Svetla Protich - Bach: Prelude & Fugue in A-minor BWV 543/2

[@arlenephillips6391]

This woman was in my car yesterday(I drive for Uber and I’m a retired RN),..she told me to look her up and she is absolutely amazing🎆

[@ronnydingus]

That's the coolest thing I've heard related to Uber and life in general.

[@dbovendorp]

Before Uber exists, I kept schedule playing a concert in Köln/Germany. When I informed the taxi driver of his fate, he asked me ... Do you know that German President Walter Scheel will attend? I said, how much joy to meet your president... Coolest thing I've related to Taxi and life in general.

[@Npvsp]

Nobody trusts you.

[@dbovendorp]

@@Npvsp Pouco me interessa se você ou alguém acredita. Eu tenho recorte de jornal que pode provar este meu recital no MaternusHaus Köln. (Brazilian Portuguese) Best regards.

[@missasinenomine]

Did you ever pick up JSB by any chance? I've heard he used to walk everywhere & could have done with a taxi!

[@jamestheking9816]

Am I the only that finds the fugue just heartbreaking? I feel almost pain in my heart when listening to it

[@christopherwilmot8767]

Bach's music can be sadly beautiful. And this is.

[@tarikeld11]

It uses the circle of 5th a lot, which can be an emotional chord progression

[@llitosvideos]

Bach's music evokes this particular idea of universal truth. Sometimes, the truth is hard to face.

[@yeskaminakuritsova9368]

This piece has brought tears to my eyes and pulled down my inner chest multiple times.

[@sophiekovalevskaya]

same. one time I was even crying while playing myself

[@Woriviol]

I'm stunned. What a great artist. So deeply touching her play.

[@paul7424]

Lang Lang should take lessons from Miss Protich. What a joy to listen to her performance. Thank you for moving me so much

[@joseluisrodriguezpitarch71]

Im totally agree

[@ws7215]

Lang lang taking lessons? Bruh

[@CURSOJOSEMARTI]

Lang Lang needs to take lessons of everything in the world.

[@Pogouldangeliwitz]

Bang Bang didn't learn anything from Staier. Why would he learn from Protich? His bad taste is natural - and incurable.

[@Riccardodc]

Votre capacité de faire écouter chaque voix est sans aucun paragon!!!😊

[@CuriosusSum]

Isn't this a stunningly beautiful piece? It starts simple and pure, and then progresses elegantly. Bach for me is the greatest man who ever lived. Hireshu san, arigato gozaimasu.

[@authenticmusic4815]

It is, indeed! I wouldn't say that he was great as a person, but his achievements and genius is definitely great!! Best composer ever, imo.

[@CURSOJOSEMARTI]

No doubt.

[@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole]

Proof that Bach delve in the Romantic as well as the Classical. Maybe even at the same time. This is my first hearing of the piece, but i have a strong feeling that this Bitch understands Bach. God bless you Mrs. Protich.

[@guidoruiz7026]

Excelente compositor es Bach. Él le habla al alma humana con un idioma que es universal. Su música toca las fibras más íntimas. Gracias Bach por este tesoro dado a la humanidad !!!.-

[@draganilicveljko]

@@authenticmusic4815 Why do you think that: ,,he was not great as a person,,?

[@RickT72267]

Her playing is absolute perfection. I have listened to this 50 times. Each time I learn something new. Working on this for 2022.

[@takingiteasy17]

Over 300 years later Bach still speaks to the very depths of our humanity-in no small part to this exquisite performance.

[@goldberg72]

Sempre , in questo caso tramite liszt

[@bibichedepassageetCie]

Magnifique interprétation. Merci 💚 💚 💚

[@RafaelSakamoto]

This pianist is so amazing I can't believe there aren't more recordings!

[@samuelfabian9737]

She takes her time, so the music can flow and unfold its full power. The moment when the theme appears in the bass at 4:45 is simply heartbreaking... unbelievable!

[@christluth]

the best interpretation of this great bach's work adapted by Liszt.Svetla Protich plays with her heart. This isn't piano but 100%music. I'm a lutanist and crazy about how she treats the prelude, openly, trying to render the majesty of the organ. The fugue is absolutely fantastic ! I keep the MP3 in my phone to get it next to me. Thousand thanks for all your admirers. A great lady for a great piano !

[@aquestnohies]

For this lady each note is a treasure.

[@ismaacuna9764]

Simply, my fabourite video un KZbin, I love you Svetla!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@ZL54JK8]

Too many performers, and they are mostly organists because it's an organ work originally, treat this music as a vehicle for them to demonstrate their brilliant technique and they play it far too fast. This performance is superb and to my mind captures all that Bach might have wished to communicate. Thank you for making it available. I wish we could hear more from this wonderfully inspired lady.

[@MrSA1829]

well said

[@RickT72267]

It is a huge piece of music. I agree it be a dramatic display of technique. Do you think that Liszt would have held back ? Incredible on a "D" .

[@ZL54JK8]

@@RickT72267 My original comment stated that some performers used this piece as a vehicle for them to demonstrate their brilliant technique, for example by playing it very fast. That is not the same as saying that the piece itself is a dramatic display of technique. It is not. The original organ work is not unduly difficult to play. Certainly transforming it into a piano arrangement allows for it to be made as spectacularly impressive as the arranger chooses, and whatever Liszt may or may not have done with it is neither here not there. This wonderful performance by Svetla Protich is all about Bach, not Liszt.

[@robertcurry7664]

I absolutely agree with everything you said…she plays this with such intelligence and subtlety…I’ve never heard it played better. No other performance I’ve heard, is as thoroughly aware and sensitive to the layers of counterpoint, as she is here. An absolute gem. 👏👏👏

[@donaldkaye2793]

Finally…! MUSIC!

[@sedumjp]

This is one of Bach's greatest organ works (of which there are so many), but it demonstrates perfectly that Bach was a pure composer, in that the the music he wrote floated free of any particular instrument. It is pure music which can be realised in so many different ways. By the Tim Bach was writing the art of the fugue he had stopped indicating any instruments at all, he simply wrote music. This quality of writing for no instrument means he writes for every instrument, and we are but midgets sitting listening to the tunes of a musical giant

[@MrSA1829]

well said

[@twangbarfly]

Great, great comment!

[@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole]

Thank you. Poignant information for a pianist and fellow Bachian.

[@fiandrhi]

In my opinion, the best music is independent of timbre.

[@xamreb]

Well I guess that's pretty much the best 8 minutes on all of youtube right there.

[@sednahbellick2059]

I love that she uses the sustain pedal to give the piece a beautiful echo, but she still maintains absolute clarity with her voicing!

[@MrFredpiano]

Maîtrise et régularité, contraste et nuances. Une force bien tranquille celle-là. Bach devrait apprécier.

[@Sloimer]

There is an incredible display of humanity and the soul in this performance. It's difficult to put into words, but you can feel it. At least I can.

[@pamelafrancis4476]

Yes exactly! and her BWV 508 is the same.

[@eliaseraj.bautista8516]

She is so delicate. Love this performance.

[@toucantoucan]

+Elizabeth Beth exactly! Another good interpretation is the one of Matthias Havinga (organ) on youtube also, but in a much more dynamic style. This interpretation is quite different, and very delicate indeed, and this sounds quite pretty too!

[@xavierortiz106]

This is my favorite interpretation of this fugue, she’s playing this piece so gracefully, I can hear clearly every voice. Absolutely fantastic!!! ❤

[@evanofelipe]

The music in Bach’s head hundred of years ago calls out to us and is as clear now as it was then when he devised the melodies, particularly when such talented and gifted artists like Svetla Protich interprets his thoughts. Simply magnificent.

[@Altagraciadeorituco]

The best interpretation of B/L 543 in KZbin. I cannot get tired of listening to this. WOW.

[@engincigerciogullari]

I love how she slowly articulates the work. I don't like pianists that play it too fast to show off that you cannot understand the work. Thank you❤

[@CuriosusSum]

Isn't this a stunningly beautiful piece? It starts simple and pure, and then progresses elegantly. Bach for me is the greatest man who ever lived.

[@twangbarfly]

I am inclined to agree with you about Bach...

[@micaelabonetti949]

Semplicità, purezza... Questa sconosciuta pianista parla ai cuori. Miracolo... Sia ringraziata, Signora Svetla. Farei carte false per ascoltarLa dal vivo.

[@Paroissien]

It's how Bach intended it, the feeling she gives me. He's right there with her.

[@ohmandamp]

jesus christ. I didn't know a bach fugue could be so moving. this shatters my entire perception of fugues as strictly cerebral and intellectual pieces.

[@MusartJD]

Its all about the the musician, she's brilliant.

[@ohmandamp]

MusartJD Her fugal interpretation is incredible. I'm using her as my model when I learn this piece.

[@MusartJD]

Yea she's a beast

[@Enad700]

Fugue was first made to be moving and impress but Bach was also a man of the Age of Enlightenment. He put as well sensuality as strictness in his music ; it's a perfect balance between heart and reason.

[@bringmemike]

This piece sounds beautiful no matter who plays it, and I would say this is the most beautiful of Bach's organ fugues, and this is one of my new favorite interpretations.

[@EvgenijM21]

I have heared many version of this fugue played by many famous pianists , but I never heared such a deep interpretation like this .... absolutely the best

[@thomashofmeister7441]

Every once in a while I listen to your performance and I can enjoy it the older I get. Thank you for the opportunity to listen to this great work! It tells such a story...

[@vnekliaev]

This is one of the best performances of BWV 543 I have ever heard.

[@alexoidbushuyevich8818]

Я не согласен. Это не одно из лучших, это - лучшее исполнение этой фуги.

[@vnekliaev]

@@alexoidbushuyevich8818 Мария Юдина.

[@metteholm4833]

Her playing gives me goosebumps EVERY time! So sensitive and so pure.

[@АндрейЗорин-е7г]

Чудесно! Прослушивание такой музыки, один раз привело меня к мысли, было хорошо не только слушать, а и самому исполнить музыку Баха. И я пошел учиться. Теперь я уже играю Баха.

[@yaroslavesprgy]

What a beautiful and breathtaking ending! Bravo!

[@silviateresalarrazparra3127]

Credo sia una delle migliore interpretazione che abbia mai udito. ❤

[@ballet_class_music]

I can't get enough of this transcription and perfect interpretation. What an incredible listening experience. Thank you 🙏🏼

[@jb8256]

I wet myself. This is my favorite Bach piece. She understands the tremendous power and beauty of the music.

[@jekob92]

This performance is exactly how I would like to hear it. Perfect!

[@marshallartz395]

A unique and moving performance of this Liszt transcription of Bach’s organ masterpiece. 😎🎹

[@martinstahle2006]

Wow - was für eine Performance und dann noch die Kulisse. Auch nach 32 Jahren Klavierspielen frage ich mich immer noch, wie man sich eine so lange Bachfuge auswendig merken und dann noch in dieser Qualität vorspielen kann. Sehr schön ausgedrückt!

[@ivor000]

quite simply phenomenal! both bach and liszt would be proud, brava ! (and i have to think she's listened to a lot of tatyana, as the does when wanting to hear exceptional bach playing)

[@sonjamuller2846]

Wunderschön. Vielen herzlichen Dank ⭐️

[@SlateFx]

This subject is everything. Such a genius use of the surrounding E5/B5 chord. Bach has the ultimate talent for turning complex emotions into simple little phrases that use the most genius and emotionally profound intervals. Master of rhythm/timing aswell as the actual notes used. Just has a power that no-one else has harnessed before or since. It's so expressive; I really get a deep sadness from this one, but as is with most Bach pieces, there's still that energetic hope and recognition of divine beauty that underpins most of his work. You hear it in every note and every interval.

[@Sloimer]

Well said.

[@marco78sardei96]

Tra le varie interpretazioni che ho sentito questa è assolutamente la mia preferita....tempo perfetto e un tocco veramente magico....non riesco a smettere di ascoltarla.....e come sempre Bach il più grande genio di sempre...Grazie Johan

[@twangbarfly]

One of the best things I've heard on KZbin - along with her incredible version of the prelude. Thank you for posting this. I hope that this fabulous pianist is aware of the joy she has brought to the people watching and listening on here.

[@mjmcb1]

When she started I thought 'oh...too slow', but then I found I really liked the clarity of the performance

[@stijnvandrongelen5625]

Most other performances are too fast.

[@Alexagrigorieff]

Organ can be too overwhelming to the point of muddying the voices together. Piano is more transparent. I wonder if there's string trio or quartet version of this. I loved Goldberg Variations performed by string trio.

[@MrSA1829]

Michael McBain i love bach played a bit slower. Its so beautiful and you can hear it!

[@MusartJD]

You aint lying. Now it's like, all the other versions are played way too fast.

[@jamesjeffery1686]

Same

[@Szpzer]

This is só beautiful! Fantastic performance. Great tempo.

[@ASAngeloMagic]

Complete clarity, contrast and color mixed with extraordinary rhythm allow Bach to glisten and exude beauty in a touching and transcendent way. Bravo! A true achievement!

[@francescoluzi]

Interpretazione stratosferica un livello di pianismo formidabile. Fossi stato in studio mi sarei inginocchiato

[@magbag70]

Condivido. Grandiosa esecuzione .

[@micaelabonetti949]

Condivido pure io.

[@micheleangelaccio9494]

Concordo pienamente

[@goldberg72]

Condivido , peccato nn ci siano altri video

[@giuxc3116]

Assolutamente d'accordo. Suono ricchissimo. Frase condotta con maestria. A volte un piccolo canto lontano, a volte una grande orchestra! Grandissima!

[@nasigil5928]

I am obsessed with this performance. This is one of the most powerful piano performances of any piece I've ever listen to. I want to find a higher quality of this performance so bad.

[@dondokodokodon]

After listening to many performances of this fugue on youtube, I finally found the best one. Que magnifica!

[@vilmosvelinszky9758]

... unfortunately coupled with a commerce video production.

[@SpaghettiToaster]

Vilmos Velinszky As opposed to what kind of other video production?

[@vilmosvelinszky9758]

Practically -- any or every kind (of "video productions"). --- This is Music! -- Where do you see any connection between this fuga and prelude -- and the f... setting?! A very recognized way of desecration...

[@SpaghettiToaster]

I believe the connection is that the venue Protich is sitting in is the room in which she played the piece. You can easily fixing the problem of there being video by only listening to the music and not watching the video.

[@vilmosvelinszky9758]

Off course. --- I was only "amusing" this my "favorite" piece in this very slow manner -- and have become aware (once again) how every cameraman's doing is against all and every kind of real value artistic -- or human at all... So I made my my sarcastic comment.... "...the room in which she played the piece." --- I would have really liked to watch it --- and was really going to do that.... (Are you some kind of camera fan?) (What the cameraman does is absolutely against what you say. The viewer is forced (against his will) to follow the movement of the camera etc.)

[@philippagreenwood3533]

Thank you for your beautiful playing! You bring out the voices and the meaning of this profound piece of music. You have shared such a special performance with us!!

[@bernios3446]

As others have already remarked: So even, so moving. Nothing comes close to the way a piece by Bach can fill you with such powerful sensations of beauty, gratefulness, humility.

[@rayancharafeddine4982]

The funny thing is most of them do in the same way. Sure there are some masterpieces ahead of even what he could do, but those tend to be overwhelmingly genius (Chaconne, Passion opening choruses, Passacaglia, this piece, and many others actually I was spewing nonesense)

[@ir0n2541]

The subject is so mesmerizing.

[@nickciob]

Sublime clarity. Perfect tempo for this very considered and thought provoking piece. Beautiful.

[@paolafuchs2050]

Meravigliosa lei è questo pezzo.... Scoperta oggi.... Mi metterò subito al lavoro ❤❤❤❤grazie

[@annabelboulton1227]

Oh, this is pure art! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@eroceanos]

As a pianist… I allways come back to Bach… there’s something absolutely unique to the guy…

[@Enad700]

Touché ! Mrs Protich. Your performance is gorgeous. You do of this work something incomparable that touches with simplicity to the Divine.

[@PabluchoViision]

An absolutely superb performance, selfless, utterly dedicated to the music, brilliant technique and moving musicality

[@marcoagostinelli258]

Esecuzione magnifica,l'espressione del Bach che può essere suonato con qualsiasi strumento e interpretato dalle varie scuole. Bach era un compositore senza tempo. Era lo sguardo nel futuro , è tuttora un grande. Grande Svetla.

[@usaroman]

Vielen Dank Pianiste ❤ So glad YT finally recommended this extraordinary pianist what a find these performances are.

[@glenngouldification]

Gould never recorded any of the Bach Organ transcriptions. Aside from not being directly from the pen of Bach I think that his style of playing, low to the piano with tactile detached fingers, would not lend itself to the big full body resonance required of these pieces. Ms Protich brings that big romantic sound beautifully to these transcriptions. Bravo !

[@ciararespect4296]

You mean she's fat?

[@alexoidbushuyevich8818]

There is undoubtedly a reason in your words.I think Gould, if he wanted to, could play organ transcriptions of Bach in such a way that we would all really like his performance

[@chrismartinez5711]

Look at the way she glances upward as she strikes the first few tender notes, as if the opening theme is a notion that has only just come to her from another realm. Stunning and beautiful.

[@wolkowy1]

WOW! Great performance! Brava Svetla Protich! This is the only piano-version for this originally for the organ Prelude I have found here in KZbin, that I find it perfect from all aspects: tempo, articulation. etc. Thanks a lot for uploading.

[@davidwray9050]

I do so agree with the comments made previously. Such articulated playing from those hands. Unlike a lot of other well known stars, no affected movements to distract you from the beauty of the music. So simply played. All the passion seems to come from her fingers and hands. The colour of the music is still expressed beautifully. A real jem to listen to over and over again. I very rarely use the word Awesone. Thank you Svetla.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Svetla's magnificent performance invigorates the human spirit , and is full of admiration and deep emotion , and comfortable to the ear and the mind Without Svetla's inspirational performance , Bach's this work would have been very lonely , and insipid and the enjoyment and pleasures of Bach's work would have been less , and I would feel that Bach's work is like the taste of stale beer . Svetla's performance is flawless , stellar and stunning From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

[@annastanczyk7032]

it's beautifull and strong and lots of delicacy in a way i've never seen it before...thank you svetla

[@jensc.jensen4358]

Really a talented pianist. She expresses the wonder of great organ musik most simple and full of emotion. I really love her performance.

[@yumi-di9nb]

How beautiful tone❣️

[@Multieduardo1962]

This sound is impresive, the knowlege of polifony is total, she is great, the tecnique in playing piano is not how fast you can play, but how pure is the sound, in this case the sound is pefect, you can follow each voice separlly. Bach made a joke about polifony, he said is like three or four ladies drinking tea, all of them speaks at tha same time, and the magic is that they understand each other perfectly.

[@twangbarfly]

Great story!

[@ttwiligh7]

Each note so clear and moves like gentle ocean waves. Such a beautiful landscape.

[@AdrianoSpampanato]

Quelle magnifique interprétation, pleine de vie et de cœur !! Legato, phrasé, direction vocale, etc... juste sublime !

[@jackspencer5676]

I need to play this again. Such an amazing piece, and such a powerful interpretation.

[@ruperttmls7985]

Es maravillosa como toda la música de Bach; yo generalmente prefiero los "instrumentos de epoca", pero no puedo negar que esta transcripción y la interpretación de la pianista es realmente muy emocionante.

[@benriffi]

Very authentic played, natural as it should be, no theater. Amazing!!!

[@majdaayri4062]

So beautiful… Bravo and thank you, Mrs. Protich (and Maestro Bach)

[@allthumbs3792]

Immense and complex piece, rendered expertly with clarity and power.

[@composerclark]

Sublime! Thank you for making me aware of a Bach work that I had not heard or studied before, and for playing it so exquisitely.

[@emilgilels]

A beautiful performance - structurally, technically, and most of all emotionally. Interesting that her fugue alone takes only slightly less time than Weissenberg's performance of both the prelude and fugue(!). Both are equally 'valid' and successful approaches to the piece, and help to illustrate the greatness of the source of their inspiration - Bach's original organ work.

[@preussenberlin8470]

Ach , Sie spielen so gefühlvoll ! Sie sind eine Meisterin. Eine Traumfrau . So herrlich gefühlvoll.......

[@JF-dm1no]

Прекрасно! Спасибо!))

[@АминаСейдахмет-э8ы]

Как играет гениально, слезы текут, все струны души задевает... Хорошо, что такое бывает на свете...

[@ФилиппОстапенко-м4й]

Ваша правда - мирово ...- все правильно .не придраться ..идеально ...- но какова глубина осязания полифонической идеи..

[@Brambeck01]

Wunderschön interpretiert - vollkommen ruhig und unaufgeregt. Ich liebe diese Interpretin.

[@blondellemarie-jeanne3845]

Je découvre et j adore .La pianiste joue avec ame , cela se voit sur son visage.nous avons ici , une performance technique extraordinaire,et sa compréhension de l oeuvre me semble être très proche de la pensée de Bach .❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@lapain5]

It's the sweetest and the best interpretation I've heard, so touching...what an incredible pianist, Mrs Svetla Protich !!!

[@osamaal-awadhi4287]

This fuge i think its one of the best fuge for bach, such a butiful music! Such a feelings, such a ending , what can i say about this blessed composer J.S.Bach you trully blessed from ur foot tell ur head best composer ever , And thanks for the lady who is playing the music ur such a great lady the ending was exactly what i want thanks

[@kantvishi]

Beautiful. Like a continual breaking and mending of heart .

[@MrSimpson3]

Beautiful performance.

[@nricardotoro]

¡Pura genialidad! ¡Maravilloso!

[@MayUbeWellHappyLiew]

Absolute fantastic interpretation of Bach's work. Wanna listen more of her playing..very powerful playing too.

[@cenodus]

Incredible!!!! I have always been reluctant towards slow interpretations of this transcription, but what depth has this pianist touched ! This was deeply moving.

[@PC6001mk2]

Supreme Good. i know another her performance exact same BWV543, however, this piece is also pretty good playing. i indeed moved deeply my heart. Thanks a lot !

[@TheSpikeCanada]

4:45 so powerful!!!!

[@eliguidera160]

Thank you for this wonderful interpretation of one of Bach's greatest keyboard fugues.

[@peterberger3928]

Himmel, ist das geil gespielt.

[@MusartJD]

BRAVO!!!! Now this is beauty at it's finiest! I see so many versions of this played way to fast and without soul, this by far is the best version I had ever heard! 1 more thing at 4:45 it's played so beautiful from the heart, she really makes the song cry

[@bachisback71]

Splendida, raffinata e curatissima esecuzione. Complimenti!

[@iansdigby]

She seems to find twice as much beauty in this piece as anyone else!

[@ViktorRenkel]

tears running. moved.

[@BroodjeBrood]

Best version I ever heard, great pianist! And indeed, one of Bach's beautiful pieces