every transcription of his work by a later composer, be it Busoni, Brahms or anyone, was partly an interpretation too. And that's fine. Busoni did transcribe quite a few of Bach's works, and we can just be grateful, and it does not stop others from doing the same and creating new interpretations. Heck, even playing Bach on a piano is already an interpretation, we are adding dynamics at the very least.

[@Frei_Raum]

I guess there are so much different ways to understand Bach or other any composer as people are living. But you may be right with the assumption, that Busoni felt a lot through Bach. At least I feel a lot when Paul plays Bach/Busoni.

[@jslonisch]

Thanks for this Paul. As luck would have it I was learning this about the time you released this video and it is great to have someone who actually knows what he's doing to check against. Nice performance too.

[@sharonkaczorowski8690]

Bach’s work is profoundly spiritual for me.

[@lluisrafalessole-classical5068]

Great music 🎶 Thanks 🎹

[@aoristt]

Dear Paul, will be wery glad to see "Nun Freut Euch, Liebe Christen, BWV 734" frщm you also, unless of course you deign, thank you

[@PaulBartonPiano]

OK :)

[@jmjanacek4335]

Good morning! Blessings to you and your beautiful family! Hello to Emily!🙋‍♀️ From Oklahoma 🦋

[@PaulBartonPiano]

Hi Jm - thanks so much! greetings to beautiful Oklahoma from Thailand!

[@DangerRussDayZ6533]

Beautiful.

[@shazeeyadsc4672]

Amazing!!

[@somebody7270]

Thank you sir.

[@lukemadams]

I really really love this piece and I'm so glad I've found your video with the score and the view of your hands. I was a bit thrown off by the score as a lot of what's written just is not playable (unless you have obscenely big hands). Is it a case of accepting that it's not physically possible to play what's written and making compromises to get as close as possible? I suppose having the middle pedal on a grand makes it possible to keep some of the bass notes sustained where they are tied, but without I can see that there are some instances where it's necessary to kill the bass voice prematurely. I noticed also that around 0:45 for example you hit the D above middle C with the Bb. The D isn't written in the score, is that something you do to keep the sonority of the soprano D which pedalling makes it impossible to sustain as a kind of compromise?

[@noahosterhoudt833]

Hi Paul! It would be super cool if you could tackle the challenge of playing a Frederic Rzewski piece like The People United Will Never Be Defeated.

[@ardlugt]

Hi Paul, your tutorials of piano music always are very helpful for my piano playing. Is it possible to make a tutorial on this "nun komm, der Heiden Heiland"?

[@PianoTechSupport]

I dont get it. How is your left hand legato?

[@florianwalch5639]

You simplify the ritenutamente in the restatement of the Cantus' beginning (by playing the tenor with pedal, not finger legato) even though you have the span for it. In my options, Busoni wants this to sound strained - I prefer it that way.

[@leacorrea9093]

Bom.dia do BRASIL!!👏👏👏💞💞💞

[@ИринаБучикМультфильм]

Boa tarde da Rússia!

[@PaulBartonPiano]

Where in Brazil? I lived in Rio then in Sao Joao del Rei. I LOVE Brazil.

[@leacorrea9093]

@@PaulBartonPiano moro em SANTOS, no Estado de São Paulo.

[@PaulBartonPiano]

@@leacorrea9093 I am so sorry for the pandemic situation in your country. How are you?

[@leacorrea9093]

@@PaulBartonPiano good afternoon...THANK YOU..I'm fine...my Family too...a cousin passed away...72 y.o.

[@PedroCristian]

What is the reason for not playing the 10th on left hand at 1:30?

[@lucydych9474]

Never heard this piece before good octave study!

[@PaulBartonPiano]

Yes, this arrangement is indeed a good octave study, as you say.

[@ardarico]

Piano transcription by Ferruccio Busoni

[@tatianastern346]

Leider zu viel Pedal

[@barney6888]

Very well done of course. You'll forgive me though if I love Horowitz, our beloved cantor of this piece.

[@bibliopolist]

Quite the odd choice of time of the year to publish this. Next week "Silent night"? ;-)

[@joshaustin6572]

I’m super curious about how you rig a camera above the piano? I’d like to do this to send some recordings to my parents. Best from Oxfordshire

[@PaulBartonPiano]

I attach the camera to the ceiling with a simple fixture I made in metal. Every ceiling is a little different so you need to make something ideally adapted to your room situation.

[@markwestphal4437]

That piano could a tuning.

[@charlottewhyte9804]

this needs the organ really

[@IgW]

Нормалёк

[@xxepic_swag_gamingxx5238]

What is the difference between this and Wilhelm Kempffs transcription?

[@rochefort82]

it's not the same person...

[@xxepic_swag_gamingxx5238]

@@rochefort82 If you read my comment again closely you'll see that that's not what I asked!

[@pu4124]

0:11

[@Santiago-rw6sn]

Perdón pero al existir la versión de Horowitz, es impío escuchar esto. Muy mezcaldo todo, hay un eco muy insoportable. Bach es claridad, es música sagrada, prístina, diafana, bien expuesta por Horowitz.

[@ml-zj4oh]

After Horovitz i can't listen to this.

[@stigekalder]

Check out Herbert Schuch with this piece - also wonderful - but Horowitz is for sure in a league of his own.

[@ardarico]

Grande brano. E poi oggi i Busoni vanno di moda.

[@andreapraderio8458]

Maybe the bass are a little bit out of tune?

[@piotrnycz-wasilec6628]

Gut gespielt, aber die Orgelversion ist beindruckender.

[@andoniarrigorriaga2985]

Amazing!!