I hope to be a good player as good teaching ablity trust holder to next generation through getting understand effective by your own through many my advices or coments for you with essencials and concious points for making pure pure good with your good personality criates on promissing with those many your playing misics and scores .
Could you play in front of the highest serious pure pure surely trustive king or queen or me ? Till 2 paragraves,I hope to hear with this philosophy.
@PlancksTime Thumbs down. And you're right "Nobody CAN'T beat Glenn Gould." meaning everyone CAN beat him. And spell his name right at least. Gould was a psychopath overrated freak who destroyed the composer's intentions. THIS GUY'S BACH IS JUST AS GOOD, BUT EVEN BETTER.
@goodguysdoll Gould was talented but I agree over rated. A few of his interpretations of Bach are just plain weird and strange. I'm wondering if he was partly autistic, which helped him with a mystique that stood out.
The draw of Gould in my opinion was that he was exceptionally authentic because of his was wrapped up socially and psychologically in his own world, and didn't pander to others in the way he played. Being eccentric and deeply authentic on some way seem to go hand in hand.
I really like it! I found the fugue to be a little too uniform for my taste, but it was an interesting and convincing interpretation nonetheless. Very nice! :)
You play Bach very well. You can hear the lines perfectly. It's all clean and even. Very Bach-like. Well done! Thanks for uploading it was a pleasure to hear this!
His playing style strikes me as very Russian... which you usually see mostly in Russian pianists (Surprise!). But all my favorite pianists are Russian, so I see that as a good thing.
Very Very well played and Well executed tempo, the texture does not over power the essence of how Bach should be played. Anyone CAN play Bach but not everyone can execute a BACH....considering it is being played in a clavicembalo pianoforte. He didnt DROWN it. Bravo!!!
your comments just tell all what a fool you are nothing intelligent said shows you up .AND NONE OF U CAN PLAY HAHA! at eleven he played Chopin etudes better than u allcan play a simple bmaj scale (it lies n da hand even for monkeys)
I felt in love with Bach's music...I thought he was mechanical...well, we do not have any recording from that period, but today's interpretation could be really beautiful and not mechanical! I definetly LOVE it!
Wonderful finger technic....Unhappily, the cruel lack of respiration and sensitivity in this performance remind me the words of the french writer Colette about JS Bach : "sublime machine à coudre".
excellent performance of this piece. although the logo is on the piano, for some reason this piano doesn't sound like a steinway and sons to me - it seems to be too meallow
Listen to RUPERT EGERTON-SMITH perform this work, and hear the lyric and vividly imaginative ideals of Edwin Fischer, Tobias Matthay, Myra Hess, Harold Samuels and Wilhelm Kempff come fully alive.
Mr. Egerton-Smith plays with their kind of warmth, vitality and deep personal identification with the spirit of the music and tremendous virtuosity as well..
Mr. Zhang gives an excellent, finely detailed, well-executed rendition, but compared to RES it is bloodless and colorless. So is GG in 848.
it's a very serious musician: I heard him at the Van Cliburn and I agree that he's a true champion. What's very incredible is the naturalness and deepness of his sound, it's near to the sound of all the european great pianists. Thank You Hoachen.
My friend, you are 'blind'. Good music or bad music are the same for you. A big explosion or a bird's song is the same for you. You can´t listen everything.
Fantastic playing and excellent tempos. Most play the fugue too fast, but this is great. I've been watching Hoachen in the Cliburn and I think he's the next Yundi Li or Lang Lang. In fact, I think he's better than they are.
Very nice indeed. An interesting interpretation however it lacks the crispness of GG's recordings. With him and despite the tempo, each note is crisply heard. As another said, this is Bach, not Chopin. Still, the work is very nice indeed.
Please, attencion: The Haochen Zhang's interpretation of bwv848 is a complete masterclass about the perfect interpretation of Bach's music!
Hear each phrase, the dynamic in 3:17, the voice of left hand in 2:31...that's Bach!! Hear the tema's taste in all fugue:fresh, brillant, emotional, like Bach's music need!
For give me, but Glenn Gould' interpretation and the others can't compare to H.Zhang.
Zhang played the best interpretation of BWV848. I can compare him to LANDOWSKA, no one else.
Glenn Gould, Sviatoslav Richter, Claudio Arrau and others in the clavicembalo or piano...Haochen Zhang is better in this piece, much better, much better!
God bless your hands, your mind, your soul, go bless your genious superb. This is a INCREDIBLE surprise in my life, thie interpretation is perfect, absolutly!
i´m a professional musician, and I know Bach all my life, are not only words
for give me for my english, I´m a Brasilian musician
I know all interpretations on youtube (20 OR MORE), and others, the most famous of the world too (Gould, Richter etc)
The Haochen Zhang's interpretation is THE BEST interpretation in the world, who knows BACH's CONTRAPUNTISTIC STYLE agree.
Haochen Zhang plays the fugue in the exactly tempo, the voices sins perfect, acentuation, cadenza, dynamic, brillant....he sings each note, pure, beautiful, like a "kantor"
true. but dynamics and clean pedaling can make this piece sound so much more lively. true bach wrote this for the harpsichord, and it's fine to play on the harpsichord without much dynamics b/c theres not much you can do w/ dynamics on a harpsichord. But b/c it's the piano we need to use every bit of the ability that the piano can bring to a piece. And it's like my teacher says. Bach would've been thrilled to have composed for the pianoforte. just imagine what he could've done.
I must have poor taste, personally I don't find it very enjoyable at all. The playing is too light for me. I await vigor, health--some of that bouncing energy that the prelude yields and receive none. It is like I expect this pulsing and growing that at the very end is supposed to die in exhaustion but the whole performance is instead monotonous, yes, that's the word I was looking for.
Maybe the dynamics were slightly off, but the overall lightness is, for me, one of the great qualities of this piece. Bach has many pieces that I'm used to being played lightly, making their harmonic tensions all the more subtle and beautiful. The fugue did miss a bit of power and forward drive, though. But then Bach is the paragon of variation in approach, maybe it just depends on what you're used to.
Very nicely executed and interpreted. It's hard to be stylistic with articulation and to keep it musical, but he did it. The harmonic color changes were excellent.
I LOVE it!!! So musical.
mcmf77 6 days ago
Perfection!
cubanbach 2 weeks ago
I hope to be a good player as good teaching ablity trust holder to next generation through getting understand effective by your own through many my advices or coments for you with essencials and concious points for making pure pure good with your good personality criates on promissing with those many your playing misics and scores .
Could you play in front of the highest serious pure pure surely trustive king or queen or me ? Till 2 paragraves,I hope to hear with this philosophy.
HighROCOCOlings 4 months ago
There's nothing like Bach: The god of music.
dosergiobr 4 months ago
cómo toca!!!!
gabinavarro 4 months ago
Beautiful!
KevinTheKennedy 7 months ago
Very fine! Haochen.....
franz1828 10 months ago
Very fine!
franz1828 10 months ago
Nobody cant beat Glen Gould at Bach,
check this out to see how this piece should really be played. AND, thumbs up so others can see for future reference.
/watch?v=_miM6sjklJE
PlancksTime 1 year ago
@PlancksTime Thumbs down. And you're right "Nobody CAN'T beat Glenn Gould." meaning everyone CAN beat him. And spell his name right at least. Gould was a psychopath overrated freak who destroyed the composer's intentions. THIS GUY'S BACH IS JUST AS GOOD, BUT EVEN BETTER.
goodguysdoll 1 year ago
@goodguysdoll Gould was talented but I agree over rated. A few of his interpretations of Bach are just plain weird and strange. I'm wondering if he was partly autistic, which helped him with a mystique that stood out.
The draw of Gould in my opinion was that he was exceptionally authentic because of his was wrapped up socially and psychologically in his own world, and didn't pander to others in the way he played. Being eccentric and deeply authentic on some way seem to go hand in hand.
ArtFoodPhilosophy 11 months ago
I really like it! I found the fugue to be a little too uniform for my taste, but it was an interesting and convincing interpretation nonetheless. Very nice! :)
FredilYupigo 1 year ago
You play Bach very well. You can hear the lines perfectly. It's all clean and even. Very Bach-like. Well done! Thanks for uploading it was a pleasure to hear this!
rumpranger65 1 year ago 2
His playing style strikes me as very Russian... which you usually see mostly in Russian pianists (Surprise!). But all my favorite pianists are Russian, so I see that as a good thing.
BenMcCormack91 1 year ago
Very Very well played and Well executed tempo, the texture does not over power the essence of how Bach should be played. Anyone CAN play Bach but not everyone can execute a BACH....considering it is being played in a clavicembalo pianoforte. He didnt DROWN it. Bravo!!!
macmusikpro 1 year ago
your comments just tell all what a fool you are nothing intelligent said shows you up .AND NONE OF U CAN PLAY HAHA! at eleven he played Chopin etudes better than u allcan play a simple bmaj scale (it lies n da hand even for monkeys)
lovesGenet 1 year ago
haochen zhang rocks
jonathanc1026 2 years ago
One word: Flawless.
piano617 2 years ago 8
ああ～ なんてステキっ
rivriv1 2 years ago
wow great job
very good technique for playing bach..
pianomangabe 2 years ago 2
I felt in love with Bach's music...I thought he was mechanical...well, we do not have any recording from that period, but today's interpretation could be really beautiful and not mechanical! I definetly LOVE it!
Kapomafioso 2 years ago 3
wow i played this for licentiate, brings back memories hehe
very nice prelude although i don't play bach anymore, not that there's anything wrong with bach
Smeagollum86 2 years ago 3
he hacks ;) i see him using piano godmode and keybot
danedaworld 2 years ago 7
It is so much easier for all of you to be critics than pianists, isn't it?
aceofdatabase 2 years ago 16
yes :-)
PeterStuttgart 2 years ago
@aceofdatabase yes it is.
goodguysdoll 1 year ago
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Wonderful finger technic....Unhappily, the cruel lack of respiration and sensitivity in this performance remind me the words of the french writer Colette about JS Bach : "sublime machine à coudre".
bhairava2 2 years ago
So great!
thepianomaniac 2 years ago 4
Bach owna !
TheLeonardo007 2 years ago
excellent performance of this piece. although the logo is on the piano, for some reason this piano doesn't sound like a steinway and sons to me - it seems to be too meallow
mmpianist 2 years ago
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Listen to RUPERT EGERTON-SMITH perform this work, and hear the lyric and vividly imaginative ideals of Edwin Fischer, Tobias Matthay, Myra Hess, Harold Samuels and Wilhelm Kempff come fully alive.
Mr. Egerton-Smith plays with their kind of warmth, vitality and deep personal identification with the spirit of the music and tremendous virtuosity as well..
Mr. Zhang gives an excellent, finely detailed, well-executed rendition, but compared to RES it is bloodless and colorless. So is GG in 848.
Pischnaholic 2 years ago
He's amazing! Wow - such even but deep playing that truly captures the spirit of the piece!
Wonderful! He didn't win the Van Cliburn for nothing!
FredilYupigo 2 years ago 3
you can tell he is gould fan, at the van cliburn he wouldnt play with his own chair.
kepler101 2 years ago
Yes but unlike Gould he keeps his yap shut while he's playing.
aceofdatabase 2 years ago 2
6 un genio
kinghikonghi 2 years ago 2
it's a very serious musician: I heard him at the Van Cliburn and I agree that he's a true champion. What's very incredible is the naturalness and deepness of his sound, it's near to the sound of all the european great pianists. Thank You Hoachen.
parismusette 2 years ago 3
Haochen!!! You are amazing. We support you forever.
susansutx 2 years ago 3
OMG! He's such a nice player!!!
wawasesame 2 years ago 3
I watched him at the Cliburn and was impressed. I'm even more impressed that he plays Bach this well too.
shaheenpierre 2 years ago 6
Congratulations Haochen ... !!!
Daavid321 2 years ago 2
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i wonder if violino31 is mr zhang, or maybe he just has a man crush on him...
SixthTreeAtNoon 2 years ago
My friend, you are 'blind'. Good music or bad music are the same for you. A big explosion or a bird's song is the same for you. You can´t listen everything.
violino31 2 years ago
Fantastic playing and excellent tempos. Most play the fugue too fast, but this is great. I've been watching Hoachen in the Cliburn and I think he's the next Yundi Li or Lang Lang. In fact, I think he's better than they are.
BachScholar 2 years ago 22
I agree!
babyeinstein12 2 years ago 2
@BachScholar why compare
MrRoofusPadumelon 1 year ago
technique-wise perfect. maybe more dynamics? but it definitely sounds baroque to me. well done
sauternety36 2 years ago
Almost seems like he kind of strains his fingers, but still he performed very well =]
piano617 3 years ago
Very nicly done ! I just have some problems with hearin' dynamics. But excluding this is awesome !
Bartekdex 3 years ago
genius!
shaermy 3 years ago 2
Very nice indeed. An interesting interpretation however it lacks the crispness of GG's recordings. With him and despite the tempo, each note is crisply heard. As another said, this is Bach, not Chopin. Still, the work is very nice indeed.
Woodenboatman19 3 years ago
Please, attencion: The Haochen Zhang's interpretation of bwv848 is a complete masterclass about the perfect interpretation of Bach's music!
Hear each phrase, the dynamic in 3:17, the voice of left hand in 2:31...that's Bach!! Hear the tema's taste in all fugue:fresh, brillant, emotional, like Bach's music need!
For give me, but Glenn Gould' interpretation and the others can't compare to H.Zhang.
Zhang played the best interpretation of BWV848. I can compare him to LANDOWSKA, no one else.
violino31 3 years ago 4
Glenn Gould, Sviatoslav Richter, Claudio Arrau and others in the clavicembalo or piano...Haochen Zhang is better in this piece, much better, much better!
God bless your hands, your mind, your soul, go bless your genious superb. This is a INCREDIBLE surprise in my life, thie interpretation is perfect, absolutly!
i´m a professional musician, and I know Bach all my life, are not only words
for give me for my english, I´m a Brasilian musician
salut for everybody
violino31 3 years ago 4
I know all interpretations on youtube (20 OR MORE), and others, the most famous of the world too (Gould, Richter etc)
The Haochen Zhang's interpretation is THE BEST interpretation in the world, who knows BACH's CONTRAPUNTISTIC STYLE agree.
Haochen Zhang plays the fugue in the exactly tempo, the voices sins perfect, acentuation, cadenza, dynamic, brillant....he sings each note, pure, beautiful, like a "kantor"
violino31 3 years ago 5
Bravo, Haochen !!
Gusakov 3 years ago
awesome!!
iorixs 3 years ago
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There are NO dynamics in the prelude! why no feeling? so dead.
Do you mean 'Curtis', happykeke?
hainanrose 3 years ago
It's Bach...not Chopin.
itsanthonyhere 3 years ago 8
true. but dynamics and clean pedaling can make this piece sound so much more lively. true bach wrote this for the harpsichord, and it's fine to play on the harpsichord without much dynamics b/c theres not much you can do w/ dynamics on a harpsichord. But b/c it's the piano we need to use every bit of the ability that the piano can bring to a piece. And it's like my teacher says. Bach would've been thrilled to have composed for the pianoforte. just imagine what he could've done.
pianodude2289 3 years ago
listen to Glenn Gould...
you'll see, uh i mean hear :p
Freakguitarman 3 years ago
impressive!
I loved it
mistmv12 3 years ago 2
He won 1st place on this!!! He will become a very good pianist!!! A+, Very nice!!! And he is also from Crutis
happykeke 3 years ago 5
your technique is godly. I enjoyed your understanding of baroque style.
beautifully played. please post more.
EmperorOfOctaves 3 years ago 5
I dont care what any of these people say i thought it was very well played and very enjoyable.
stopgomofo 3 years ago 4
Sounded great; quality video.
guitars2112 4 years ago
I must have poor taste, personally I don't find it very enjoyable at all. The playing is too light for me. I await vigor, health--some of that bouncing energy that the prelude yields and receive none. It is like I expect this pulsing and growing that at the very end is supposed to die in exhaustion but the whole performance is instead monotonous, yes, that's the word I was looking for.
dolofonos 4 years ago 3
Maybe the dynamics were slightly off, but the overall lightness is, for me, one of the great qualities of this piece. Bach has many pieces that I'm used to being played lightly, making their harmonic tensions all the more subtle and beautiful. The fugue did miss a bit of power and forward drive, though. But then Bach is the paragon of variation in approach, maybe it just depends on what you're used to.
henripche 4 years ago 4
a very good player...especially your fugue..
you brought out the voices very clearly!
hats off!
JarodR9 4 years ago 3
I'm glad to see him again ! he grow up a lot.
very good Bach's touch, clean, clear and full of color.
chiuchiu123 4 years ago 3
Very nicely executed and interpreted. It's hard to be stylistic with articulation and to keep it musical, but he did it. The harmonic color changes were excellent.
piano6861 4 years ago 3
How very well said :). You must be a good teacher!
Daavid321 4 years ago 2
I try my best!
piano6861 4 years ago 2
@Daavid321 Good piano teacher only? He's one of two winners in Cliburn 2009!!!
lovepichio 3 months ago