Very nice and very superficial. Thank you for the upload and the dissemination of transcriptions, don't however put such a silly polarising comment right beneath the video. That breaks the code of the good music uploader's station.
I'm sorry to see that you don't seem capable of taking a critical comment seriously. The performance, by the way, is very nice indeed; but that doesn't bely my belief that the Webern makes a complete mockery of the counterpoint. He's showing off his extraordinary ability to score, this I don't doubt—the colours are beautiful, as is the use of dynamics; but they are from another style and are antithetical to the fundamental meanings of the original.
Throws a great light on the intensity and deepness of Bach's music. It would be hard to work this out on a harpsichord. And it throws a great light also on Webern's personal connection to the era of (Baroque) polyphonic music. I believe he felt himself in a straight line with composers like Bach. Because though the serial technique is a new approach to the musical material yet it is a polyphonic concept reviving a lot of the musical means of the Baroque period and earlier.
Btw, Clarke was a pupil of Schoenberg and later made a career at the BBC. There he invited Webern to conduct the SO. Hence the record Webern made of Berg's Violin concerto. Interesting liaisons.
Very nice and very superficial. Thank you for the upload and the dissemination of transcriptions, don't however put such a silly polarising comment right beneath the video. That breaks the code of the good music uploader's station.
JSAntares 1 week ago
@JSAntares
That's a first, ever, someone describing good ol' Teddy as "silly"
CaptainBluebear08 1 week ago
Hush, dear friends, stop arguing! We don't know what Bach would have thought then or might think today... But I hope he would have loved it.
Wandelbart 1 month ago
Yeah! This transcription is by far my most beloved fugue. And it is hard to play, that one instrument is flowing into the next.
Compare: Ricciotti Ensemble - Ricercar - Bach/Webern
Wandelbart 1 month ago
Beautiful orchestration.
yourforte 2 months ago
This is how one can use art to make...art. Truly extraordinary.
The complexity of the arrangement does justice to the complexity of the piece. Bach would have loved it.
Thank you so much for uploading this!
Z3YS 4 months ago 2
@Z3YS
Why, you're welcome "Z" : )
CaptainBluebear08 4 months ago
Just stunning! Thanks for this!
saxmad99 4 months ago 2
I'm sorry to see that you don't seem capable of taking a critical comment seriously. The performance, by the way, is very nice indeed; but that doesn't bely my belief that the Webern makes a complete mockery of the counterpoint. He's showing off his extraordinary ability to score, this I don't doubt—the colours are beautiful, as is the use of dynamics; but they are from another style and are antithetical to the fundamental meanings of the original.
Gresilde 4 months ago
@Gresilde
Say, how does it feel, sitting in Bach's chair?
CaptainBluebear08 4 months ago 14
@Gresilde If Webern did mock counterpoint, then I don't know who ever took it seriously.
GiovanniTancrediChan 4 months ago 6
Shocking betrayal of the original
Gresilde 5 months ago
@Gresilde
Shocking stupidity of the comment.
CaptainBluebear08 5 months ago 13
@Gresilde go get a time machine. you really need one..
antonvonwebern 2 months ago
@Gresilde
It is impossible to 'betray' music.
Mjollnir1234 2 weeks ago
How one could say there is no God? This music could be the God. You want more?
babmusician 5 months ago
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GiovanniTancrediChan 6 months ago
@ililililiilili
: D
thanks, "lili"
CaptainBluebear08 6 months ago
Throws a great light on the intensity and deepness of Bach's music. It would be hard to work this out on a harpsichord. And it throws a great light also on Webern's personal connection to the era of (Baroque) polyphonic music. I believe he felt himself in a straight line with composers like Bach. Because though the serial technique is a new approach to the musical material yet it is a polyphonic concept reviving a lot of the musical means of the Baroque period and earlier.
musikfreund69 7 months ago 6
@musikfreund69
You are not only a 'friend' of music, but certainly a true connaisseur, too.
Thanks for commenting.
CaptainBluebear08 7 months ago
Bach was a genious! - And Webern had good ears!:)
callasnuts 8 months ago
Webern was a genious !
Thanks a lot
123must 9 months ago
'Sechsstimmig' !
Btw, Clarke was a pupil of Schoenberg and later made a career at the BBC. There he invited Webern to conduct the SO. Hence the record Webern made of Berg's Violin concerto. Interesting liaisons.
Bedankt, ouwe.
DrMerkwuerdichliebe 9 months ago 2
Danke Blue'...
stanchinsky 9 months ago