@yumeybaconcutout Funny how that happens sometimes ... you listen to a piece you've listened to a bunch of times before, but this time it hits you ... This Is Excellent.
Hey Smalin don't listen to those people saying it goes to fast or wrong instrument, sure I've seen some of your videos when IMO it was wrong instrument or so. But this was perfect PERFECT. Tempo perfect I think it's easy to miss the context if you go to slow and the instrument sound like voice instrument symbios, it's beautful for this piece. Much more so than with piano IMO.
The tempo question has a large subjective component, but I actually do like this tempo very much. It reveals some important structural and emotional qualities of the fugue. The common slow interpretation overemphasizes melancholic, sad, romantic and personal aspects. The fast one shows us the ecstatic, universal, rhytmical, mystical elements. The choice of instrument fits these aspects and the tempo surprisingly well. Good job!
Yes, poor Shostakovich wouldn't receive his copyrights, that he deserves, even after his death :( .
By the way, it's very interesting, but how about a little more traditional sounds for this fugue (if it's not problem for you to make another video just changing the midi you used or whatever). I don't want to be anoying, I like your videos, but sommetimes you use sounds that are not quite what I would expect for Bach's fugues.
@OEstudioX It's a lot of work to make a video, so if I'm going to spend the time, I'd rather do a new piece than re-do an old one.
I use a variety of sounds in my videos. If you want to hear Bach played on a harpsichord, there are lots of other videos with that. For my videos, for better or for worse, you have to be content with what I chose.
There are lots of viewers, and different ones like different things, so nothing I do will please everybody; I might as well please myself.
this is awesome! i also play this, and have listened to many famous players playing that. this sound temper and speed is real new and cool for this piece. good luck experimenting, dude !!!
at first I thought you are an idiot, a butcher, a malfunction, but when I found myself singing it your way, and repeating it endlessly, I thought.... WOW!
Thank you for this I experiment(?), marvelous idea!
What the hell is this? I can't even recognize the instrument... Is that a harpsicord? I don't think so... hahaha But could somebody tell me what instrument is this...
But I won't rate this video... It's a pity to say it's bad because this instrument sounds horrible... Besides, the fugue is just perfect, as every single Bach's piece!
@smalin I like your balanced responses to many of the comments posted in your videos. I also like your videos because they bring an added dimension of understanding to the music (and music is NOT my field).
You honestly played this WAY too fast. You lose the essence of this piece when you go this quickly; forsaking its nuances and losing the true expression of suffering that this piece exhibits.
@trumpetplaya44 Whether it seems fast or slow depends a lot on what you're used to. I grew up listening to Glenn Gould's recording of this piece; he plays it at about this tempo. When I first heard slower performances, they sounded too slow --- it sounded laborious, the running figure walking, the canzona theme lacking energy. It took a while before I could appreciate a slower tempo. I'd bet that if you listened to this (and Gould's recording) regularly, you'd get used to it, too.
@trumpetplaya44 As you must know, Bach didn't note tempos on his pieces, and his music is much more open to artistic variance, to include tempo, than works by composers of other eras. I happen to think the tempo here was fine. I don't have a problem with someone enjoying the slower performance, but you see how the energy of the different voices are contrasted; if you play it so that the voices with movement sound like a slow ballad, then the piece loses its balance and effect.
I'm "slightly" obsessed with this fugue in the last days. Must have listened to it more than 50 times. I don't mind the electronic voices at all. To the contrary, the normal piano version bores me now. Playing it this fast is incredible, smalin!
@smalin (and @slowry12) maybe you could use another aspect for grouping themes? like saturation, or brightness? There's no reason you couldn't have each voice be a different color yet still indicate the themes. I would really love to see both at once, it would no doubt be fascinating.
Fascinating! 5 voices, 2 hands. I think my hands would cramp!
When I used to practice piano, I loved playing Bach because it kinda feels like my 2 hands were in an animated conversation, if ya know what I mean (repeated phrases, mimicking, etc). This, however, looks nothing like what I played!
Finally found one. Months ago I found a video like this one: solo piano, colors to represent voices. Came back looking for it to share with someone only to find all the other variations you've created (balls for volume, colors for tone groups, etc). Personally I find that all *extremely* distracting. I understand you're doing them for your own enjoyment, but as a viewer I have to say I prefer this type of representation the most. Easiest to follow = easiest to share with my non-musician friends.
This visualisation is really great. To show both hands and the computerstream. Not at least I like the colours which are used for this.
The only thin which is a pity is that only is shown as high/deep the notes are, but not the volume's dynamic. Maybe one could show it by painting the lines thinner resp. thicker, in relation to being the tone more piano or more forte. That would be an additional great effect
That's the spirit! Play Bach on an electronic piano in a bizarre register. After all, it can bear it, as sublime abstract music. Again, I would play it much slower. Played this way, it expresses nothing but... itself.
Hello Stephen, All my warm and sincere congratulations for the music and development of the M.A.M software.. it's really GREAT.. wishing you all the best out there :) GREAT JOB
Wonderful job! My suggestion for this fugue is to not use colors to differentiate between the voices. Instead, use colors "thematically." Each subject gets its own color. May look a little boring for the first page or so but should get interesting later on. Perhaps a way of "educating" your audience about how some fugues are put together.
@slowry12 I've done a few fugues the way you've suggested (none posted to YouTube), and they are not as interesting. But I may post some in the future.
@WoundedEgo Doing both may require eight different colors, so I might have to disagree with you about both being better from a practical standpoint. Could end up being visually confusing.
Wow, that theme statement at 2:30 just sounds so eerie! Great job. I think that the E flat major prelude is the Major counter part to this in terms of beauty and grandeur in the first well-Tempered.
I've never paid much attention to this particular fugue out of all the 48, but I must say, after hearing this, it appears to be in the upper eschelon of Bach's most cerebral masterpieces. After about the one minute mark, the piece just opens up with sublimity. From one fugue writer to another, thank you for affording us this experience.
@Jalapablo I agree; it's way, way up there, fugue-wise. My rendition doesn't do it justice, but not performing it wouldn't have been right either, so I have to be content posting a rendition that at least lets people glimpse the piece's potential.
@Jalapablo This is actually my favorite fugue of Bach's. I did an arrangement of this for string quintet (2 violins, 2 violas and cello) for extra credit in my 2nd year music theory class in college. It's been a standard on any playlist ever since.
At first i didn't liked (the music), but then i slighly became hypnotized by all the video. The music became absolutely pleasant to my hears, and watching the guy's finger dancing on the keyboard, was amazing. And no i know one thing for sure : why the hell don't i play the piano? :-(
I don't usually listen to classical music. But the past few months were some kind of revelation in this field!
this is wonderful. something like this is an excellent learning tool for someone who would like to learn and sing all the individual parts, but can't read music for voice.
lol at first the midi voice put me off, but this is one of my favourite Bach Fugues and I really enjoyed this twist on it, I also appreciate seeing the pitch visually streaming along.
Thanks smalin: Very nice~! After a month of "standard" heavy Bach listening and reading (Schweitzer, Butt, Richter, Wolff, Gould, Landowska, etc.) Nice to be reminded Bach lives...and is in the living...
@superjam18 it requieres something more than fingerwork to really play that fugue.
Bach music, and this fugue still more, requires a great concentration. You must know what every single voice is doing, hear it, and sing it (play it), and five voices make this a hard work. xD
Anyway, i enjoy that fugue every time i hear it, and every time i play it.
i'm playing this piece in a mallet quintet (2 marimba, vibraphone, bells, xylophone) and the vocoder with the slower speaking voices gives the piece a much different vibe than the quick speaking mallet instruments. i like it
Thank you very much for your efforts! Great job! Very mistical piece, its not so powerful in piano version. Please keep posting videos, its very valuable for us!
I really love hearing this with synth voices, especially the first part (before the introduction of that fast theme) because it looks like it could be sung.
Excellent choice. I got very excited when I realised you added this piece. I was very surprised with your choice of sound at first but after hearing it a few times I think you it right.
I've just got to say, I love your channel. Just subscribed... keep up the good work! You're inspiring me to continue practising the piano and pipe organ after a twenty year break. :)
epic at 1:57
countersubject889 7 hours ago
Awesome!!! Sounds just like the Swingle Singers. Best performance of this fugue i've EVER heard.
altareggo 1 week ago
good visualisation
11011011011100110 1 month ago in playlist Bach, J. S.
Sometimes it seems blindingly obvious that Bach is beyond any other music
grands1am 1 month ago
@grands1am Bach is certainly my favourite classical composer. His music is very good.
planetofthescums 6 days ago in playlist Bach, J. S.
In my humble opinion, the most magnificent fugue of both volumes of the WTC
Fratea 1 month ago
when it comes to Bach I'm a bit of a purist at heart but I still loved this!
newgeorge 2 months ago
Very nice and beautiful performance.. tnx
bach422 2 months ago
Gets played atleast once a day. Really, this piece is a solitair of perfectness, but not a "dead", crystalline one, it is living!
flippert0 2 months ago
* I listen to the video *
* replay *
* end of the video *
* replay *
* end of the video * ...
>> 5 hours Later <<
Mom opens the door .. my son?
-Dudududu dududuuuuuuuuuu .... *0*
Hirumette 3 months ago
@Hirumette hahahahahaha
HAHAHAHAHAH
Orcmau 1 month ago in playlist Bach, J. S.
It's interesting, but considering how much I liked your Chopin, I was hoping for something akin to Glen Gould :(
HenryTheGuitarist 3 months ago
I love how each voice is it's own color. It's weird, but being able to see it adds to the distinctiveness of each vocal sound.
trying2breakout 3 months ago
In some bizzare form, this is probably what Bach sounded like in Glenn Gould's head.
Chromeless 3 months ago
Great jOB. Do you do E maj fugue in BK. II. That can also be sung.
orqsilva 3 months ago
Very nicely done and wonderful contemporaneous graphic notation. Bravo!
patrickburnsmusic 3 months ago
That sounds creepy as shit.... 0_0
mile0chicken 3 months ago
looooloooololooooo xD
Turic1000 4 months ago
Have the alien robots returned?
Kronimiciad 4 months ago in playlist Bach
dont change a thing seriously I LOOOOOOOOVVVEEEE the dodododododos!!!!
jbkitty91990 6 months ago
wtf.....wtf did you play it with these voices? use a harpsicord or piano. -.-. NIce rthough XD
ph4nt0mf1ng3rs 6 months ago
Bravo!! ...I'm gonna to learn it with this vid!
xniquilador 6 months ago
wow that takes ALOT of coordination. You did awesome!!
jbkitty91990 6 months ago
FANTASTIC!!!!!!
sannaluca 7 months ago
1:58! Soooo eerie. Amazing.
muulka 7 months ago
You must have hundredth upon hundredths of hours of practice under your belt.
coolsprus101 7 months ago
damn this shit is hot!!!!
JuanD86 7 months ago
I can no longer listen to this piece without thinking of the eerie voice from this video
smtwl90 8 months ago
Hell of a performance, Mr. Malinowski, all that apparently without splicing multiple takes.
aarondddyer 8 months ago
@aarondddyer It's true that I filmed the video of my hands in one take, but I sang the parts separately.
smalin 8 months ago
do, do, do do, dododo, do, do, do.
prestonater 8 months ago
@prestonater I scrolled down and listened to this right as i read it. It was creepy.
xdomaraqx 8 months ago
Goodness, here is more excellence.
Hgclaw 8 months ago
i hadn't really noticed how magnificent this fugue is until now, for some reason.
yumeybaconcutout 9 months ago
@yumeybaconcutout Funny how that happens sometimes ... you listen to a piece you've listened to a bunch of times before, but this time it hits you ... This Is Excellent.
smalin 9 months ago
reminds me of the cathedral area in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
vurtualboy 9 months ago
Excellent, marvellous - more of these. Maybe some Rock'n Roller will get interested in such famous music, instead of playing cliches.
sigberg1 9 months ago
DO!!!
Theserjtankianfan 9 months ago
Hey Smalin don't listen to those people saying it goes to fast or wrong instrument, sure I've seen some of your videos when IMO it was wrong instrument or so. But this was perfect PERFECT. Tempo perfect I think it's easy to miss the context if you go to slow and the instrument sound like voice instrument symbios, it's beautful for this piece. Much more so than with piano IMO.
charlesdarwin55 9 months ago
HD NICE!
charlesdarwin55 9 months ago
The tempo question has a large subjective component, but I actually do like this tempo very much. It reveals some important structural and emotional qualities of the fugue. The common slow interpretation overemphasizes melancholic, sad, romantic and personal aspects. The fast one shows us the ecstatic, universal, rhytmical, mystical elements. The choice of instrument fits these aspects and the tempo surprisingly well. Good job!
pbazant 9 months ago
This is cute.
REV16665 10 months ago
Lol this is K.K. Dirge on Animal Crossing
NKCazy 10 months ago
I see allot of complaining here.
you are a good player.
sniktawleahcim 10 months ago
Also here a good look in the score without all the details witch are unimportant to understand what the music is doing :) Thanks again.
Chrisy299 10 months ago
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Bach in my opinion is the best symphony writer of all time, he has an edge other composer's don't have.
Darkbat667 10 months ago
@Darkbat667 he didn't write symphonies?
yumeybaconcutout 9 months ago
Bach in my opinion is the best symphony writer of all time, he has an edge other composer's don't have
Darkbat667 10 months ago
Hey smalin, this is really amazing! Thanks for inspiring us to continue to honor the art of J. S. Bach.
pianogus 10 months ago
Please do another version showing the Cross drawn by the subject. Bach often hided the symbol of the Cross in his composition, i.e. in his Kyrie.
picander78 10 months ago
would love to see one of these for Shostakovitch
syco50 10 months ago
@syco50 They're under copyright, so I can't use them (at least, not easily).
smalin 10 months ago
@smalin
Yes, poor Shostakovich wouldn't receive his copyrights, that he deserves, even after his death :( .
By the way, it's very interesting, but how about a little more traditional sounds for this fugue (if it's not problem for you to make another video just changing the midi you used or whatever). I don't want to be anoying, I like your videos, but sommetimes you use sounds that are not quite what I would expect for Bach's fugues.
OEstudioX 7 months ago
@OEstudioX It's a lot of work to make a video, so if I'm going to spend the time, I'd rather do a new piece than re-do an old one.
I use a variety of sounds in my videos. If you want to hear Bach played on a harpsichord, there are lots of other videos with that. For my videos, for better or for worse, you have to be content with what I chose.
There are lots of viewers, and different ones like different things, so nothing I do will please everybody; I might as well please myself.
smalin 7 months ago
@smalin
You're right. If it's a lot of work, then forget it, it's not worth for a fugue you have already done.
It's only that your graph score videos are a lot more interesting than others, that's why I was asking.
OEstudioX 7 months ago
this is awesome! i also play this, and have listened to many famous players playing that. this sound temper and speed is real new and cool for this piece. good luck experimenting, dude !!!
LowRider9791 11 months ago
wondelful fugue and voice was nice. I'am trying to compose bach style fugues but it so demanding that i'm losing my patience.
ilmestyskirja2012 11 months ago
GREAT WORK, Stephen! Gave me chills. Finally, something worth watching on YouTube!
beakt 11 months ago
gross
PianoTHIS 11 months ago
Does anyone else think 'classical rugrats' when they hear this?
40518221 11 months ago
It's so good - show a music! I'am a paint man. and so good for me to see a music!!!
A music of Bach!
Big Thanks!
ra1ajw 11 months ago
Oops, I accidentally clicked on the dislike button. Luckily Youtube let me backtrack, as this is awesome in every respect.
ArcanePath360 11 months ago
wonderful visual representation of the complexity of Bach.
signinname41 11 months ago
Plz Smalin can u remake this in Organ instrument i'm begging you
Because I do love bach and bach is always perfect in each instrument there is
plz respond
thegoddescomposer 11 months ago
Beautiful. i once thought my welding skills a form of art but it pales by comparison You are truly an artist. Thank You
Eragos93 1 year ago
at first I thought you are an idiot, a butcher, a malfunction, but when I found myself singing it your way, and repeating it endlessly, I thought.... WOW!
Thank you for this I experiment(?), marvelous idea!
gainweighttoday 1 year ago
this reminds me of the Rugrats theme song.
pigsfood27 1 year ago
Beautiful fugue...and you have beautiful hands too. They demonstrate the touch of an artist.
TimFyre 1 year ago
I also wish to see you playing on the piano.
MrEbaby2010 1 year ago
Absolutely outstanding! I love that you play this so fast, it sounds very natural.
MrPulpar 1 year ago
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ドラクエの洞窟とか神殿の音楽みたい＾＾
tadasukesuzuki 1 year ago
ドラクエの洞窟の音楽みたい＾＾
tadasukesuzuki 1 year ago
What the hell is this? I can't even recognize the instrument... Is that a harpsicord? I don't think so... hahaha But could somebody tell me what instrument is this...
But I won't rate this video... It's a pity to say it's bad because this instrument sounds horrible... Besides, the fugue is just perfect, as every single Bach's piece!
pmchsaini 1 year ago
@pmchsaini see the FAQ
smalin 1 year ago
@smalin I like your balanced responses to many of the comments posted in your videos. I also like your videos because they bring an added dimension of understanding to the music (and music is NOT my field).
boultoncreek 1 year ago
@pmchsaini How the hell can you even think that is a harpsichord !?
Darkdead95 1 year ago
@pmchsaini clavier
Vesivian 11 months ago
Amazing!
WorldOfWar147 1 year ago
You honestly played this WAY too fast. You lose the essence of this piece when you go this quickly; forsaking its nuances and losing the true expression of suffering that this piece exhibits.
trumpetplaya44 1 year ago
@trumpetplaya44 Whether it seems fast or slow depends a lot on what you're used to. I grew up listening to Glenn Gould's recording of this piece; he plays it at about this tempo. When I first heard slower performances, they sounded too slow --- it sounded laborious, the running figure walking, the canzona theme lacking energy. It took a while before I could appreciate a slower tempo. I'd bet that if you listened to this (and Gould's recording) regularly, you'd get used to it, too.
smalin 1 year ago
@smalin
very intelligent response. I love this video!
juzzyfuzz 10 months ago
@trumpetplaya44 It's up to the artist and how he performs it.
Bruceforge 1 year ago
@trumpetplaya44 As you must know, Bach didn't note tempos on his pieces, and his music is much more open to artistic variance, to include tempo, than works by composers of other eras. I happen to think the tempo here was fine. I don't have a problem with someone enjoying the slower performance, but you see how the energy of the different voices are contrasted; if you play it so that the voices with movement sound like a slow ballad, then the piece loses its balance and effect.
beakt 11 months ago
What a perfect performance.
omegslll 1 year ago
Wow. This would fit perfectly as a theme song for Blood Island from 'Monkey Island 3', if you think about it.
Bhaalspawn91 1 year ago
you are insanely good at playing, I've never seen someone's hands move like that before
MikeyRGuitar 1 year ago
@MikeyRGuitar To play this piece, your hands pretty much have to move like that.
smalin 1 year ago
@smalin like an octopus on LSD
MikeyRGuitar 1 year ago
I love this fugue, and the idea of a chorus, but i would like to see you playing slower.
Laudan08 1 year ago
beautiful
masterexploder83 1 year ago
Reminds me of the score made for A Clockwork Orange by Wendy Carlos. Awesome!
tizzukka 1 year ago
I'm "slightly" obsessed with this fugue in the last days. Must have listened to it more than 50 times. I don't mind the electronic voices at all. To the contrary, the normal piano version bores me now. Playing it this fast is incredible, smalin!
flippert0 1 year ago
@smalin (and @slowry12) maybe you could use another aspect for grouping themes? like saturation, or brightness? There's no reason you couldn't have each voice be a different color yet still indicate the themes. I would really love to see both at once, it would no doubt be fascinating.
amplimax 1 year ago
I'm gonna sing the doom song!
scooterboo4 1 year ago
it is like rockband
mw22001 1 year ago
Thou thouuuu thou tu-tu-tu ;)
I love Bach !
marsarium 1 year ago
Fascinating! 5 voices, 2 hands. I think my hands would cramp!
When I used to practice piano, I loved playing Bach because it kinda feels like my 2 hands were in an animated conversation, if ya know what I mean (repeated phrases, mimicking, etc). This, however, looks nothing like what I played!
maneneko 1 year ago
are you retarted??? that's what i call destroying a masters work
pokerface123456 1 year ago
Finally found one. Months ago I found a video like this one: solo piano, colors to represent voices. Came back looking for it to share with someone only to find all the other variations you've created (balls for volume, colors for tone groups, etc). Personally I find that all *extremely* distracting. I understand you're doing them for your own enjoyment, but as a viewer I have to say I prefer this type of representation the most. Easiest to follow = easiest to share with my non-musician friends.
FlaPanther33781 1 year ago
@FlaPanther33781 You will notice, however, that many viewers prefer the balls.
smalin 1 year ago
@smalin I for one, prefer the simple bars, though I love them all.
erdavis7 1 year ago
perhaps just you prefer balls
fedoristhechamp123 1 year ago
Hi smalin,
I admire your work well done. If you sample Paaa in the vocoder you get someting like the Swingle Singers.
qno1963 1 year ago
was searching for this peace, would loved it and linked it except for the funky voice.
polyglut 1 year ago
This visualisation is really great. To show both hands and the computerstream. Not at least I like the colours which are used for this.
The only thin which is a pity is that only is shown as high/deep the notes are, but not the volume's dynamic. Maybe one could show it by painting the lines thinner resp. thicker, in relation to being the tone more piano or more forte. That would be an additional great effect
berniewa2008 1 year ago
unreal
PATRICKoxoEthafulm 1 year ago
orgasmic
ilovevicecity 1 year ago
doooo doo doo doo... OwÓ ~
KyougetsuYoru 1 year ago
MAH MIND IS BLOWN
littlekirby6 1 year ago
FUCKING AWESOME
freeadplanet 1 year ago
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b0ttomzone 1 year ago
That's the spirit! Play Bach on an electronic piano in a bizarre register. After all, it can bear it, as sublime abstract music. Again, I would play it much slower. Played this way, it expresses nothing but... itself.
Steinbach1984 1 year ago
Putisgrila!! Muito bom mesmo!
paulocunha61 1 year ago
Piano would have been better, in my opinion... But anyway, good work!
MCWaxMax 1 year ago
Beautiful.
chopinop9no2 1 year ago
Hello Stephen, All my warm and sincere congratulations for the music and development of the M.A.M software.. it's really GREAT.. wishing you all the best out there :) GREAT JOB
lipoupoul 1 year ago
I like your performance on the Roland VP-550 keyboard for Bach's Fugue 4 Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1.
danielklee92 1 year ago
doo-doo-doooo.....
AnAmericanComposer 1 year ago
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sounds like two pianos
eferefer 1 year ago
simple piano or organ is better
21436587abc 1 year ago
Wonderful job! My suggestion for this fugue is to not use colors to differentiate between the voices. Instead, use colors "thematically." Each subject gets its own color. May look a little boring for the first page or so but should get interesting later on. Perhaps a way of "educating" your audience about how some fugues are put together.
slowry12 1 year ago
@slowry12 I've done a few fugues the way you've suggested (none posted to YouTube), and they are not as interesting. But I may post some in the future.
smalin 1 year ago
@smalin How do you do this? What program do you use?
quinniemania 1 year ago
@quinniemania see the FAQ ...
smalin 1 year ago
@slowry12 That would be interesting. Good suggestion. Of course, doing both would be better than either approach alone
WoundedEgo 1 year ago
@WoundedEgo Doing both may require eight different colors, so I might have to disagree with you about both being better from a practical standpoint. Could end up being visually confusing.
slowry12 1 year ago
@slowry12
Agreed. I was thinking of having them on different videos.
WoundedEgo 1 year ago
Wow, that theme statement at 2:30 just sounds so eerie! Great job. I think that the E flat major prelude is the Major counter part to this in terms of beauty and grandeur in the first well-Tempered.
Ramatganski 1 year ago
Youtube recommended me something dark and creepy most of the time lol jk ^^
I suddenly feel like going to church haha It sounds nostalgic and haunting in a way- I dunno... Did I picked the right words? haha <3
Crs93 1 year ago
is this played in any other form??
FranticDragon 1 year ago
This would be awesome music for a short movie with monsters who are dancing a waltz or something like that in a big hall : )
Thr33Brothers 1 year ago
@Thr33Brothers After listening to it I couldn't agree more. Such a riveting piece..
litenchi 1 year ago
Hey smalin,
Which was more difficult to play? This or Contrapunctus 9 from AoF?
Thanks
majorhuman 1 year ago
@majorhuman I can't really say. I've worked on both of them for decades, and they're both about equally difficult now.
smalin 1 year ago
That sounds rather strange.
vlamnire 1 year ago
Wow this creeps my out. Love it
Raicuparta 1 year ago
what a genius Bach
simomipiaccio 1 year ago
Outstanding!
yugrewohs 1 year ago
The Swingle Singers? :D
morekew 1 year ago
I've never paid much attention to this particular fugue out of all the 48, but I must say, after hearing this, it appears to be in the upper eschelon of Bach's most cerebral masterpieces. After about the one minute mark, the piece just opens up with sublimity. From one fugue writer to another, thank you for affording us this experience.
Paul
Jalapablo 1 year ago
@Jalapablo I agree; it's way, way up there, fugue-wise. My rendition doesn't do it justice, but not performing it wouldn't have been right either, so I have to be content posting a rendition that at least lets people glimpse the piece's potential.
smalin 1 year ago
@Jalapablo This is actually my favorite fugue of Bach's. I did an arrangement of this for string quintet (2 violins, 2 violas and cello) for extra credit in my 2nd year music theory class in college. It's been a standard on any playlist ever since.
JJBashir 1 year ago
thanks for the wonderful and colorful playing!
wfriedson 1 year ago
plz can u do this in some eletric guitar sound ? plz plz i am wondering how that sound
thegoddescomposer 1 year ago
Palpatine's music
hestimid 1 year ago
im almost tempted reproducing this with high fidelity instrumentation vocals.
Shame i cant read notes, but i can remember this piece fine i guess. maybe ill try it sometime.
Calamaistr 1 year ago
alien robots desperately in love, humming lonely in the night...
billegeto 1 year ago
I'm in awe. Wasn't keen on your choice of synth at first, but it really grows on you. Perfect. Is that as difficult to play as it looks?
kenpem 1 year ago
@kenpem For a moderately fast 5-voice contrapuntal piece in a remote key, it's of about average difficulty.
smalin 1 year ago
@smalin I won't pretend to understand what that means. But I'm still impressed :)
kenpem 1 year ago
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Jalapablo 1 year ago
What a gorgeous, glorious fugue. Very well done!!!
The theme seems to me like a variation on the B-A-C-H motif.
edp70 1 year ago
DOO DOO DOO!!!!
pigsfood27 1 year ago
omagad! I'm amazed ^^
At first i didn't liked (the music), but then i slighly became hypnotized by all the video. The music became absolutely pleasant to my hears, and watching the guy's finger dancing on the keyboard, was amazing. And no i know one thing for sure : why the hell don't i play the piano? :-(
I don't usually listen to classical music. But the past few months were some kind of revelation in this field!
Thanks for the videos dude ^^
Mystipaoniz 1 year ago
this is amazing. I love your videos smalin
guitar4evr30 1 year ago
Wow sounds like a video game track, granted most tracks for old video games are inspired by classic music like this.
amar7368 1 year ago
this is wonderful. something like this is an excellent learning tool for someone who would like to learn and sing all the individual parts, but can't read music for voice.
weesamin 1 year ago
lol at first the midi voice put me off, but this is one of my favourite Bach Fugues and I really enjoyed this twist on it, I also appreciate seeing the pitch visually streaming along.
cool video - subscribed and faved
dannyjam 1 year ago
Excellent! Impressionnant!
(de Montréal, Québec, Canada)
I love this!
RICPOIRIER1 1 year ago
eww can we not use that midi voice agian....
walkersaxplayer 1 year ago
The sound is good wut are you complaining about?
darkitachi50 1 year ago
Thanks smalin: Very nice~! After a month of "standard" heavy Bach listening and reading (Schweitzer, Butt, Richter, Wolff, Gould, Landowska, etc.) Nice to be reminded Bach lives...and is in the living...
jonnsmusich 2 years ago
wow this looks like it requires some fancy fingerwork.
superjam18 2 years ago
@superjam18 it requieres something more than fingerwork to really play that fugue.
Bach music, and this fugue still more, requires a great concentration. You must know what every single voice is doing, hear it, and sing it (play it), and five voices make this a hard work. xD
Anyway, i enjoy that fugue every time i hear it, and every time i play it.
dommhammer1 1 year ago
2:26 is so lol, awesome song
darkitachi50 2 years ago
i'm playing this piece in a mallet quintet (2 marimba, vibraphone, bells, xylophone) and the vocoder with the slower speaking voices gives the piece a much different vibe than the quick speaking mallet instruments. i like it
DomerheadND 2 years ago
... "a much different vibe" ... :-)
smalin 2 years ago
Thank you very much for your efforts! Great job! Very mistical piece, its not so powerful in piano version. Please keep posting videos, its very valuable for us!
AntuQum 2 years ago
I really love hearing this with synth voices, especially the first part (before the introduction of that fast theme) because it looks like it could be sung.
pedantologist 2 years ago
Exactly.
smalin 2 years ago
I'm no expert, but I think Contrapunctus XIV would have a similarly awesome effect when sung.
pedantologist 2 years ago
Perhaps ... but I have too much awe for that piece to do it ... yet.
smalin 2 years ago
IMHO it's way too fast... but great video anyway.
dementedpianist 2 years ago
Because I like it.
smalin 2 years ago
Excellent choice. I got very excited when I realised you added this piece. I was very surprised with your choice of sound at first but after hearing it a few times I think you it right.
Fugue 8 Book 1? :) :)
majorhuman 2 years ago
> Fugue 8 Book 1?
I'm not a big fan of that fugue these days; I don't know exactly why. I used to like it more. Seems too cerebral.
smalin 2 years ago
Woot! I love your videos, smalin. This voicing is crazy and fascinating.
piman3141 2 years ago
I've just got to say, I love your channel. Just subscribed... keep up the good work! You're inspiring me to continue practising the piano and pipe organ after a twenty year break. :)
whovianfloovian 2 years ago
What pipe organ do you play?
smalin 2 years ago
I just play the organ in my local church. I'll pm you the list of stops and stays.
whovianfloovian 2 years ago
I like the imagination with your voicing but I think it's entirely too fast.
KennYWooD2 2 years ago
May I ask a question, smalin?
What video format and especially what soundtrack format are you using when uploading to Youtube?
I have troubles with the sound quality of my uploaded videos which are very distorted by the Youtube compressing process.
Your videos have a much better sound quality.
thanks and regards
Esosphere 2 years ago