Henryk Szeryng plays Bach Fuga from Sonata No. 1

Henryk Szeryng plays Fuga from Sonata No. 1 in G minor by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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[Christopher Lee]

playing this now...FML

[Arhk Xi]

God Loves music, it's because of musicians like this I've never had to question why.

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[imjh1388]

can't really beat this interpretation! love it. thanks for posting

[hbchoco]

Same here :') Did you take your ARCT yet?

[Treborstuben]

I had the privilege of hearing Szeryng perform this same piece on a recital back in 1967. He walked into the recital hall five minutes before he was to play. Quickly tuned his instrument and without warming up sounded just like he does here.

[shugo104]

FML? Be thankful you are even given the opportunity to play this piece. Welcome to music.

[DrBlackOp0068]

I played better than him, and then I woke up :P

[Alessandro Vaccari]

Yes I agree. I began practicing violin only some years ago, but as musician (I studied sax and piano firstly) I hear a discutible new approach to bows that sometimes it works efficiently, but often you can't listen to the higher expressive level of the old generation of violin players. Bows are hard! This is the truth, nothing more...

[erwinskitty]

szeryng is THE ONE and only. when playing the most difficult passages, his tone never suffers, in contrast to some of today's supposed greats, who sound more like they're playing a kazoo when they get to the challenging parts.

[cwxzeng]

consider your life good when u are playing this. not many students reach to this point, takes 4-5 years...

[Alessandro Vaccari]

The greatest violin performer of Bach in XX century. Probably.