Amen! Most true thing I have heard in a while.

Beautifully said! I feel the same way and yet could not come up with the words!

Listen the Magic ") thank's Bro for post this Incredible piece \B/

Me too. I cannot live without Bach's music.

+Bachlover Same here. Listening to Bach leads you to a unique state of mind which you always want to be on, It's like LSD for me.

Bach in German means . . . brook, does it not ?

Pinnock is the best Bach cembalist

habadabadaaa Probably tied with someone, but definitely one of the greats.

@@habadabadaaa Leonhardt? Staier?

Trevor really spices it up like this.

This performance of the Gigue is incorrect, in that it is meant to be a slow moving Gigue in common time, similar to the Gigue in the first French Suite. This slow-moving type of Gigue was developed by the French lutenists, particularly Denis Gautier. In this performance the rhythms are played as if the Gigue is in 12/8.

Wow, exactly the same feeling. That part always moves me to tears.

Me too, some times i like to accentuate the upper voice with the repetitive off beat character. Beautiful progression.

+President Aria And what is think you the first best work?

The Chaconne

BWV 596 for me.

And BWV 999... Beautiful...

Bach wrote all Masterpieces, However the Toccata is more fascinating of the Corrente if you focus on its depth and anyway if you had listend to all Bach's works for keyboard and for Choral Music you wouldn't have said that :)

Please listen to Bach's keyboard toccatas, they are all like this. Best music by Bach...

The trasitition of the fugue back to the toccata (recapitulation) is so astonishingly beautiful, I can't help but tear up a bit every time I hear it.

Bro how come u dare to say (human being) to bach

Thomas Field I prefer the Toccata, it has that 'inevitable' motion of 'rolling down the hill' or pushing up the hill needing much will power. I have not heard any piece like that ever.

Thomas Field I looked at Gavotte, and did not like on the piano, but whatever the strings used for this rendition was quite beautiful, definitely love to play some parts of it. Gerubach's graphical renditions are quite useful to understand the composition structures and repeatitions, I suspect by looking at these graphical renditions that the composition had several layers, and some layers had gaps which needed to be connected somehow.

(|) some kind of that I guess

He really is great and probably more historical than others.

lau wingshun And you're supposed to play the whole piece ?...

***** Yes! And the second (last) piece is Bach's Partita No.2 for solo Violin (Piano Version arranged by Busoni) ,I Hope you make a video of this piece (piano version) gerubach

Wow, that's impressive. Do your best !

+Winsome Lau Hey, did you pass the exam?

+TheMrSeven The exam will be in Oct

That syncopation is a traditionally French way of playing the harpsichord. In French or French-style harpsichord music the performer is allowed a lot of artistic license regarding note values and ornamentation, often causing the music to sound a lot different from how it's written.

It is a mechanism called the lute switch that creates that sound

Denny Hamrick it's plucked with rubber or felt or something? Correct me if not.

it's plucked the same as normal, but the lute stop pushes little felt dampers against the strings to give the sound a much quicker decay time

The Gavotte, "Tempo de Gavotta", is a Gavotte and starts on the third beat. The Gigue is written in a style typical of Bach in found in many of his suites in 4 beats to the bar, but unlike a Gavotte does not start on the third beat. The Gigue is in imitative polyphony (fuge like) which in the b section the thematic material is inverted (upside down). J S Bach knew what he is was doing.

I've heard Glenn's fabulous version, but when it comes down to the greatest recording, I prefer this one.

darashayda1 Agree.

+MCTournaments Ryan Why not ?

What do you mean ? Composing such a thing wouldn't be possible in these days ?

+Jer TheJambon Jumping in the middle of this, I think it is quite possible, however it will be far more sophisticated. Our problem these days is retail software and millions of listeners, once we get over that hump many Bachs will be appear and use the software capabilities and advanced synthesizers , and create amazing compositions. There is a problem with the classical music community, that of atavism, but in due time they think differently. I like to thank GeruBach again because his videos make it easy to study such important works.

More sophisticated maybe, but I don't know. For me something from the 21st century that would be able to echo the power of Bach's musicality should not be about the software or synthetizers or whatever. Bach's power, at least to me, dwells in its "simple difficulty". I feel Bach was a clever composer who managed to get complex only by starting from the purest and simplest musical thought. The thing with him is that it sometimes appears as obvious whereas he has that cleverness that makes it way more deep. Someone from the 21st century should focus on that mainly, the musical idea and his way to develop it.

I heard that in baroque music, 'syncopation' is a common way to play, particularly in French music

I noticed it too, the score do not indicate the "French" style

@@geophotoexplorer Freedom of interpretation?

Jan Kubny A gigue is a French dance so maybe that's why

I honestly like it better that way then what is written. Trevor really pulled some strings to give this piece life.

Go and listen to some of Couperin’s gigues. Some are triplet-less! Oh, the horrors, our precious academic rule is violated!!!!!!!! Blasphemy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There. Gigues need not contain triplets.

I think he does it to show more of the dotted swing French style. I personally love it.

It’s quite historical. And also a matter of printing in the old days. You got that right in both cases. Publishers never printed otherwise until late in the nineteenth century. But the sixteenth note was definitely meant to go with the third so called triplet note (which should note really be regarded as a triplet). It’s a performing rule in all treatises that runs as late as Schubert, although seldom musicians would dare play Schubert that way, today, even if it works pretty well, in fact (Winterreise). So, the third triplet note goes with the sixteenth note exactly as Trevor plays it here. It’s also revealing, should you come closer to look at the harmony. But it remains a stylistic figure of musical speech indeed. It’s not really related to French style, though, as far as I remember from my harpsichord studies. Read Couperin (The Art of Playing The Harpsichord) to tell the difference. Sorry about my English. It may not be clear enough (not my mother tongue : I’m French - Greetings from Paris !).

+James Tessman nah im pretty sure humans can understand it

Is it normal if you are not Christian and still listen to Bach's work? I mean, this man music is just incredible

God isn't real

Double Doggo who cares Bach is still great

@@danielharrington4342 Yes. I’m a jew and I love Bach’s music.

Judging by counting the notes, it looks like it denotes 4/2 time. I've never seen it before either.

I am not sure but it seems to me that the gigue is not played exactly as the score the performer is playing all paused fashinon.

It's a medieval time signature equivalent to 9/4. Bach was just using it incorrectly. He might have assumed that since 2/2 is a semicircle with a line through it then this time signature (a full circle with a line through it) must have meant 4/2.

@@talkingtadpole3001 "Bach was just using it incorrectly" seriously?? I'll believe Bach before any and all other musicians, scholars or hackadumics.

@@barney6888 Your philistinism is showing, sir. Bach was a human being and he made mistakes like any other human being. Since no autograph of this piece has survived, it's also possible that the time signature might have been the mistake of a copyist. Whether it was Bach or his copyist, someone definitely made a mistake somewhere along the line since the Gigue's time signature does not correspond to the way the music is written at all.

I hate to be the one, but this is a piece, not a song.

@@louiscouperin3731 1) Clearly you do want to be the one. 2) This must be a song because this is my favourite song. Real fans only thhhhpt

@@kylechurch6296 1) Clearly you're trolling. 2) This must be a piece because there's nobody singing except for the voice of the harpsichord.

@@kylechurch6296 there's no singing you dumbass

Harpsichord, like a plucked string ancestor of piano

Oh, it just sounded so different to me I had no idea it was a harpsichord too. Thank you for your answers!

It's the lute stop. Something like a cloth presses upon the strings and bumps them; they don't sound like metal anymore, more like gut, just as a lute. French harpsichords had this feature at that Era...

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Wallace Choi pretty late but trevor pinnock i think

@@maua2848 Oh thank you..!!

This toccata is moderately challenging, but not nearly as technically demanding as sections of the bwv 910-916 toccatas.