Mi héroe es BACH. Todos los problemas se olvidan gracias a la belleza impresionante de su música. Estos minutos son inolvidables.

I love that the harpsichord sorta also sounds like an organ

Absolutely the most dramatic performance of the Chromatic Fantasia and fugue ever made.

Karl Richter était vraiment l'un des plus grand interprètes de la musique de Bach. Quelle merveille.

So glad these films i never knew about have surfaced.

Il genio travolgente di Karl Richter resterà nella storia delle grandi esecuzioni della musica di Bach.

Judging by the speed at which he played it, together with the fact that this is all played by heart, I have to conclude that Richter possessed a Ferrari-like brain. He drives through with impressive force and security.

Good lord almighty. Richter remains my hero in this music.

Wow! That Fugue was dynamic!

Should call it the "Richter scale"

this piece is a round-trip ticket to heavens...

What a music....mysterious, sublime, complex and very soothing. The performer is simple SUPERB

Although played on a non authentic harpsichord, no doubt Karl Richter was one of the best performers of Bach's music and an excellent musician. Thanks for this most impressive upload.

Духовное Чутьё ,потрясающий энтузиазм и Высшего Класса профессионализм , а всё вместе - Чудо !!! Теппер Михаил.

Que virtuosimo , el clavecin doble teclado le da mas excelencia al sonido, gracias maestro Richter 🎼🎶❤

WOOOOW!!! ES MARAVILLOSO!. Y ES MARAVILLOSO QUE NO LO INTERRUMPAN PARA PONER UN ANUNCIA. MIL GRACIAS ADRIAN VOLOVETS.

Pas de partition sur un compositeur Johann Sebastian Bach, réputé très technique. M. Bach et M. Richter se sont rencontrés à quelques siècles d'écart. Quel bonheur!

fugue starts at 6:05

Superb performance of this unique masterpiece!

Best musician in history

Karl Richter ist ein brillanter Cembalist. Ich bin beeindruckt, dass er die gesamte Arbeit aus dem Speicher durchführt .

Merveilleux Karl Richter ! et en plus de mémoire ...🙏🙏💖💖💐💐

La più bella interpretazione!

Je me sens sans paroles... BRAVO!!!!!

What an instrument and player

Bravo!

I don't care whether the Neupert instrument is or is not a real harpsichord. Richter loved it, and it has something to do with Landowska enregistered sound...). Richter was a genious.

Some here are discussing whether this instrument is an "authentic" harpsichord. It is an interesting question if it gets to capturing the essence of Bach's intention in the music. I am not a musicologist, but I will share what I believe to be true. * There were different styles of harpsichord in the 17th century, some with one keyboard, others with two keyboards. Pedals were provided with some of the instruments to give access to an added set of strings * Bach had expressed that he loved the clavichord, which is a precursor of the piano. The clavichord allows volume control because the strings are struck rather than plucked. But clavichords were very soft in volume, so they could not be used in concert * Bach as a rule did not specify what instrument should be used to perform a piece, so he would have been OK if this and other keyboard pieces were played on clavichord or harpsichord * One could think that Bach might have relished the futher development of soundboards and key action that led to the piano. The clavichord allowed more expressiveness than the harpsichord but was too soft for public performance. So if early pianos were available to Bach (which they were not) would he have written a "Well-Tempered Piano" or its equivalent? Would he have enjoyed playing the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue on a piano, or even on an enhanced harpsichord? Bach was an explorer in many ways, as this piece and the 4th Brandenburgh Concerto 1st movement show. He even wrote a Catholic Mass and it was one of the last pieces he worked on. So who can say with certainty that the modernized harpsichord is "wrong" with a composer who loved challenges and new ways of expressing? So what I am trying to point to, with the above, is that an "inauthentic" harpsichord may be in keeping with the spirit of Bach's musical intention, and in the end what matters is finding the best way to express the essence of the music. Each performer can do so with a range of choices of instrument, although I would not imagine, for example, playing this piece on the organ

skullkid1222 : You are the best. Man I have no words. Thank you.

awesome!

I want to be overcome in absolute tears. This...THIS is Bach. This one man truly, down to its very root, understood what it meant on how to approach Bach. What unparalleled mastery, wisdom and understanding of the art of portraying counterpoint and voice-leading we have here. Case closed. I now understand and realize, almost as if this is a revelation to myself, the harpsichord really is superior when it comes to learning and performing this music.

Karl really knew his scales. And there was only one Karl Richter, with his immense control of his instrument.

best version ever.

Love That Neupert Harpsichord .

My friend Raphael Puyana recommended and always played the Pleyel. What a sound! So did Ralph Kirkpatrick, my teacher at Yale.

He had a remarkable manual technique.

RICHTER THE BEST!!!!!

So Beautiful ! Thank you so much :)

amazing!

Saint Karl Richter. No doubt.

Superbe!

wonderful！

Fantastic!

Bardzo dzikuje! Merci beaucoup!

Richter es. de los exelentes y en Clavecin 😂🇮🇷❤️ también.

Wonderful

La fantasía Cromática. en Clavecin 🌹👋👋👋👋🇮🇷🌜🌛.

Nice 👍

Al gran Richner en piano 🎹🥇.

nice nice nice niceeeeee

When you’re playing Bach at 10 but have a Reservoir Dogs audition at 11

Count Dracula approves this rendition.

Thanks so much for posting this video. I'm ashamed to say I've never heard this Maestro before now. Is he still alive and performing? He is obviously a genius. His interpretation of the CF & F is world-class (I hate that term but it's certainly accurate in this case). Move over Andras. Move over Wanda! Move over Glenn!

神様を感じる

Thanks, Tom---I certainly agree. Now that I've had a chance to hear this performance again, I'm afraid I find it lacking. Richter's reputation precedes him, of course . . . which is why it is with disappointment that I point to the rushing of the early portion of the Fantasia, and the too-great difference between the two registers there. The tempi seem more calculated to accommodate his ability or state of preparation, from one minute to the next, rather than to an overarching scheme that would bring the whole together as a single statement. In the Fugue, by contrast, I can't easily tell the difference between the two registers, which makes me wonder how he decided when to use each. Helma Elsner's recorded performance might be my favorite; Landowska's is of course unique. She cannot in any event be accused of rushing thoughtlessly through any piece of music, including this one; on the contrary she relishes every moment of it. Why Richter should seem to be thinking that he has better things to do with his time is a complete mystery to me . . .

How one man can do this with a centuries old instrument is phenomenal

Extatique

Mexico 🍀

How his left hand gets precisely the right notes when he's looking at the right hand area, I'll never understand. I mean, a computer k/b is one thing, but to be aware of positioning of that huge number of keys, it must be just absurd amounts of practice ?

0:27 start up, 1:48, 1:52 Arpeggio

Großartig! Wäre nur schön zu wissen, von wann diese spektakuläre Aufnahme ist!

Very handsome

This is a time machine video .Baroque performed with the instrument of the age and the performer improvising some passages and embellishments.

Karl Richter a very unfortunate artist and man. Partially underestimated even by his own nationals. What a pity.

What is the year of the recording?

Bach is here right now. I've met him.

Johann Sebastian Bach was the first Hard Rock composer. And Karl Richter was The ROCK STAR

Oszałamiający i Bach i Richter!

Alguien sabe el nombre del concierto de la serie El Llanero solitario ? es divina. ⭐⭐⭐✔️

how did he change the sound of the harpsichord from 3:05 to 4:11?

Is this Modern-Cembalo ?

Carmen.

0:35

He must have had a mini harpsichord already in the mother's womb, so he could start practicing before birth....

What's that instrument? it's clearly an harpsichord but i can hear an organ's pipe i'm confused. anyway i want one x)

Karl Richter était très bon, je me demande pourquoi ses vidéos commencent si souvent par un interminable silence (ici 31s). Idem à la fin. J'en ai un plein DVD (les Brandebourgeois) qui est très beau mais pénible, sauf à couper soi-même chaque MP3. Wed 07 Feb 2024 07h03 GMT

Does he really miss the modulation to major at the end of the Fantasia ?

Huston abbiamo un problema....

Marvellous, but the lower register sounds like it's an octave too low

Antes si les ponían buena música 😂 a los niños en programas de TV a los niños ,pero yo me ocupe en eso , yo se las ponía desde el embarazo.

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Harpsichord?

This is how this piece should be played, not on a romantic, silly Steinway for 200k USD.

半音階的な幻想曲を意味することになるかな？

各演奏家が真剣に演奏している事は、間違いが無い。しかし、半音階的幻想曲とフーガでの、リヒターの突き詰めた演奏は、ピッチの問題や楽器の問題を越えている。音色の変えすぎる問題も越える。ロマンティックと言うよりも。リヒターのバッハへの思いが僭越過ぎて、その面ではリラックスしていても良いと感じる。音階のレガートがきつ過ぎる事も気にならない。誰もここまで集中した演奏はしていないのだ。しかし、言わせてもらう。技術面で弱いと感じる、チェンバロの演奏も多いのである。お指ヘナヘナという事だ。

why so fast!!!!????????

OMG he has no scores, everything is played from his head! Unbelievable.

What year is this interpretation?

Very good, but I prefer interpretation of Zuzana Růžičková: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iJiBZpN-nszLo30.html

Y BUSSONI. 💐🌺🌸💮 🇮🇷✅😘. 💌💌💌💌💌💌💌💌

Too many HIP harpsichords are MONOCHROMATIC. They have one sound, and it often is unpleasant. Bach may have loved modern harpsichords for all we know. The authenticity crowd can believe what they like, just stop being self righteous about it. Also keep in mind - the best selling recordings of Bach keyboard music and Scarlatti Sonatas are the ones by pianists. Abandon the rigid dogmatism once and for all!

I guess note sheets are for amateurs.

One is left to wonder what this wonderful man might have done if he had played a real harpsichord instead of these dreadful Serieninstrumente of Neupert.

皆、50年前はこるかチェンバロやと思っとったんやな。

Wanda Landowska=Bach

Why are the naturals ebony and sharps another wood? I know. Do you? Though I owned a harpsichord, I like the modern piano far better.

ash qué horrible suena octavado

Excellent technique, but completely inadequate harpsichord.

Technisch perfekt, aber leider viel zu gehetzt! Dieses großartige Werk von Bach - genießen kann man bei dieser Interpretation leider nicht. Schade. Ist sonst nicht Richters Art.....

What a horrendous harpsiklunk! Surely he could have found one that is less offensive to the ears. This is also not even a good interpretation. Helmut Walcha is far better.