Lang Lang - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Book 1, 1.Prelude C Major, BWV 846

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

Bach's C major prelude. One of the most inclusive pieces of music you will ever find. Playable for a beginner and yet still stimulating for a world-class virtuoso, music belongs to us all. Thankyou Lang Lang for the inspiration. (Update Dec 2023 : Here is a tutorial on how to play the piece by the way the illustrates how across the board this piece is kzbin.info/www/bejne/nl7QdqmJm7Gfircsi=YdQkM78n1OlTF1Kn)

[@contemporaryschoolofpiano]

@spicecrop not everything in the world is a political conversation. Here is another way to put it "Bach's C major Prelude is not so hard to play" - which means if you are not a virtuoso, it's still a doable piece for a novice but still enjoyable for a virtuoso. Hence the word - inclusive.

[@andrewtucker94]

@spicecrop The word 'inclusive' predates the past ten years. This isn't the place to grind an axe

[@Gruuvin1]

He trolled you two. Don't feed the trolls.

[@zoe.h.nelson04]

@spicecrop gee were you in a bad mood writing this

[@danielra23]

@spicecrop ... Ew

[@callumbrown8246]

Hear me out... this is NOT a hard piece to learn you can easily sight read, but to get the emotion he does through, that is talent

[@crazyRyoga]

This is definitely not an easy piece, yes the notes are easy, but maintaining a steady tempo (from start to end) and using the right expression while playing it without the pedal is harder than it seems.

[@jsswift87]

​@@crazyRyoga He uses the pedal at times here. On modern pianos it only makes sense to take advantage of the extra resonance you get from allowing all other strings to sympathetically vibrate with the notes struck in the melody. Not overusing it, timing the release and depression of the pedal, and avoiding getting a blurry sound is the tricky part. You can clearly hear him using the pedal and in fact see him using the pedal at 1:20 in the video.

[@crazyRyoga]

@@jsswift87 I never said he did't use the pedal, I said that it's hard to make it sound good without it (it's also the best way to learn it first). You can add a bit of pedal if you prefer of course. He talks about it here kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnnKfaOaZt2FqJY&ab_channel=KlassikAkzente.

[@crazyRyoga]

@Edna Turner There's nothing wrong with playing it with a bit of pedaling, and there's nothing wrong with playing it like it was written, without any pedaling. It is not "necessary". Glenn Gould, no pedal kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6nKnYKXebB-i6s&ab_channel=IamSylvan András Schiff, no pedal kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5jGZnmQqN6Wd9k&ab_channel=FelicesCantusBach

[@crazyRyoga]

@Edna Turner "..he does indeed use the pedal for the first lower notes, then plays the higher notes staccato. Schiff also uses the pedal with the lower notes, and no pedal with the higher notes." The fact that managed to write those statements (with even a video proof that shows clearly Schiff NOT using the pedal) while believing that those 2 notes can't sound like that without the pedal just make me realize you probably never even touched a piano. Then as it wasn't funny enough you wrote "you obviously have no clue!". I don't think I'll continue the "debate" here. Take care.

[@miabelladora]

So pure and innocent, so sincere,just like a childhood, just like the music of Bach.

[@KeiraJakobson]

Exactly💝

[@holliethomasmusic]

I am a piano teacher in Austin, Texas, and have in the past year started a tradition of opening each student recital with a performance of this piece, because I hope that no matter what dreams my students may pursue in their lives after they finish piano lessons, they will always come back to this transcendent piano piece we have been graciously given as humans on planet earth. Lang Lang, I don't know if you will read these comments, but thank you, thank you, for recording this album and especially for making these short films. I am showing them to my students and their families this week as we just had our second recital starting with this piece. Thank you for dedicating this part of your career to this collection of music as you have in "Piano Book" and I will be referring to it many times for decades to come.

[@bloodloverforever]

I am touched, you are a great teacher and a great human being🙏🏽 I wish one day if I can play as good as Lang Lang.

[@greenapple306]

woudnt call this prelude transcendent but it is true that it is rarely played by pianist because its so simple.

[@bomnm]

太好了

[@FrankieplayzWasTaken]

Cool

[@patricelanauze8301]

Understand that WE don't care of you!!!!!

[@everrosales5984]

For just one moment, our universe finally stood still. Thank you.

[@limyeeshin]

This short 2 min of music bring me back to my childhood, adolescence and adulthood, and even give me an imagination of the scene I will see after I die.

[@vedantdesai1]

This piece is mathematical perfection. Can’t expect any less from Bach

[@peiyihe9885]

Was almost in tears when I watched it towards the end. My husband, who was so ambivalent about starting piano at his middle age, was even wiggling his fingers when he watched this…I think we were both very moved. Great interpretation and story telling!

[@萩原耕介-g3s]

Bach Preludio No.1 has come from Heaven, beautiful beautiful beautiful forever, I was moved so much with Lang Lang ! That's what I thought, I would feel Piano Instrument is the King among every musical instrument. (90yrs.Japanese)

[@KeiraJakobson]

Well said 💝

[@jeanmorin3247]

Dear Mr. Johan Sebastian Bach. Thank you for your precious communication from your XVIIIth Century, which has now been received in the XXIst Century with great acclamation. We do not doubt that the centuries that will come in the future will be no less enthusiastic about your work as a music composer as we are in 2021. Our best contemporary interpreters of your life's work make you live among us, and it is a widely shared desire that all of what we know of your production be passed on to other generations with great care. Seen from our vantage point, it seems that nothing will challenge eternity as much as the memory of what you did for human understanding of music. May your name live in glory forever. With ultimate admiration, Yours truly.

[@nansomasundaram5955]

Should be XVIIth century! He died in 1650.

[@samuelary8476]

@@nansomasundaram5955 This is incorrect. J. S. Bach lived 1685-1750.

[@d.j.linhart935]

Bach would say "Soli Dio Gloria" (All glory to God)

[@catherinejones1055]

When you’re a beginner and you think you’re doing so well with this piece because you can play all the notes and then you listen to this and realise you are a LONG way off being able to channel the genius that is Bach.

[@juttac.7033]

thank you Lang Lang for this divine rendition , empathy and depth of recognition of Bach’ s masterpiece - I was simply melting away…. sensational performance 🌹

[@prikarsartam]

I started learning piano and now I have learnt to play it while keeping it entangled with my emotions. I feel great joy in being able to enunciate this wonderful music.

[@sdnotessanthosh1535]

I'm learning this right now. Very easy technique but it requires a lot of memory and self control

[@eggizgud]

@PAULO MARIO MEDINA The patterns are the same. Just observe the minute changes after each chord. In the beginning, the left hand only has one change (move one note down a tone, i.e. from E to D) and the right hand moves one key up. You get to the next chord by another one-note change on the LH (this time from C to B) while repeating the RH notes. Next chord, you're back at the first position. And so on... It also helps to listen to what you're playing, because if you've memorised the melody, you'd kind of know where your fingers should go next. It also helps if you know chords for the same reason.

[@trevorjameson3213]

Fairly easy to memorize. Very well structured, typical of Bach. It just takes a lot of practice to pedal it well and bring out the emotion. I learned this piece last year and play it often, love it!

[@王香-h9f]

Correct

[@heero8130]

Well im a beginner but i learned this piece in just 5days

[@TomD67]

It looks easy, but to get the notes even and calm -- "con perfetta uguaglianza" ("with perfect evenness") is the way my edition puts it -- that's the hard part.

[@DZPianoMusic]

I've gotten many of my students hooked on Lang Lang's performances! He's so expressive! It seems like he deeply connects with every single note he plays.

[@shelaghcoop]

Why would anyone want to watch and listen to anything but this sublime piece of music.

[@yeshuaarcosmartinez6589]

I will never forget my first piece of piano. I love this instrument with my heart and I will never get tired of its beautiness; the nostalgia and piece it brings me to hear this piece once again. Thanks Piano for so many great moments, and thanks Lang Lang for this beautiful interpretation. 😊😊😊

[@AnthonySmith-sc4zs]

It literally brought tears to my eyes…I’m not afraid to admit it.

[@elegy9847]

The way he plays a different piece seems like the way I do. Honestly I was a little bored with learning this, but I listened him and it gave me motivation!

[@mcfloridaman2192]

Ooo the beautiful simplicity of Bach, excellent job on the players part, the dynamics were very clearly emphasized, and it sounds awesome! The simple resolutions that Bach makes are still awesome

[@iamchampion8]

Bach will be proud of Lang Lang

[@2JJIk_OUT]

so adorable !!!! never saw the classical music video like this ever. A big applause for the director and of course LANG Lang too

[@EsmeOB-P]

The emotion while playing just shows how truly dedicated he is to the music he plays. What an incredible performance. Bravo Lang!

[@mikematthews5872]

This music transports me to heaven every time I hear it it’s so lovely. All the cares stresses and strains of life evaporate when you listen to it Lang Lang brings it to life

[@nowkentapplegate5315]

This is an emotional story told completely by chord progression rendered as a heartfelt sharing. Thank you Lang Lang for making this into that story. Maybe not Bach by some notable purists standards but who cares I've listened to it two different times now and each time at the end I shed a tear.

[@8yuhg]

This is what love sounds like

[@josemaazcue5832]

Yes. But why do we think the same. But this is a soothing love. It gives hope last part is powerful and passionate then soothing again....magnificent. I am learning it

[@sonjamuller2846]

Wunderschön 🎶🤗👍💛🙋‍♀️

[@jaapvandertuuk9307]

Mr.Lang Lang who excells mostly in pyrotechnics (which I don't allways care for) surprises me time and again how splendidly he plays so-called 'easy pieces'.

[@jaapvandertuuk9307]

@@user-uz1qt6xt9d I have.And he plays it wonderfully.

[@MartinHatchuel]

Wonderful, moving little film. Really didn't expect the visuals, but totally enthralled by the story you told. Well done DG.

[@OMIMmusic]

this is one of the best music videos i've ever seen. so simple, but so deep

[@robertstafford5484]

Bach + Lang-Lang = sourires et apaisements, merci. de Montréal, Québec

[@gustavohernando2300]

how could anyone not feel deeply touched by this heavenly music??? Can visual arts shake people's souls the way music does? I just keep thinking about that ...

[@joediverfl]

That was the most incredible Audio and Visual Performance I have ever witnessed. It was especially chilling for as soon as I heard the first notes, I was transported far back to my youth, when I rushed to the piano to start picking out the notes. I was so captivated hearing it on WFMT/Chicago. Then to see that this actually had the Theme of youth, I teared up. Music is the universal language of peace, love and Humanity. Thank You!

[@frankmageean6027]

What a beautifully simple yet memorable piece of history

[@Metasisic]

A very beautiful piece of music. I was never a talented pianist but I could play this piece quite well as a young man.

[@geliopouthapesei]

Lang Lang is truly an inspiration. I play piano for 10 years and I got perfect pitch, and I love classical music too, and he just gives me more encouragement to play piano. I only practice for 1 1/2 hours a day though, because my mom can't hear piano for long amounts of time, and this forces me to buy a digital piano...

[@ronj9448]

A delightful video to go along with the performance. As an older person on this journey it made me reflect and so, in the end, I was in the audience as well.

[@chevy11786]

There have been a lot of musical composers but Bach is probably at the top of that list. I’ve heard greats from all genres cite him as a major influence. The goat 🐐

[@RonnieD1970]

One of the first pieces of music I taught myself (along with Chopin #4, op 28) Still my favorite

[@goodmorningworld7768]

I found the beauty of pattern when I first playing this piece. The beauty lie between is hard to tell but once you play this piece on instruments you will simply see it

[@marcilk7534]

I don’t know much about pianists, but I started listening to George Harliono’s music, which is wonderful. I know you have inspired him and came to know you through his interviews. I can see why he loves your music and how you have influenced him. I hope George achieves great things, and I will be listening to more of you as well.

[@alexa658]

Le "maître" arrive à élever jusqu'au sublime les choses les plus simples, en y ajoutant "sa" touche de génie. La meilleure version que je connaisse.

[@larmkaartdev7944]

I love everything about this!!!! The piece, the execution, the story telling, wel done!!

[@creativebobbo]

That was the best rendition of this piece I have heard yet. If I could play it one tenth as well I would be happy. Well done!

[@Don_Turbulento76]

Check Tzvi Erez´s version.

[@pocojoyo]

You havent heard too many puanists huh ?

[@pocojoyo]

@@Don_Turbulento76 that is a crook

[@Don_Turbulento76]

@@pocojoyo For me Tzvi´s version is perfect. In my opinion Lang´s version is too slow. Pollini´s is way too fast, Argerich and Wang´s is a joke.

[@pocojoyo]

@@Don_Turbulento76 is Tzvi still in jail ?

[@pianochad]

How can someone dislike this vide. What an amazing performance.

[@ioinstrumentschessjoe-2013]

I’ve loved playing Bach’s Preludes and Minuets Lang Lang the famous pianist played it so well!

[@steveclapping]

Un jardin extraordinaire, comme le chantait Charles Trenet, un compositeur universel et une oeuvre de toute beauté, avec une interprétation et un public comme en enchantement...

[@bryy-r3p]

Got goosebumps the entire time. The visuals made it more severe....

[@zoe.h.nelson04]

I ADORE the visual aspect of these recordings. That along with his sheer musical genius makes for chillingly beautiful experiences.

[@swanchika3458]

these "actors and actress" performances are 10/10👍

[@kellypaws]

Very probably mankind's finest achievement - Bach's music.

[@shirleyhare6177]

Very different, but lovely, awesome control, would like to hear all of the new CD, know it was released today, can’t have too much of your piano music!,,!! Love from Australia, and love to the kids all playing their part, bet they enjoyed it! Xxxx

[@metteholm4833]

This is SO great poetry - by both Bach - and Lang Lang!

[@alessandromarzatico]

eccezionale, per comprendere quanto è sublime questa interpretazione ho dovuto chiudere gli occhi.

[@phillittlewhite]

anche perchè il video è di uno stucchevole inquietante!

[@yelassinacoulibaly]

The music of Faso is an inexhaustible source of sweetness. It allows us to plunge deep inside ourselves and at the same time resonate with our fellow man, Yé Lassina Coulibaly❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@silvenalbor]

Es justo lo que pensaba de su música, que me hacía sentir de nuevo en la niñez. Veo ese video y era mi pensamiento al escuchar esa melodía. Lang Lang que hermoso descubrirte!

[@hbp1672]

The most beautiful interpretation of this piece by Bach. Thanks a lot Lang Lang. I would be very pleased to hear you in live.

[@Dr_Bobo137]

What an unutterably sweet and moving presentation. Thank you!

[@deutschegrammophon]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Moody__Mango]

One of my favorite pieces, beautifully played!

[@ЕЛЕНАЦАРЕВСКАЯ-ф3щ]

ПРЕЛЕСТНЫЙ ..СО СВОИМИ ОЩУЩЕНИЯМИ ИСПОЛНИТЕЛЬ...ЯРКИЙ,РАЗНЫЙ,УМНИЦА.

[@In_a_mode]

I'm not crying. You are.

[@JaseBach]

This is one of the rare instances when I reach for the superatives on hearing Lang Lang. Gone are the grimacing, eye-closing, gazing above in rapture and swaying out of sync with the music, and the dubious outfits. Instead, he worked strictly within the boundaries of good taste, and created a clear trajectory from beginning to end with the subtlest variation in touch , dynamics and emotional pressure. This should settle once and for all that he is a good pianist, and can deliver a respectable interpretation when he sheds his superstar persona. Endearingly, he had a score on the piano, which I am sure he didn't and needn't use. Bravissimo.

[@ericpenrose3541]

And I thought I was nailing this piece. Nah. What a master!

[@journees4300]

Everyone was captivated by this piece because they all know every note of it. It is a "simple" piece we may all know by heart and yet moved by how Lang Lang presented it beautifully.

[@luzpalomec7399]

I thought that only me reminded me of childhood this song. Bach is great

[@luk2tube]

Astonishing perfection, natural and human emotion.

[@celesterodriguez9679]

Lang Lang has amazing touch and finger control. Goals.

[@doranselwyn8608]

I got this from the library when I was a kid and sight read it perfectly the first time.

[@jimchan2114]

If Lang Lang played more Bach it would be wonderful

[@dcpotomac20850]

Lang Lang just released his Goldberg Variations album. I own both Glenn Gould’s recordings for decades, but I like Lang Lang’s interpretations more and more after listening to the entire album several times.

[@reneejoy8004]

This video made me cry. It's a good thing.

[@Jcorban08]

I appreciate Lang Lang’s performance and DG’s video production. Thank you! I would be very curious to learn more on the reason(s) for the presented interpretation of this WTC Prelude#1

[@MrPhange]

Me: I hate Baroque. Music Teacher: Let me take you Bach.

[@mrgyc2523]

**slow clap**

[@mariafsilva]

😃

[@pianosbloxworld4460]

Your love for music from that era Baroque. You see, you can’t keep Haydn from the fact that there is many jokes available about classical music. Well I’m going to go shopping, let me take my Chopin Liszt. I’ll be Bach in a minute.

[@torishimamashirito]

qué bonito, todo el público centrado en su propio ombligo, pensando en lo entrañable que ha sido su vida. me he emocionado

[@felipedosso8086]

I'm just grateful for being a human being

[@aranyaofficial7082]

Mesmerizing performance!!!! And I liked the visualisation of how all the adults turned into children at the end.....

[@futuropasado]

One of the best performances of this piece,

[@indramarosa7675]

One of the most beautiful video I've seen in classical music

[@joseantoniomartinez6012]

Maravillosa pieza musical, una mujer que respiraba luz su compositora

[@ednaferreira06]

Lang Lang is really the best in the world, his feelings when he performs is so deeply!!

[@shirleyhare6177]

Yes, I wondered about the music, so unlike Lang Lang, but the video ends with a “little” Lang Lang so thought perhaps that was the reason? Qld Australia

[@elzelinakriek-breet3092]

This is so beautiful!

[@theycallmepaige]

This song is compatible for beginners and all it need is just a little emotion

[@yojimmcjapan7767]

The tones are very gentle and beautiful. Music brings everyone together！🌈

[@M.C.Escher2018]

Exspresivo. It is very difficult to play the two books by Bach very well and with feeling. I don't know if you have listened to the 48 Preludes and Fuges. Just listening to this and interpreting is challenging.

[@syh614ly]

平心而論，這算郎朗難得不作做的作品，值得好評。

[@christinefleck7050]

Himmlische Musik 😊👌

[@TheMrcassina]

I cried, I am a 41 yo man and I cried...

[@JakeLondonRivers]

the concept behind this video is brilliant

[@solruiz2877]

I have 9 years old and I play this in the piano. I like this music

[@gatozarin]

this made me cry.

[@16yearoldgamer81]

This music is perfect for art and slow dance

[@primitivearts8868]

Normalmente no me gustan los vídeos que hacen para piezas clásicas y prefiero ver al pianista simplemente tocar, pero esta producción es sencillamente emocionante.

[@coco.milk.7219]

i love this sound is sounds so complex and beautiful, but is extremely easy and easy to remember.

[@arthurmurfitt7698]

i love the added footage, so creative

[@vivimusicpianostudio]

This is a beautiful piece ❤

[@weiwang241]

Thank you for playing this song it really helps me play piano

[@delta4x]

Classics of the Classical Genre This particular piece brings Deja Vu out of a first-time listener... Bach was clearly infusing human archetypical state into the keyboard

[@dmitrit81]

Thank you 🙏!

[@Becky-z8v]

This makes me 🥱 and calm

[@Becky-z8v]

I didn’t mean to mess that up

[@SevincTogman-kn5rc]

Thanks.much 💫👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏there is no word to express the emption❤