The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: No. 2 In C minor, BWV 847

[HerbalistDC]

the prelude is great, the fugue is way too heavy, CBC G BOOM (Ab), CBC D BOOM (G)...

[Brentypooz]

When was this written? 

[mlemmusic]

@Brentypooz 1722



[Pianista061292]

Excellent performance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

[TheSpiffyCast]

Lol, i added your video to my playlist. Im cool huh?

[TheAce747]

clearly Bach was a very talented person to compose such extravagant and spectacular music

[gettoezblaster]

Way too fast!

[NajoTheWolf]

Wow, classical music is pretty tight

[kikiubovilla]

@NajoTheWolf nah, hear some debussy or chopin, i prefer to say "baroque music is tight"

[NicoDuna]

What a great performance! Nevertheless, IMHO, the prelude is way too fast. I can barely understand it at such a high tempo.

[PhysicalsimForever]

I have tried to write fugues but have always found that a problem - looking at each interval in the music and making sure the combination of different tones is not dissonant (except when wanted). I think that is partly why Bach's fugues are so good. He has an edge on all other composers when counterpoint is concerned.

[PhysicalsimForever]

Amazing - what makes Bach's music so special is that he has all these voices playing independent melodies simultaneously but it is not dissonant.

[blunuage16]

love this tempo!

perfect!

so sexy

[vipervnm74]

Mozart symphony in G minor #25--beats Bach--love Bach but Mozart first and , better too with emotional transfer of musical gift/feel....#1

[TheTimeTraveler100]

I actually think JS Bach is better than Wolfgang Mozart...

[TheLittleBlondiiie]

als wir diesen mist in musik zum interpretieren aufbekommen haben, ist mir gleich aufgefallen, dass der ton am mittleren ende ganz am anfang gar nicht passt..

shit!

[Schlangenlinien]

@TheLittleBlondiiie

Wie meinste das? :D

[Violasax]

Janis Joplin 's version of Summertime has an instrumental intro loosely based on the Fugue. See Jimmy Hendrix version in their famous Woodstock duet 1969.

[adopiano]

le piano est magnifique comme dans le Moment musical N°4...

What is the piano He'is playing?

[endeavourthelimits]

My math teacher said that there wer 3 God's messengers on Earth: Bach, Beethoven and Gaudi

[nancytelesdc]

excellent performance, as always. A clear sound.

I ´ve been taking piano lessons for some time, and last year i bought your cd with ten sonatas Hob XVI by Haydn, and I was so enthusiastic that i started to play some. Thanks to you.Since then I am your admirer. I was glad to see you in video. you are one of my favourites. Nancy Telles, BRAZIL

[skatefreek4444]

dang dude i wanna learn this now, how many weeks did it take you?

[thejugglenaut91]

he was probably playing this for years to play like this

[NooseWeasel]

This is such an interesting interpretation !

[loosetea]

Such a righteous performance! I'm awestruck. I understand that Tureck in later years determined there was only one perfect tempo for every work of Bach, and without getting that tempo, the work could not be played with any conviction. Well, this must be the perfect tempo, both P&F... and the seemngly endless array of touch and tone in his command, this is my favorite interpretation of this work I've studied for 45 years.

[3cplantin]

@loosetea I'm not sure most musicians today would agree with Tureck. It is an interesting idea, but there are so many factors that go into a performance that it is difficult to say that there is one ideal. The acoustics of a room, the nature of the instrument, the varying number of players in an orchestra, the varying number of singers in a choir, etc. This piece itself might be played in tifferent tempos on the piano, harpsichord, clavichord, or organ. I like the playeing here, too!

[toxictype]

my favorite version so far. i don't like it with staccato (like goulds version for example).

[felexmar]

Those were the days of great classic musicians, Bach, Strauss, Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart thier legends lived till today

[phatmusic]

wow!!!! at 0:59 he plays that part extremely fast! I play that at about half the tempo lol

[morvensky]

Bach writes "presto" (Italian for "very fast), so it is okay. I think he picks a good tempo.

[MicrobeObliteratorMo]

why didn't he bring out the subject in the bass towards the end 0.0 but this is an awesome version tho XD

[Bassko]

Jeno Jando is my favorite Beethoven performer.

[LeonardFromPalma]

One thing that stands clear for Bachs Works, is that they are imbued with intelligence, an intelligence that I have not heard in any other composer's works.

[3NUNS]

vewy twoo

[ajbweiner]

@LeonardFromPalma

There is intelligence in Bach indeed, and lots of mathematics, and I do love his work. He is God. But if you haven't found intelligence in other composers, you must have not listened properly to Shostakovitch, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Wagner, Mozart. Go and get Shostakovitch 5th symphony, Wagner's Ring and Mozart's Requiem. After that, old St Mathew's Passion still shines, but just like Sirius on a sky with plenty of other stars.

[LeonardFromPalma]

@ajbweiner Ah, I see. I might have been a little overzealous with my previous comment. Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovitch and Mozart(especially his piano sonata in C major) are also some of my favorite composers, however their compositions still differ from those of Bach and 'speak' to me in a different manner than his works. Nonetheless, I agree that these composers are similarly in their own regards.

[liszter]

@LeonardFromPalma Not even in Beethoven's? Not detracting from Bach's works, of course!

[LILA4321]

Bachhh snif!! I lovee youuuuuuuu!!!

*u*

thanks for you amazing music!!! T_T

[Frankadelphia]

Pû fësteux múndeux! L'fäctuur l'plèjyñ, l'bëtµ l'pæc cãdz.

[sauternety36]

i have to admit after analyzing his perfect music in theory class that bach is the greatest composer that ever lived

[parquar]

@sauternety36 take a crack at the reconstructed Contrapunctus XIV. You can see the one I'm talking about if you search on here. There is a vid in two parts that shows all the music. quadruple fugue ridiculousness FTW!!!

[dreaminglucidly139]

Can you explain this comment a little for those of us who don't know music theory?

[thejugglenaut91]

truer words never spoken

[gerhold101]

@sauternety36 I have to admit that, on reading your comment, I am now convinced that you are, indeed, the greatest music critic that ever existed.

[jsilence418]

@sauternety36 I just listened all my life ,then in late teens started semi serious study, and found i agree with you 100%

[ethositachi]

@sauternety36

What about Haydn, Handel, Beethoven, Berloiz, Brahms, Mozart. Oh snap, covering one composer in 9th grade doesn't make you an expert.

[sauternety36]

@ethositachi If you're as intelligent as you claim, you can look at EVERY piece of music from all other composers and somehow find that even one piece of his/her works lacks the consistency and brilliance that bach's pieces have. It is his reverence for God, the genius of Baroque coutnerpoint that rendered his music uncommonly complex and insightful. I could not find fault with any of them. But then again, it really all depends on personal favorites. And I never claimed I was an expert, kiddo.

[savylbh]

@ethositachi yea and im sure that we should all just believe a cocky amateur who thinks he has the right to slander on youtube! go to hell.

[Barbapippo]

@sauternety36 Admitting this truism does you and your thery teacher much credit...

[lsbrother]

@sauternety36 I have to admit that after analyzing the comments of some Youtube contributors that they include some of the most silly remarks one could possibly imagine

[52bicycles]

yay fingers in pain!

[waneyp]

i just love the fugue part so much!! its written so perfectly and is just so beautifuly formed. And when its played this fantastically, it stirrs something deep

[requiemaeturnum]

This piece is actually VERY easy.

[morvensky]

It is not very easy but it is not that hard.

[requiemaeturnum]

Sorry I accidentally down rated your comment.

It depends, the praeludium is essentially just a toccata, so all that you need to learn it is a little bit of dexterity and know how to perform it in an exciting manner.

The fugue subject is very clear and while the fugue is a bit hard at first, once you practise a few days or so, its smooth sailing.

Its a very fun piece to perform!

[pianowink]

Fantastic interpretation

[yedinbitirdinbeni]

watch?v=ZSUDGB5VJgU

[shrnho]

very nice.

[torrentgray]

damn this song is good

[dcfreak23]

I second that. Bach was God. We just didn't know it at the time.

[Nostrum84]

I knew it!!!! But unfortunately I wasn't born back then :)

[Aligator57]

finally one good interpretation for my ears! :DDD

[artvandelay13]

I'm a huge Gould fan, but this may be my favourite interpretation of this piece!

[carrmig]

I love the prelude, I like the fugue.

[morvensky]

i Have always known Jeno Jando is fantastic Liszt and Beethoven interpreter but I did not know he could play Bach so well.

[Fredsgirl3]

i wish i could play piano, im 13 does anyone here think i am to old to start?? i already play the flute and next year i am going to an arts school (performing arts of course)

[helenagothicangel13]

It's never too late to start! My piano teacher taught elderly people and blind people along with normal conservatory students when I was with him.

Most people will say it is too late for a professional career but you never know if you don't try, right?

[TheHysteryChannel]

Ha, you made it sound like elderly and blind people aren't normal.

[helenagothicangel13]

Sorry if I offended anyone D:

But I just meant that anyone can do it and it's never too late to start, even if you just want to play for fun.

[TheHysteryChannel]

Well in order to get a bachelors degree you need to be proficient in piano anyway, so better to learn now than in college.

[mehandas]

Of course not. Piano is easy.

[Dillan44]

Of course you can learn. It's unlikely that you can be the best starting late, but there's nothing stopping you from being a great pianist as long as you work for it.

[dreaminglucidly139]

heh I'm 27 and I'm just starting. Its all about will and work ethic.  I recommend the BBC's Bach documentary for a description of Bach's typical and incredibly demanding work week.

[rebekahmiller]

@Fredsgirl3 I was 13 1/2 when I started learning how to play piano, so it's definitely not too late!!!

[then00best]

@rebekahmiller "Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still." :D

[luther357]

@rebekahmiller I didn't start playing until 30, and started with WTK (having been a basist). You're never too old to being a new thing!

[TheHysteryChannel]

did you ever end up playing piano and going to school?

[secoro60]

great job on the fugue, at first I thought it might have been to quick but you personalzed it, modernized it even, and I think Bach would have been proud.

[pabcap68]

He plays it really perfect l but there is one thing that I should point and that the fisrt part of the Prelude is Allegro and the second is the presto and when it comes the balance between the both of them I think that the allegro should have been slower,even though I like it anyway.

He's great!

[appletini045]

loooove it!

[cecio89]

oh my god...

[cosmicjazzer]

This is one of those pieces that everyone has an opinion about - as regards interpretation. And I'm going to offer mine! For me the prelude here is just a little too mechanical. I think Jarrett's version of the is a little nearer what it should be!

[nuviolinist]

every day i listen to bach, and deeper i fall into this love for music. ;)

[kmann675]

i liked his style of playing fugue.

[4Delusion4]

I played this on my exams almost 19 years ago:) I`m glad that I`ve noticed this video, for me it means an ocсasion to open a piano cover.

[Jonsoman]

I agree)))lol

[Jonsoman]

good...wouldnt recommend gould´s way of playing it...lol

[qw3rtydud3]

actually I agree for the prelude at least

goulds rendition of the fugue is good by my ears, but his way of playing the prelude is just too slow and defeats the beauty of this piece really.

[nuviolinist]

ha im pretty sure its vivace :P

[mannyack4tori]

im learinig how to play this it was a trumendous hep to have finally heard it

[AdamGCox]

I enjoy Mr. Jando's interpretations well. I first heard a recording of Beethoven's Bagatelles (all 3 opuses) by him and was spectacular.

[a83692128]

spectacular

[knightLynderic]

I will play this on my exams...Its beautiful!

[Aligator57]

Uffff!!!! Es lo mas hermoso que mis oídos hayan podido llegar a escuchar... T.T

[trampodude]

i've been searching for one good recording of this piece. this'll do.

[MagicDonDino]

Wow the prelude fast and clear!!! It's very hard to play like this!

[flamefingerz14]

It's one thing to be able to play a piece, and it's quite another to be able to feel the piece, to know how to make the piano sing. Excellent musicality.

[vaporedge]

amazing how much the older artists put into their music. just great.

[Lieder83]

I love Jeno's Bach!! beautiful!!

Can you post other videos? thanks!!

[TuneTo440]

Sure, of Classical, Fine music in general, more of Bach, or of Jeno Jando?

[drn1328]

Bach's fugues...!!!!!!!! please

[SunnyK435]

Um no. I've been on this song for 2 weeks... I'm taking classical lessons at my school (college) because I had the free credits (12 - 18 is a full time student and I had 16 and an hour lesson per week is 2 so... why not?) and like no... this is never going to happen for me. I'm glad I looked it up now before I spent too much time on it.

[eco001]

Outstanding. Tempo of the prelude at about 1/4 = 123.

[cLiPz0r]

Awesome performance. 5/5

[Gusakov]

Great !!!

[butrunioigneor]

I'm 6 months old and I've got the whole solo piano Liszt repetoire down.

I can also play guitar like Van Halen, and Violin like Grappelli. My ego no longer fits inside my large head, so I carry it around in a backpack...

[OtherWorld]

Thanks for encouraging us young musicians to learn and listen to more classical music.

[fanofrobzombie]

lol its not the kids, its the parents and their ego cause they think that their genes had something to do with it.

[jannokas85]

Hahahahaha! The funniest comment over a long time :P.

[FredilYupigo]

If I could just actually listen to Bach all the time, I might prefer him over Rachmaninoff. Bach isn't bad.

I am fourteen and learning this piece.

[OtherWorld]

Haha I tried learning this piece on Electric bass (left and right hand) and I gave up. I'm sure I could do it if I tried.

[lolalucy96]

literally

[madperznskilz]

Music like this needs to be appreciated more nowadays rather then uneducated disillusioned men spewing bullshit about drugs, women on their dick, and popping each other simply due to their opposing street locations.

[Bommer129]

I totally agree.

[brosbm]

its gonna take a genius to figure out how to do that these days

[NeighborAhmed]

yeah, i know from first hand experience just how people see classical as "uncool". And who can blame them? Look at the faces in classical music...mostly weirdos/outcasts or the elderly

[itsanthonyhere]

To play it or to write it? Maybe so if you mean writing it. Maybe we need to use lead pipes for our water like those guys did~

[dr3Am3r73]

I couldn't agree more with you. In todays age, it's about how many bad words one can say, how much money is thrown around in the air, how many gold chains & teeth are worn, and how many barely dressed women are hopping around sleaze guys that talk or shout to a simple and repetitious tune. And the quality of music seems to be getting worse by every decade...

[lolalucy96]

i am 11 and i am playing this piece

[icycocopops15]

good put a video of yourself when u are done

[derefis]

Good for you, i wont give you an applause because i know there are other 1.000 billion who are also learning things piece at the age of 11, Prodigies are so over-rated this days, they ve become uninteresting

[firebreathone]

How can there be over 1000 billion others?

There are only 6 billion people on our planet

[derefis]

Well sorry god of logic, but i was just stating a point with an exxageration

[firebreathone]

ah. that would explain it

[Bommer129]

Beautiful

[VKatze]

@.@ Magic. Gotta love the God of Baroque

[helloimapianist]

I can't stand Jeno Jando

[tarutcha66]

Excellent; Awesome is the bach that i love.

[haxel75]

Jeno - The King!

[OtherWorld]

Haha Agreed!

[arngrei]

Jeno-the Naxos whore.