bach brandenburg concerto 5 by leonhardt

[ttomace]

I never knew he died till now......RIP leodhart. Who is the next great baroque musician we will have??? He can never be replaced.

[Cyfrlingk]

Bedankt Gustav ..

[Urikai1]

harpsichordists! No need to think if we must be sad, or cry. What only we must know, its that we all have to play our harpsichords, and let the music takes us, just as Leonhardt.

[Fandango180]

Ruhe in Frieden.

[tenorschofield]

I surely have a flash back from my genetic memory!!!..when I see this video and hear this music, something stronger than me, comes outside so strongly thatt makes me feel stranges resemblances of old times. Thanks for sharinfg Edmund, I really love this music and for sure the full style look of the musicians!! Bravo!!!!

[kwiecisty1]

"The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)"

[SiKedek]

RIP

[SEVENTHSON89]

RIP

[organo95]

D.E.P.

[paradoxicus]

R.I.P.

[SirPerovic]

RIP

[MerlAG]

RIP

[perepel]

RIP Gustav.

[BrALosb]

Een groot musicus is heen gegaan. Duizendmaal dank voor zijn inspiratie

[PeriodinstrumentfaN]

RIP Gustav Leonhardt (1928 † 2012). Thank you for sharing Early Music with us... ♥ ♥ ♥ :'(

[TheStockwell]

@PeriodinstrumentfaN I have the DVD. I'm lending to a friend with the sad news that Leonhardt died yesterday at age 83. He was still performing a month before his death, announcing his retirement in December 2011. This performance of the cadenza to Brandenburg Nr.5 is how the film begins.

[Ipiqwander]

R.I.P. Maestro

[Refrescospepito]

@Ipiqwander The great harpsischord player of all time. I saw him on stage many years ago and I will never forget him. A great loss.

[Cyfrlingk]

Are there recordings of the brandenburg concertos with Leonhardt on harpsichord? Though maybe not comparable with each other,I feel the same about the similar phrasing between Gould and Leonhardt (that's why I love their Bach interpretations the most I guess)..

[stravinskyrocks]

@Cyfrlingk Yes! You have to special order it at Arkiv Music (only $13!), or you might be able to find it used. It's my favorite recording of the Brandenburgs. The orchestra is just one or two players to a part, so it has a real chamber music feel.

[gabrielfernandez92]

cadenza: ROCK

[Egestus18]

This is a part of a movie about Bach with Leonhardt in the role of Bach, thats why the wig/cloth etc...

[Egestus18]

@Egestus18 the movie was called Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (1969)

[cabottobac]

I just herd a performance by Glenn Gould of this same movement that was amazingly good for Mr. Gould and had the same energy and similar phrasing that Leonhardt uses here ... It was on the Jim Svejda show on 91.5 KUSC. Detroit Symphony with Paul Paray cond. Svejda said it was a private recording which unfortunately is unavailable. It was truly great and almost as good as this one even though it was on piano. Gould sometimes surprises me with a great performance.

[polymath7]

@cabottobac Wow, I couldn't disagree more. First, I think great performances by Gould are anything but an anomoly; second I think it's his performance of this piece that is the exception. To me it doesn't work well on piano at all.

It appears your opinion is the exact inverse of mine.

[cabottobac]

This is a scene from a movie "Chronik.Der.Anna.Magdalena.Ba­ch" made many years ago which had Gustav Leonhardt playing the part of Bach in the movie. There are many musical performances in the movie, and this is one of them. Bach wore a wig, and Leonhardt wears the wig because he is playing Bach. Check it out on youtube. The whole movie is there.

[el3dlu]

I could listen to this on repeat for the rest of my life.

[MinorityMans]

If only Mr Leonhardt would play like this in his recordings!

[abdullahzaffa]

Back to Bach

[Braybaroque]

A unique gem of a performance. Guess this is taken from the 1968 film The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach: almost half a century ago. This performance by Prof. Leonhardt is as exhilarating and current (re what is known about Baroque harpsichord style) as it was at the time.

[Terrdemarzielle]

does anyone know what kind of harpsichord he's playing?

[danielgalhaad]

impresisonant!

[herdur]

hi, is the excellent piece....thank you

but i have a question... know someone, what kind piano is this? with metallic sound....please (i don't have music idea)

[HailTheOrder]

@herdur Well first off, it isn't a piano so there is your problem. It's a harpsichord.

[herdur]

@HailTheOrder Tanks, we learn.... :)

[2212jan]

This is so great. Gustav Leonhardt is imo one of the best harpsichord players of the world. The way he plays this piece of Bach is really outstanding.

[MissyHolland]

*Shivers* I go back and forth between this clip and Gould doing the same piece. Both definitely on my 'desert island' list.

[borgoat21]

We played this in orchestra, and I fell in love with the harpischord solo (and also the girl playing it.)

[SilenceTheQuiet]

When I listen to this harpsichord solo, I think about Bach having such a love for the harpsichord that he just wrote notes for the harpsichord, and forgot about the rest of the instruments. He started, and he didn't want it to end. :)

[itsmister2u]

How can you not like this?

[blinkfbi]

UPLOAD THE WHOLE DAMN THING!!!!

[juanaprendiz]

@blinkfbi This is how the movie begins.

[cls105]

you really should include the video credits. I would love to purchase this.

[streek23]

@cls105 - This clip is from the film 'Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach', or 'The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach', shot by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet in 1968. It is a dry, staid movie visually but the musical performances and costumes are fantastic and well worth purchasing the film. It is available on Amazon.com for about $30 or possibly at your nearest library. Best wishes!

[gr0mithtimon]

@FuzzyCigarDude

Feel free to leave, if this is too difficult for you

[vqbyfbhgj]

Bach never intended his music to be performed by Leonhardt, therefore this performance is historically inaccurate.

[petawker]

@vqbyfbhgj How do you know what Bach ever intended?????

[MinorityMans]

Interestingly enough, I actually find this solo to be better than the one GL performed on the recordings...I guessed the costumes and the weight of the role helped.

[freddiemercury777]

Pretty awesome!

[polymath7]

2:01-2:15

If one could somehow hear the processing of some superhumanly intelligent sentient computer, I imagine it would sound something like that.

[Tenifus]

Sometimes I wonder how the harpsichord even replaced the piano.

[capnpayne]

@Tenifus what?

[JoeD642]

@capnpayne i think you've been trolled >_>

[capnpayne]

@JoeD642 >=O

[troxaris]

this is perhaps the only case (for me) where the harpsichord is superior to the piano in conveying this crescendo bombardment.

[OZC96]

what instrument is is that he is playing??

srry for my bad english

[Samoriah]

@OZC96

Harpsichord.

[winterstellar]

The cadenza is in my opinion simply the best piece ever written for the harpsichord! : )

[AlsatianCousin]

I always come back to this harpsichord phenomenon... after everything I hear sheer magnetic force keeps me coming back to this..

[Pericles6117]

amazing! the best part imho is at 3:10

saved to favorites! thanks for sharing

[Cyfrlingk]

@Pericles6117 ?! because we can glimpse how a death metal band looked like back in the 18th century?

[leroydav]

Musique exceptionnelle!

[Berkeley1964]

Spectacular!!!

I saw this work performed by the original I Musici in Los Angeles in 1978. The harpsichordist was a little white-haired old lady whose name I can't remember. When she played the solo parts, she had sparks flying off of her. This music is incandescent!!! (I like anisomtropie's "extraterrestrial.)

[walgrin]

Great music great player!!

[noelsafont]

Bach was a badass

[dosergiobr]

Wonderful performance and figurino lol

[jscamach]

BEST PERFORMANCE!

[didoleibniz91]

this is the last Chakra

[lucianovol1]

Amazing !!!!

[lukeman62]

this is sooooo fake. See the keys on the second teir "playing" without any fingers hitting them? Doht! Fake fake fake...

[ChuckMN]

@lukeman62

Sorry, buddy, but there's no fake about this. I'm a harpsichordist, and that is just how a double-keyboard instrument links the two keyboards together. There's a little peg on the bottom key pushing up the back of the top key, making both sound from one keyboard, if that's what the performer wants. My only concern is if Leonhardt would ever play with such a silly wig. He's kind of a dour fellow, and not prone to such flights of fancy.

[angryjalapeno]

@ChuckMN, with such a stiff and rigid rhythm, it is very likely Leonhardt. Although I admire this virtuosity.

[porlabuenaopera]

@ChuckMN it envies

[TheSecretHarp]

@ChuckMN That's funny. I know it's Leonhardt without reading the video title because of the wig. Every time I see him in video -he's wearing a baroque wig!

[MissyHolland]

@ChuckMN Wasn't he supposed to be playing Bach here? I mean, dressed as Bach.

[TokeyMcGee]

@MissyHolland

He is playing bach.

Anybody know what year this was recorded? I want to know more about this man.

[MissyHolland]

@TokeyMcGee It was quite awhile ago, in the 19

50s I think, though Leonhardt is still alive. He was in NYC a couple of years ago, talking about the old "Bach on authentic period instruments" debate.

[ttomace]

@ChuckMN I thought wigs were worn in the 1600s! Why in The 20th century?

[TheMasterofthepiano]

@lukeman62 No it isn't. The keyboards are coupled together to play together.

[Berkeley1964]

@lukeman62 Double-register harpsichords have a stop on them that allows both keyboards to be played simultaneously. Nothing fake about it....

[KABRIS1]

Great!

[adamworth1979]

Simply AWESOME, one of my all-time favorite pieces. i agree with the other poster, i also give JS Bach 5 billion stars!

[winterstellar]

Yes, the cadenza is by far the best music ever written for the harpsichord! : )

[Jimmyocaca]

Is it not J.S. Bach himself playing?, I recognized his coat and his score handrighting

[kknots]

So I made up some sort of statistics.

On the first place there goes rock'n'roll Ton Koopman.

On the second place there's extraterrestrial Gustav Leonhardt.

And on third place there goes extremely stern Karl Richter.

I noticed that the list is reversed somehow..

[HerrWarja]

I wonder how they reacted on th premier!

[Orchidbeautyful]

The harpsichord key should be the reverse color

[fultoso]

Bach...reborn !

[jerlatti]

Nice wig !

[RawPower]

This is from Straub/Huillet's first feature The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, which tells the story of Bach's ascension in rank

[GHSChica05]

That was by far the best performance of Brandenburg's Concerto No. 5 I have ever seen. He played it like he wrote it. Amazing...

[AdrianRojasF]

it's like Hendrix's solos xd

[9H0A0L0]

Bach rulez!

[rolfeder]

For noobs like me, what is the exact time frame of the candenza?

[kknots]

@rolfeder I looked at the shit music and there's a count of 16 eighth notes in one bar

[Irshkboy]

Could you imagine having the musical depth to come up with a solo like this? these guys back then could come up with this kind of music on the spot.

[hyperseauton]

Better than Snoop Dog or Dr Dre. Bach has no racial identity and black kids should listen to this instead of Scarface.

[dtscott13]

Harpsichord solos don't get any more kickass than this!

[stargirlsusan]

Nice, is as if I was watching Bach play this music, such a nice thing to experience!

Love it, and those are some crazzy fingerst

[jacarandaxia]

Leongadt rocks! A fatastic harpsichodist!

[dosergiobr]

Wonderful the caracterization, clothes, hair it seems many "Bachs" playing together lol

[luksbro]

When this film has done?

[kknots]

5 seconds are enough to understand that Leonhardt is rocking this harpsichord hardcore!

[boringalias]

great performance. find me a single woman under 30 who can appreciate this, and i will be a happy man.

[LtTemeraire]

love this performance, gustav is awesome

no one can rock harder :D

[classycaleb]

I think. I just jizzed

[BurningOrgan]

Awesome! Are there any inspired rock guitarists out there because Paul Gilbert directed you here? Me too! :)

[jofish161188]

haha, me too! I'd love to see Paul cover this ;)

[wolffrankenstein]

@BurningOrgan What does PG have to do with this piece?

[BurningOrgan]

Like a lot of guitarists he is inspired by classical piano / harpsicord and directed us followers here. Just having fun.....

[tabarnakdecrisse]

What about johann-Sebastian Bach , more than Paul Gilbert .. JS BACH IS , and this is called in french: une cadence de virtuosité.

[tabarnakdecrisse]

Give JS B. an electric guitar , a tremolo, and the marshall and the kit.. I say : No one could afford him :D, ;PPPPP

[tabarnakdecrisse]

@BurningOrgan and Im sorry, its nthing about you, I just realized I was replying to your comment

[HardRawRocknRoll]

@BurningOrgan directed

[joiesauvage]

lol Missy Holland !!

[mercoid]

Okay, maybe this sounds dumb, or at least reveals my total lack of musical understanding, but I can play back in my own memory at any tempo and it still delivers the same satisfaction and feeling in my brain. So rarely does this happen when I listen to a recording. Such an experience usually indicates to me that the performance is something special.

[livesteam]

Yesssss!!!!

[anisometropie]

this cadenza is extraterrestrial. 5 billions stars for J.S.

[baroque2]

Absolutely!

[Terrdemarzielle]

@anisometropie 5 billion for Leonhardt. Infinity for Bach.

[MissyHolland]

Beautiful, Gustav! You can contra my puntal anytime.

[anisometropie]

your puntal ?

[polymath7]

Without doubt or debate, that is one badass harpsichord solo.

[grandmacookiesex]

@polymath7

yeah... too bad its not considered a solo. Solos are freestyle/improv. This is definitely composed, buddy.

[polymath7]

@grandmacookiesex According to your page your other most recent comment begins, "your a fucking dumbass..." and so it is with all the less hesitation that I can tell you you're a fucking nitwit. Aside from being factually incorrect...never mind.

Why are you bothering me?

Begone.

[fluffytom82]

@grandmacookiesex

1) In classical music "solo" means that there's only one instrument playing at the same time. It is not necessarily improvised. Think of Bach's sonatas for violin solo.

2) The word you are looking for is "cadenza" (the virtuoso solo part at the end of a concerto). These were sometimes improvised, sometimes composed. Sometimes even composed by others (cf Mozart)

3) "Solos are freestyle/improv." --> that sounds very jazzy... stick to it and don't comment on real music

[luisferr2001]

@polymath7 i totally agree! and he plays it marvelously!

[borgoat21]

@polymath7 Indeed. Props to Gustav Leonhardt for being able to play it, although I wish I could've heard Bach himself play it perfectly.

[alwaysright10000]

Is dat Isaac Newton?

[winterstellar]

He "ownes" that harpsichord! Man, he's so good!: )

[gouldschonberg]

this scene is extract to movie"Das Tagebuch der Anna Magdalena Bach"

[b0nnie]

i like bach and he look great on this video!

[ozzysgod44]

Umm, that's not Bach, he died in 1750.

[highway234]

yeah! plus if that WAS him, i'm sure he would have tweeted about it on his twitter account.

[TheAspenTom]

Yes, it was him. Odd. It was from a 1968 film (B&W) called "Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach," which you can find with Google. Great performance but kind of strange that he'd get all dressed up like this.

[ayyr]

:) Yes I like Bach too

[NatteGuilty]

Retard.Xd But you made my day, I was laughin' a lot in that...:D

[DBJ06]

Music and video dont match.somebody know how to fix it?

[kknots]

You will need Windows Movie Maker to do that: just drag the Sound/Music line to the desired position for the Video line, after that you just escort the project as a movie.

[Brandotuomikoski]

Wow it is like watching bach himself play. GREAT. Would love to see this guy on an Arp Schnitger pipe organ.

[susumu07]

Its a harpsichord, not a piano.

They tend to be narrower than pianos (hence the need for 2 rows of keys). (although there are the occasional monster versions that are as big as a concert grand.)

[3cplantin]

There are two keyboards to vary the sets of strings that are plucked (and the resultant sounds). There are plenty of one keyboard harpsichords, too. But it's not because the instrument is narrow that it has 2 keyboards. Read the Wikipedia article "Harpsichord" for more background info.

[susumu07]

true, but it is narrower than a grand piano. It has something to do with the resonance and how you need longer strings for the bass notes if they're plucked than with a piano.

I've seen both single and double manual harpsichords. I think the doubles are more impressive. And better for playing Bach where a lot of hand overlap tends to happen.

[fluffytom82]

@susumu07 The two rows of keys play the same notes, but on a different set of strings to make another sound. The instrument is narrower, but that's because the keys are smaller. A piano has 88, most harpsichords have about 64 (times two if there's two keyboards).

Also, all strings in a harpsichord run parallel, that's why it's longer than a piano. In a piano, the bass strings cross over the higher strings to save space.

[classycaleb]

lol! its called a harpsichord

[ArgotMay]

Ah... finally... Biggs as a Dutchman! Truly wonderful. Now, where is my applefloepon?

[LazyBastard69]

the hair's corny

[jpastonc]

If you were nice enough to think before posting, you might check what you were saying and find out that this is an excerpt from a film about Bach's life.

[vrfl]

hahaha, you OWNED him.

good shit

[freeqwerqwer]

who is this harpsichordist? He plays it rather blandly, nothing special.

[moment7]

Toy piano rocknroll should make a comeback.

[lunnash]

kknots, no problem in 1:11, he was perfect and fast.

[DBJ06]

Hi pan20. I guess you have the whole movie of ana magdalena chronicles. If so could you uploaded somewhere? I got it the other day from a torrent but the music and video are not sincronized. Thanks.

[kknots]

What was that at 1:11 ?? Did he miss the key or press two of them in the same moment?

[bjankuloski]

Gorgeous outfitting, wonderful instrument, amazing music...

[pookiehohn]

I like how they all dressed up.

[dodiezresibemol]

I love his hair!

[Arithmos90]

Stupendo!!!

[lchaussard]

This is from Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968), Jean-Marie Straub & Danielle Huillete. A fabulous encounter between modern cinema and baroque music by the hands of Leonhardt. Great movie and great music.

[MavadoKen]

I hate him for how casual he makes 1:55 to 2:15 look!

[afertyus1000]

its funny how we as pianists are annoyed when we see great technical feats performed without just appreciating the music,i too am guilty of this

[MavadoKen]

Haha, pianist. I'm a cellist, and I appreciate the music just fine, just wish he wasn't so casual about it.

[doublealufwaffe]

What a wonderfully clear sounding instrument

[122200as]

What a great piece of music.

[Tyrsus]

Leonhardt ottimo clavicembalista, la sua versione del concerto brandeburghese 5 è un capolavoro, uno dei migliori clavicembalista del mondo

[gaborkovacs]

pure ecstasy... thank you!

[Mistermagoo77]

Moment 1:16 to 1:52 = HEAVEN!!

[jphlux]

Moment 0:01 to 3:23 Excellentissimo!

[TheMadStrangler]

was this recorded in 1745?

[Isaiah6twothrueight]

LOL!!!

[robbpeppertree]

Ya... too bad the only had Beta back then...