Goldberg Variations - Aria , Variatio 1- Keith Jarrett

[melancholyhumour]

Beautiful interpretation - accompanied by beautiful artworks! Nice!

[SeanPerrin]

I love Keith Jarret, but he's taking too many liberties here. Is it so much to ask that the quarter notes in the left hand might line up with the right hand even once in the Aria? Lol.

[goscott4]

@SeanPerrin I'm on the phone now with JSB, he says "it's all good."...hehehehehhe

[welltemperedpianist]

i'm sorry but ... i dont think one's supposed to be able to tap his feet to bach (this is 100% metronomical)

[zippyhat]

whoa. Is he doing it in a different key, or is that harpsichord out in left field?

[codonauta]

@zippyhat Yes, the pitch is different, a semitom( above or below, I don´t remember that ). I think the harpsichord was tuned in an alternative way. I don't believe Jarrett plays all da variations in G bemol major or in A bemol major.

You have a good hearing to realize that!. I just realized that when I tried to play the aria with, at the same time , the recording of the CD.

[RedCloudBeechWaveAhh]

@codonauta below - F#

hmm why though?

[codonauta]

@RedCloudBeechWaveAhh I don't know. The tension of the strings in instrument was not good for him? An hypothesis.

Or he tried to do something different.

[RedCloudBeechWaveAhh]

@codonauta i listened to another harpsichord perf. and it was also in F#

hmmm

more evidence, at least

[codonauta]

@RedCloudBeechWaveAhh Yes, I remembered that were alterrnatives tunes in Baroque Era. There is a video, in my channel too, with Ton Koopamn talking about that. The video is "Concerned to J S Bach's Cantatas: Ton Koopman speaks - BWV 106 - Actus Tragicus"

[codonauta]

@RedCloudBeechWaveAhh

I set the link of the video with Ton Koopman talking about tunes in Bach Era in the informations about the video, above. Maybe the solution about the issue.

[HarpsichordRox]

@codonauta He is playing with the harpsichord at A415 which is a semitone down from A440. He is playing it in G major. Just Regular old G major

[codonauta]

@HarpsichordRox Yes, it is possible. I haven't thought in that porssibility. Thanks.

[HanEllipsis]

@zippyhat Baroque pitch is often commonly accepted as A=415, which puts Baroque-tuned instruments one semi-tone lower than modern A=440 pitch.

[PRACTICEPIANO]

I like the phrasing. Thanks for sharing this music.

[AdamFulara]

Melody after the beat in Aria is awesome!

[BBK551]

great !

[Irshkboy]

I like the trills in teh first variation

[nevropop]

It's a great interpretation!

I liked the Aria. The first variation isn't bad, but i prefer Gould's (more equal).

[maidestone]

Keith is an enigma: His Mozart is difficult to understand; his Handel is admirable; and this, his Goldberg Variations, is truly inspired.

Thank you sincerely for the posting.

[codonauta]

Handel? I don`t know Handel-Jarrett recordings.

What has Jarrett recorded of Handel?

Thanks for your comment/

[maidestone]

1995 ECM New Series label (ECM 1530) G. F. Handel Suites For Keyboard (Hwv 452, 447, 440, 433, 427, 429, & 426) Keith Jarrett, piano. This is definitely one of my favorite CDs.

Thank you, again!

[eteokles3]

mine as well;)

[codonauta]

@maidestone I am listening these recordings now.

They are really excellent!

[codonauta]

@codonauta I need to do an update in my response here. I heard the Jarrett / Handel' recordings last week, the 6 suites for harpsichord. He plays on the piano.

It's really great!

( actually I keep hearing that )

[yourforte]

I don't like the way the left hand is coming in before the right hand nearly all the way through

[codonauta]

It is an skillful making to the performance, to express feelings, because the harpshicord doesn't have intensity control , it's not possible change the dynamics ( forte - piano ) in the harpsichord, so the performers use these kind of stratagem to become the performance more interesting.

Anyway I understand your point of view.

[calebyongzekang]

20.F here

very cool 4v

[4martijn]

what the hell is mona lisa doing here? and all the michelangelo stuff? we are combining some very different worlds here....In itself...the music is as un-italian as it can get. Haha, compare it to his own 'italian' variations...

[codonauta]

This is my first video combinning music with known painters. After I decided to chose pic tures of the same painter in which video.

This was a experimental video. :o)

It is posiible in next days I upload this again and some of the first variations with other images, with any conexion between them, paying more attention to the images too.

[4martijn]

ok, looking forward to that! And take it easy...the paintings are worth looking at for their own right!

[4martijn]

Finally! The harpsichord! Sure I love Gould...but this is what it really should sound like. Wish Gould had tried....

[sasha42196]

Wish I had this record...I believe this is a 1989 release. Do you have the rest?

[codonauta]

Yes, i have. I will upload some variations more

in next day or weeks. ( But not all variations, it would be too exhaustive

[firebreathone]

This piece of music is amazing! I think we lack the adjectives to describe it.

[amberfly67]

Thanks for chosing Keith Jarett. :-)