Rest in peace, dear maestro.

Wunderbar.Diese Melodie ist absolut zeitlos und Balsam für die Seele in dieser Zeit.

R.I.P. Maestro your soul is now with God and enjoys the unstopping beautiful tune in His heaven forever!

seeing him being able to play the piano again after 30 years of forced hiatus brings tears to my eyes. The desire and longing in his playing shows how much he enjoys it

Brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it... reminds me of the Good Shepherd... God Bless Leon Fleisher!

I find myself playing this often. It is so beautiful. I want to thank everyone from Bach to Fischer to Klever34. So many wonderful things happen for our benefit in life often without our doing anything. I am very grateful.

I heard this piece performed innumerable times as a youth participating in the Junior Bach festival in Berkeley. With soprano and two flutes or recorders playing the treble voices, a cello and piano. I hear Fleisher and all those glorious voices come back, but it’s out of one instrument. Different cvolumes, different colors, different timbres all under control. Amazing performance.

Yes. I cried when I heard Leon Fleisher playing it in Luzern, in 2008. Wonderful!

Such stunning simplicity, subtlety and beauty. Mr Fleisher is a treasure.

RIP maestro, you have given wonderful music to the world!

Eric Rickel😥 I remember you again..😩 You once told me, "you would love everyone on this planet to hear this at least once in their lifetime"

Leon Fleisher was born to play this.

It is like every single note is play with such perfection, serenity. When it comes to playing Bach, Fleisher is one of my favorites.

I have heard Fleisher playing this wonderful transcription in a concert in Toulouse (France) during the festival "Piano aux Jacobins" : it was one of the most extraordinary musical moments in my entire life !

Un grand pianiste et un musicien d'exception. J'ai eu l'immense honneur de préparer à trois reprises le grand concert Steinway du Théâtre Maisonneuve après son retour au concert dans les années 1990. Un homme d'une gentillesse et d'une classe hors du commun. Ses derniers enregistrements nous firent entendre un musicien et un artiste d'une grande maturité. Je possède la majorité de ses enregistrement et rien n'est à rejeter. Il fut aussi un pédagogue de grande renommée que plusieurs de nos pianistes d'ici ont pu côtoyer.

Simply sublime. This piece was composed over 3 centuries ago, but it will surely be played in a thousand years from now. J. S. Bach's music is timeless.

I, minor pianist and teacher, had a brest cancer surgery a few month ago and now on chemo. Prof. Fleisher's pure sound gives me encouragement to be back on the stage, again. Hope he rests peacefully in the heaven just like his sound making.

Beautiful!! This is the most beautiful play that I've heard in my life.

The Magic of Bach - just anbelievable - universal music - thank you Leon - God bless

Unremittingly Sweet. Thank you Masters Bach and Fleisher.

Sublime. Every note is heard with clarity and sings to its fullest tone, it's magical.

i had the priviledge yesterday to hear this piece in full arangement with two flutes, lute, cello, organ and soprano, i am in love. truly, in love.. such beauty.

This song is beautiful. I want to listen to this song again.

state of love, grace, magic and peaceful ecstasy, thank you bach, thanks mr. fleisher, thank you God. you make life beautiful.

Grazie, Maestro. Oggi ho ascoltato questa Tua interpretazione più e più volte. Su di me, nella mia anima, è venuta dal cielo una colata di tenerezza, di dolcezza, di pace. Possa anche Tu vivere felice nei pascoli della grazia di Dio.

The climax at 03:21 omg!!! 😭😭😭 Prof. Fleisher’s face says it all ❤ There is another equally wonderful interpretation of this piece by Fleisher, with a slighter faster tempo, but this one… This one is eternal. He was making peace with his Maker ❤

This is pure and absolute beauty..! So gold

Wonderful, we had this played at my mother's funeral. I love it.

Absolutely incredible. Best version ever heard. Mr. Bach himself could not play this piece any better.

simple, beautiful, favorited, liked, and watched over and over again

I can barely believe this was written more than 300 years ago.

What a perfectly beautiful, perfectly subtle yet complex ... discussion - Leon Fleisher, the master!

Stunningly beautiful. Thank you J.S. Bach and Mr. Leon Fleisher. Soli Deo Gloria

He played this one as encore this Monday,what a enchanted moment~

Sehr schöne Interpretation. Danke dafür.

Einfach wunderschön... Diese Ruhe... Diese ergreifende Interpretation...

Life is beautiful and so is this tune

I would like this to be the soundtrack of my LIFE. Thank you for posting this!

聴くたびに、美しい旋律と演奏によって心に安らぎが戻ってくるのを感じる。

sehr schön gespielt bravissimo.¨!!!!!!!! !!

Absolutely wonderful. It's the Piano version by Egon Petri.

Pure bliss. wonderful performance

Thanks for post this beautiful play, it's moving and peaceful.

i could listen to it whole day...

I must learn how to play this piece. This is such a perfect piece for any funeral. I love the melody and the meaning.

Egon Petri Transcription. His name ought to be mentioned.

from pg 300 of Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks: At the end of our visit, Fleisher agreed to play something on my piano... he played a piano transcription of Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze," as arranged for piano by Egon Petri. Never in its 112 years, I thought, had this piano been played by such a master... Fleisher seemed to distill the beauty, drop by drop, like an alchemist, into flowing notes of an almost unbearable beauty - and, after this, there was nothing more to be said.

La più bella versione di sempre, un sollievo per l'anima e la mente. Un musicista eccezionale, un grande uomo. Indimenticabile ❤

my god what a beauty! Thanks

Beautiful!

Thank you for uploading, I have loved this interpretation for a long time.

Beautiful... just sooo beautiful....

Ou il nous est donné d'admirer chacun des plans sonores chanter sa propre voix singulière dans un ensemble parfaitement équilibré. Quelle splendeur !

I love this...doesn't need pictures or a running video.

Ganz wunderbar! Ich danke von ganzem Herz!

Wow! Simply beautiful and perfect!

one word. beautiful

Thank you Varvara I loved the tempo you chose to play this Aria at, it emphasised the harmony and elegance of the piece. Nicely done.

His amazing interpretation like a string orchester

Bach offenbart mit dieser schlichten Melodie seine ganze Fähigkeit, dem Zuhörer ein Gefühl der Geborgenheit und des Wohlaufgehobenseins zu vermitteln. Wer diese Weise in sich aufnimmt, kann in der Tat "Ruh und Friede spüren", wie es im dazu gehörigen Text heißt.

Amazing!!! Incredible!!!!

Best version !!

Sublime Bach , superbe interprétation.

Yes, this is well done. Straightforward in a good way.

Beautiful! Bravo!

still in my ear the Matthay students and couple, Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson playing this lovely Bach work in their two piano recital in Town Hall...1955??! and lovely to hear Leon Fleisher , too, of course!

verdadero Dankgesang a la divinidad del que ha sanado. Infinita armonía universal. Gracias Fleisher!!

beautiful

Especially on this day of madness, this comes as balm, and the words never felt more appropriate. Schafe können sicher weiden, Wo ein guter Hirte wacht. Wo Regenten wohl regieren, Kann man Ruh und Friede spüren Und was Länder glücklich macht. Translation by Pam Dellal: Sheep can graze securely where a good shepherd watches. Where rulers govern well quiet and peace can be experienced and all that makes countries happy.

Played perfectly at the correct tempo......couldnt have done better myself sir?

Fleisher has long done wonderful things w/ this piece. Whatever the opposite of "empty virtuosity" is, it's found here.

Wunderschön .

Todo un ejemplo de optivismo. A pesar de su parálisis de la mano derecha, ¡miren!. Arte. Gracias.

AMAZING

Thank you lord. You saved me from my sin. You are my treasure Jesus.

Beauty without size!!

Very nicely played, very kind sounding wing aswell :)

Go Leon! ☺️

Merveilleux!

It is pure magic....

so pure！！！！

Wunderbare Musik u.Darbietung

Wow...I've never seen someone play the piano with their knuckle like that! (2:50). This is beautiful.

geweldig.......!!

very good, the best posted on y. t.

It sounds like four hands much of the time! Can I get the sheet music somewhere?

Is there an audio only version of this that I can buy and download?

magnifico

Zo mooi gespeeld

It's that time of year. Take me hastily to 2:38 and lavish yourself upon my impoverished senses. Cherish me with the blandishments of your hands and eyes, then express me through your inexorable lament: such that I may feel the fleeting touch, of your machine's miraculous ghost.

❤

He added a 3rd hand on 0:53! (haha.) Honestly. This is musical wisdom personified.

why can't I find the score for this piece??? Can anyone help me pleaseeee !!! Thanks!! This is gorgeous! Fleisher u re best!

Is this possibly the soundtrack of heaven?

💞

Does his musical sensitivity reveal a maturity of age and experience with adversity?

Sorry, I can't seem to copy the passage. Mr. Fleisher acquired focal dystonia in his right hand in the 1960s. His ability to use his right hand again in major literature is nothing short of miraculous.

@cat5005 Me too!!! He's amazing!!~ :D

Hello all, I found a 'Freidman' transcription of this piece and I have absolutey no idea whether if this one or the Petri transcription is superior.. Can someone send me the Petri transcription? or we can to a trade...

😁 sehr schön