Bach - English Suite no. 3 in G minor BWV 808 - Hantaï | Netherlands Bach Society

[@bach]

0:07 Prelude 3:47 Allemande 7:53 Courante 10:23 Sarabande 14:18 Gavotte I & II 17:34 Gigue

[@martijnthomas6017]

Wie heeft die stomme intro bedacht. Heel hinderlijk...

[@claudioyabrudi]

Thanks!

[@reyanshdevin4104]

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[@archermusa284]

@Reyansh Devin Instablaster :)

[@eahemming]

I never knew a harpsichord could sound this good!

[@jaycorwin1625]

This is how I like to hear Bach's music played: by someone who is so in awe of it that he will not try to compete with it for attention, but gives his ability to approach it faithfully and with humility. This man is a master musican.

[@katbullar]

in my humble opinion this is the best channel for Bach´s music available! Absolutely fantastic!

[@makytondr8607]

katbullar Agreed! Perhaps not the best quantity-wise but the quality is always splendid... So thankful for this channel!

[@katbullar]

I listen to it over and over. Each interpretation is very well thought out. I really enjoy it and it is also fun to see people that also share the same feeling.

[@Advent22mix]

I wholeheartedly agree. I find myself listening to this channel on a daily basis.

[@samuele90]

I agree

[@orb3796]

This and Gerubach

[@ketanfernandes4094]

The harpsichord, in my opinion, is one of the most underappreciated instruments in terms of both sound and mechanics (the double manual one in particular)

[@ThibaudSaintinLFIB]

Jean Rondeau explains his feelings about playing hapsichord : going back to childhood and to fragility. This video might make you happy : kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKa5aX1pndCdgcU English subtitles !

[@翁慈玲]

Agreed❤

[@jimjones-d1p]

We must go beyond underappreciatio.....I say the cembalo MUST BE use to play ANY music composed for it. This regrettable use of the piano to perform Scarlatti, JSB, and lesser known greats is just absurd., in my humble opinion. I cannot hear such music.

[@barrylydgate3951]

Pierre Hantaï is the real deal, one of the best harpsichordists of the post-Leonhardt generation. Listen to his Gavotte II; he really understands what a musette is-or was (the hurdy-gurdy, the pipes, the tambourine).

[@HAThorsten]

Léon Berben is better in my opinion, also a student of Leonhardt

[@continentalgin]

He plays the Bach keyboard concertos with tremendous heart and skill, as well. Knockout performances.

[@cellphysfan124]

I totally agree, Barry!

[@julienfornerod]

If you like Hantai, you should listen to his Scarlatti recordings…it’s totally crazy stuff

[@cuajareto_de_las_galaxias]

I agree!!

[@marcussfebruary9104]

What a fine harpsichord. What fine compositions. What a fine musician.

[@claudioyabrudi]

I thought exactally that! And I would add, what a fine video and audio recording. Congrats to All of Bach!

[@continentalgin]

The eternal genius of mankind is done glorious justice here.

[@bernardparret3191]

Don't forget the exclamation marks to make your wording more forceful (LOL !)

[@cadedundon8616]

Out of every prelude out there, this suite has the best prelude of all time.

[@raymondricketts5209]

YES!

[@ameyaathawale5521]

English suite No 2!!!!!

[@13locomamama]

a minor also quite good!

[@massimocampostrini8718]

It is very interesting to hear in All of Bach so many harpsichordists, all of them giving top-quality performances, but each one with his personal style.

[@juliand.guzman3649]

Einstein believed in the god of spinoza and I believe the god of bach ... each silence and each note brims with love and mystery.

[@excelsior999]

Right. Like the Space between the Earth and the Stars, The Silences between the notes are as important to the piece as the notes themselves.

[@PatrickBateman191]

Wow !!! This guy is so AMAZING it is FRIGHTENING !!!

[@phwbooth]

The sarabandes of Bach's French and English suites are some of the loveliest things he wrote.

[@tepmich]

Listening to this piece of music I felt my soul as if it was being washed by dew !!! Tepper Michael.

[@emmeff6643]

Bach est le plus grand.

[@excelsior999]

@@emmeff6643 Sans doubte.

[@ivardozon8064]

Fabulous performance! I like the cameras too!

[@alexischampsaur4352]

Je n'ai jamais entendu le prélude avec autant d'espace, de liberté rhythmique. C'est un peu surprenant, mais assez beau aussi.

[@noli-soattinguitarduo9204]

Mr. Hantaï is simply outstanding as usual

[@arturlascala]

Amazing! Pierre Hantaï is the king of the harpsichord!

[@excelsior999]

Could be.

[@tepmich]

I have no doubt that any kind of music in its inner being always has something to tell to the attentive listener !!! Tepper Michael.

[@excelsior999]

The really interesting part of that experience is that sometimes we know that the music is telling us something but we can't say exactly what that Something is.

[@ROBINdulce]

¡GLO-RIO-SO! Ya van tres veces que veo este video: es en verdad adictivo. ¡Qué manera de darle vida a una obra maestra! Es un privilegio para los ciber-nautas escuchar esta interpretación y al mismo tiempo seguir la mirada de una cámara, digna de Johannes Vermeer.

[@odettefrancois6566]

Bach es el padre de la música, sus obras sublimes llegan al alma, saludos desde Chile 🎼🎶

[@muyu69]

Superb rendition!!! I love every note he played. Great recording quality as well.

[@howdoifixmyspacebar]

The dissonant ornamentation in Gavotte 1. 14:18 Masterfully rendered by Hantaï and definitely not something you'll hear like that on a piano.

[@excelsior999]

Good point.

[@cesarvallejolopez]

Yeah, that probably didn't work on the piano, but it's very idiomatic on the harpsichord (see for instance Scarlatti sonatas!!) :)

[@samanarfaie2751]

I love Bach. I love this channel. I love the dedication of Maestro Hantaï. I love life. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[@notaire2]

Wunderschöne und tiefempfundene Aufführung dieser perfekt komponierten Suite im lyrischen Tempo mit gut artikuliertem Anschlag und perfekt kontrollierter Dynamik. Wahrlich unvergleichlicher Cembalist!

[@powerliftingcentaur]

Just incredible. Thank you. I imagine myself sitting close by with the others, one of the privileged who were invited to the soirée.

[@781937]

Souvent jouée au piano , cette suite est également superbe au clavecin ... au piano : Pogorelich... Bravo Netherlands Bach Society ... merci pour ces publications par des artistes de grande qualité .

[@carlopedulla874]

Thanks best music channel in europe and in the world.

[@alpha-electric2160]

I love this line. The descending melody is so satisfying 0:14

[@Bachdude1750]

Love Pierre Hantai! One of the great musical talents today that we're fortunate enough to see thanks to you NBS. Just wish I could have been there, crowd looks dead lol.

[@LindaPgh]

That's always my reaction: What's wrong with those people? They're there in the presence of Majesty and they don't seem to know it.

[@jfrv2244]

Their enjoyment is being expressed in another transcendental dimension... that is why it is not noticeable here.

[@LindaPgh]

JF RV thanks. That answers my question!

[@BacaOConnell]

i wouldent say dead, they are just sitting there staring at the performer smiling, and silently enjoying the great music. i mean if this was a travis scott or grateful dead concert, i would agree, but c'mon ITS BACH!!!

[@ThibaudSaintinLFIB]

I remember being a student, in the 90's, and finding a "job" at "Grange de Meslay" Festival. Our task was to guide people to their seat, according to the letters and numbers they had on their ticket. "Placeur". No salary, of course... But, in counterpart, we could get tips... And above all we were allowed to attend each and every concert for free. Hantaï brothers, Kuijken brothers too, Richter himself, Philippe Herreweghe... I am mistaking? I remember that Pierre was playing on a hardcore "pianoforte". It was one of the most "hardcore" concert ever. People were looking for distraction, he was exposing himself in the most exigent way with a difficult instrument. One of my fellow students (in musicology - I was studying litterature) knew each and every note in each and every score of Bach... He was a strange guy from "Melle" (a remote countryside place in "Creuse" area), and he looked exactly like Jean Rondeau nowadays a few years ago 🙂 These priviledged moments changed my inner self. 30 years later... I can see the same man, with 30 years more, but still here and even deeper and deeper involved into sharing the pure constitancy of music. Why did'nt I dare that day to hug him (he might have found it really weird, and could still do...) ? I wish I could just now. Anyone else ? This publication is a real gem, thank you from the bottom of my soul to you guys from Netherlands Bach Society.

[@js2555]

What a stroke of luck!!! I was looking for a good recording of the English Suites yesterday to compare to the Cello Suites and didn't find much... But now... Thanks!!!

[@bach5731]

You should check out Hantai's version of the second English Suite, too: it's my favorite English Suite and my favorite recording of it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXaagKdrepmLbaM&

[@excelsior999]

Quite serendipitous.

[@Ogurets123]

@@bach5731 Same!

[@ProdigyImprovisation]

The Allamande is so in a loving parent/father way kind of love. Guiding your child & teaching him about all of this life’s troubles & dangers so that you may always be aware of these things in life my son. Sounds as if the king, the Lion is showing step by step at night his child-son all the things he needs to know about the world as growing up while walking in the dark places of the mountains where evil lurks as the romantic moon shines in this walk of adventure, warning him & showing it as to witness these dangers with his father in this adventure of one of so many life’s lessons. And honestly in my opinion Bach’s music is nothing but showing many different kinds of life’s lessons in music as a parent guardian/king of music. It feeds one’s soul in this honest way of teaching you to become the best of your own personal behavior as a human being growing up.

[@saidtoshimaru1832]

The saraband is so disturbingly beautiful.

[@loganpeters811]

Yes is really is

[@Ogurets123]

Agreed, maybe the most beautiful sarabande of the set.

[@ariusmaximilian8291]

one of the best channels dedicated to Bach. You guys nailed it bravo

[@continentalgin]

By far, my favourite harpsichordist, gloriously keen on Bach.

[@toddh377]

this is a heaver and seems to be a more abstract piece than the suite in A minor no. 2. bach's mastery of melodies and harmonies can't beat 😊

[@cynic150]

A powerful performance. This is the true voice of J.S. Bach! This, I believe, cannot be played convincingly on the pianoforte. The rich sound of this beautiful instrument in this hall is really wonderful; so clear and totally suited to contrapuntal music. However, I have some criticisms. He only changed the registration once in the middle. Thus, the sound became very monotonous and wearing. He had a tendency to rush and added sometimes too many ornaments, making the music hard to follow, on top of using the usual tenuto phrasing.

[@jihanjoo]

That IS a harpsichord, right? I swear I can hear dynamics in his playing. Phenomenal.

[@I3igI30ss]

You can actually make it sound slightly louder if you play the key with some strength, but the effect is barely noticeable, only for you if you are very concentrated. The effect you hear is caused by accents and articulation.

[@jsb7975]

Actually if you play overlegato at points you get ' attack ' and under the sound another tone, the second sounds more modest. Actually the effect of F / p especially when 'coppeld' (two 8 foot registers) it differs when you 'drive' the key down, and another is 'stroked' softly, you really got the strong/soft approach.

[@makytondr8607]

Just masterful articulation giving the impression of dynamics :)

[@excelsior999]

@@jsb7975 The quality of the tuning and how well the instrument is "tempered" is also a factor, wouldn't you say?

[@keycontroller1]

Does anyone know what type of harpsichord he is playing? It looks like and 18th century English Instrument but with black naturals, which is a bit unusual but unknown. It suits Bach's music very well. Beautiful playing from Pierre Hantaï!

Lovely! And what a Gigue!

[@thierryperrenoud1460]

Vraiment absolument fantastique, magnifique! Superbe, vraiment superbe interprétation... Et dans un cadre tout enchanteur, absolument idéal Parfait, un moment de bonheur, quelque chose de génial qui rend bien hommage à J.S.Bach! Et du beaume au coeur, par cet héritage de G. Leonhardt

[@Gabry2138]

Thanks to the man/god of masterpieces Johann Sebastian for this and for this great rendering.

[@thierryperrenoud1460]

Vraiment magnifique!!!! Merci beaucoup beaucoup!!!

[@ArmandoViescaSegura]

Thank You very Much I remember so many beutifull moment als i was in Germany and i studied with my pianoTeacher Frau Edith Picht-Axenfeld. i studied many works of Johann Sebastian Bach. I am very happy with your beutifull Interpretation. Felicitations... Felicidades

[@guylebras9880]

Wonderful recording of my friend Pierre Hantaï, one of the best cembalo player. What is the place where it has been recorded? It looks like Leonhardt’s house in Amsterdam.

[@hermanhuijmans2300]

Guy LE BRAS IT is located at Bartolotti House.

[@jeanpierrecarabas5508]

Bartolotti House = Leonhardt’s house in Amsterdam

[@johntuffin3262]

It is a gorgeous house.

[@johndownes2509]

I always feel that these English Suite preludes need a double manual instrument, so that the main and subsidiary subjects can be contrasted as in the Italian Concerto.

[@fredrussell5539]

He makes it sound so beautiful, and so "right".

[@johannsebastianbach5223]

Wonderful!

[@ludwigfryderyktsongfulec1655]

Master , you're back my master , how are you master ?

[@pipergj33]

Every single note is intentionally placed. What wonderful rhythmic control!

[@fernandosoares5812]

Mas que interpretação... mas que excelente interpretação esta, a de Pierre Hantaï!

[@IamAlessandro1]

fantastic, excellent playd! Thank you so mutch.

[@renaldtremblay8333]

Impeccable et magnifique!

[@isabelruiz6446]

Maravillosa música que vibra el alma ..

[@TenorCantusFirmus]

The Prelude alone would be a Masterwork. Anyway, this is a fantastic performance: tempos are perfectly chosen, not rushed in any way, and I very much appreciate the fact he uses the ornamented version of the Sarabande by alternating each section of it with those of the original, as it might have been in the Age of Bach, when still there was the a tradition in "diminishing" ritornellos. Overall, more of a Sonata than a fully-fledged Suite, what actually remains of the original Dances is just a very distant echo, and some very vague traces of the original meter and tempo - The focus clearly is upon expression, as it will be for the future piano Sonata. It's a transitional moment, and not only it anticipates what will happen during Classicism, but it also is giving us some cues about what will happen with Romanticism.

[@monicaripamonti2680]

He is the best

[@flemmingranch8777]

Rigtig smuk, følsom, dejlig musik, muntert og ligetil, spillet på et gammelt instrument kaldet et spinet.......

[@hovango]

No, it is not called spinet.

[@klop4228]

It's called Hantaï, and it's art.

[@klop4228]

But in all seriousness, M. Hantaï is incredibly good

[@annafalcone6530]

Molto Molto Bravo!.Grande interpretazione.!

[@loveclassical9290]

I will say something taboo: he is on of the best living interpreter of bach, similar level of Andras Shiff. The only reason why he is less known is because he plays the arpsichord.

[@youexx]

Que c'est extraordinaire est bien peu dire!

[@SDGRTX1455]

Bach is pure metal ❤

[@dalmacietis]

Sadly, metal isn't pure Bach :D

[@karlagren7043]

Metal ain't shit

[@MARTIN201199]

GosumassB metal is for losers.

[@kirkwahmmet8406]

i honestly think metalheads say this shit because they’re insecure about their music taste and still think it’s the 90s and nobody ‘understands’ metal. although partial to it to myself (as you can probably tell lol) metal isn’t in the same stratosphere as this music. and you guys honestly give the most vague justifications for this ridiculous notion. like the harmony, drive, intensity etc. you know, basic universal components of music.

[@terryhalco1021]

Yes, Bach is pure gold!

[@inner_melodies]

What an excellent gavotte!

[@user-ol1ib1ss2b]

Extremely beatiful.

[@TGCofDM]

This looks and sounds like a TV show!

[@GL2609-v6k]

Excellent!

[@marcosdiaz7175]

Bravo!!

[@patriciarodriguezmartinez3233]

Espectacular Preludio

[@josenildo2189]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 wonderful

[@RosemaryThomas1]

Terrific!!!

[@remigionieto6747]

Muy linda música

[@viniciuslusitanoberaldo5712]

Vinte e duas pessoas não apreciam uma boa música

[@LeoBejarano]

Wow...bravíssimo!!!!

[@celinemusique2004]

Bravísimoooo!!!

[@MMijdus]

Dat is in het huis waar ooit Gustav Leonhardt woonde.

[@UTGARDER]

Thank you!

[@kristoferprepelica6749]

Hantaï's interpretation of the music and mastery of the instrument are unparalleled, as always. This particular harpsichord (the instrument's sound, not the artist's playing) sounds a bit heavy and dull, though.

[@marcussfebruary9104]

I wonder what aliens would think of our music. Absolutely beautiful and masterly executed Maestro❤️

[@excelsior999]

I have friends from Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador who love this music as much as I do.

[@edwardweaver1467]

Is this the suite with one Movement featured In Schindler's list?

[@ketzallis]

Te amo Hantaï

[@orochimaruhatake4045]

Hentai is a great performer

[@leoguerra4516]

does mr rantai ever met scott Ross?!?

[@nottius1026]

14:18 sounds familiar

[@sw4gner]

nice!

[@user-ol1ib1ss2b]

Is there any better harpsichordist? I don't think so.

[@CarlBowlby]

Ok, I’m going to be the “fly in the ointment” here. Right off the bat we have a “stormy” rendition of Bach’s Prelude of his “English” suite in g-minor-(which he never called them this in any of his autographs. It was only Johann Nikolaus Forkel who stated in his autobiography that the Suites were commissioned by an Englishman)-and the harpsichordist lets us know quite clearly he is going to play through this fast and faster because he can, and like he’s playing to a well-oiled clock. There is no breathing in this music and no subtle dynamic range (think Gould’s Bach interpretations). Ornamentations are played in strict meter, which is antithetical to everything Bach knew about the “French (and/or English) style”. Also, not one of those rich chords did the player arpeggiate in the same Prelude. Not by my count. And overall he’s “banging the s**t” out of the Cembalo. And, fundamentally, what was Bach? A church organist, and a very well-known one in his time as a Master of that instrument (Bach’s obituary referred to him even as a “world famous” organist-also refer to Bach’s ‘Clavier-Ubung,’ Part III for his excellence in the genre). So, in my opinion, before playing any of Bach’s pieces, I feel you have to approach it with the notion that Bach was always thinking about the organ, most likely. For my tastes, I prefer slower tempos overall, and time afforded for proper ornamentation execution. And, personally, when I play Bach’s music it is always with the mindset of an organist, as I, too, am one. Just like Bach. And lest I get shouted out of the room here with my ‘apostasy’, I will agree that this performance is technically great and note perfect and very well executed. Just not the way I feel Bach would have played this.

[@ThibaudSaintinLFIB]

Was this suite composed for the organ ? Or did Bach try to compose it for any other intrument ? This is a very interesting point. I understand (as much as I can) you point of view about the "organ" approach, but I believe Bach was probably fully aware of the potentiality of EXPANSION of his compositions on any instrument - and in any "tempo", which he just did not considered writing on his scores. He also wrote so many instrumentations for solo instruments... So the organ might be ONE of the many possible approachs of his music. I am not a musician, but as a music lover, I'm NOT convinced that Bach loved his own way of playing his own music. Dunning-Kruger effect : he must probably have fest miserable playing his own compositions... and I believe he could probably very happy to see how many variations/adaptations one can get out of it.

[@bobh5087]

Not "Soli Deo Gloria," but, more truthfully, "To Humans Alone the Glory."

[@Radiatoron88]

I recall reading that Bach dedicated his works "to the glory of God." Whatever we human beings are or aren't, we are just part of an unimaginably vast cosmos, wonderful though human creations can be. No knock on this wonderful English Suite in G-minor by Bach though! Bach's music is a vast cosmos of its own!

[@bobh5087]

@@Radiatoron88 I simply meant: give credit where credit is rightly due. No "gods" to be seen; no glory to be bestowed upon them. Only the hard, ingenious labor of immensely talented human beings - from Bach to the harpsichordist to the harpsichord itself: all the creative labors of gifted human beings. No gods required, or apparent, whatsoever.

[@johnhudelson2652]

@@bobh5087 So you deny any evidence of a supernatural Intelligent Designer, i.e., God? Do you realize the infinitesimal chance for life to come into being by random processes? You could take a watch apart and put the pieces in a bowl, and shake the bowl for a million years, and the watch would not assemble itself. How much more complicated is life!

[@bobh5087]

@@johnhudelson2652 Yes. There's not an atom of proof or evidence for ANYTHING supernatural, including the millions of gods and devils humans have invented, and committed genocide for, over the millenia. The Hindu religion alone has some 33 million deities (if I recall). Do you believe in Zeus or Odin? I don't either. But at one time millions did. And they were all wrong. The "Garden of Eden" never existed: therefore no Adam and Eve, no talking snake (!), no forbidden fruit, and no "fall of man" (original sin). Therefore, no need for a "savior;" nor heavens and hells. Even a child can see the logic. If you need to defend an invisible pantheon of good and evil "spirits" in order to feel like a whole or "good" person, then do. But, please, no more apologetics. You'd be barking up the wrong tree.

[@Radiatoron88]

@@bobh5087 To me the great composers might as well be gods! I can't begin to fathom how any human being could write the quality and quantity of great music that Bach wrote! I'm not a formally religious person, but I do feel that mysteries abound. The human being, for starters, is an incredibly mysterious creature. Not quite sure how evolution can "explain" the need for a creature that makes jokes, writes poems, symphonies, "tell-all" memoirs, a creature so "uncreaturely" as to more or less orbit the world in some peculiar and distracted remove. I'm the last person in the world to take for granted the unimaginable amount of thought and energy that must go into the conception and realization of not just great works of art but even "just," say, a bicycle! In any case, I've always felt that keeping an open mind--and heart, so far as possible--is a good thing. Although I agree with you that it seems far-fetched to imagine God or gods. Then again, I myself don't ever expect to be able to wrap my feeble mind around one Bach Prelude and Fugue much less be able to transcend the cosmos in such a way as to be able to proclaim the absence or presence of a Creater/First Mover. God or no God, I'm just glad to be around to ponder it all--and in the meantime enjoy and be grateful for the joys and mysteries--painful though they can be--of life. All the best to you!

[@cillyede]

Sehr 😊 gut

[@HumbleNewMusic]

❤

[@EruannaArte]

Jesus Christ what is this thing, my brain is fried

[@L777-w1r]

Sarabanda...

[@terrirowe9944]

Cmt đầu

[@orgi49]

Warum so schnell? Das Video ist schuld !

[@ThibaudSaintinLFIB]

Pulsation ?

[@joe.y.an30___]

hantai lmao

[@ThisGuyAnimates]

Genz lmao Im glad im not the only one who noticed how bad that name aged

[@michaeltheophilus5260]

The harpsichotd is a noisy rickety instriment

[@itsmeashbeel9175]

@Franz Liszt as do I for the harpsichord is amazing

[@LeoHeath]

Wonderful!