Keith Jarrett plays Bach's Italian Concerto

Keith Jarrett plays the first movement (Allegro) from J.S. Bach's Italian Concerto BWV971

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• Keith
• Jarrett
• Bach
• Italian
• Concerto
• BWV971
• Allegro
• piano

[dnworks]

This was from an early 80's PBS program titled: "All that Bach". It included several

performances of Bach's music by different artists/ensambles.

D.

[Geopholus]

Keith Jarrett is one of the most amaing keyboard players of the 20th-21st centuries. It is so nice to hear such a talented composer contribute to the knowlege of Bach by his composer informed interperetation,,, It is pitiful to realize that someone like lady gaga gets like a gazillion000000000 hits for blowing her nose while Keith Jarrett playing Bach gets 8200 hits in 8 months!!!. So much for western civilization!!!

[AlessandroFortarel]

many pianists play Bach technically in a perfect way .. how many pianists do make proper the soul of Bach to bring out their?.. for me Keith Jarrett is one of these

[Kreutzersonata37]

The trill at 2:03 has the E flat, not natural. Natural is terrible. Interesting interpretation, though

[chartliner]

@aiwendilciunio

Of course Keith is very good, I just enjoy the variations of jazz more than the reading of a sheet of music, it brings it alive more I feel. I know I would enjoy hearing Jacques Loussier more at a concert than hearing KJ read a sheet of Bach. If anything you must be more broad minded to appreciate pushing Bach into the modern world. I love jazz but certainly appreciate the great classics too.

Check out Jacques Loussier on youtube

[aiwendilciunio]

@chartliner You're.. either amazingly simple or incredibly narrow-minded

[Katicooooo]

@Miquelangeld For me its "Alicia de Larrocha"

[robjacksontop]

Hate this great music on a piano!

[smeldrick]

man this is really good

[chartliner]

This is a straight and boring intterpretation of Bach, Keith has some kind of purist attitude that you can't improvise on Bach, even though Bach said imrovisation is the most important thing there is in music! Keith has improvised on lots of other people's music why not Bach??? Jacques Loussier is much better at Bach.

[Miquelangeld]

@AlessandroFortarel For me is Glenn Gould

[LoseUrCool]

@GuilleMartinezBass bach composed for far more than organ and strings. in fact for many of his compositions he specified they should be played with keyboard which could have meant harpsichord, clavichord, cembalo... and later in his life piano,

[cosmicjazzer]

The audio here is dynamically very compressed and completely devoid of any reverb. So what we hear is hardly doing the performance justice (compression on a piano is very unflattering..)