to much phrasing, it is a beautiful piece but it sounds like you have to breath every 4 measures when i played it, it was about every 8 to 12 measures. calm down. lol, but other than that i love this piece. beautiful
With all due respect: I dont understand what you mean by writing "I play a modern flute for modern people who are nt coming from the 18th century". If on a modern wood flute or on a old wood flute the music of Bach is not going to change in the logic,structure, phrasing,etc.A free way to interpretation doesnt mean to do whatever we want because we just feel it that way! I like your sound but to me your language is far away from what Bach intended with this Allemande.
He changes the note values!! He does not respect the literature!! i suspect it's because he couldn't breathe correctly if he was to play it as it is written. The final effect is one of "distortion" of the actual music after so much "swinging"!!
@Bashkii You are so confused that it may takes decades to sort out.
The score is not the music. The score carries no music... just vague hints of pitch. The multi-dimensional experience has to be constructed entirely... which according to baroque ideas is to follow invention, fancy, and taste... not the score. If you want to think like an academic... at least go do your historic research first.
"The score is not the music"? so what is it ...a treasury map?? "Vague hints of pitch" is what " contemporary graphic scores" are all about. In the baroque, first and foremost, pitch was written with definitive assertion because of the recent and new "tempered" tuning system.You need to listen the interpretations of Maxence Larrieu, Alain Marion, JP Rampal, Julius Baker and Sharon Bezaly, all of them available in iTunes.
Tell me which one of those well known flutists remotely resembles this charade by flutehawchang. My opinion has nothing to do with "academicism" but with common sense, which unfortunately it's the least common of all senses.Ornamentation has nothing to do with "swinging" capriciously to the point of distorting the literature. Oh, and truly I believe you are so disoriented that it may take you centuries or even several life times to sort this out.
I'm a baroque fan, that loves to stick to the 18th century interpretation. But I must say that this is one of the best performance I've ever heard of this piece (and I've heard many).
Actually, it's the FIRST performance of the Allemande I felt good with. All players I've heard playing this, even in the best recordings on the market - either forgot what interpretation is (and played like a computer), or did a bad job (IMHO).
Thank you!! (and please let us know when the CD is out :-)
I'm a baroque fan, that loves to stick to the 18th century interpretation. But I must say that this is one of the best performance I've ever heard of this piece (and I've heard many).
Actually, it's the FIRST performance of the Allemande I felt good with. All players I've heard playing this, even in the best recordings on the market - either forgot what interpretation is (and played like a computer), or did a bad job (IMHO).
Thank you!! (and please let us know when the CD is out :-)
Wonder performance on the Partita. Impressed with the passion, tone, sonority and technique Mr Chang brings to the forefront.
One respondent questioned (his) "playing this way". I think it's called "artistic license". After all is said and done, I'm confident that Bach would appreciate this performance.
Thanks for your kind complement, I really don't mind those who strongly defend the so called "traditional Bach style" or "Baroque style" people, because, I was like them when I was at that level. I took everything my teachers told me like a "rule", but only after I became a teacher myself, I started to think about what music is really for, then I started to play music that pleased my own ears.
I can't believe there are people who can criticize this! As musicians (artists) we have the right to play the written music the way we feel it. Specially baroque that was not written the way musicians were supposed to play it. He is an excellent flutist doing a great performance.
This is a well-thought out performance of Bach, and well executed, I don't see why anyone would complain. If you listen to performances through the ages, you see that the concept of how a piece is played changes. If you don't agree with the style, at least respect the integrity of the performance.
Has anyone noticed that the ad libitum ussually arrise durring the more technical passages? humm.. Maybe I should move to, Where is this, Taiwan, I could have quite a career. If he were really doing it his way, I doubt hed be reading the music. He just "decided" to do it his way? And, at the same time play with the composers notatation. Anyone who has played this piece can clearly see that what is going on here is that the "my way" excuse is just that, an excuse for his technical deficet.
Personaly, I really didn't like the interpretation. It sounds like a mouth saying something you'd never expect it so say. Some may like, but I didn't.
One of my favorite things about solo bach is that it is open to each artist's interpretation - you never hear it played the same twice. Those who do play solo bach in pure baroque style are missing the wonderful potential of the pieces.
Flutehawchang - continue to play this your way. That's what makes a true artist!
This is wonderful! I love how you took a piece and really made it your own. Great work!
P.s. I'm playing this for a final solo in my senior year of high school. And only about 8 months of flute experience. A bit scared, but it SHOULD go well. I might take some leads from you too =)
Music is a two-way conversation between the musician and the composer. You should be listening to what the composer is trying to say through the score, as well as having your say. Currently you seem to be dominating the conversation solely with your own thoughts. :-)
@Charm874 That is the beauty of music written by composers: it's meant to be interpreted by the musician. Sure it may not be what the composer imagined, but that's not a bad thing. No two people see a piece, or express it, in the same way.
@Charm874 Music isn't a 'two way conversation between the musician and the composer'. After being chosen to be a brief conduit for this rhetoric by God, the composer is now dead & gone. We, however, are here... and so is this musician, as well as the luthier who made this instrument, & the printers who printed this music... not to mention the people who built the concert hall... and whatever ghosts wish to attend. Minus the 1 element you included, it is now at least a 7-way conversation.
I think his style is beautiful he has made it into his own it is music yes we need rules but the whole point of music is to calm and relax you it is not not a math equation it is a form of art.
Your definition is kind of contradictory, isn't it? Rubato means compensation of time, you "steal" the time of a regular flux. It doesn't mean simply liberty, you have to think from where to steal this portion of time. You know that. And, as I said, it's impossible to play this piece without rubato. There is no time to breath. That's why this is a good example of this kind of strategy allied to expressive interpretation. It's not idiossincrasy.
Time and rhythm are not the same thing. Rubato 99 percent of the time, the composer means to start slow, speed up and slow down. Most of Bach's music was a new way to hear music as the world was going from mean to a tempered system of tuning. They would have not played with any rubato. A lot of the music, including both well tempered claviers were ways for instruments to cope with the new tuning systems. Playing with anything else, would have been a shock to the ears of the audience.
They (Bach's music and before) would have not played with any rubato? You think that music history works as an evolution? I'm pretty sure that baroque dances were played with some maneirism that can't be exacly discovered today (but with some intuition). I don't see the relation between the tempered system and the idea of maneirism or rubato.
Also, there could have been a b.c. part written for this that is unknown, many of these kinds of partitas did have this. In which case, even if rubato was used, it would have taken much coordination. Another reason this should be played pretty much, perfectly in time. (if you want to be authentic as possible, which sounds much better, in my opinion) Also, you take time from notes for breaths...
Or it had some b.c. or it was originally written for another instrument! But ok: listening to this video again after so many time, I agree that here he exaggerates in rubato. It's affectation. He's a good musician, but this criticism to his style choice is important.
Mr. Chang, I think your interpretation is brilliant, and actually, is very similar to the way I play it. I think of it being like one of Bach's cello suites - a 'sense' of tempo, but otherwise, completely free and a matter of interpretation - I think it becomes so boring when you take a piece like this, set a strict tempo, and follow everything written on the page. Take some chances, people!
Poor Bach must be rolling in his grave! Why does everebody think that just because it's a partita they can just take it and do whatever they want with it. There are certain restrictions and ways of playing pre-classical music. Unfortunately this wasn't the best example. Maybe you should listen to some more recordings of real flute players. Just saying, that's all...
I'm playing this solo this year too, and I wouldn't interpret it this way. And I think he should've memorized it. He doesn't look as intimate with the piece cause he's staring at it the whole time lol.
im trying to get this song up to tempo.... where quarter = 100 but everytime i hear some one play this song the tempo is different from one person to the next.... is the tempo on this song supposed to be free style???
well, hey guys... it only has 2 movements of the whole Partita~ There should be 4 movements all together!
I must say... I really WOULD NOT agree with Mr. Chang's interpretation of this piece, but I have to admit that he has a VERY nice sound!!! My teacher Felix Skowronek also played on a wooden flute, but the sound was as focused as Mr. Chang. However, why bother using a wooden flute when it sounded just like a "metal" flute afterall??? mmm
yeah ik i have to learn it for my solo & ensemble this year in like 3 months and my director said it takes like 10 to 11 mins!! =O that's amazing i hope i get as good
he's playing it all wrong hes swings the allamande in an immense amount of place and hes slurring quite a few of the notes as well. its all tongued and the whole thing is in semi quavers and hes just not living up to that at . Hes totally messed up j.s bach finests peice of flute music
yea I have to agree... in a traditional and classical sense it just is all wrong. However I do perfer it this way on flute, and also perform it similar... even though its all wrong ^.^
No one says everyone's interpretation of a piece has to be the same. Music isn't merely notes on a page. It's an art. He just happens to hear it a different way. : ) I actually kind of like his interpretation. It brings something new to a piece that tends to be played very straight.
I play it myself, and I have to agree with antifatkins101, some of the phrasing is played very oddly, and although it depends on who transcribed the score, it doesn't sound as fluid as it does on the Barenreiter-Verlag version.
It was really unusual in this period to write music for flute without stops, like Allemande's way. That reason did some musicologists thought this Partita was originaly for violin, because is imposible to breathe.¿!? So... is not a sacrilege to play it stopping, because even in this period they had to if they want to play this Allemande. Today we play Bach's music with modern flutes and pianos, so we can change old-fashioned parameters. And Bach would like modern flutes, pianos, and parameters.
I like this way of playing Bach. I think Bach will be agree with you. I always play this partita with this kind of rubatos. Maybe he did not write breathings in Allemande thinking about this kind of distorsion of the rhythm.
Its interesting how he played the constant 16th's. Its differnt. He'd did play well, but for rubato, he needs to rob the other 16ths of their length more if he's going to lenghten the rest so long. However, I prefer how he plays it over Jean Pierre rampaul. And i'm digging the black flute, i thought it was baroque at first.
That was outstanding!! you play with such a beautifull tone. I have just started playing again after ten years cant ever imagine my tone sounding as good as that. I love the way you played this peice I dont think it matters you did not play it excatly the way it was written your interpretation is just fine.
Why did you play in this way? I can agree with your opinion, but I'm wondering if you have some reason to play in your original interpretation. Plz tell me:-/
Reason? well, because I'm that kind of person and I like it. I play modern flute to modern people who are not coming from the 18th century, why should I limit my soul with a rule that no one can prove it? I did imitate the way my teacher played Bach during my my college years and I did pretty well, but now, I do it my own way, I'm sorry for those who do not like my Bach, but, I'm no longer a student, I'm an artist, a modern artist, I have to have my own taste otherwise I'm only a imitator.
Thank you for the answer. Now I got what you mean. Do you know Patrick Gallois's CPE Bach recording from Naxos? It also has a original interpretation like you. I wanna listen to your opinion if you've already heard that recording.
@flutehawchang. I think that it is a highly respectable viewpoint, but I think that we should not stick only to recordings. There are treatises about baroque music and an artist must be well informed prior to interpret. For example, I think that ornamentations on your performance are not correct from a historical standpoint. But it's only my opinion (highly respectable too).
@flutehawchang: I Like your vision! This is how an artist must moved. This is the way that lead to new creations. If people dind't follow your vision, we still would make music with spoons, plates and pots.
@flutehawchang Not only are you right to be authentic, but as it is ridiculous to try and play these pieces 'as Bach would have'. Also the fact that nobody rightly knows or remembers how anybody played 300 years ago... you are triplye right. Further, I find your playing much closer to what Baroque music is... than those who try to imagine what it should be through the veil of 20th century academicism and 'objectivism' And even if all that fails... You have good taste... the eternal winner.
You know, how one person interprets someone's work does not necessarily make this peice not of Bach's works. I agree with flutehawchang, this is definetly not Bach, this is Harvey Chang playing a peice by Bach.
Nice sound, however you must respect the boundaries of phrasing from the baroque era, this performance is slightly over romanticized more simple phrasing would have given the work more character.
Yes, you're right! This is not bach, this is me played a music written by bach. Bach went to see The Lord 257 years ago, I don't know him, do you? Have you ever heard a recording from his time?? if not, how can you say Bach is not ad libitum??? please prove to me!! What people usually say is not always true, please open your mind to the great world of music and think about what human really like to listen to!!! And don't judge others by your knowledge, unless you can prove it.
@flutehawchang OK I can refrence about 10 treatises that will tell you how to play this music. Don't be an idiot. Just because there was no recording doesn't mean we don't know how it sounded... so many people wrote on the subject. At least you admit you have no respect for the composer.... and that's all that really matters, because you have said that, you can actually do whatever you want. But we certainly know pretty well how it would have sounded.
it's good to experiment, you never know where it will lead
iorixs 6 months ago
to much phrasing, it is a beautiful piece but it sounds like you have to breath every 4 measures when i played it, it was about every 8 to 12 measures. calm down. lol, but other than that i love this piece. beautiful
bmarcum2011 7 months ago
With all due respect: I dont understand what you mean by writing "I play a modern flute for modern people who are nt coming from the 18th century". If on a modern wood flute or on a old wood flute the music of Bach is not going to change in the logic,structure, phrasing,etc.A free way to interpretation doesnt mean to do whatever we want because we just feel it that way! I like your sound but to me your language is far away from what Bach intended with this Allemande.
gaboflute 10 months ago 2
He changes the note values!! He does not respect the literature!! i suspect it's because he couldn't breathe correctly if he was to play it as it is written. The final effect is one of "distortion" of the actual music after so much "swinging"!!
Bashkii 1 year ago
@Bashkii You are so confused that it may takes decades to sort out.
The score is not the music. The score carries no music... just vague hints of pitch. The multi-dimensional experience has to be constructed entirely... which according to baroque ideas is to follow invention, fancy, and taste... not the score. If you want to think like an academic... at least go do your historic research first.
Totma11 8 months ago
@Totma11
"The score is not the music"? so what is it ...a treasury map?? "Vague hints of pitch" is what " contemporary graphic scores" are all about. In the baroque, first and foremost, pitch was written with definitive assertion because of the recent and new "tempered" tuning system.You need to listen the interpretations of Maxence Larrieu, Alain Marion, JP Rampal, Julius Baker and Sharon Bezaly, all of them available in iTunes.
Bashkii 8 months ago
@Totma11
Tell me which one of those well known flutists remotely resembles this charade by flutehawchang. My opinion has nothing to do with "academicism" but with common sense, which unfortunately it's the least common of all senses.Ornamentation has nothing to do with "swinging" capriciously to the point of distorting the literature. Oh, and truly I believe you are so disoriented that it may take you centuries or even several life times to sort this out.
Bashkii 8 months ago
what a wonderful piece
indoorkillgore 1 year ago
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I'm a baroque fan, that loves to stick to the 18th century interpretation. But I must say that this is one of the best performance I've ever heard of this piece (and I've heard many).
Actually, it's the FIRST performance of the Allemande I felt good with. All players I've heard playing this, even in the best recordings on the market - either forgot what interpretation is (and played like a computer), or did a bad job (IMHO).
Thank you!! (and please let us know when the CD is out :-)
adarw1 1 year ago
I'm a baroque fan, that loves to stick to the 18th century interpretation. But I must say that this is one of the best performance I've ever heard of this piece (and I've heard many).
Actually, it's the FIRST performance of the Allemande I felt good with. All players I've heard playing this, even in the best recordings on the market - either forgot what interpretation is (and played like a computer), or did a bad job (IMHO).
Thank you!! (and please let us know when the CD is out :-)
adarw1 1 year ago
I love this! Thanks for sharing. He sounds great on a wooden flute.
Aislinnmomma 1 year ago
Wonder performance on the Partita. Impressed with the passion, tone, sonority and technique Mr Chang brings to the forefront.
One respondent questioned (his) "playing this way". I think it's called "artistic license". After all is said and done, I'm confident that Bach would appreciate this performance.
Regards, principalflutist
principalflutist 1 year ago
Wonderful intreptation of Bach's Paritia. Love the beautiful intonation, sonority and techniques, as performed by Harvey Chang.
Played with passion and lovely tone.
Regards, principal flutist.
P.S. --- I always like to know what make/model of flute any performer plays on.
Feedback? Thanks
principalflutist 1 year ago
Thanks for your kind complement, I really don't mind those who strongly defend the so called "traditional Bach style" or "Baroque style" people, because, I was like them when I was at that level. I took everything my teachers told me like a "rule", but only after I became a teacher myself, I started to think about what music is really for, then I started to play music that pleased my own ears.
flutehawchang 1 year ago 6
@flutehawchang
Please don't tell my students. :-)
flutehawchang 1 year ago
@flutehawchang, please go on like this!
adarw1 1 year ago
@principalflutist
It was a YAMAHA 874W Wooden Flute.
flutehawchang 1 year ago
I can't believe there are people who can criticize this! As musicians (artists) we have the right to play the written music the way we feel it. Specially baroque that was not written the way musicians were supposed to play it. He is an excellent flutist doing a great performance.
JuliaGotth 1 year ago
This is a well-thought out performance of Bach, and well executed, I don't see why anyone would complain. If you listen to performances through the ages, you see that the concept of how a piece is played changes. If you don't agree with the style, at least respect the integrity of the performance.
hoopsmom1 1 year ago
pretty sound from the wood flute though
stark1770 1 year ago
Has anyone noticed that the ad libitum ussually arrise durring the more technical passages? humm.. Maybe I should move to, Where is this, Taiwan, I could have quite a career. If he were really doing it his way, I doubt hed be reading the music. He just "decided" to do it his way? And, at the same time play with the composers notatation. Anyone who has played this piece can clearly see that what is going on here is that the "my way" excuse is just that, an excuse for his technical deficet.
stark1770 1 year ago
I find this to be a brilliant interpretation! I believe Bach would be pleased :)
The phrase, beauty, and tonality are perfect
[@everyone](it's hard for it not to be...seeing that this is music and all...;)
tubonianflute 1 year ago
Personaly, I really didn't like the interpretation. It sounds like a mouth saying something you'd never expect it so say. Some may like, but I didn't.
gabriellando 1 year ago
One of my favorite things about solo bach is that it is open to each artist's interpretation - you never hear it played the same twice. Those who do play solo bach in pure baroque style are missing the wonderful potential of the pieces.
Flutehawchang - continue to play this your way. That's what makes a true artist!
skathleenr 1 year ago
This is wonderful! I love how you took a piece and really made it your own. Great work!
P.s. I'm playing this for a final solo in my senior year of high school. And only about 8 months of flute experience. A bit scared, but it SHOULD go well. I might take some leads from you too =)
Once again, great work!
catzzzvb 1 year ago
Your interpretation is diferent, but so rich and emotional!
I really enjoyed it!
Unlike those "so called" historycally oriented musicians, I do appreciate variety of view and opinion regarding the interpretation of music!
Cheers from Brazil!
Marlifan69 1 year ago
very nice he doesn't play it too fast to show off, most soloist want to show off so much. greg
gwatersusa 1 year ago
Music is a two-way conversation between the musician and the composer. You should be listening to what the composer is trying to say through the score, as well as having your say. Currently you seem to be dominating the conversation solely with your own thoughts. :-)
Charm874 1 year ago 11
@Charm874 That is the beauty of music written by composers: it's meant to be interpreted by the musician. Sure it may not be what the composer imagined, but that's not a bad thing. No two people see a piece, or express it, in the same way.
nyuumiester 1 year ago
@nyuumiester I agree with you, but I would personally add "within reason." :-)
Charm874 1 year ago
@Charm874 Music isn't a 'two way conversation between the musician and the composer'. After being chosen to be a brief conduit for this rhetoric by God, the composer is now dead & gone. We, however, are here... and so is this musician, as well as the luthier who made this instrument, & the printers who printed this music... not to mention the people who built the concert hall... and whatever ghosts wish to attend. Minus the 1 element you included, it is now at least a 7-way conversation.
Totma11 8 months ago
Bach wrote music as an inexhaustible source of beauty for us mere mortals.
Slerovx 2 years ago 3
Beautiful.
playjazzpiano 2 years ago
I think his style is beautiful he has made it into his own it is music yes we need rules but the whole point of music is to calm and relax you it is not not a math equation it is a form of art.
ErinNicoleFilms 2 years ago
its technically a dance piece and yet hes playing it in a stupid interpretation way it needs to have rhythm and time!!!!!!!
littlebinge 2 years ago
Allemande is a dance, yes, but all these solo partitas by Bach were in no way "Dance" music. But I agree... terrible rhythm.
irenicflutist 2 years ago
With such a use of rubato, beyond all, there is time to breath naturally. This interpration is very important to know.
leomulder 2 years ago
Rubato means taking liberty with time not doing whatever the hell you want.
irenicflutist 2 years ago
Your definition is kind of contradictory, isn't it? Rubato means compensation of time, you "steal" the time of a regular flux. It doesn't mean simply liberty, you have to think from where to steal this portion of time. You know that. And, as I said, it's impossible to play this piece without rubato. There is no time to breath. That's why this is a good example of this kind of strategy allied to expressive interpretation. It's not idiossincrasy.
leomulder 2 years ago
Time and rhythm are not the same thing. Rubato 99 percent of the time, the composer means to start slow, speed up and slow down. Most of Bach's music was a new way to hear music as the world was going from mean to a tempered system of tuning. They would have not played with any rubato. A lot of the music, including both well tempered claviers were ways for instruments to cope with the new tuning systems. Playing with anything else, would have been a shock to the ears of the audience.
irenicflutist 2 years ago
They (Bach's music and before) would have not played with any rubato? You think that music history works as an evolution? I'm pretty sure that baroque dances were played with some maneirism that can't be exacly discovered today (but with some intuition). I don't see the relation between the tempered system and the idea of maneirism or rubato.
leomulder 2 years ago
ok. read a book about baroque music and maybe it will help.
irenicflutist 2 years ago
WHAT IF YOU READ A BOOK ABOUT THE "NOTES INÉGALES"? You'll understand what I'm talking about.
Beyond being inconsistently stupid you're arrogant.
leomulder 2 years ago
Also, there could have been a b.c. part written for this that is unknown, many of these kinds of partitas did have this. In which case, even if rubato was used, it would have taken much coordination. Another reason this should be played pretty much, perfectly in time. (if you want to be authentic as possible, which sounds much better, in my opinion) Also, you take time from notes for breaths...
irenicflutist 2 years ago
Or it had some b.c. or it was originally written for another instrument! But ok: listening to this video again after so many time, I agree that here he exaggerates in rubato. It's affectation. He's a good musician, but this criticism to his style choice is important.
leomulder 2 years ago
Mr. Chang, I think your interpretation is brilliant, and actually, is very similar to the way I play it. I think of it being like one of Bach's cello suites - a 'sense' of tempo, but otherwise, completely free and a matter of interpretation - I think it becomes so boring when you take a piece like this, set a strict tempo, and follow everything written on the page. Take some chances, people!
kyblueeyes85 2 years ago
Poor Bach must be rolling in his grave! Why does everebody think that just because it's a partita they can just take it and do whatever they want with it. There are certain restrictions and ways of playing pre-classical music. Unfortunately this wasn't the best example. Maybe you should listen to some more recordings of real flute players. Just saying, that's all...
floriana1985 2 years ago
I'm playing this solo this year too, and I wouldn't interpret it this way. And I think he should've memorized it. He doesn't look as intimate with the piece cause he's staring at it the whole time lol.
He has a great tone quality though. For sure :)
@autumncider
It's unaccompianed, so you can play it however fast or slow you want. It's all in how you interpret it.
Turtle753951 2 years ago
im trying to get this song up to tempo.... where quarter = 100 but everytime i hear some one play this song the tempo is different from one person to the next.... is the tempo on this song supposed to be free style???
Autumncider 2 years ago
well, hey guys... it only has 2 movements of the whole Partita~ There should be 4 movements all together!
I must say... I really WOULD NOT agree with Mr. Chang's interpretation of this piece, but I have to admit that he has a VERY nice sound!!! My teacher Felix Skowronek also played on a wooden flute, but the sound was as focused as Mr. Chang. However, why bother using a wooden flute when it sounded just like a "metal" flute afterall??? mmm
mackylala 2 years ago
sooo pretty!!!! :)
lilkrprincess13 2 years ago
yeah ik i have to learn it for my solo & ensemble this year in like 3 months and my director said it takes like 10 to 11 mins!! =O that's amazing i hope i get as good
pinkhottie5 3 years ago
1. The entire FIRST movement finishes at a walloping 4:36 mins when the whole piece can finish under 9 mins.
2. He made a bloody cadenza out of Bach's Solo. +)
3. Nice Flute, wrong period interpretation. (meaning...A wooden flute is nice to play pieces from the Baroque era, just didnt deliver. Painful..
macmusikpro 3 years ago 3
im sorry, what exactly is a cadenza?
forXION 2 years ago
Cadenza is improvised ornamental passage played by a soloists in a free rhythmic style. A very typical of the classical era and onwards..
macmusikpro 2 years ago
I love the sound wooden flutes make.... So mellow and deep. Don't get me wrong, I love my flute, maybe I just want a wooden flute of my own.....
FearThaFluff 3 years ago
wow, i've never seen a black colored flute before. It's very pretty
AkiraChan24 3 years ago
its a baroque wooden flute
they are pretty flutes
Wrapper22 3 years ago
No, it is a modern wooden flute, I have one too
houtblazer 2 years ago
Either way, modern or baroque, the instrument has an amazing tone. It might be the player as well, he is obviously amazing.
forXION 2 years ago
tone has almost everything to do with the player.
yanpan16 2 years ago
he's playing it all wrong hes swings the allamande in an immense amount of place and hes slurring quite a few of the notes as well. its all tongued and the whole thing is in semi quavers and hes just not living up to that at . Hes totally messed up j.s bach finests peice of flute music
littlebinge 3 years ago 3
yea I have to agree... in a traditional and classical sense it just is all wrong. However I do perfer it this way on flute, and also perform it similar... even though its all wrong ^.^
Wrapper22 3 years ago
No one says everyone's interpretation of a piece has to be the same. Music isn't merely notes on a page. It's an art. He just happens to hear it a different way. : ) I actually kind of like his interpretation. It brings something new to a piece that tends to be played very straight.
okami37 3 years ago
Remarkable tone, flawless playing
I would have loved to heard it live :)
masked1one 3 years ago
Very good and smart interpretation!! timing and sound are perfect. I like specially the lower notes: soft and piano
hansfaun2007 3 years ago
I love that piece (:
I play it myself, and I have to agree with antifatkins101, some of the phrasing is played very oddly, and although it depends on who transcribed the score, it doesn't sound as fluid as it does on the Barenreiter-Verlag version.
Regardless, absolutely wonderful to listen to!
KissesFromAKitKat 3 years ago
I can write for you any sheet music
musictranscription 3 years ago
I'm learning this song on bass, soon I'll be able to play completely.
Pedophilesex 3 years ago
It was really unusual in this period to write music for flute without stops, like Allemande's way. That reason did some musicologists thought this Partita was originaly for violin, because is imposible to breathe.¿!? So... is not a sacrilege to play it stopping, because even in this period they had to if they want to play this Allemande. Today we play Bach's music with modern flutes and pianos, so we can change old-fashioned parameters. And Bach would like modern flutes, pianos, and parameters.
experimentaly 3 years ago
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dreeamer2007 3 years ago
yes but this isn't a baroque flute :p this is just a boehm flute made with ebony, so it's modern
theanswer00 3 years ago
I like this way of playing Bach. I think Bach will be agree with you. I always play this partita with this kind of rubatos. Maybe he did not write breathings in Allemande thinking about this kind of distorsion of the rhythm.
ricardflute 4 years ago
Its interesting how he played the constant 16th's. Its differnt. He'd did play well, but for rubato, he needs to rob the other 16ths of their length more if he's going to lenghten the rest so long. However, I prefer how he plays it over Jean Pierre rampaul. And i'm digging the black flute, i thought it was baroque at first.
antifatkins101 4 years ago
Excellent performance!
johannsong 4 years ago
That is a beautiful flute. I could only hope to play like that one day!
ArwenUndomiel2004 4 years ago
very nice tone!
poznanskapyrka 4 years ago
That was outstanding!! you play with such a beautifull tone. I have just started playing again after ten years cant ever imagine my tone sounding as good as that. I love the way you played this peice I dont think it matters you did not play it excatly the way it was written your interpretation is just fine.
beth2977 4 years ago
Why did you play in this way? I can agree with your opinion, but I'm wondering if you have some reason to play in your original interpretation. Plz tell me:-/
tottoko171 4 years ago
Reason? well, because I'm that kind of person and I like it. I play modern flute to modern people who are not coming from the 18th century, why should I limit my soul with a rule that no one can prove it? I did imitate the way my teacher played Bach during my my college years and I did pretty well, but now, I do it my own way, I'm sorry for those who do not like my Bach, but, I'm no longer a student, I'm an artist, a modern artist, I have to have my own taste otherwise I'm only a imitator.
flutehawchang 4 years ago 9
Thank you for the answer. Now I got what you mean. Do you know Patrick Gallois's CPE Bach recording from Naxos? It also has a original interpretation like you. I wanna listen to your opinion if you've already heard that recording.
toshi711japan 4 years ago
@flutehawchang There is taste and taste, such as good and bad taste...
Curatica 1 year ago
@flutehawchang. I think that it is a highly respectable viewpoint, but I think that we should not stick only to recordings. There are treatises about baroque music and an artist must be well informed prior to interpret. For example, I think that ornamentations on your performance are not correct from a historical standpoint. But it's only my opinion (highly respectable too).
srbaritono 1 year ago
@flutehawchang: I Like your vision! This is how an artist must moved. This is the way that lead to new creations. If people dind't follow your vision, we still would make music with spoons, plates and pots.
Thx mister Chang!
Djordjepetrovic 1 year ago
@flutehawchang Not only are you right to be authentic, but as it is ridiculous to try and play these pieces 'as Bach would have'. Also the fact that nobody rightly knows or remembers how anybody played 300 years ago... you are triplye right. Further, I find your playing much closer to what Baroque music is... than those who try to imagine what it should be through the veil of 20th century academicism and 'objectivism' And even if all that fails... You have good taste... the eternal winner.
Totma11 8 months ago
@flutehawchang If you play modern flute to modern people, it would be interesting to hear you play modern music.
leandrusi 6 months ago
You know, how one person interprets someone's work does not necessarily make this peice not of Bach's works. I agree with flutehawchang, this is definetly not Bach, this is Harvey Chang playing a peice by Bach.
Sesshysbabygirl 4 years ago
Nice sound, however you must respect the boundaries of phrasing from the baroque era, this performance is slightly over romanticized more simple phrasing would have given the work more character.
Schubertfinished 4 years ago 14
Harvey's tone is so sweet and perfect.. :] love ittt!
deathbynerds 4 years ago
The best interpretation I had ever eared on utube. I love it
beil06 4 years ago
What is the brand of his flute?
Thank you
serginhoflauta 4 years ago
Yamaha
flutehawchang 4 years ago
Yes, you're right! This is not bach, this is me played a music written by bach. Bach went to see The Lord 257 years ago, I don't know him, do you? Have you ever heard a recording from his time?? if not, how can you say Bach is not ad libitum??? please prove to me!! What people usually say is not always true, please open your mind to the great world of music and think about what human really like to listen to!!! And don't judge others by your knowledge, unless you can prove it.
flutehawchang 4 years ago
@flutehawchang OK I can refrence about 10 treatises that will tell you how to play this music. Don't be an idiot. Just because there was no recording doesn't mean we don't know how it sounded... so many people wrote on the subject. At least you admit you have no respect for the composer.... and that's all that really matters, because you have said that, you can actually do whatever you want. But we certainly know pretty well how it would have sounded.
flutist1989 1 year ago
This is not Bach!! Tempo!!! Wher is?....no this is not bach....is not ad libitum...
nardiniose 4 years ago 3
This is very good, I like this interpretation very much!!!
lietzen 4 years ago