PRACTICE with Ray: Bach Sonata No. 1 in G minor (Part 2: Siciliana & Presto)

Hi everyone! This is a continuation from the previous Bach Practice stream: • LIVESTREAM HIGHLIGHT: ...
In today's livestream I'll be practicing and walking us through the last 2 movements (Siciliana & Presto) of J.S. Bach's Sonata No. 1 for Solo Violin in G minor, BWV 1001. Basically a requirement for every single audition / competition in the world and in addition a staple part of the repertoire for almost every instrument, Bach's music is also the universal medium that reaches the soul. I'm excited to see how far we'll get in an hour!
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Opening track: "Waltzing Matilda" by Stephan Koncz featured in "The Golden Age" album by Decca Classics
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[@MsPea]

I listen to Ray and get inspired. I go and practice and get depressed.

[@Lola-nf3ji]

SAME

[@ivyssauro123]

Bach was considered old fashioned by his peers and critics because his use of harmony and focus on conterpoint, which was a style that was being abandoned on the baroque era in favor to monophonic music(Chords that move in blocks with a solo melody on top) which became the standard musical form for virtually forever (maybe really until modern music kinda threw all musical structures to space) so for them it sounded too much like old music, from old church chants and to early baroque/late renaiscence music, which those elements were more common on. It's easy to see that when comparing earlier composer's work, like Heinrich Biber's 'Passacaglia' to the violin works of late baroque (and Bach's contemporaries) Vivaldi or Phillip Telemann. When Mendelsohn revided it, the Romantics were really struck by the flawless voice leading and emotionally charged music, full of beautiful melodies, something that was much more apreciated then rather than in Bach's time.

[@jessamynfase5051]

Thank you so much!!! Even a beginner like myself can learn to appreciate the music and musicianship of performers more after your gift of sharing.

[@hildearonsson6005]

Thank you for this!! Beautiful playing and inspiring

[@GLBinNP]

This is so great! I've been wanting to get to know this music, and this helps so much.👍👍

[@ribhavgupta6148]

Insanely beautiful Siciliana at 37:45 !!!

[@corbinglover9448]

Thank you so much for this video, it is extremely helpful!

[@joeshah8789]

Is he freaking sight reading this? 😮 This guy is unbelievable. Mr Chen has so much style and analyzes the music and gives a roadmap of how to play this piece properly.

[@biberfan]

He’s talented, yes, but not sight reading.

[@sohcratic]

His pinky is so long ):

[@amezcuaist]

This is a good example of a Bach piece that does not need vibrato . I think it needs a relaxed calm sound from maybe a Gaspar da Salo instrument.Just to savour the simple string sounds.Wrong to treat it like a concerto . If you play the notes on a piano you can feel Bach almost composing it from such a simple theme. You can feel the inevitable way the music develops like a simple plant growing . Plenty of ways to think about this short piece .

[@charlotteedith1272]

Siciliana at 34:32

[@amezcuaist]

A new habit in this piece is for players to stop the bow on the string ,so you get several silent spots and that starts to dominate the whole piece .

[@aveasan1787]

❣️❣️❣️

[@jarvingviolin6027]

"To say hi to the aliens" lmao...idk why but this is hilarious to me...

[@vishnuthandri7463]

What mic do u use? Ur audio is very good, of course your playing as well😁

Hi @raychenviolin why in certain parts of Presto many versions sound like it was written in 6/16? Greetings.

[@bluemoon6579]

But yes, the Sicilians no. 2 is in a minor key - ( G minor)

[@oxoelfoxo]

Love Bach. Ray seems to be using the word reactionary [(of a person or a set of views) opposing political or social liberalization or reform] to mean reactive [showing a response to a stimulus].

[@megumimills7480]

Is the 15 minute warm up on KZbin yet?

[@rykehuss3435]

2:39 little did they know indeed. Widely considered the greatest composer of all time, hundreds of years later. Out of date huh.. Also someone said that the Voyager Golden Record should've been 100% Bach, but "that would've been boasting"

[@ribhavgupta6148]

Why switch off live chat replay???

[@RebekahRussellMusic]

WHAT TIME DOES HE GO LIVE ON MONDAY???

[@jsv438]

I listen to violin teachers a lot, but I've played Bach and baroque pieces on guitar since the 80's and now I'm on mandolin. Why is it that so many parts of the sonatas and partitas, like this presto, have these moments where they fight the metronome. I'll be ripping away confidently and in synch w/metronome, and there will be some measure where it REALLY feels like the meter changes and I'm out of synch for like 20meas or so, and then, bam! Back in synch. I just can't properly interpret the correct accent on these notes for some reason and keep them in synch w/metronome? on this presto meas 29 is an example. Almost always, some section of a presto or allemande or even in the cello suites will rear its ugly head with this issue with me. Once they're memorized, and I'm pretty clean up to tempo, I play w/o metronome and I feel comfortably in rhythmic syncopation--I don't FEEL like I'm going out--but when I check, I am? I say this to myself AND have said this to students: "BACH" is a four-letter word! LOL! ~JSV

[@dementaeia]

Hi there fellow stranger

[@justinhuang5245]

Hi 👋

[@JoshuaLo2732]

Where is part 1?

[@markz8353]

57:34 hmmmm this boomer moment seems very sus did you do it on purpose Ray????

[@Roma-kp4qg]

LMAO I feel like he does it as a running joke at this point to pay homage to the Original Boomer Moments(tm)

[@amezcuaist]

Presto is dangerous for very famous players . eg Heifetz .Huberman ,Ruggiero Ricci , etc who play so very fast it`s almost impossible to listen to it .Hadelich and Zalai keep to a kind of speed limit that makes the music work for listeners . The violin has enough time to speak and show it`s qualities without it becoming a scratching contest . This not Wienawski Scherzo Tarantelle but it could slide into that without brakes .

[@katyb2793]

he just insulted every classical singer out there at 10:13 😅

[@mjl1966y]

Bach was a Baroque composer. No vibrato! imho. .02 etc.