Johann Sebastian Bach - The English Concert - Harpsichord Concerto d-moll BWV 1052, 1/3

[InvisiblePinkSoylent]

Bach usually transcribed concertos down a tone when making his harpsichord transcriptions. FASCINATING BIT COMING UP!!!!!! This concerto, when played at the SAME pitch (d minor) works on the (probably original but lost version for) violin. the incredible double and tripple stopping and bariolage effects that are so perfectly written for violin, there can BE no argument. An AMAZING violin concerto. To hear it, youtube search for "Discover Bach BWV 1052 R Reconstructed Violin Concerto in D Minor"

[shredderSupreme91]

I can play half of these keyboard pieces on electric guitar, but man what i wouldnt give to be able 2 sit up in a friggin Baroque castle & play the Harpsichord alllll day long...

[dekool88]

All composers are epic in their own ways, that is why you can't compare them. Its enough they've been remembered for 500-200 years (that's older than some countries!)

[TheSecretHarp]

I love Harpsichord so much. I'm very blessed to have one. And no better way than to spend an evening with Bach.

[greyndog5]

such a badass composer this is so sick I mean you hear that complexity ahhh so good

[Kuplungmaster]

@greyndog5 counterpont, the principle where the melodic lines are first, the harmony  - second.

[diegriva]

1)Bach

2)Mozart

3)Beethoven

4)Chopin

5)Scarlatti

6)Haendel

7)Haydn

8)Wagner

9)Brahms

10)Verdi

[leandrusi]

@diegriva top ten classical composers? stop watching mtv man, you cant just compare one genious with other.

Even so.... Bach rules ! :p

[Viplexify]

Harpsichord and this piece were made for each other

[MrLarsFrische]

Don't forget Claudio Monterverdi :-)

[TheLivingHeiromartyr]

lovely piece, but there is no way that harpsichord is used :P it's definitely a double manual, you can here the two strings

[Aurenier]

Hey, just look for this:

"Handel - harpsichord Suite No.7 in G minor"

I think it's amazing, the best harpsichord suite

[TheodenN]

Such a gothic instrument. I love the sound of harpsichord.

[israellu]

Y hace un año...

[FindingEudaimonia]

My parietal lobe just came...



[anisometropie]

this rendition of the concerto is seriously AMAZING !!!! what a beautiful harpsichord timbre

[PublicLibraryx]

Do they still make harpsichords?? i think they should :P

[gothips]

@PublicLibraryx yes of course.

[rgaleny]

What about Michael Angelo Corelli? He predates them all in Baroque music. Still, Bach is so subtly unique. He always suprises me.

[wcbroccoli]

@rgaleny "Michael Angelo Corelli"? You must mean Arcangelo Corelli.

Bach is my favorite composer, but music doesn't begin or end with him. Some people talk about Bach as though they think he invented music from chaos. There was much fine music long before Bach or even the Baroque.

[rgaleny]

@wcbroccoli Yes. Archangelo Corelli. An honest mistake. And I agree about the Baroque. It is the age of Classical music before Haydn and Mozart. It's my favorite escape.

[GuilleMetal666]

who the fuck can dislike this???? i'm seriously dissapointed.

[sdkorts11]

nice

The closest to my favorite recording(which, unfortunately is on a record) I have heard so far

[Jethorion]

6:24

[TheDavid2222]

What contemporary composer do you guys think will be remembered as a master? I think Philip Glass will be remembered as a master. Maybe even John Williams. What do you guys think??

[Sviolinist]

@TheDavid2222 Phillip Glass? Are you serious? A master of what? Masturbating to repetitive noise?

[colourfulwithaU]

@TheDavid2222

John Williams > Philip Glass

Philip Glass' music is nice, but he only has one idea, and that is to take a series of chords and write them as ARPEGGIOS ARPEGGIOS ARPEGGIOS. It can drive one insane. John Williams is far more creative.

But seriously, I think that MANY modern composers will be remembered as masters.

[Terrdemarzielle]

@colourfulwithaU I hope you are right, John Williams is so creative, despite accusations that he copies another muscian's style.

[Leitilumo]

The instrument of men = Harpsichord.

[TheDavid2222]

This is now my all time favorite Baroque piece!!!! Harpsichord is the bomb!!

[TheImmigrantsong]

Intriguing, indeed. This is one of the songs that for some unknowable reason makes me talk like Sean Connery.

[rlimabach]

The quality music survives and intensifies with every brilliant execution like this of the Johann Sebastian Bach´s art. Long live to the Master of the Masters! Only He could create an art work like that.

[wolfgangcrysostomus]

3 personas o están sordas, o se equivocaron y presionaron el ícono "no me gusta", hay que ser idiota o indiorante para que no pueda gustarte ésto

[Nartallo66]

¡Gracias!! Espectacular El Concierto Inglés! Tuve el placer de escucharlos en vivo en mi país (Uruguay)

[susumu07]

Best performance!

[ijunkie]

Someone should paint that poor harpsichord :(

[rlimabach]

Thus as I and You, Johann S. Bach was a humble man, full of defects and with a few positive points. Neverthless, his compositios are true art works, above to every us. It is an honor to appreciate his barroque music.

[jhonwask]

Probably my most favorite recording of this concerto. Trevor rocks.

[rlimabach]

Hierarchical order in the Art Supreme Court:

1 - J. S. BACH;

2 - W. A. MOZART and L V. BEETHOVEN;

3 - A. VIVALDI;

4 - F. CHOPIN.

[BesACB]

@rlimabach Never listened to Dufay's masses and hymns?

[TheDavid2222]

@rlimabach don't forget about Tchaikovsky!

[alvaropstn]

@rlimabach Don't forget Brahms.

[alvaropstn]

@rlimabach Don't forget Brahms, Händel and so many others.

[rlimabach]

@alvaropstn These are servants.

[rlimabach]

@alvaropstn Although they are very good, of course.

[MisterAlbertoPiano]

@rlimabach This is the best musician list that I've seen until now.

I like the ''ex aequo et bono'' that you made with Mozart and Beethoven giving them the 2nd position. Realy great choice. And I'm glad that Chopin is in that list; the best pianist in the history of music it's also a great musician, even that most of his pieces were for piano solo. The first, of course, Bach, the master of all masters and the creator of modern music (speaking in musical terms) and Vivaldi the 3rd. Great!

[rlimabach]

@MisterAlbertoPiano Thank You! As the friend said below, there is others genius of the music such as Brahms, Handel, Haydn ... Nevertheless, in my opinion, the names insered in the list represent the first court, above all. In terms of Bach, I would like highlight that, although Him be of the barroque period, his compositions cover every musicals style. How denyng, for example, the romantic character of his Concert in D minor BWV1060 for Oboe, Violin, Strings and B.C. - 2nd mvt?

[MisterAlbertoPiano]

@rlimabach Yes yes yes exactly xD (I get very appasisionate xD). You think like me. For me, Bach is the first romantic composer. The BWV 1060 or this 1052 are great examples of a romantical themes that Bach made. Incredible and nearly impossible for barroque periode but Bach made it! xD. I'm glad that other people thinks as me.

And yes, of course, I don't forget about Brahms, Händel and the many others great composers, but, in my opinion, the five composers of your list are for me the bests.

[rlimabach]

@MisterAlbertoPiano Op. 7 Nocturne ''Dolente'' is a great composition, congratulations! This has originality, it does not seem me to be a mere transcription of the Chopin's Nocturnes.

[MisterAlbertoPiano]

@rlimabach Oh !!! I'm really glad that you liked my composition!!! xDD Thank you very much for your comment, it's very useful for me!!. Thank you very much my friend!!

[brunozxch2o]

@rlimabach I dont like Chopin....but he still beeing better than Justin Bieber. Roll.

[DiVeronica]

@rlimabach would not place Bach over Mozart, in my opinion! And where is Haydn??? Haydn > Chopin

[wcbroccoli]

@DiVeronica Leaf engraved sun in copper:

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"...our worthy Haydn is supposed to have seen this piece himself, and it is said he was not unfavorably impressed by it, nor minded the proximity to Handel and Graun, nor considered it at all wrong that Joh. Seb. Bach was the center of the sun and hence the man from whom all true musical wisdom proceeded." - A.F.C. Kollman and J.N. Forkel (1799).

[wcbroccoli]

@DiVeronica A.F.C. Kollmann's diagram of Bach as the sun, included by Johann Nikolaus Forkel in the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung in October 1799:

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[patnwat]

@DiVeronica  Chopin > Haydn :)

[DiVeronica]

@patnwat Sorry, I must insist otherwise.

[xxxXGuNzXxxx]

@rlimabach  yes

[AionioTragoudi]

@rlimabach Where the crap is Haydn?

[Oyden]

@rlimabach Shouldn't it be Händel and Bach in first place?

[colourfulwithaU]

@rlimabach

I disagree. I put Mozart before Beethoven, and Chopin before Vivaldi.

[Shanelololol]

@rlimabach what about handel?

[listenwhatisayoh]

@rlimabach Don't forget Telemann!

[TheDavid2222]

@rlimabach and richard wagner, brahms, and it would be a good idea to throw in a contemporary composer :)

[PTCello]

@rlimabach

Bach, then Bach and then Bach, and then Bach.

AND THEN

Beethoven

Mozart

Handel

Wagner

Vivaldi is no where near.

I would like to recommend a collection of essays by G B Shaw, called "THE GREAT COMPOSERS: REVIEWS AND BOMBARDMENTS. I disagree with him often and intensely, but the man is a genius, and You'd enjoy his writing completely. Bach is his God as well.

[rlimabach]

@PTCello Thanks!

[bheeter7]

@PTCello the abstract is, many times, a matter of opinion and perspective

[DaveMoustache]

@PTCello Vivaldi definately deserves a spot in the court. If for nothing else, then alone for "The Four Seasons".

[InvisiblePinkSoylent]

@PTCello Bach flaws 'em (look up the history of what happened when later composers discovered him, (Mozart, and Mendelssohn spring to mind, not to mention the Webern transcription, search ytube for "Bach/Webern: Ricercare a 6 Voci "), but sometimes, we just need a dose of pure SIMPLE beauty. Vivaldi has been hard done by throughout history, most of which he was deliberately masked from. Bach never managed this though -> ytube search "Philippe Jaroussky - Vedro con mio diletto - Vivaldi"

[PTCello]

I omitted Shostakovich, who is definitely among the greatest of the great. Shame on me.

[polina1423]

you forgot Gerswin..



[MoscowMaestro]

@polina1423 Please at least spell his name right, then?

[ibk1980]

@rlimabach  remove Vivaldi and put Brahms... hehehehe

[toogoodbw]

@rlimabach No Chopin. He is good but not that good. Name one piece he composed that is good and doen't have a piano. Replace Chopin with Corelli, C.P.E. Bach, J.C. Bach, Handel, or Hadyn. I would pick Handel.

[PhillyB702]

@toogoodbw scarlatti =).

[GBADCD]

@rlimabach Make me laugh with Vivaldi and Chopin.

[dncviorel]

@rlimabach 0 - G. F. HÄNDEL

[pjps2]

@rlimabach NO!

It is:

1 - BACH

2 - the others

[violinhunter2]

Bach had an inexhaustible imagination - truly unbelievable - and the English Concert is superb, as always. Incredible composer and interpreters. Thanks.

[tommyIglesias]

una total apoteosis barroca!

[BPanther]

Immer wieder schön !

[debartzen]

Suena maravillosamente bien.Un regalo para los oídos.Interpretación magistral.

[animeviolalord]

The English Concerto is my favorite Baroque orchestra!!! Love it!!!

[violatione]

@animeviolalord Look up "Al ayre espanol" they are also amazing.

[WolfgangSebastien]

Aweosme!! you have good taste of the schoolar music :)

Congratulations!!

[profesorjuancarlos]

Excelente... buena calidad en la grabación.

[Norbeone]

The part from 6.15 in this recording is unbelievably badass, especially if you turn it up to ridiculous volumes. :D

[Norbeone]

Wow this stero link is amazing quality. Thanks very much Vihor189! :)

[HellenicMagic]

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BPanther]

Thank you for Sharing !

[Alicia7777777]

Oh yes! ;)))

[Alicia7777777]

*****

Dear Vihor, You are a person of refined taste.

Thank You very much!