Corti on Bach French Suite no. 1 in D minor BWV 812 | Netherlands Bach Society

"This suite was perhaps a wedding present from Bach for his second wife." Harpsichordist Francesco Corti talks about the 'French' Suite no. 1 in D minor, which he performed for All of Bach.
Recorded for the project All of Bach on January 18th 2017 at the Bartolotti House, Amsterdam. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating bit.ly/2uZuMj5.
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Francesco Corti, harpsichordist
Harpsichord: Bruce Kennedy, 1989 after Michael Mietke

[@altruisticphilanthropic4647]

Maestro Corti makes several great points here, and really makes one wonder; What would it have been like to have Bach as your teacher/master? Profoundly meaningful, no doubt...and scarier than unholy Helk itself. I'd have paid a vast fortune to have been put into that position (I'd have snuck in my smartphone to record it all for the rest of ya's...yeah, I'm that nice). "To dot, or over dot?? That is the (one, of trizillions) Bachian question(s). The most poignant, beautiful, and powerful thing is that we spend entire lifetimes pondering/experimenting, and we're never 100% sure...and (as Corti alludes) we NEVER get weary of contemplating these Bachian riddles. Nope, that's totally impossible. // NBS, never cease...ever.

[@wolkowy1]

Corti's interpretation for each movement is very interesting: he's adding his own ornaments (at the repeating sections), while letting those of Bach's own ornaments to determine the tempo for each movement. And right he is! - because Bach's ornaments are actually not ornaments in the sense of decorations, but an integral part of the melodic lines. Their realization forces the player to slow a little bit the tempo which would otherwise be faster: like in the Gigue. And as he wanted to maintain the dance-character of this movement, he made it sound like a French Overture - again, very wisely. Thank you Corti for your interpretation, for your interview, and for the very beautifully-sounded whole performance, as was heard in the previous upload. Thanks also NBS.

[@l.g.8028]

Maestro Francesco Corti is such a fine musician, it is a pleasure to listen to this interview and realize he has this very nice personality, kind, fun, knowledgeable and yet, totally unassuming .

[@andrecirillo]

I love the Frebch Suites. Thanks for this masterclass!

[@marcellomeneguzzo8869]

Concordo. Bach non stanca MAI. Complimenti vivissimi per la sua " super musicalità" e bravura.

[@jaikee9477]

Thank you, Maestro Corti and NBS! I can almost hear Bach saying: "I won't change your nappies! Think for yourself! It's your job to solve it!" 😁

[@stever3788]

Delightful to hear his learned approaches and to understand the reasoning behind his unique decisions for each movement. I had never heard of the pupil's manuscript with extra ornamentation. I think an additional manuscript should be made with Glenn Gould's interpretation, some of his figurations are wildly unique yet once you hear them you never want to hear it the plain way every other pianist plays it. Corti is right that most modern musicians are scared to ornament this music.

[@HumbleNewMusic]

Hey I like Monteverdi 🙂 I think he basically wants to say that no one is Bach...

[@andreiarochacravopiano4694]

Verdade.

[@lS-je3ud]

The first opening, the second reply. Follow the overdot from cello suite 5.

[@WoutDC]

Been waiting for more French Suites ever since Corti played the fifth for NBS. Now just the keyboard partitas and I have all I need for the rest of my life...

[@PrimaSiPensaDopoSiFa]

Sempre interessanti.

[@juancarloslasalle9165]

Muy interesante

[@Αδμήτη]

We need music, not speech! What is this new mode?

[@flippert0]

It's accompanying the actual performance (which you can also find on YT).

[@papettipapetti3550]

The performance is on a separate video, this is his take, please learn the format