巴哈 Bach Art Of Fugue Contrapunctus 14

[Akkojan]

It's impossible describe IT in a human language...

[robertgift]

Where is the rest of it?

No I must go play it to finish it to the end.

[fafewfaf23]

A piece of music has never moved me more deeply than this one. Thank you Bach, Gould, and thanks for posting.

[5hawnK3lly]

best ending ever

[KABRIS1]

At the piano, Gould became Bach.

[ldixon11]

The beginning of this recording - the first 9 minutes - can be found in other videos.

As someone noted, Glenn stops before Bach does - I'm not sure why.

A great example of a performer being totally enrapt by the music.

[Bachlives2]

@ldixon11 He probably learned from the Peters Edition it ends before Bach does. I find it highly annoying that they did not write bach's last note

[tonycosworth]

@ldixon11

Furthermore, after Cis, he adds A F in place of 7 quavers of the 2nd exposition theme.

May be he had doubts about 233-239 bars ?

[paradoxicus]

A Spinoza1111.

"No preguntemos que se esconde,

tras un enano mental,tras el cruel combate,

tras la sinrazón y el sinsentido de las cosas.

Podríamos encontrar después de todo,

cómo una última nota nos responde,allá,

muy lejos,donde no hay fragores ni razones."

[rolldito]

1:37 - 1:52

Sublime

[AristYdes]

whats wrong with this dwarf performer?

[mortson978]

that's glenn gould jackass.

[AristYdes]

so thats the dwarfs name. anyway theres something wrong with him

[pierrot79]

He was singing while playing. He was sitting incredibly low, the head nearly on the keyboard. He had sometimes

And he is pardoned because he was a genius.

(but the end of his version is not the actual end of the score)

[tonycosworth]

@pierrot79

Quel que soit l'endroit précis où se termine l'autographe de JSB, peux-tu m'expliquer:

1) pourquoi cette version se termine à 2'38 sur un fa

2) pourquoi la video de stephenykevin, issue du même enregistrement, se termine à 2'12" (sur un mi) ?

je vais lui poser la question, d'autant que sa video est désynchrone sur la fin: le geste de gould sur le fa de 2'38 se trouvant sur le mi de 2'12 !!!

[spinoza1111]

Ask not who is the mental midget

Ask not for the dwarf

Ask not for the stoopid idjit

It might be thee who makes us barf.

Ask not for whom the dumb bell tolls

Ask not who pressed the stupid switch

You might find after all (you see)

That the twerp tannoy, it sounds...for thee.

[paradoxicus]

Gracias spinoza1111.

BACH

Beth Aleph Ghimel Heth*

Este es mi cuerpo,este es mi aliento

Esta es mi vida,esta es mi muerte

Deleitaros y alimentaros.

(Traduccion libre)

*Letras del alfabeto judio.

[spinoza1111]

Magnifico, Senor

[spinoza1111]

B A C H

Beth Aleph Ghimel Heth

This is my body this is my breath

This is my life and this is my death

Take, eat.

[cametnosce]

@spinoza1111

archetipi... musica...



[witchcraftlord]

whats more easy composing blind, or deaf??

[Dave2bu]

I'd say blind.

[pierrot79]

for those monsters, ears or eyes where not necessary to compose.

but without ears, they wouldn't ear their music.

[dvidcyl]

Bach uses the letters of his name as the notes at the very beginning. It is his musical signature. The German notation has B as B flat, A is A, C is C and H is B. Thus the first 4 notes of the piece repeated at the introduction of the theme throughout the fragment. Bach was blind when he composed this at the end of his life and died before he could finish it. The breadth of memory needed to do this is incredible.

[gr0mithtimon]

The fact that it is in his own, neat handwriting suggests that bach composed contrapunctus 14 several years before his death and he probably did not die while composing it. He was pretty much blind when he died. He probably did compose during his last days, dictating to his sons, but not this piece. It is unclear wether the piece was never finished or the completing part was simply lost before publishing.

[paradoxicus]

Postrer homenaje a JSB en ésa nota que esquiva escapa y se hace éter eterno.

[SiskaAdam]

Thanks for sharing this amazing record! However, could you please upload it again in a slightly better quality? Sometimes it sounds like somebody was making a phone call or something in the background (like at 1:18). I'm not referring to Gould's singing, this is something else in the background. Also the movie itself seems to be sometimes very pixelated. Thanks!

[robertgift]

Let's always see his marvelous hands with his face.

when I play this on organ, I cannot help singing along. Fortunately no one can hear me.

Well? Where is the rest of it?

[HelveteKeiser]

I think that is the actual end as the Composer ended the piece...

[robertgift]

It ends later.

But this would be the best place to stop if one does not play the remaining notes.

I am surprised he does not play all.

[BeauJames59]

it wasn't finished. (but he didn't die here, as some legends claim) This is a small part of the entire thing........google it. It's a great piece, unfinished as it is.

[BeauJames59]

that's all he wrote, unfinished.

[godofmusic2007]

hes the best ive ever heard from bachs music , part 2 rules at the end

[voceelinda]

Always shocking to listen to/see this.