Rachmaninoff plays Bach "Sarabanda" from Partita #4, BWV 828

[cynic150]

A real musician who was not afraid to play Bach in his own way, make it special, but it still sounds like Bach.

[Bret6464]

Another surreal performance by Rachmaninoff, it is fascinating and nothing short of pure genius - but that is to be expected :-)

It is folly to find a "wrong" approach to playing Bach by Rach, Rach is THE composer and pianist and I am dead certain he understood Bach better than all other pianists :-))

[MNYCNY]

I enjoyed listening to Rachmaninoff's performance, but I prefer a slower, more introspective interpretation of this allemande. I like Richard Goode's recording the best.

[TERb8]

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[Ravel87]

better than gould

[yenrabaraho]

i am spellbound by this man's touch on the piano. it is the most communicative playing i have ever heard.

[lovesGenet]

`Hear more playing of old school playing baroque&classical repertoire. This is interesting I can't stand it but it tells us so much about how they tried not to play romantically. Musically ,worth noting what he does and doesn't do.tempo.accents,left hand etc.His last recitals featured the a minor English suite.Scary!

[klizmun1]

@lovesGenet Still think that musically it worth nothing?

[munkybrain]

wow. ecstacy. havn't heard this much ecstacy in bach outside of glenn gould's playing

[531337]

glenn gould played this much slower than this,

but i like this one more =D

[aronron2727]

i am not an expert like all of you, but he sounds to me a bit like glenn gould in a way that each note is played very clearly.

great !

[CoolWJL]

Or Gould sound like Rachmaninoff!

[picmeco]

Who needs Baroque performance "experts"? Rachmaninoff plays Bach so beautifully you'd think he wrote it himself.

[FelipeJacobS]

@picmeco We need baroque experts to play it like Bach would've played. Performing a work is not just reinventing it...

[picmeco]

@FelipeJacobS How do we know what Bach would have liked? Without actually hearing how he played, it's all speculation.

[WAMEDJO]

@picmeco

Furhtermore, why wouldn't Bach have liked music ? I mean, if someone on earth should recognize music when it's played, these are those two more than any others.

[suzettegm]

Dear Smith, better watch out with this first move...

[pianopera]

But the problem is that Leonhardt doesn't play the piano...

[eligarf]

that's harHarHardly

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[suzettegm]

Then you would have a huge collection...