J. S. Bach - Ricercare a 3 from "Musikalisches Opfer" BWV 1079 - Piano Version

Composed in 1747
Tatiana Nikolayeva, Piano

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[MYTHIRDSHADOW]

I don't feel this player really understood the intention behind this composition... It "sounds" pretty, its played technically well- but something is off.  I think this pianist is playing the notes one after the other as they should be according to the sheet music, however the real idea or intention Bach had intended can only be found "between" the notes. The entire piece is to be taken into consideration, as the next note changes the meaning of the previous. I don't recognize some notes also

[ivanetcetera]

замечательная музыка!! великолепная игра

[manucharification]

'russian' bach 

[Adrianoci]

great color treatment of the piano that is to play !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Adrianoci]

great color treatment of the piano that is to play !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[noratranvouez]

The Taniana's performance is highly romantic. But why not ? Sometimes the modern "barock" performances, showing a better historical understanting of styles, are not lively (I have examples here in utube for this fugue). It is why sometimes, back to romanticism is useful. And after all, all these deploration melisms : arent they romantic ?

[noratranvouez]

@wcbroccoli Thanks you for these historical facts which can interest young utubers but do not explain how to play the fugue on the piano. Here (only here) my opinion as a pianist is: the shorter a note is, the less important its sound must be. Consequence : the dots mean for the modern piano : lighter, less important, more piano (with stac or not, it depends on the tempo). Just my opinion, obsiously not yours or not Tatiana's.

[wcbroccoli]

@noratranvouez You will notice that the fortepiano performance observed Bach's staccatos marks from his original score. The staccato sounded appropriate to my ears. If you chose to play this on modern piano, it's not clear why it would be desirable or necessary to ignore Bach's staccato marks or why the choice of modern piano suddenly gives the player a license to alter the music in the name of adaptation.

[wcbroccoli]

@noratranvouez Furthermore, although the lack of specification may give the performer some choice in instrumentation, Bach would not dedicate pieces to the king, himself a learned and skilled musician, without having in mind the instruments the king might play them on and the instruments that would normally be used for chamber music of the time: the violin, flute and harpsichord & fortepiano!

[wcbroccoli]

@noratranvouez The fact that he didn't specify instrumentation for every piece in M.O. is not a license to play dumb and pretend he didn't have any instrument in mind. People in the 18th and 19th c. did not have any trouble realizing that Art of the Fugue, which does not specify any instrument, was intended for keyboard. In wasn't until the 20th c. that some people started spouting the nonsense that it wasn't intended to be played at all, or else that it could be played on anything.