J. S. Bach - Prelude and Fuge in B-Flat Major on the name B.A.C.H. BWV 898

[iamajibber]

this is J.S. Bach, anyone who thinks otherwise is mistaken...

[MrDJCrazyDiamond]

@MYTHIRDSHADOW This probably wasn't even written by Bach so you're completely full of it.

[MYTHIRDSHADOW]

@ mister3 and fenderbend. oh please... the both of you. Most of you morons have not the slightest clue as to the significance of Bach. If you did, perhaps you too would be "upset" with the disgusting way this guy bangs out the notes without the slightest sensitivity to their meaning. Simpletons like you two are in it just to "hear" the notes. Their is so much you have yet to learn.

[MYTHIRDSHADOW]

Gould. What a hack. Totally destroyed this piece of music. Total shame. Of course it doesn't sound like Bach, Gould killed it. And he needs to shut up! Is this the same fool who plays with mittens on his hands?

[fenderbender92]

@MYTHIRDSHADOW You seem upset.

[mister3antar]

@MYTHIRDSHADOW Did you forget your medications?

[Tovify]

Very odd for JS as many noticed, must be JC... no wonder he was admired by Mozart ! Bold, playful composition indeed evocative of Beethoven's writing... Good performance

[BigBiff88]

You miss spelled fugue :)

[macanudo1808]

no lo conocia nunca he escuchado esto.

[random405]

It doesn't sound like Bach, but he wrote so many compositions in so many different styles! The one thing that makes me doubt that it's Bach is the fact that supposedly the first time he used his name as a fugue subject was for Contrapuctus 14 from the Art of Fugue, which was written far, far later than this.

[manuelkatarino]

Different Bach? ...Perhaps, but, what can we spect from the daily production

of this towering genious and his unlimited creative mind ?

[Starbirdy9999]

This piece was definitely composed by someone else besides Bach. It's just in a different style than Bach.

[PerrrfictKats]

I read that this is supposedly the piece Bach played about age 25 for his best friend Walther to demonstrate how his name could be used in musical notation; when he was asked why he didnt demonstrate it more often, Bach replied that he didn,t want to appear vain of his own abilities.

[Starbirdy9999]

@PerrrfictKats Yes, but I think the Bach they were talking about was a different Bach, but from the same family perhaps? Because this sounds like Beethoven or some other composer from the classical period.

[PerrrfictKats]

@Starbirdy9999 --No, It is J.S. Bach ,because Johann Gottried Walther was specifically referrenced as the one the piece was supposedly demonstrated to, by Bach, and they were both good friends and cousins. Walther was Bach,s senior in age abut 6 months linked to Bach by associations: his mother was a Lammerhirt, as was Bach,s and his first music teacher, J.B. Bach an organist at Erfurt, Walther,s home town.

[PerrrfictKats]

@PerrrfictKats Writes: This piece was composed in Weimar in 1717. But it has always been under dispute.

[Darkboy2525]

whaha well we know for sure it is Gould ;) you can hear him at the Background ^^ ... hmmm love this pianist

[tommyIglesias]

this is JC Bach

[templedread]

I don't believe this is Bach either... It would've been someone dedicated to Bach and that was his admirer.

[oshidonimlop]

This piece doesn't sound much like bach at all.

Nonetheless it is a very nice piece and a very nice interpretation.

Thanks for posting.

[kristallon100]

Sometimes it seems it's Beethoven :-))))

[firebreathone2]

I agree with kristallon. However, I don´t think that´s funny. I think it´s sad. I also think this is an appalling performance

[InnkeeperX]

Lighten up

[karnenko]

Splendida esecuzione,gould si riconosce subito,il tocco,il ritmo...