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  • Awesome !! Excellent !!

  • I am composer & musician. Sometimes I hear or compose classical music in my dream. I enjoy it and listen to it but when I wake up I forgot almost everything expect the enjoyment of the music that came to me in my dream. Does this happen to anyone else too?

  • Great playing, congrats.

  • Stunning! Thanks.

  • YES.  That harpsichord on this piece really gets inside my head and instills that dark, contemplative feeling. Absolutely beautiful

  • Excellent work. I'm working on this piece myself and intended to release a version on youtube at some point - i'll use your vid as reference.

  • One thing I've always wanted to hear, but do not have the skills to play, is a harpsichord solo for this song. I have been looking for one forever! Do you think you could upload this with just the harpsichord? I would love to hear how it sounds and I think it will help me learn it myself!

  • Very good! Awesome! Excellent!

  • Rock on chubs lol!!!

  • perfecta ejecución ,magistral!sobriedad y calma con fluidez...cómo sonará con ud.Telemann?

  • Maravilhosa interpretacao parabens (Y)

  • Wow, an excellent effort! I believe this piece was based on a violin concerto which sadly is now lost.

  • realmente brillante!!

  • great, just great

  • Astonishing! An extraordinary performance! Bravo! Da Capo!

  • @JGBaroque Thanks! I see that you're into contemporary baroque composition. I am as well. I take it that you're familiar with Vox Saeculorum? I'm still fairly new to composition so I don't have much real works written yet. I'm currently taking time to study counterpoint and thoroughbass to make sure I have a solid understanding of those things before I proceed to the fun stuff. Currently working on the exercises in Jeppesen's book on modal counterpoint. About half way through.

  • Excellent interpretation! I can see why you say you "would stay away from the popular recordings of this concerto by pianists such as Glenn Gould or Andras Schiff."  Indeed Gould is a speed demon without enthusiasms and Schiff is dry and tasteless.

    By the way, not all modern pianists should be avoided. You may want to hear Sviatoslav Richter's performance posted to YouTube by twotea22. Caution: the title says "Bach - Concerto no 1 in re minor - 1st mov", no mention of BWV 1052.

  • @VERITS99 Gould does have a tendency to play some pieces by Bach ridiculously fast (such as Invention no. 10). My complaint with Gould and Schiff is that with this concerto, they play too slow. But more than just tempo, my main complaint with performers such as Gould is they play too coldly, stiffly, and plainly. Their generation and most classically trained players today are under the mind set that the score is to be taken literally as written.

  • @MacLinuxDude >my main complaint with performers such as Gould is they play too coldly, stiffly, and plainly.

    You took the words out of my mouth... As I have few recordings of Bach's pieces on modern instruments, I "googled" and found the followings:

    Glenn Gould - Bach Concerto in D minor BWV1052 on YouTube posted by muz1kf0rever

    Schiff Fragment on amazon.com (somehow YouTube does not allow entering URLs.)

    They are not in my cups of tea.

  • @MacLinuxDude

    Gould was under no illusion that the score was to be played as written. That becomes *painfully* evident when you listen to his interpretations of Mozart's piano sonatas.

  • @colourfulwithaU I'm not familiar with Gould's recordings of Mozart. I'm only familiar with his recordings of Bach. Perhaps Gould isn't the best example of the style of playing I'm referring to. What I'm talking about is what Bruce Haynes calls in "The End of Early Music" modernism (as opposed to romantic, and baroque performance style). Characteristics of this include seamless legato, continuous vibrato, lack of beat hierarchy, unyielding tempos, and nearly mechanical playing of 16th notes.

  • @VERITS99 But they fail to realize that baroque scores weren't meant to be taken literally. Baroque notation is somewhat like short hand notation. It almost always simply contains the notes to be played but rarely are they notated with how to play them. They expected the performers to know how to properly perform the scores based on tradition but still allowed them a fairly wide degree of interpretative freedom.

  • @VERITS99

    OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE CAUTION

    I have been trying so hard to find Richter playing this piece; he is my favourite pianist, tied only perhaps by Mitsuko Uchida.

  • @colourfulwithaU You are welcome. Good luck with the competition!

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  • Genius!

    

  • Genius!

  • You're an excellent player. I wish your MIDI was better, though.

    I am signed up to play this piece for a piano competition in December, but I haven't a clue where to start. I rarely play baroque. But I really do want to do this. any advise?

  • @colourfulwithaU I recommend that you familiarize yourself with performances of baroque music by historically informed orchestras such as Concerto Italiano, Europa Galante or English Concert. They play baroque music in its original style and on original instruments. They play much more passionately and movingly compared to modern classical orchestras. For this concerto, I recommend listening to the performances of Rinaldo Alessandrini or Richard Egarr. You can find both recordings on YouTube.

  • @colourfulwithaU Even though you're performing on piano, you can bring the style that these performers play in to the piano. I would stay away from the popular recordings of this concerto by pianists such as Glenn Gould or Andras Schiff. The way they play is contradicted by historical evidence.

  • @colourfulwithaU In terms of keyboard technique in general, baroque music requires a good finger independence and a left hand that is equally as good as your right. If you haven't already, try learning a few of Bach's inventions. Also, I highly recommend the piano finger exercises by Erno Dohnanyi. They're a set of short but very hard exercises that develop finger independence. The thing is that you must play them exactly as written. But be careful to not strain your fingers practicing them.

  • @MacLinuxDude

    Sounds like a good time. What do you think of the recording by Trevor Pinnock with the English Concert? That happens to be my favourite interpretation.

  • @colourfulwithaU I have that one and it was the one I imitated when I performed this one. It's very good too. You also might like Ton Koopman's performance of it too if you can find it. It's not here last I checked. Baroque music allows pretty large degree of individuality and creativity so there are several acceptable ways you can play the music as long as it fits within the basics of the style.

  • @MacLinuxDude

    Thank you so much. : )

  • My favourite part is 2:45. Very well played :D

  • Pleasure to listen to. Very accurate playing :)

  • 2.55 part i play the melody with the left hand

  • too fast

  • jajaaja. Master of masters. increcible.

    ciao

  • That was awesome I love the sound of the harpsichord and with the added strings brilliant :)

  • Beautiful! .. One of my favorite intros..

  • WOW your a badass! I'm an oboe player but I would love to learn that!!!

  • Holy shit. You did that with garageband? Hats off to you my friend, you made a computer program sound like an orchestra. Also, I loved watching some of the faces you made while you were playing this. A look of horror seems to wash over you as Bach's melodies flow from your fingertips.

  • uao!!! respect!

  • As seen so far, this is the best performer I've seen at Youtube so far

  • As seen so far' this is the best performer I've seen at Youtube so far

  • Amazing. 

  • wow.... that is impresionant, your a god man

    god bless your hands xD !! jajaja

  • The quality is impressive. I would put this up there with Carlos' "Switched on Bach" album.

  • good poopin music

  • Perfect, perfect!!!!

    I loved this.

  • IMPECCABLE ... BRAVISSIMO 

  • Absolutly Brilliant performance I want to learn this peice now

  • call me crazy (or i gues if you like this too you won't...lol) - but i seriously love the sound of harpsichords!

  • Sheridan, you should get an Honorary Ph.D. just for doing this. The orchestra is VERY espressive[sic] ...hey email me dude!! evanrommel@yahoo.com; I had been wondering if I could create something for Rachmaninoff #4 [we call it 'Rocky 4 :) ] which I worked on for about three years, so far, including when I lived across the street from NewCollage [ New College] of Florida. Y'know I gotta get a Mac and ditch the PC. Anyway YOU ARE BRILLIANT Sheridan!! Nice Work!!

  • wow he is really good.

    I quit practicing this music it was real hard..

  • Congratulations! That was wonderful! Something to be proud! An artist from the contemporary times!

  • really awesome!!! Congrats! 5*

  • Bravo

  • This is so great man! This sounds 100% perfect!

  • nice chin

  • Thank you very much for keeping this music alive. Amazing harpsichord sound. God bless you. Bach would be very proud.

  • This is awesome! Every since I heard this piece I wanted to play it. Do you know where I could find the music sheets?

  • @graveswill You can find it on IMSLP dot org (can't post the url due to filters). Make sure you don't confuse it for the other simplistic version of this concerto transcribed by CPE Bach which is called "BWV1052a".

  • Hey dude, that was awesome. I'm trying to learn this right now and it's harder than I thought lol! When you learn pieces like this one, do you learn it all the way through first and then get it up to tempo, or do you practice each bar until it's up to tempo? I was wondering because it usually takes me a long time as as far as getting things up to the speed that I want while still being perfectly clean.

  • @CapnKeys I find it helpful to break the piece into sections and then learn each section one at a time until it is at a good quality (but not necessarily performance quality yet). You don't have to learn the sections in sequential order. You may find selecting the more difficult sections first to practice to be more efficient. Also, as you're learning each section, try playing the entire piece once through without stopping at least once everyday so you understand how it fits together.

  • Fantástico... tienes muchísimo talento¡¡

  • How long have you been playing?

  • @ortiza2007 About 11 years now. Would've been 9 years when this performance was recorded.

  • Love the 2:31 part of the piece.

  • You just sold me on GPO.

    What kind of Digital Piano are you using?

    Great work man!

  • @ortiza2007 Thanks. It's an old Clavinova CLP-560 from '94.

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  • I am very familiar with this piece. It is evident that You HAVE worked very long and diligently to produce such a fine result. Congratulations on your musicianship and focus. I'll bet you learned a lot putting those parts together.

  • epicness

  • Sheridan you are an amazing musician as well as sound engineer. Beautiful multitrack interpretation of BWV1052.

  • my hat's off to you, sir! one of my favorite passages, and surely a great challenge to play! nonetheless, you nailed it. ;?) cheers!

  • Very nicely executed, beautiful playing.

  • FANTASTIC...!!!

  • dude you're a beast! awesome!

  • THIS IS PURE AWSOME!!

  • Great work! Beatifully played!

  • I think speechless simply sums this up :)

    That's a very authentic harpsichord sound, which brand of piano do you use?

  • das ist sehr toll! ^^ beautiful!

  • Unbelieveble that you spend so much time it ... really WOW ... that is AWSOME of you .... really awsome .... respect ! it sounds AWSOME !

  • I don't know much about music, but my mother plays some of Bach's music on the piano and I just wondered if the sheet music is the same for the piano and the harpsichord since they both look the same?  Could you make a keyboard sound like a harpsichord?

  • Usually, editors will add phrasing and dynamic information to Bach's keyboard music. All the dynamic and most if not all phrasing information wasn't in the original score written by Bach because you can't play different dynamics on a harpsichord and back in Bach's day, most phrasing was up to the choice and invention of the performer while following some general performance rules. If your keyboard is digital, there's usually a harpsichord sound you can set it to.

  • This is REALLTY beautiful=) Wow You should really be proud of what you have created and performed, Bravo!!!!

  • Really good job man. Your hard work really paid off. I can't play Bach to save my life.

  • bravo!!!!

  • My favoruite out of all Bachs concerto. Both on the violin and harpsichord, both are good :-)

  • Thanks. Have you heard Alessandrini's recording of this concerto? He's the only one I've heard so far that has exploited the fiery, dramatic and flamboyant Italian character of this concerto. Also, Fabio Biondi did a great violin concerto version of it.

  • @MacLinuxDude Well I haven't heard so many famous recording of this concerto, but I saw a guy here on youtube from Israel how played it very well and I have a nice recording of Bachs harpsichordsconcertos, and the harpsichordist in that recording which I have is called Ivor Bolton. And I have heard your version. I also but some cheep sheetmusic in my local sheetmusicstore. Its hard! :P

  • Alessandrini's recording isn't very famous. It's similar to Trevor Pinnock's. You can find it on YouTube. Search for "alessandrini harpsichord concerto".

  • @MacLinuxDude Well that was nice! Nothing can go wrong with baroque!

  • awesome

    i hope those keys are weighted!!!

  • You are talented congratulations.

  • Brilliant.

  • Kickass

  • Great ..what can I say. I'm actually learning this now ...you can tell me please for what grade is this piece ? Thank you!

  • you my friend are a ballin pianist!

  • Ey ey ey! What an unreal task.... and execution.

    It was great to actually see you play the no. 1 in D Minor. I can't even remember the main melodic line. I can't imagine someone playing the other orchestral parts.

    Top notch!

  • exemplary playing

  • goood!!!!!!!!1

  • Very good job!! That is a fabulous piece of music full of energy ....Gorgeous all around!!

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  • well fuckin done, tht is awsome

  • Great!!! 5 stars!!

    Could you upload the orchestral part, please? thank you so much!

  • great man....Great job an really nice playing....

  • Awesome! very exciting, I like this concerto a lot and this was a very nice interpretation, thanks for the video clip!

  • Great!

  • AWSOME !!

  • Very good *****^ :~)

  • wow, I liked it a lot. And I mean WOW.

  • great! i'llcome back visiting u

  • Very impressive indeed. Your hard work has paid off.

  • stunning beautiful bravo

  • Congratulations ! Great job !!

  • I listen to this every day! I LOVE THIS CONCERTO!

  • Nice work. You've got chops.

    I would like to hear more the Cello and the Bass on the orchestra though. My favorite versions of this concerto have a bold "menace" of the lower voices.

  • Very impressive!!

    Especially liked your relaxed technique. You're a good role model. Thank you!

  • VERY nice.

  • Nice work

  • You must get alot of girls with those fingers =P

  • Bravo! Really stunning!!!

  • That is just beautiful!! You should get some kind of award for this. We plugged you into our 42" TV to watch and listen in surround sound.  Awesome!! Thank you for all your hard work.

  • Bravo dude, that was marvelous. This is one of my fav Bach pieces.

    How did you sync up the orchestra part?

    I've been trying to record both parts of the double violin concerto myself and it's been a nightmare trying to match the rhythm.

  • In this recording, I recorded the harpsichord part in Garageband along with a recording of the orchestra that I imported into Garageband that I originally recorded in Finale. For the first cadenza to allow for rubato I recorded my self playing just the cadenza before the final recording and then I edited the orchestra part to start playing again at the end of the cadenza that I recorded and I used this recording as a guide during the final performance.

  • The orchestra in Finale sounds this good? I'm impressed, the version of the program my friends used to use just had the built in computer midi sounds.

    Also, great playing, that was really enjoyable to watch and listen to. Thanks for uploading :)

  • Bravo! A splendid performance and testament to your dedication and musicianship.

  • Fabulous! Brings a tear to my eye. I love Bach and play it on the piano and my old Z-Box Harpsichord, but I doubt I'll ever play it like this on my Axiom 61! BRAVO!

  • Instant J.S.Bach seal of approval. The sound quality, as well as the musicianship, is equal or better than a number of professional recordings using costly period instruments played by the best musicians who have centuries of experience amongst themselves. Thank you.

  • I love your version, more than a live orchestra performance and i totally didn't expect that! *excitement*

    Great work. Keep the audience posted please!

  • Wonderful !!

  • Well done! My compliments for a very good and complex job also played very well.

  • amazing

    5 stars

  • nice :D

  • Yes, he did. I watch this at least twice a day; still.

  • What a minuet! xD. Did you play ALL of the instruments and then added them together in the computer or soething? WOOOW :-D

  • And you added orchestra too. Great!

  • Amazing!

  • This is incredible.  You have a fan for life.

  • Outstanding. Mesmerizing. Love your technique. Glenn Gould couldn't have done better..... well, maybe. Fun to watch. Thanks for posting that.

  • can u send me the music please???? haha probs cant but i refure to pay "25.00 for it!

  • Awesome! beautiful indeed. Love the part at 5:25. Btw, where did you get the sheets?

  • Much better than many real recordings !!!

  • Very goooooddd!!!!!!!

  • That was freaking amazing. Unbelieveable performance!

  • Very well done, it really does show that you put a lot of work into it.

  • really nice !

  • Truely amazing! Thank you for posting!!!

  • Awesome!!! A very great job!

  • Marvellous!

  • Great job! Damned exciting.

  • Great job!!! congrats!

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  • 小胖子 還真看不出來~

    有你的!

  • tan perfecto que parece que el harpicordio también lo hace el programa "Finale"

    me he quedado impresionado.

    Sorprendente! 5/5

  • You left me speechless.

    Amazing work!

  • Love the credits!

  • bonjour de la France !

    c'est magnifique ! bravos !!!

  • 1.21 gigastars... too bad 5 is as high as it goes. This vid made my year.

  • gigastar!?

    also, very good meedalymeedalymeedalymew on the thingy with the keys

  • a-m-a-z-i-n-g you are a real talent!!

    does somebody knows where can i get the notes of this composition?

  • Yeah, try the internet music score library project. Look it up on google or something, I can't give you a link.

  • Great!You have a enormous talent!

  • what i wouldnt do to be able to play just that piece, very fucking cool

  • Sheridan, you really nailed it here, man. This is one of my favorite pieces, and I know how hard it is, especially when you're doing all the parts. It's quite clear how much time and effort you put into it, because it shows. Beautifully done! Hopefully, there's more where this came from.

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  • Awesome man !!!

  • Felicitaciones!!!