Bach: Partita No. 1 in B-flat major, BWV 825 | Martin Helmchen, piano

[@limitstoprogress]

Yes, Martin Helmchen does an amazing performance of this Bach. Yes, very lively and fine dynamic range without pounding any of the notes. Excellent fingering technique. A top-notch pianist and fine interpreter of Bach. This is a real treat, thank you!! (from Canada)

[@ЕленаМит-ц8п]

Bravo! Israel

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[@BiGreatGarraD]

More concerts from Martin, please!​@@DWClassicalMusic

[@elenam5740]

Какое прекрасное исполнение Баха! Свежее и живое, искреннее, изумительные украшения, деликатный звук! Виртуозное владение штрихами! Браво!

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[@BiGreatGarraD]

What a beautiful language you have, I love this diversity.

[@hisukserjeant5204]

Love his not too rush or too crispy approach .. so comfortable and simply lovely!

[@TERRYBIGGENDEN]

Hey-this is crisp, clean and so so musical. Gorgeous refreshing performance! I can't imagine better Bach playing. :-):-)

[@cssantisteban]

Thank you, DW, for this unexpected gift.

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[@alanbash2921]

Magnificent Pianist !....I was fortunate to have been a friend of Vladimir Horowitz and can tell you that he would have flipped for your Playing.......keep up the Spectacular Playing...Alan B. Juilliard M.M. 1977

[@dianabrown1444]

I like it! That’s enough Horowitz aside😊

[@philippemassip8310]

Je dois dire….Pour le Glen Gouldien convaincu que je suis que voilà une belle interprétation ! De la nuance, sans trop, un bon équilibre des deux mains et une belle articulation. J’ai particulièrement apprécié les menuets pleins de délicatesse. Bravo. Dommage que cette Partita et les autres n’apparaissent pas dans sa discographie.❤

[@rems4544]

Même chose pour moi et mêmes remarques… Belle interprétation en effet.

[@jpiano2]

Gorgeous, and the ornamentation so in style but at new. So much magic in his music making. ❤

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[@Rodrigodealencarlima]

AMAZING!👏👏👏🎹

[@leaveyofairarmy185]

Just phenomenal! His execution is effortless and joyful. I'm so glad to be able to hear this without ads and publicity. Thank you for the good work, DW!

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[@giulianopessot]

Finalmente uno che si avvicina alla sonorità di Glenn Gould con evidenziate anche nel volume le melodie al basso. Bravo

[@71lupenzo710]

concordo

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[@EttorealbertoGelli-vr6sz]

No Giuliano, GG è molto lontano

[@Scoubidou-if1of]

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[@ДмитрийВарфоломеев-ш3щ]

Бах в музыке наш путеводитель к Господу Богу, ...Он берет тебя за руку и ведет к счастью... .

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[@connypiano5038]

Perfect. Couldn't be played any better!❤

[@SanchClean]

One of the best performances of Partita # 1 I have ever experienced. And, I have watched dozens of attempts, with only 1 or 2 at this level of excellence. Bravo !!! Martino !!! (I know your name is Martin, but it's extra praise, really.

[@ИринаЛесиовская]

Какой замечательный музыкант.!!!!!

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[@Ainzleeriddell]

@@DWClassicalMusicI simply translated the comment… why haven’t you objected to posting languages besides this one (Russian)?

[@fernandohidalgo5941]

Una belleza y muy expresiva la interpretación del pianista !! Muchas gracias y felicitaciones!! Abrazo y saludos desde Patagonia Argentina Fernando Hidalgo 3ro

[@anigiuran109]

Thank you DW Classical Music for sharing this beautiful video and music ! 😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤

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[@davidmcnicol5322]

Beautifully performed. Superb!❤

[@ChamberPianist]

Beautiful tone and shaping.

[@stephenjablonsky1941]

I was introduced to this music in Dinu Lipatti's 1950 recording and have loved it ever since. That's 74 years of music appreciation. Thank you JSB. This is a very musical performance.

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[@EttorealbertoGelli-vr6sz]

Ah my Bro ! DINU LIPATTI Uber alles !!!

[@frankbroder9259]

Beautiful, lively, and warm, without being too rigid. The Courante, in particular, is wonderful.

[@javieramundarainvitali7525]

Bravo! Vielen Dank für dieses Video.

[@manfredstolze8484]

Wonderful

[@rafaelramirez6331]

¡Los tiempos de Bach son perfectos!

[@RModillo]

I do love this Bach playing. Clarifies and celebrates without sounding didactic.

[@sirleysanti1]

Congratulations! Awesome sound for Bach!

[@jillmcaleese6514]

Exquisite. Wonderful play between the hands. Thankyou.

[@Willhelmfriedemann]

Eine musikalische Offenbarung !! SO - alsm wäre sie gestern komponiert, BACH war der Größte !! Dr. Felix Mertens Nervenarzt Düsseldorf.

[@RuthFridaBrucklacher]

Sein Spiel gibt mir Frieden. Danke !

[@williamwatterson8711]

Sublime. Thank you . . .

[@skoromoh_]

Good afternoon. It's so gentle performance. Lovely moment 😍 . 14324

[@calib5]

....absolutely incredible.

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[@djperry211]

Lovely piano playing and very educational notes. Great post.

[@margaviolin]

Amazing ❤❤❤❤😍👌

[@azirusS]

magnifique !!❤

[@like-a-dog]

Beautiful!

[@dannysilverstein404]

Very talented musician. Bravo.

[@antekketna7080]

One of the best performaces of this Partita on YT. BRAVO!!

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[@jandrosibilia5242]

Very fine ornamentation

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[@modesti712]

My favourite work music piece. This is such a lovely playing of it too.

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[@Mstadri]

Bach, if he didn't exist, we would have to invent him!!!

[@DWClassicalMusic]

We absolutely agree!

[@EttorealbertoGelli-vr6sz]

JSB Is a misterius "SINGULARITY", a not human miracle

[@johnjulian88]

Perfect, can't be better.

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[@DRFelGood]

Bravo 👏🏻 and thank you for sharing ❤

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[@xhfkshd]

so beautiful ! bravo

[@АндрейСайчук-ь8е]

Великолепно!!!Браво!!!

[@mariellafiordaliso]

Meravigliosa!

[@pavelandreev8015]

Amazing interpretation❤

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[@imhappyinthesun]

Happy with this partita no. 1. I feel relaxed. :)

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[@elentok2225]

Thanks!!👏🏼👏🏼💐💐❤️❤️

[@yh2682]

아름답습니다

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[@ReginaCeliaDeCastroQuinta]

Divino❤

[@raffitorossian6994]

It was an excellent performance. I felt it so easily in my heart. Thanks for uploading

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[@seongtaek84]

Original. Never heard partitas this way.

[@mailywong9612]

Amazing performance ❤

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[@rravvia]

This is super good. ❤❤❤

[@giorgiomalandra3597]

Il paragone con Glenn Goold è molto condivisibile!

[@giorgiomalandra3597]

Bach è il più Grande in assoluto ❤❤❤

[@JXS63J]

It sure sounds like someone has thought this through... This is excellent Bach.

[@ЕленаМит-ц8п]

В сарабанде звук как у клавесина , schönes !

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[@200715209]

Oh goddess, that exact, mystic thrill at 12:00 !

[@cliffhughes6010]

He's the opposite of Glenn Gould.

[@aliasreco]

He cannot sing...

[@yu5458]

This style is good too😊

[@TomTom53421]

This isn’t the insult you think it is

[@cliffhughes6010]

@@TomTom53421 No insult intended. Interpretations may differ, but are equally valid.

[@piter923]

And that's a good thing

[@renatagabrielli6968]

grande intreprete e un Bach ultramoderno

[@user-yb6oi3ou4z]

Amazing😀

[@SebFa32]

Même si je considère la version de Lipatti indépassable, j'avoue que celle-ci est très belle, ornementation très intéressante

[@EttorealbertoGelli-vr6sz]

Yes SebF, LIPATTI Is far far far away

[@ursinaspring4647]

Wonderful🤗

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[@gky7170]

I think part of Bach's genius lies in the fact that most of his pieces can be interpreted Romantically as well as in the traditional Baroque manner. Thanks to the modern piano, crescendi/decrescendi (as opposed to terraced dynamics), gradual ritardandi, pointillistic articulations, etc., can be deployed to great effect by a good pianist. Busoni understood this and his Bach-on-steroids transcriptions took this idea to its logical extreme!

[@DWClassicalMusic]

Thanks for the insights!

[@Lurcanio1]

Yes

[@LamVudinh]

Tout simplement divin ,je me délecte de son interprétation.

[@tasdourian]

This is very good. If I had never heard Dinu Lipatti playing the same piece, I might have thought one could not do much better, but Lipatti (both the studio version and the Besancon Live performance) is on a completely different plane.

[@peterwilson9699]

❤

[@journeymancellist9247]

Channeling his inner Glenn Gould

[@Schleiermacher1000]

Is this the special wing that Mr. Helmchen had made?

[@silversurfer512]

I see some influence of Glenn Gould on his play.

[@markmulfinger]

Silk and honey with precision and panache!

[@fxcourty1593]

I had the chance to hear Martha Argerich opening her concert with this partita unfirtunateky i cant find this on you tube….

[@AlexanderGuglielmetti]

Listen to Sokolov's first Partita by Bach and the come back and you will have no words to comment...

[@johnpark9523]

5:38

[@petermesu3712]

Please play it clavecimble! PLEASE!😭

[@RModillo]

You mean 1726 and 1731?

[@天靈靈地靈靈-l2d]

he reminds of Andrea Schiff in early years,.

[@DWClassicalMusic]

He does, doesn't he? :)

[@beehoney9357]

@@DWClassicalMusicabsolutely,.... softness which leads to losing the essence times...

[@Scoubidou-if1of]

YOU invent him???

[@yangluo]

He's playing like a 70% Cortot, just a bit more muscular.

[@mariainesdeandradealcantar3263]

🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@presidentstaatshoofd473]

If you like Chopin, fine. P.ease play Chopin.

[@felixsinniger280]

Die Allemande spielt H.H. nicht so durchgehend flüssig wie andere Pianisten. Das Praeludium finde ich besser.

[@Schleiermacher1000]

Well, don't be so condescending!

[@felixsinniger280]

@@Schleiermacher1000 I hope, it is not condescending. It is only my humble opinion. Comparing with Andras Schiff and Murray Perahia, I think, that there are some differences, logically.

[@prundonmcavoy7155]

I appreciate what you mean, but on the contrary! This shaping is actually possessing of a great fluency in movement, with gentle swooping upbeats making downbeats feel extremely gentle and well-placed - very dance-like. If you listen to the meter with the hope to really dance, you'll find it here!

[@dorukbanhammer5697]

could've been amazing overall, but the sarabande is too fast :(

[@EttorealbertoGelli-vr6sz]

Una punta di inutile manierismo. E quel arpeggio finale del preludio da dove viene? Comunque un pianista molto dotato

[@PooyaRadbon]

It is a shame to play Bach on the Modern piano...educate yourself about the historical performance practice. We study this so called early music and it is so hilarious to see people ignore facts about great composers of the past.

[@TheBPOtheory]

Bach was not narrow minded. He would not have objected to putting his music in this beautiful form.

[@francescodefendi3201]

It’s not a shame, come on. If this hurts your feeling why don’t you just watch and listen to something else?

[@DWClassicalMusic]

We agree with the two comments before us. Musical practices evolve and grow. Historically accurate renditions are great, but so are more modern interpretations :)

[@PooyaRadbon]

@@DWClassicalMusic that is a hilarious statement. Music of Bach was performed in the best way by people like himself, his sons, pupils and some others like Quantz etc. who left us treatises which clearly show their music was performed with much more different principles unlike today. Bruce Haynes discussed your stupid nonsense in his fantastic eternal book "the end of early music" published by Oxford University Press. We study early music and try our best to perform the music of the past as close as possible to what we have from them: their music in urtext edition at least, instruments of their time or copies, treatises, paintings, magazines and other sources. Your opinion: we play the music the way we like NOW and it is Scheiss egal how they played back then because we are superior!!! You deutsche Welle and your terrible political agenda, get some historically informed professors from Basel, the Hauge, London or Amsterdam who can wake you up. Otherwise post your shitty Shostakovich and such headache music with your modern instruments. Music from psychopaths FOR psychopaths!! Leave Bach alone ...

[@jaspernatchez]

Very nice playing. Break the habit of non-legato in the right hand and, for no apparent reason in similar passages, legato in the left. The non-legato sounds fussy - just let the piano sing with a light legato.

[@laurenth7187]

It should be played a bit less nicely, as for real men, and not poor ladies drinking tee. Less barock-like also.

[@mauriziobellone568]

Esecuzione molto "romantica",parecchi errori ,piacevole ma in fondo una brutta copia di Gould.

[@felixsinniger280]

I think, it is a special performance of H.H. with a nice ornamentation. I prefer the cantabile style of Andras Schiff and Murray Perahia. H.H. performs for my taste with too much staccato and with a lack of dynamics and fluency.

[@felixsinniger280]

I think, the interpration of H.H. are not so robotic as the one of G.G..

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[@felixsinniger280]

​@@DWClassicalMusicI thought that my comments were in English !

[@mauriziobellone568]

@@DWClassicalMusic pensavo che come per me esiste la traduzione in italiano esista per te quella in inglese.

[@paulorgel4503]

Very fine playing, but his constant exaggerated facial expressions and gesticulations are a real distraction.

[@shooshieroberts3913]

Try not looking. It’s not like he is trying to do that. If you haven’t played this stuff, on the level at which you’re creating the line and making everything work, and you’ve got these voices (in your hands) singing to each other, and so forth, then you may not realize how one’s face expresses what you’re doing. You can train yourself not to do it, but it’s actually distracting to STOP. Some people find it so distracting to keep still that they can’t play normally that way. So give people a break. If you’re not comfortable watching it, close your eyes. Don’t be surprised when someone tells you that you are doing it, too, listening with your eyes closed!

[@misterfunnybones]

Guitarists mastered the art of "guitar face;" now it's time for "piano face" to shine.

[@KarlLetcher]

What an absurd aspect of a musician's performance to focus on. You might as well be talking about what brand of shoes he's wearing.

[@EttorealbertoGelli-vr6sz]

Sorry, no good

[@Margaret-of8sm]

Why?

[@FingersKungfu]

He sits really high.

[@conallgeneral8136]

Maybe he has haemerrhoids ? 😮 poor man !

[@smurf902]

I ain't never seen the bench so high off the support

[@Ainzleeriddell]

Russian style

[@spicy7302]

Could be a deliberate way to make the sound more airy and less pressed down into.

[@jillkitzmiller7255]

Support for his fabulous trills and turns

[@annafalcone6530]

❤