ROSALYN TURECK J.S. BACH GOLDBERG VARIATIONS-ARIA

[@arrovaful]

Some 50 years ago I listened to her in Palau de la Música Catalana playing The Goldberg Variations, I was 18 then and was absolutely overwhelmed by her interpretation. Now I remember that day, that exquisite music and tears go down my face

[@Topodiluna]

una meraviglia assoluta! intensa poesia senza alcuna vena di sentimentalismo, trasparenza cristallina della linea e profonda intensità espressiva. Grazie

[@washingtongeraldodeoliveir8338]

I decided to study the Goldberg Variations because I watched a video of Glenn Good playing that, later I watched Rosalyn Tureck doing the same and I loved the variations. When I started to study I knew that in that time it was a big task for me. I didn't have good skills, but I studied a lot; now I can play the Aria, and also play the first variation; yesterday I started to study the second variation. It will be a work for many years to complete the Goldberg Variations, at least for me. But it will be a good way to life too. Greetings from Brazil, I live in the very, very beautiful city of Campo Grand (MS) in the center west of my country.

[@giacomodamico7216]

Have you finished that?

[@jorgechavez8774]

Amazing. Every note gets its just deserve. Truly beautiful

[@musicandi88]

its so marvellous, so plenty of joy! she is really great!!! and never a so little mistake was so insignificent to me!

[@VTownGregory]

I love how the second note of the melody is a mere echo of the first. Her movement doing it is exaggerated YET EFFECTIVE.

[@eligarf]

i can hardly believe that i can watch this sitting here in my apartment in japan. thank you very much MPF :) wOw and Love is all i can say.

[@jameslin7863]

The greatest Bach music Interpreter, Everyone should listen It !

[@DanielVieira-nf2ie]

Descobri essa grande pianista recentemente. Que clareza de toque e compreensão do texto! Além disso, sua honestidade interpretativa é muito inspiradoradora: extremamente reflexiva! Grande pianista! Grande musicista! Obrigado por compartilhar o video.

[@Michajeru]

I love this beautiful music and I love the memory of the great Rosalyn Tureck.

[@MichaelCWBell]

what can one say..too beautiful for words..thankyou Thankyou Roslyn

[@Chrismacleod777]

Absolutely beautiful!

[@cwslai]

This is my favourite part of the Goldberg, the interpretation is REALLY good that the tone colour and the left hand is so beautiful, thanks for posting this great clip

[@phylliswolff3524]

wonderful wonderful wonderful..... thank you....

[@jacekrozga4285]

I am a happy owner of every and each of Rosalyn Tureck recordings which are the source of endless joy. But seriously, what Rosalyn is offering us is merely a pre-taste of what Bach would have done for humanity if he had a modern piano at his disposal and not a harpsichord.

[@leopianotuner]

This is amazing. An 88 yrs old lady whose playing is undiminished with age. I don't know if in real life she's arrogant or not but her musical ideas are so sublime and poise, like a true 17th century heavenly sent angel. Personally, I'd always conceived Bach's music to be in the way that Tureck plays it. No other pianists have approached her level. Thanks for the video postings. Truely.

[@IntlTeachersofMeditationAssn]

she was like. her music, crystal clear, no nonsense, and a deep wisdom, spirituality and understanding of people. People were drawn to her like to a magnet, above and beyond her music. I was lucky to know her over the years as a family, and be close in her last days. A great soul

[@PhillipLWilcher]

She and the Aria are one. I love her!

[@rodovre]

Wow. Glenn Gould's teacher still performing like an angel. Wonderful!

[@josephinemouse1155]

I am not aware that Rosalyn ever taught Glenn Gould. Certainly, she was an inspiration to him - but not his teacher.

[@danwolfe9087]

​@josephinemouse1155 Glenn Gould would not have allowed anyone else to teach him.

[@GeorgeLiPianist]

This is great!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for posting!

[@williammorris584]

Her recordings are my treasures.

[@JohnColapinto]

Total rock star.

[@juathimlim4236]

THE BEST PIANIST FOR BACH’S “ GOLDBERG VARIATIONS” - ROSALYN TURECK

[@drwaynejohnson]

Really nice clip of Turek. I loved it. It's amazing how anyone could play with such concentration and musicality with a video camera focused on each hand at such close range. One slight slip and the critics would have pounced on her like a tiger. But then some performers seem impervious to human error...

[@Lexy_Meier]

To see and hear Rosalyn Tureck at the age of 88 is deeply moving.

[@innocenzobarrera1505]

... emozionante!

[@lloydarriola3481]

The greatest Bach pianist. No one can touch her. And yes, that includes Glenn Gould. He had nothing compared to this truly great pianist and a musician of the most exalted order. Miss Rosalyn Tureck--thank you for your mind, heart, and fingers.

[@marxps]

agreed. her control, voicing, and touch are unparalleled.

[@cafiristanemperor]

@@marxps I think Andras Schiff has surpassed her, which is nothing so extraordinary for two masters, given he is still alive and probably had been studying her work for a long time. Cheers!

[@obiessen]

@@cafiristanemperor he is not as deep! maybe more romantic but it goes past the essence.

[@yourforte]

So beautiful.

[@Chrismacleod777]

Wonderful!

[@KABRIS1]

Breathtaking!

[@SuperOutloud]

Not 'Like' LOVE! From the creation of her first note, Ms Tureck got me there. Brilliant and to the point, exactly what 'music' is supposed to do.

[@HighROCOCOlings]

Good elegant like right high value juely sound is a text book of artist . Very very beautiful pure highly elegant playing by her is wonderful .

[@fabgourmet]

Please, we beg you, post the rest of the lecture!!!

[@shilloshillos]

She was my pianistic grandmother so to speak. The late and great Richard Syracuse, my piano teacher at Ohio University, was her student back in the 60s.

[@shilloshillos]

Sublime is the only word that can approximate this. She was the primary piano teacher of my piano professor Richard Syracuse at Ohio University.

[@bennydewachter5706]

Bach was the love of her life.

[@ponte34]

R.I.P Rosalyn, you are a great Bach interpreter and pianist ,,

[@paulostroff99]

Even Gould was said to have adored her playing! High priest and high priestess of Bach I'd say.!

[@freeqwerqwer]

She grew up in Chicago and then went on to New York City for her career. As a Chicagoan myself, I am so proud to know that..

[@DirkJefferson]

@happygolucky - I took note of Rosalyn thirty years ago when in response to a leading question, Glenn Gould admitted that she'd had a big influence on him when young. Glenn was usually reticent about this, implying he'd synthesized his clear, elucidative approach by himself. - Shortly after that, I found Rosalyn's "Italian Concerto". It was beautiful, sounding like Glenn’s secret twin sister. The styles are related, except that Rosalyn came first. Listen to Rosalyn in terms of Glenn.

[@rochvalk]

I love this piece of madame Tureck, outstanding, Gould is fine, and a master!!< but there's more dept and I love the tempi .....to be honest it's .always personal I've played here CD more then 40 times.....

[@thepianocornertpc]

Luister eens naar Murray Perahia playing the Goldberg Variations.

[@MarcusHK1]

There's a good live performance of the work by Schiff on youtube in my opinion. On CD, I particularly like Gulda in the WTC, Koroliov in the Art of the fugue and the French suites, and Schiff in the English suites.

[@philmusica]

Exquisite.

[@JacobAustin123]

Well Played Sir. Well played indeed!

[@visionree]

My favorite rendition

[@gtimny]

@lumeemi2001 The "High Priestess" title came from Harold C. Schonberg of The New York Times whom I got to know in his later years. I once asked him, on the way back to his apartment from a jolly dinner full of reminiscences, if he'd published anything he really regretted. "Yes," he said, "I wish I'd never written that 'High Priestess of Bach' business about Tureck. It was meant to be ironic!" Alas, he died just a few days after she did.

[@lostpebble]

Such a poignant & reflective interpretation. Great !!!

[@9ArtAvenue]

i would love to hear the lecture; Could you post it?

[@dantsos]

Interesting that Gould converged to a very similar view of the Aria near the end of his life...

[@chickenmuffin]

1:44 ... wow, incredible ornamentation.

[@KingJorman]

time stands still

[@dantsos]

Interesting that Gould converged to a very similar view of the Aria near the end of HIS life...

[@ellandelachapelle]

Maestra! (beats them all.) When was this concert?

[@polymath7]

Why are ratings disabled? It's not as though it's likely they'd prove unfavorable.

[@JoFrSc]

leopianotuner - that is is exactly how I always felt about her, but Gould fans always shouted me down!

[@pennydata]

Le telecamere ai lati sono un po' 'inquitanti' ... :-) che appoggi meravigliosi comunque

[@goldberg72]

nn ci sono parole...silenzio

[@SiouxPianist]

nobody compares

[@andramoie]

Bach, Bach und Bach

[@brian1685]

Nice interpretation, Yudina's is similar

[@thelonious1234]

I see him looking down at her, smiling.

[@bbarsher]

living Elegy...

[@atrebil71]

In un'intervista Glenn Gould, riconobbe che in qualche modo fu influenzato da questa pianista, che evidentemente gli è sopravissuta.

[@gmsoyls]

oops...part b she bungled a note...

[@VTownGregory]

She threw that in so that small minds may be tittilated.

[@2010Anatoli]

Admire!!! Rosalyn Tureck has RUSSIAN roots!!!

[@vova47]

Russian Jewish roots!

[@2010Anatoli]

Vova! From Rosalyn Turek's mother was Turk and father was Russian, a Russian officer in the tsarist army... Parents Rosalyn Turek was found in Constantinople (Istanbul).

[@vova47]

Good to know, thanks! I always thought she was Jewish, I guess I was wrong.

[@董呱呱-m8f]

vova47 really？ i just know her first teather from Russian

[@董呱呱-m8f]

2010Anatoli 🙄

[@alwaysright10000]

Ignorant? Not obtuse, or hyperbolic, but ignorant? Are you certain that's the pejorative you wish to select? Ignorance denotes a mere lack of propositional knowledge, and by logical extension entails that that my little malady may be swiftly remedied by a simple introduction to this knowledge. (As opposed to stupidity, wherein it is impossible for you to raise my intelligence, or enhance my powers of perception.) I trust you'll be so good as to bequeath me this knowledge?

[@Alejandro-Te]

I'm sick of reading about Glenn Gould on every single Bach performance....

[@SuspiciousAlertness]

Citriano Torres you expose your naivete and lack of comprehension

[@neiltassoni]

@@SuspiciousAlertness I'm sorry to say that it is YOU the naive and moronic one. You may enjoy Gould playing his versions of Bach, but many do not--myself included. Many of his tempos/tempi are obnoxiously fast--often seemingly for self-consciously "eccentric" effect and nothing more. For example, take the highly enjoyable and accessible Prelude and Fugue in G, from the WTC Book 2. Where Gould rips through the Prelude at a breakneck speed and without an iota of nuance, Bach 'High Priestess' Rosalyn takes it a bit slower, infusing the play with spirit and a subtlety that no one else, as far as I've heard, can match, nor even remotely capture. So, Glenn Gould is NOT the peerless Bach guru you and many others proclaim. Please mature a bit in your limited views and petty ejaculations, oh suspiciously alert one. Thank you.

[@scotthullinger9955]

@@neiltassoni - I've heard every recording of the Goldbergs ever made, and Glenn Gould's is the best. Period. Everything else comes off as lightweight. Considering that it was composed for the harpsichord, Gould's performance translates very well to the piano, whereas other performers tend to romanticise it a bit, sucking the baroque character out of it. When I listen to Gould, I hear Bach. But when I listen to other performers, I hear more of the performer than I hear Bach. On the harpsichord, Trevor Pinnock has a stellar performance.

[@pedterson]

The irony.

[@fcodony]

4:10 s a little problem..really not is the best interpretation of tureck. I think that the tempo is better than GG, but the best play is from Shiff.

[@neiltassoni]

Yes--she appears to be human.

[@pochi_antislavismus]

Is she play the YAMAHA!? So proud for japanese

[@KennYWooD2]

Who really cares about your little problem? It's Rosalyn Tureck.

[@claudewiwiamjertes2122]

here she had almost 90 years ...I´am also sick of Gould...

[@markkusavikivi6490]

I was listening music from radio many years ago. Bach, partitas or something. I was nearly beaten. I thougt that pianist had to be famous Glenn Gould. But in the sound was too much tendernes and a little bitt melancholy and I thougt: not famous Gould. After play I heard name Tureck (newöhööd) and tried to remember. glenngouldinterviews.com/a-touch-of-rosalyn-tureck-in-glenn-gould/ "It is definitely not only the Goldberg that sounds similar. Listening to Tureck’s Bach discography it is difficult to decipher to a degree, who is playing! For me, there are certainly differences in an emotional response to the music, but the clean articulation, minimal pedaling, contrapuntal transparency, and command of musical structure are all very similar. Check it out, and let me know what you think!"

[@vinifca1524]

churek