Bach - Harpsichord Concerto No.5 in F Minor BWV 1056 - 2/3

[AustinRHL]

Holy moley! I've never seen 481 likes with 0 dislikes. This flawless performance deserves it.

[KingTheRat]

heavenly

[eminyuce]

just listen and feel..

[Graham6762]

I wish music today was as amazing and classy

[mzcharliecat2000]

ICH LEIBE BACH.....

[BlueBurryPimp]

I've heard this song in so many places and now I know where it's from, and it's name.

[diomedes1066]

Thumbs up if Hannah and Her Sisters brought you to this divine piece of music!

[byf43]

Elegant, beautiful, harmonic, emotional, peaceful and soul calming. One of my absolute favorite Bach pieces! Bach truly was a master of music.

[vulsinias]

@byf43 Absolutamente de acuerdo con cada palabra...

[oneb14]

Blah, blah, just listen to the music.

[losberju]

Tresor.

[DanielDurzo]

I have regained my faith in man kind, A video that has 0 dislikes, Well done youtube, And rightly so, What an amazing piece of music this is!

[banmen0w]

Sure some disgusting comments up on this video. Everyone contributed to music, the arts, science. Now kindly stop typing on your wee soapboxes and enjoy the music before Bach rises from the grave. Quit interrupting the music. Thank you.

[flacosexy11]

great descrive it right?

[Sophiestelle]

Real Angels Music!

[immutabledude]

Woody Allen has a good taste in music. I heard this piece in "Hannah and Her Sisters".

[BetaDelamor]

@immutabledude  moi aussi...je l'adore..

[Eddyceem]

Wow! It seems pretty much like "Air in G String", but better in sound.

[farmyardflavours]

The whole song is just AMAZING but the part that really gets me is the very end where the orchestra comes in. Oh My..

[farmyardflavours]

This is such a beautiful piece. Thank you

[cineasta71]

a song? We haven't learned squad!

[AtLastOnTheGround]

Why do we have to talk about politics on this video? This is art in its purest form. Can't we just enjoy it without talking about democracy and universal suffrage?

[senshio08]

J.S. Bach and I share the same birthday! How awesome is that? And I'm quite the pianist, as well. I'm no Bach, but I can hold my own.

[gapoc459]

Hm. This H.I.P. performance is a nice contrast from Glenn Gould's piano interpretation: since the harpsichord has no dynamics changes, the bass line is somewhat strong, whereas Gould makes it almost silent on the piano. I can't tell which I like better, though.

[Eamesam]

Genius.

[turingrecognizable]

YES! YES! YES!

[RockStarRiey10]

@666hildo I would call this far from the greatest song ever, but it is written by the greatest composer ever. Have you heard the Art of Fugue before by any chance?

[classicforever1]

Like "Air on G string", How charming and astounding this melody is!. It remind me of my hometown, my country.

[peybak]

perfect music for looking out the window on a rainy day...

[richrnndz2]

This piece is always in my head when I do yoga, and when its not in my head, I play it on my sterio loud and hard!! Classical Lives!!!!

[boerobest]

I prefer the piano version.... Glenn gould!!

[plangentmusic]

This piece makes me weep. It is the magnificence of genius brought to reality with astonishing beauty.

[zigifrojd]

Best masterpiece ever. 

[juaneco1980]

Why is that everyone talks about baroque ornaments and little crappy insignificant stuff while Bach is probably the most passionate musician ever.

[juswanaseesomevideos]

Love the scene in Hannah and her Sisters with this piece of music in it :)

[flux688]

@juswanaseesomevideos yes! that was the movie that introduced me to this piece. i heard it and have since been on a mad hunt to buy a copy for myself.

[JeterCM]

Soli Deo Gloria is the annual music festival at Reggio Emilia, Italia. Was this recorded there? Trevor Pinnock and Chiara Massini are the world's best at sounding Bach on his preferred instrument the harpsichord.

CrazyMan064 is correct on the A=405 tuning.

Eddissimo

[JeterCM]

Soli Deo Gloria is the annual music festival at Reggio Emilia, Italia. Was this recorded there? Trevor Pinnock and Chiara Massini are the world's best at sounding Bach on his preferred instrument the harpsichord. Eddissimo

[CrazyMan064]

notice the baroque tuning; everything sounds a half step lower (d minor, opposed to f minor)

[lucasgrosso1977]

The Beatles used this music as inspiration to their "Hey Jude"!!!

[vikingmerijn]

The resemblance immediatly struck me! :P NOT! ;)

Cheers, M.

[NimbleTurtle13]

@lucasgrosso1977 Seriously? Or are you just saying that because the two songs/ pieces sound similar?

[DasWeisseBand]

george bush oughta listen to this shit once in a while, could help him.....

[tinofilipino]

@DasWeisseBand

He probably already does. Not to say that I agree with his policies, but people underestimate his intelligence. And it worked to his advantage.

[NimbleTurtle13]

Holy crap... 220 likes and 0 dislikes... undefined ratio

[shein99]

wow... it can't get any better than this.... just beautiful...

[lalorock18]

i love that Song,its so good =)..

rock n rooll =)

[paradoxicus]

Magico en toda su extension.Perfecto.No pertenece a ninguna cultura,simplemente patrimonio de cualquier sensibilidad que en comun union se pueda conmover.

[lalorock18]

@paradoxicus hooo right =)

[Alexjr1543]

When I listen to this while studying, it really takes the stress out of it.

[robicool]

@Alexjr1543 right on.

[SirNoobs]

A history lesson in the comments of a Bach video, only on YouTube!

[kozzzh]

the inner energy of this piece is amazing! heavy metal can suck dick!

[FaultYesteryear]

i find the harpsichord so beautiful

[StanEvalio]

is it only me or, sounds this very similar to the air on the g string?

[happyman]

this reminds me a little of goldberg variations

[ibmoran]

Wonderful....

[ibmoran]

One of the most wonderful pieces of music ever---- IMHO

[8jwong14]

Can someone show me where I can get free music for this song or a variation of it for the piano?

[jere0111]

@8jwong14 here watch?v=OZCOVMjCtMU

[8jwong14]

@jere0111 Thanks. DO you happen to know where I can get sheet music for it?

[xcisinsane]

It is nice to hear the intruments this was orginally written for. This is gorgeuos. But might I add that I also like to hear the beautiful angelic voice of the piano. I think it adds a nice contrast to all of the strings

[bascarola]

Isolated from the eastern and tribal (africa, southamerica,) way of living in harmony with nature, west has only brought a painful nightmare to planet earth. From roman slavery empire to todays lies of war on terror, going trough slavery in industrial revolution or holocaust and extinction of northamerican chaman culture. We bring philosophy, law and order, but just as part of a yang that has to meet and embrace yin, not kill it.

And this is just a nice piece played way too slow as it should

[AntarcticanCommunist]

Bach hatte viele meistewerke gemacht

[haranoe]

@DammerungderG0tter That is the perfect example of a decadent text reflecting a decadent mood: I agree that Europe in 2010 is quite like we know to have been ancient Rome in about 310, but the true might of the European spirit is to be continued selecting and preserving from its past and, most importantly, willing to build in the future, as it was done by Europeans on the ruins of Antiquity, and those who feel saddened and impotent are unworthy of both that glorious past and its bright future.

[faraz1729]

@DammerungderG0tter

That's an interesting comment. What do you mean by "deteriorating?"

(I'm not trying to start an argument of any kind. Just sincerely curious because I feel you could be referring to a few different things due to the vagueness of the comment.)

[DammerungderG0tter]

@faraz1729 The current European society is founded by a for over 6 thousand year untouched homogenous gene pool of people. In this era Europeans have managed to produce an unparalleled spectrum of culture, science and technological advancements. In the present day, people without a profound history of ingenuity keep pouring in the European society, assimilating without generating a socio-economic vantage, which eventually leads to the hybridization and destruction of the European Leitkultur.

[commanderborgnine]

@DammerungderG0tter fuck off with your racist bullshit

[DammerungderG0tter]

@commanderborgnine Well, I suggest you give me some decent civilized counter-arguments instead of spreading your fancy illusive "rainbow-society" propaganda, so I can tell you kindly to shut up yourself.

[segattacicova]

@DammerungderG0tter

Dear friend, your writing remembered me the history of a nazi who offered a cigarette in Auschwitz to a prisoner who played him beautifully a Mozart concerto on a violin. But as far as you have a big culture, as you say, you certainly now that all europeans are just the result of countless migrations and all this stuff, and since I'm surely not the one who will convince you, but I can't keep silent hearing such music connected to racism, I just wish you good luck!

[DammerungderG0tter]

@segattacicova Your writing reminds me of the stereotypical reductio ad absurdum, adolf hitler did nothing more than destroying the very fundaments of our continent. Now all European government policies are a product of this fallacy. In trying to prevent a recurrence of everything he did we apparently have to do the exact opposite. Never mind the fact that the so-called Turkish and Maroccan "guest workers" have cost us over 60 billion Euros, and are 5 times more likely to commit a crime.

[DammerungderG0tter]

@DammerungderG0tter Im talking about the Netherlands where today immigration has never been beneficial for the inhabitants ( 7 billion Euros cost every year) of an injurious "democracy" with treacherous politicians who have tried so desperately to betray the people so we can all live hapily in our trendy illusive "rainbow-society". It obviously makes perfect sense to stimulate criminal uprise, a negative financial balance and outbreeding of the indigenous inhabitans of this land in the year 2090

[olive1913]

@DammerungderG0tter reading all your comments, i really have to say you hit a true point, but such a topic doesnt fit the song, so keep your arguments down pls :)

[olive1913]

@djangoph1le i personally don't think you should put revolution in the same category as racism and all those others you mentioned

[jonnykam]

@djangoph1le

Your points are really weak. Clear it be, I do not want to fully advocate the dutch guy's words but your pow is as well biased and totally unrealistic. All the terrible phenomena you listed (guiltily ignoring, on the other hand, the parallel achievements of our culture) brought the European civilization where no one else got before. At the end of a bloody path (concluded by the WWII) we have been able to put together the best of our heritage to craft open and free societies (tbc)

[jonnykam]

@djangoph1le

No other civilizations have been able to parallel this outcome. Democracy based on constitutions; equality of all the individuals in front of an agreed set of laws; freedom of speech, religion, sexual orientation, press, etc; large guarantees to the private property and to the individual merit; welfare state; spread wealth... Ok, we had dark moments but the final destination of the our culture is simply unparalleled. And I omitted to mention artistic and scientific achievements...

[djangoph1le]

@jonnykam First of all my point was strong: Don't bring racist and political nonsense into music. Refer to the post to which I was responding.

Facts are facts. Stringed instruments (Music), Science, Writing, Math, Architecture, and Art came from cultures (African, Asian, Arab etc.) considered to be inferior, by you and dipshit. All this was done while most of Europe was eating their boogers. Is that clear enough for you?

It's a fact. You can argue all you want, but you'll look stupid.

[jonnykam]

@djangoph1le

I answered to your dull comment about European culture. I clearly referred to that post.

I don't consider anyone "inferior", you are putting in my mouth words I never said. This is a known technique of people who have weak arguments, like you. Moreover the use of insults just qualifies you as a really poor person. And, btw, did you give any reasonable counter argument to any of my reflections about the development of European civilization? You're the only one looking stupid here.

[djangoph1le]

@jonnykam This is youtube, not a dissertation site. I don't have to support anything I say. You either know what I'm talking about, which you don't because I was referring to a past culture, or you don't. You had no argument. I fully understand the accomplishments of my (our) culture. But you clearly lack an understanding of those other than your own. To say that ours is unparalleled is just plain ignorant. How can you claim clarity when you rant about unrelated gibberish. Welfare state?

[jonnykam]

@djangoph1le

“Arrogance diminishes wisdom”... In your case your arrogance nullifies any hint of wisdom. You, behaiving like the typical on line swashbuckler, decide :

_what is youtube meant for;

_what i know and don't know;

_the quality of my arguments(without bothering to rationally challenge any of my point but just saying that things are because "you know it and I don't);

_the fact I can't understand other cultures than mine (and I never mentioned any other culture previously...)

(tbc)

[djangoph1le]

@jonnykam Arrrrrrrrrgg..........you got me for being the swashbuckler that I be! Good job captain.

[jonnykam]

@jonnykam

The only plain ignorance here is yours and, as aggravating circumstance, it is also larded with an unbearable and miserable bumptiousness. I please you, then, to stop attributing me words I never said and I please you, once in your life, to try to support your absolute certainties with some facts by answering to my simple point: which other civilization paralleled the Western in terms of political organization?

[jonnykam]

@jonnykam

...Where are universal suffrage, democracy and preservation of individual freedom elsewhere in space and time? Finally, if you don't know what welfare state is I suggest you a google research... For your intellectual level it will be surely more than enough ("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid").

[ColdIstheNight]

@djangoph1le Well, most civilisations have engaged in colonialism, witch hunting, ethnic cleansing, religious persecution, war, revolutions, fascism, dictatorship, restrictive guilds serfdom and monarchical flamboyance to some degree.

[bascarola]

@DammerungderG0tter

Isolated from the eastern and tribal (africa, southamerica) way of living in harmony with nature, west has only brought a painful nightmare to planet earth. From roman slavery empire to todays lies of war on terror, going trough slavery in industrial revolution or holocaust and extinction of northamerican chaman culture. We bring philosophy, law and order, but just as part of a yang that has to meet and embrace yin, not kill it.

& this just a nice piece played too slow

[beastinblack]

@DammerungderG0tter I couldnt have put it better myself.

[bbisnothotkratos]

@DammerungderG0tter Pure European stock? You remind me of a well manicured chihuahua. Come to think of it you'd be better off as a contestant in a dog show. Seriously, what does race have to do with music, can it not be enjoyed and appreciated by everyone?

[lowenklee]

@DammerungderG0tter

You are a loon, have a nice day.

[colourfulwithaU]

@DammerungderG0tter

Bach wrote this for his harpsichord students, not for your illusive racial superiority, and I'm sure Trevor Pinnock doesn't share your worldview. Don't impose your beliefs onto the crafts of people who are much more intelligent and talented than you could ever hope to be.

[omnicowdemon]

incredible 

[karahan246]

Harpicord sounds fantastic, no any piano sound can be compared, especially for such kind of tunes.

[stargirlsusan]

I just love this instrumen is so much happier and yet holds that something

[parlaq]

great!

[eaglesonofwill]

This piece was used by Woody Allen in his movie "Hannah and her Sisters": I reckon it was WA's best movie.. this piece is so very tender.. JSB at his best: plus it is much better played on harpsichord than piano: it was written for harpsichord: JSB knew what he was doing!

[sinancans]

this piece must be much much more popular out of all harpischords

[Utubesuxmycock]

yes

this is

ich stehe mit meinem Fuss im Grabe

[PresidentLucario]

isn't this arioso?

[666hildo]

Holy mother of Jesus...best song writer ever...

[Stehnz]

@666hildo : Bach didn't write any songs, for christ's sake

[pianiplunker]

@Stehnz I think he did, some are in the notebook for Anna Magdalena.

[xerxes52]

@666hildo It's not a song.

[mrcmrc1000]

@xerxes52 I don't understand why do Americans call every piece of music a song...

[miiwiiplay]

@mrcmrc1000 Why are you generalizing people? THAT's ignorance.

[bersa888]

@xerxes52 : Of course. But, in a way, it is, since it's an aria, clearly vocal in its lines, form, etc. Actually, it's more a song than a slow movement from a concerto ;-)

[pratto54321]

@666hildo its not a song

[lNHUMANE]

godly...

[aviya43]

i think this piece is very beautiful!!!! and i don't think it too slow... but i hate the chembalo!

[composer333]

That is fine---the cembalo HATES you!

[aviya43]

LMAO.. wow chill ppl.. my little sis wrote this, she BEGGED for me to write a comment..and she just adores classical music.

I play violin so i dont hav much to say about this one.. Have fun,,

[malmsteen80]

vinnie more played this on electric guitar

try to hear it guys...u will love it

bachhh rules

[smithrockin]

too slow ....

[koliatima]

C'est magnifique!!

Merci.

[HARMONICO101]

Is anyone else reminded of the aria from the Goldberg Variations when they hear this?

[ploschad]

mhm.. incidentally, they're both in G

[ploschad]

I take that back; this movement is actually in Ab according to the score; it must be baroque tuning that's causing the semi-tone shift

[composer333]

F Minor !! 4 flats is more that just one key.

[Max0Inq]

Most beauitful piece of music I know.

[JeterCM]

You would think discussion of an ethereal piece such as this woud be on a higher plane.

[Talinka1964]

The voice of G-d.

[bersa888]

The voice of an incredibly  GooD composer :-)

[judgeholden79]

One could live a thousand lifetimes and never hear Bach's equal.  Thank you for this.

[ShiffronLandren]

Oh boy- here we go again. Another viewer on another useless philosophical tirade. Listen man, I only said that to express my profound appreciation of the music and I don't give a fuck what's logical or not. Got it? This isn't first year philosophy.

[bersa888]

Thank you. That's all I needed to hear. ;-)

[renumeratedfrog]

Thanks for soiling this pearl with your shitty attitude.

[bjosey67]

Beyond words. The Woody Allen film by the way would have been Hannah and her Sisters.

Great movie also.

[embran]

just heard it in Woody Allen's movie. Really beautiful

[septip123]

yep. hannah and her sisters.

[composer333]

Also "Slaughterhouse Five"

[elvin211]

YEEA

[Talinka1964]

Nothing short of divine. Perfection itself.

[ShiffronLandren]

Among the most perfect pieces of music ever written- perhaps written by God Himself, through Bach. In the movement of one chord to another, Bach can go from depair and resignation to grace and acceptance, triumph and a recaptured dignity. No other art so profoundly explores the depths of humanity.

[tamegomaith93]

Amen!

[SOCOM018]

Through impulse, I feel like stealing your lunch money.

[ShiffronLandren]

And how do you know it didn't come from above? Bach was a religious man. There can be little doubt that his faith informed his music; and that he likely wrote with the heavens in mind. But my comment had nothing to do with the sort of argument in which you wish to engage me. You either believe in divine inspiration or don't. I make no pretensions about convincing anyone, let alone you.

[verificadordevideos]

Bach era un verdadero maestro, estas composiciones si hacen soñar!

[niztrator]

beautiful.

[mustaleskier]

Is better with the Piano, with piano is 1000 times better and beautiful

[Harmonieuniverselle]

No, at all! Harpsichord is much more melodic, impressive than the piano.

besides the fact that this piece was written for harpsichord :)

[dgaranin]

@Harmonieuniverselle I think the piece was written for a general keyboard. Bach was very interested in new developments such as piano.

[mebbio]

@Harmonieuniverselle ...just your opinion. I'm surprised: harpsichord more melodic, impressive than the piano? Your statement goes against the history of musical instruments (plano took the place of harpsichord). But probably you are speaking of some specific aspect, not in general. I think much depends on the player: Leonhardt, Gould, Karl Richter, Svijatoslav Richter etc. Let each of them cast light on Bach's music, from their own perspective, whichever instrument they have chosen to play.

[Arriyad1]

@mebbio "harpsichord more melodic, impressive than the piano? Your statement goes against the history of musical instruments (plano took the place of harpsichord). "

Piano indeed took the place of the harpsichord, but was that because it's better in some way? Or just because it was better fit to bourgeois, romantic, taste than harpsichord. And bettter fit to revolutionary, bloodthirsty songs like the Marseillaise. Try "Aux armes, citoyens !" on a harpsichord.

[bobbisax]

well, I guess if that works for you.

But, I personally feel that the harpischord is way better for this particular song.

I guess we all have our own opinions.

Isn't Freedom of expression great?!

[OnGiantsShoulders123]

Agreed but only with Alfred Cortot playing it.

The harpsichord performance has its merits, but with the evolution of the keyboard arrived the evolution of masterful interpretations.

[MilitantScience]

This is one of my favs. However, the best version I've ever heard appears in the Woody Allen film "Hannah and Her Sisters."

Does anyone know who performed this version/ where I can get it? The soundtrack is out of print.

[bobbisax]

Dude, I totally agree. That's when I first heard this myself. Good movie, Good song.

[shurmusic]

Largo (Mvt. 2) from Concerto for harpsichord, strings & continuo No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056

Gustav Leonhardt / Leonhardt Consort

Gustav Leonhardt (Harpsichord)

From: Bach: Harpsichord Concertos [Box Set] (Teldec)

[MilitantScience]

Hey thanks! I'll be buying that asap.

I have Leonhardt's version of the Goldberg Variations and it's great.

[droi74]

I wonder if this BWV 1056 2nd mvt has the most various instruments solo performed and posted in youtube. I heard cello, flute, piano, double bass, guitar....not a harmonica rendition yet.

Thank you for posting.

[pefkipefki]

soul medicine

[Froastwolf]

I simply love it

[waeman]

How many times have I heard this music as the Andante in Bach's concertos ?

[berryripple]

is this baroque?

[gef2712]

yes

[debartzen]

Sublime!

[purre25]

Sublime.

[yaberi72]

divino!

[ludwingkalin]

sublime, maravilloso, hermoso, estoy enamorado

[jsaltod]

simplemente increible

[GUARDONISSIMO1]

si.sublime

[StefanoF87]

Sublime.