Rachmaninoff plays Bach "Sarabanda" from Partita #4, BWV 828

J.S. Bach, Partita #4, BWV 828 "Sarabande"
Recording 1925

Category:

Music

Tags:

• rachmaninoff
• bach
• sarabanda
• partita
• piano
• classical

[picmeco]

Who needs Baroque performance "experts"? Rachmaninoff plays Bach so beautifully you'd think he wrote it himself.

[pianopera]

But the problem is that Leonhardt doesn't play the piano...

[WAMEDJO]

@picmeco

Furhtermore, why wouldn't Bach have liked music ? I mean, if someone on earth should recognize music when it's played, these are those two more than any others.

[klizmun1]

@lovesGenet Still think that musically it worth nothing?

[cynic150]

A real musician who was not afraid to play Bach in his own way, make it special, but it still sounds like Bach.

[Bret6464]

Another surreal performance by Rachmaninoff, it is fascinating and nothing short of pure genius - but that is to be expected :-)

It is folly to find a "wrong" approach to playing Bach by Rach, Rach is THE composer and pianist and I am dead certain he understood Bach better than all other pianists :-))

[picmeco]

@FelipeJacobS How do we know what Bach would have liked? Without actually hearing how he played, it's all speculation.

[MNYCNY]

I enjoyed listening to Rachmaninoff's performance, but I prefer a slower, more introspective interpretation of this allemande. I like Richard Goode's recording the best.

[FelipeJacobS]

@picmeco We need baroque experts to play it like Bach would've played. Performing a work is not just reinventing it...

[TERb8]

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[Ravel87]

better than gould

[yenrabaraho]

i am spellbound by this man's touch on the piano. it is the most communicative playing i have ever heard.