Tatiana Nikolaeva plays Bach Preludium & Fugue C-sharp minor

[cuallito]

Russian babushkas know how to do it just right.

[practicecrazypianist]

Why doesn't she include any ornamentation? Still lovely playing, and inspirational for me as I learn this piece!

[masterkuprij]

<3

[gatomjp]

This is amazing! What power and emotion!

[slizzler1]

superb

[amadeuswebern]

She is awesome. I can think of no other who plays Bach like she does. I can't stop listening to her music.

[joaodsyt]

Perfect! She was (and remains) one of the best in Bach...

[broadwood1830]

so ein eindimensionales gehacke braucht man nicht aufheben

[dermusikverfallen]

@broadwood1830 Doch! Stellen Sie sich alles viel leiser gespielt vor und bewundern dann die Konsequenz der Linienführung. Ich gebe gerne zu, dass dies durch die enorme Lautstärke und die starken Geräusche und durch den Pathos schwierig ist zu hören, aber es ist ALLES da. NAtürlich ist Klavierspsielen auf einem Broadwood von 1830 eine ganz andere feine Sache und ein feinsinnigerer Klang,klar... Aber Sie ist ehrlich und authentisch.

[nburton85]

Perfect tempo in my opinion and fantastic interpetation - bravo!

[dallaspianophile]

I think her recording of the 2 and 3-part inventions among the most beautiful of all her recordings. Profound. I'm a huge fan of hers.

[vanya2309]

why is it without ornamentation?

[Trompetabc]

@vanya2309 Probably because this performance were made long before performance practice became a subject. Bach wrote the piece without ornamentation, and until resently (perhaps the last 30-40 years), we didn't quite understand that he meant us to play it more freely than what he had written.

[dlandersiv]

Wikipedia discounts the claim that Nikolayeva died during the San Francisco concert - could you check your source?

[truecrypt]

Wikipedia is correct - Nikolaeva died 9 days later on 22nd. I copied an article from Russian on-line source and they were mistaken.

[paindeer]

I appreciate Gould as well

She has a very keen ear to Bach though.

I see gould as left brain, and she is right brain.

To be missed.

[MikeInBeantown]

her interpretation of the Goldberg Variations is, to me, the finest of all, including many that are far more celebrated. when i hear her, it always strikes me that she knows exactly where she is, and exactly where she's going.

[hashirimedes]

She is the first person of the fugue performance.

But performance of Richter is the best about this piece.

[morvensky]

I agree. Richter's is incredible.

[amadeuswebern]

This is a perfect, an awesome performance. Thank you.

[indigoTwinsen]

Beautiful, thank you for this...

[sigridbastin]

so...so...so incredible, I can't find any word to express my feeling. The first I heard her it was on the radio: I stopped immediatly to read and I search now every avalable recording of her: is there somebody here to help me to find the concert in Leipzig in 1950 where Shostakovitch wass there? Many thanks!

[antoinezygfryd]

C'est une sorte d'ange qui joue la fugue??

[Beethoven1063]

logical.

[funfunfuntw01]

Thanks for sharing. I like Tatiana Nicolayeva's Bach so much. They sounds so sweet in her hands.

[suzettegm]

Thanks for spoiling us again.

[truecrypt]

You are very welcome... it's just a beginning!;)

[charlottevk]

My technical knowledge of classical music is really not sufficient,I can only say that it,s very beautiful.

[smithsherman]

Dear Charlotte ,Be thankful that you have litte "technical" knowledge...as it destroys most musicians ability to hear music.

[charlottevk]

Dear Smithsherman, thank you for your kind reaction.

[huhas1]

Smithsherman:

That's absolutely right.

[smithsherman]

Dear Huha,Thank you.

[pguitar13]

i would argue the opposite for any intellectual

[indigoblue555]

to smithsherman - plain and simple a great truth.A pleasure reading you,as always.

Happy New Year to you smith!

[smithsherman]

What makes this & the Feinberg so Unbaroque,

is that they only argue over connection.

Instead of creating heirarchy in the motif itself.But in the Gould there is nothing.

[TableLamp1963]

smithsherman,

Could you please explain this a little more?

I also don't like Gould's version, but I'm not sure what you mean by "argue over connection" and "creating hierarchy in the motif".

It could mean many different things.

[smithsherman]

Dear Table,They play phrases simlarly but differ over the breath between them.Heirarchy means weighting the notes in a phrase differently through articulation & timing to create a center of dynamic focus.

[vova47]

So true!But what of Richter´s version?

[smithsherman]

Richter has a more interesting approach than either,but you can take all three of them together and they don't equal Samuel Feinburg.Here at Youtube.