There are no adequate words in any human language to express the beauty of the opening Allemande

Avec délicatesse, une immense sensibilité et une technique irréprochable, Maria Joao Pires nous livre là des moments magiques. Comme toujours. Et on peut dépasser l'éternel débat piano ou clavecin pour ne garder que la grâce de cette musique , ce don venu d'on ne sait où....

it's not all about how loud you can bang those keys on the piano...how faster than jet you can dance on the piano..but how you can touch the souls for the listeners...this recording is the best example for that

Wow, one of the best Bach interpretations I've ever heard.

Bach pierces the soul with a pure and radiant light. He distills the truth and beauty of life into music. Not a remote, unapproachable beauty, but the warm embrace of a love that is the longing of every human heart. No matter what other great music I listen to, Bach moves me to my core everytime. He is my visionary teacher, kind comforter, and cherished friend for life. How fortunate we are to have him! Oh, and kudos to MJP for this fine interpretation 🙂

The allemande here is one of his most beautiful pieces

i find the tempo and tone really quite perfect. healing for the tired and sorrowful heart

Fantatstic Bach performance which shows that this music is all about 'Heaven is here and now'

Qué sutileza, qué elegancia, qué perfección técnica... Maria João Pires es maravillosa y un placer siempre.

I only started exploring Pires' recordings of Bach recently but I am immediately won over. The articulation, the dynamic contrast, so precise yet so expressive ... just a supreme sense of balance from start to finish. What else can I say? Some of the best Bach I've ever heard in my life.

Ein sehr einfühlsamer aber gleichzeitig klarer Klang. Genau das, was man für Bach braucht. Tolle Interpretation!

Those of you who say that Bach wrote solely or specifically for the harpsichord are misinformed. His works are referred to as "keyboard" works because they are precisely that: works written for "keyboard" which is a general term that includes the harpsichord, clavichord, organ, and in modern times, the piano. Thus, Bach intended for his music to be played on whichever instrument the musician had available. During Bach's lifetime, the average musician could not afford a harpsichord and most likely had a clavichord in his or her home. Thus, Bach's music was most likely played on a clavichord and not a harpsichord the majority of the time. It is important to note that a clavichord is a touch sensitive instrument like the modern piano. Furthermore, Bach went out of his way to make use of new and innovative instruments, and he made an effort to maximize the potential of such instruments though his compositions. I personally believe that Bach would have greatly appreciated the modern piano, and not have not only played his "keyboard" works for it, but would have also composed for it.

The French Suite No 2 Allemande can be played at my Funeral - Maria Pires or Slatislav Richter, I don't mind which. Tragic, objective, beautiful.

this is the first time I've come across a performance by Maria Pires! oh where have I been all my life? this is the kind of interpretation I like! She is truly a wonderful pianist! Thanks for your wonderful job!

フランス組曲で、最も好きな演奏です。

One of my preferred performances of Bach's French suite 2. Just a beautiful sound throughout played by an excellent pianist.

J ai toujours aimé le tou héros de cette grande artiste, et j adore son interprétation de cette oeuvre

My fav French Suite No. 2 for sure. And I have Glenn Gould version. Different mostly, but I prefer the sheer beauty of Maria’s playing. Hope one day I get to hear her life. BTW due to this very video, I bought her box set!

Mme Pires chooses a slow tempo for this piece, within which she creates the most limpid performance ever recorded, especially in the opening allemenade. Bach at his dreamiest.

todo lo que interpreta maria joao pires suena maravilloso. es una enorme pena que se retire.

Beautifully played. Perhaps, my favorite version of this suite of all the ones I've heard. I like the tempo and all the intricate details which she so masterfully performs with lovely elegance and feeling.

Pires always manages to bring out that little spark of magic that makes ALL the difference. It's uncanny. She touches the piano and... "it's aliiiive!"

20 years ago I listened to this performance and I was blown by the sheer beauty of it. I could not be grateful enough for having introduced me to the wonderful universe of classical music and more specifically, Bach's music. You touched my soul forever. Thank you Maria.

Her heat and life are natural. free soul has light and wind.

Just discovered this performer. She presses all my joy buttons at once. Thank you for publishing.

Großartiges Spiel, wunderbare Pianistin 😌🌹

Playing for and not at us, as is her usual :)

Genial Maria Joao, la adoro, qué manera de interpretar. Bach sublime, por siempre

Wonderful. Thank you very much.

I prefer Pires in this piece to andras schiff despite his fame as a Bach interpreter. She conveys the Bach spirit like no one else

quelle belle musique interpretee par la grande maria joao pires quelle beaute quelle douceur je crois que bach serait ravi

Fantastica Maria un regalo para los oídos y la mente...

This is stunningly beautiful. Such intelligent phrasings. It cannot get better.

So beautiful played. Love this music.

Bravo o seu BACH Maria!!!!!!!!!!!

Tellement beau 👑 l'allemande dégage une telle sérénité malgré sa melancolie !

Magnificent.

I enjoyed this performance very much. I consider it is indeed very inspirated, musical, the interpretation very classy and full of details that require a focused and precised preparation.Maria Joao has done an amazing job with this suite, and there is no doubt she is a magnificent artist, on the top tier of all pianists!! thanks for sharing this.

Heavenly

Such a deep and sensitive interpretation! Thank you!

Thanks a lot. A very romanticized interpretation. There is a lot of light and purity in her performance. This is a different Bach, but he is very cheerful, sweet, gentle and friendly. I like this life-affirming natural harmony, not squeezed into strict academic grandiloquence.

Utterly beautiful.

Beatiful, sensitive, wonderful...

M e encanta esta Suite francesa,es muy señorial,y alegre,super bien.

What an eloquent, sensitive and at the same time, gutsy rendering of this remarkable suite. I wish the old boy were alive now to enjoy Ms Pires and the modern piano. They say as much as two-thirds of JSB's music has been lost over the years but, if so, I doubt whether any of it would have exceeded this.

Quelle beauté !!

amazing!! i love bach !

Bravissimo!!!!💐💐💐

Lindo linda Maria! Parabéns aqui do Brasil

So plastic and soft, in the meantime very articulated. Beautiful interpretattion with strong intellect and a warm heart. This is MJP.

Wonderful dear Artist💐💐💐

very delicately played, wonderful right up there with clara haskil

Divinal!!

bravo!!!!!!!

Detachment and closeness at the same time!

Qué bellísima versión. Excelente

바흐는 언제나 좋다

That's some good Bach. Thanks.

Lindo !

bravo!

Hier het bewijs dat Bach net zo mooi / goed of beter geformuleerd perfect wordt uitgevoerd. Maria Joäo Pires is gewoon de beste pianiste ooit 😘🎶❤️🎶

Bellissima interpretazione.

Maria! Me deparei com essa maravilha de gravação. Difícil ouvir Bach que não seja totalmente mecânico, ou agredido pela técnica, principalmente nos momentos " crescendo". Mais difícil ainda, é ouvir a melodia da mão esquerda, que muitas vezes desaparece, e o seu toque, que te distingue pela qualidade ímpar . Mil Parabéns.

いいなぁ💖

marvelous

Maria Joao Pires è una grandissima

Supreme music that floats the divine soul. Sheer happiness.

미니유님 채널에서 오신분들 없나여... 먹여주는 비디오 배경음악 0.75 스피드로 들으면 벌써 잠온다

와... 최고다!

Imprescindible para mi Museo

" .. чистый,как детство , немецкий мотив .." Б.Пастернак

Wonderful... Bravo !!!

...maravilla...

stile !

Le top

bravo maria joao.... keep playing, please.... always.. “To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.” ― Fernando Pessoa. Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nada Teu exagera ou exclui. Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto és No mínimo que fazes. Assim em cada lago a lua toda Brilha, porque alta vive. ― Fernando Pessoa. you inspired my music and my life @2-nY

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Regarding the "beauty of the Allemande", I prefer the beauty of every single Sarabande Bach composed in these French Suites. All 6 of them ,but especially the ones in the minor modes are exceptional.

와 좋다

I play this

Melancholy

為巴哈理智冷靜的樂章，添上一襲感性溫馨的新衣。巴哈天國有知，亦將掀髯微笑...

3 months since this was listened to? What would B think?

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Does anyone know if she uses pedal on the Sarabande?

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2021

the second minuet is missing..?

Those of you who pretend to be intellectual by making absurd comments on which instrument Bach's keyboard works are played need to get your noses out of your asses and stop being so cynical. Using your ill conceived logic or lack thereof contemporary pianists should not play Beethoven's or Liszt's, et al works on modern pianos. If I remember correctly both composers/performers routinely broke pianos of their day.

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quisiera su ayuda para tocar así.

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Chess on

Le toucher.( faite dans le texte)

Bang Bang

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I don't see what's 'bang bang' about this - her name isn't Lang Lang! It's also Bach, and in case some have forgotten, he didn't write for the piano (ever)......but the harpsichord. That's why the pieces are referred to as 'Keyboard' concertos and not piano concertos. Harpsichords cannot sustain notes, so all Bach's 'keyboard concertos sound 'staccato' precisely for this reason. You have to play them in this way, you cannot play them fluidly like you can say Mozart, Beethoven or other composers.

Subrepticiamente, entra no inconsciente

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