Bach Partita No 1 B flat BMV 825 Snippets Cortot

[Shezan2008]

What a pity this great musician was also one of Vichy's most zealous Collaborationists!

[PiotrekChrobot]

Too fast.

[PhilippeLoTheEternal]

1:20 - > 2:34

Alors ici [piano] n'est-ce pas ?... sans bousculer tout ça... [piano]... aisé, facile.... qu'est-ce que c'était que la courante ? C'était une danse lente [piano]... le dialogue entre les deux parties, n'est-ce pas ? [piano...] toujours le même rythme, n'est-ce pas ?

[PhilippeLoTheEternal]

Hey everybody, I try to give the french translitteration (I'm french but I can make mistakes..)

0:00 - > 1:20

Qu'est-ce que c'est que cette Partita : c'est une suite de danses ! Toutes les pièces de cette suite sont caractérisées par leur aimable modération [jeu au piano] ... Pas de préméditation dans tout ça...

pas de crescendo trop marqué [jeu....] ... ??c'est tout doux ainsi?? ... [jeu] ...Ça suffit amplement ;

C'est un feuillet d'album.

[iedsri]

This casual music-making by Cortot is *manifestly great*. Anyone who rejects it -- particularly on such flimsy grounds as those cited above -- reveals only his or her absolute lack of qualification to judge. Such people would do well to *sit*down,*pay*attention*and*l­earn*from*their*betters!

-- Benjamin Pilkington

"Sit down, be quiet and learn from your betters!"

[mingweicello]

the openning bars are some of the most beautiful piano playing ever.

[hymntonight]

These little snippets are to me a revelation, though I'm sure Cortot didn't mean much of them ... He is clearly just running through the notes, probably sight-reading, and yet what originality and expressivity in every phrase!

[nyankothecat]

Wonderful!!! beautiful!!

[chusomen]

It makes nonsense. false notes, by far too much pedal. Big crescendos. Totally out of style.

[PhilippeLoTheEternal]

'Pas de crescendos trop marqués, comme ceci' is teaching Cortot....He is explaning that ; be aware to the oral evidences and it is your comment that does not make sense...

[chusomen]

French is my second language. Maybe I shouldn't have written "big crescendos" (Crescendi if you please). Let's say romantic phrasing, it could be more accurate. It's musical but it's not academic at all. Many respect Cortot as a piano legend but this version respects only (and not all) the notes that Bach wrote. If this doesn't make sense to you, it's indeed not my problem.

[BachScholar]

This sounds terrible. I don't like Cortot's Bach playing at all.

[MagicDonDino]

Cortot plays Bach partita!! A  masterclass of a legend pianist!

Thanks a lot for this treasure!