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@vrixphillips 5 күн бұрын
i know that the rest of the Bac(c)h-ants are going to crucify me for saying it, but... I've never liked Glenn Gould. I heard an album ONCE and I thought I was losing it because I had no clue about the humming, no one warned me lol so it soured me on him immediately and ever since then I've been...... very biased against him as if he's poison. He's way too idiosyncratic and I almost never enjoy his wayyy too slow interpretations. I feel like Bach would've been a speed demon for his day lol (zero proof.) Oh. And I DID almost do an All Bach program once. For a competition. And then I got seriously ill and didn't touch the piano for a couple years :/ I still can't touch the 6th Partita's Toccata without getting ptsd, which sucks, b/c I LOVE that piece.
@vrixphillips 6 күн бұрын
WILD that same part of Fantasia used to scare me (because it was a coffin and I'd been raised, basically, going to funeral homes lol) I wasn't so lucky to get the Bach-Busoni, as a kid, though, first I got the Fantasia sheet music ALBUM. Which was nice, because I really enjoyed playing the third part of Dance of the Hours (which you couldn't find music for at the time for love or money, only the famous part) and then when I was in 2nd grade or so and Fantasia 2000 came out? SO EXCITING for a budding lil pianist lol but yeah. Fantasia was a huge part of what got me into studying piano as long as I did. I missed it so much for those few months I didn't have one in graduate school here at LSU (since I'm no longer a music major 😢)
@octatonicgardenmarcospi4978 8 күн бұрын
Evan, will you be playing in Porto on August 9th? I can't believe I'm gonna loose this opportunity because I will be in South Africa. Are there other shows planned in Portugal?
@wtfbach 7 күн бұрын
Ay! Que pena- Infelizmente apenas o 9º no Porto :/
@octatonicgardenmarcospi4978 7 күн бұрын
@@wtfbach wish you a wonderful time here and hope to see you the next time you come. Thanks!
@Ferien7 12 күн бұрын
Very nice!
@frankavellone1175 13 күн бұрын
Excellent, Evan, as always. Admittedly, I'd love to hear it on the piano.
@cronano 13 күн бұрын
jesus! you did this piece justice. incredible
@wtfbach 13 күн бұрын
Thank you kindly!
@johnharding9792 26 күн бұрын
Those look incredibly awkward and perverse fingerings, although it didn't altogether surprise me. I believe I remember being told that English harpsichord fingering, for example for the pieces in the fitzwilliam book, greatly under-used the thumb, by our standards. What makes these fingerings doubly strange, to me, is that Bach waspre-eminently an organist, and organ legato is particularly exacting, calling for a lot of finger substitution. Next thing we're going to be told he played the pedals with one foot...
@CuervoDeMarte 26 күн бұрын
Harpsichord's key length was close to a 3/4 if compared from a piano white-key length. This means the thumb finger would rest way further from the keyboard, you can try playing a toy keyboard and see for yourself how awkward, the use of the thumb or normal piano fingering, quickly becomes
@ollisaari8722 25 күн бұрын
The reason this looks awkward is that he plays - I'm sure intentionally to demonstrate - with very large finger movements and legato. Both of which are absolutely not standard technique of baroque claver playing, be it harpsichord or organ. Organ legato became a standard only much, much later, in late romantic era. Before that light, articulated touch was preferred and it makes these old fingerings also very much an idiomatic part of that technique.
@matmuntz 26 күн бұрын
J N WTFB!
@DorHeledMusic Ай бұрын
😇🙏✨🎶
@vicodiaz4211 Ай бұрын
Beautiful man!
@frankavellone1175 2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Evan. Great stuff.
@squishyrrr 2 ай бұрын
beautiful
@theideallinewithsahan 2 ай бұрын
GREAT
@cronano 2 ай бұрын
burning playing. you bring so much life to these suites. also, i was just listening to the most recent episode, great analysis. hopefully one day we are lucky enough to hear you go through each of the Goldys with the same type of commentary 😮💨😮💨 ..
@trewq398 2 ай бұрын
<3
@trewq398 2 ай бұрын
Why do you have a brick between your legs?
@steve18946 2 ай бұрын
Loved this; keep doing what you do. You are appreciated. Why the yoga block between the knees? Is this something from the alexander technique?
@wtfbach 2 ай бұрын
Thank you! I suffered from tendonitis due to bad posture throughout my career. Pilates helped sort it out. Squeezing a block between my knees, I sit with better posture. I don't perform with it, naturally, but while home I forget to take it away - it's become habit!
@travjsreed 2 ай бұрын
Love it! WTF Bach is BY FAR my most listened to podcast. Your passion, practice, and love of J.S. Bach has truly been an inspiration to me. Keep it up, people ARE listening. Thank Bach for God.🎼
@bradleylehman4327 3 ай бұрын
Please be cautious on what you are asserting or prescribing here. It sounds like you are drawing hasty conclusions from what you know of some Bach pieces, and turning it into a universal principle that happens to be not true. Your words: "The same harmonic structure, but now something is going twice as fast, something is going double. (...) Double the movement, twice the melodic intensity...." The word "Double" in a suite does not imply or prescribe that the music ought to go twice as fast as something else, nor does it always mean that the melodic motion will be faster than in the previous piece. There are examples in suites by Froberger, Buxtehude, Jacquet de la Guerre (her 1707 suite in D minor), et al where the "Double" version of a dance is merely some elaborated or ornamented variant of the preceding, and the melodic motion or the tempo are not necessarily any faster. The notes aren't always being subdivided into faster notes.
@wtfbach 3 ай бұрын
Wow! Bradley Lehman! You’re an absolute legend! I can’t believe you’re listening. I’d love to have you on the show. Thanks for this comment.
@bradleylehman4327 3 ай бұрын
@@wtfbach On your "Pythagorean comma" episode, yesterday I sent you an article that I think will give you some salient info when you get more deeply into temperaments. Enjoy!
@bradleylehman4327 3 ай бұрын
On your "cut time" remark at 12 minutes, you might want to check out George Houle's book about the history of meter signatures. A slashed C does not necessarily mean go twice as fast....
@frankavellone1175 3 ай бұрын
Nice, Evan. Thanks.
@cronano 3 ай бұрын
very nice playing and great pod about doubles that introduced me to that wonderful suite. love how the single just becomes a beautiful yet slightly distorted bassline. congrats on the pre-sales & albums. i did my part 🫡 • see you at Burp Castle!
@wtfbach 3 ай бұрын
Wow! And the Fan of the Day goes to...
@user-qu6vw6do4d 3 ай бұрын
A must hear twice - once pure once reading Evan‘s bold caps. It all looks so effortless… Thank you Evan!
@thekathal 3 ай бұрын
bach was so babygirl ❤
@theideallinewithsahan 3 ай бұрын
Brilliant
@vicodiaz4211 3 ай бұрын
Now hopefully the walls of the space are well tempered! LOL
@user-rx3iy9pg3i 3 ай бұрын
Hello, could you explain what you mean by the voice leading doesn't step down as in the 1001 version? I cannot hear the difference.. around the middle of the song, thank you
@wtfbach 3 ай бұрын
Excellent question. In bar 63 (which is bar 61 in the violin version) the bass line reads: B-B-B-G. In the violin version, the same line is changed to B-B-A-G. Subtle, but telling revision by JSB. Thanks!
@user-rx3iy9pg3i 3 ай бұрын
Thanks for your reply, may I ask why which you prefer and why you think Bach decided on this minor change? Thanks again
@user-rx3iy9pg3i 3 ай бұрын
@@wtfbach I would like to add, I've heard so many versions of Bwv1001 fugue on violin and they are all playing the b b a g, haven't found a version yet that plays b b b g as you've said. Strange, anyway thanks so much, love your channel
@wtfbach 3 ай бұрын
@@user-rx3iy9pg3i Correct: The violin version is B-B-A-G. This version featured in this video is B-B-B-G. Bach makes all sorts of interesting changes in revision which often include smoother voice leading, such as this instance that we are discussing.
@user-rx3iy9pg3i 3 ай бұрын
Ahh yes I got it! Sorry I think I read your first reply wrong in the first instance. Thank you so much Edit.. I've just heard another few versions on Spotify named as Bwv 1000 but playing the 1001 version.. I guess they're just misnaming it 😅
@sameerchaudhary465 4 ай бұрын
Love the interview!! Maybe have Jonathan Kreisberg as the next guest? :)
@cronano 4 ай бұрын
great sound
@Theowiersema 4 ай бұрын
Is that a…brick between your knees? 😂 Stunning piece. Thanks for the performance!
@wtfbach 4 ай бұрын
A yoga block! Good spot. Advice from a pilates teacher to help my posture at home.
@benarmeni3370 4 ай бұрын
Wonderful interview, great questions
@jaw513 4 ай бұрын
Sorry to miss it! But I'm visiting the area in April for the first time. Anyone have any recommendations for cool Bach-related things to see?
@wtfbach 4 ай бұрын
www.thueringer-bachwochen.de - until April 14th.
@jaw513 4 ай бұрын
@@wtfbach Thanks! Definitely planning to check out a couple of those.
@jaw513 4 ай бұрын
@@wtfbach OK, funny coincidence: My brother’s mentioned once or twice that he knows this hardcore Bach guy from work. Anyway, when he heard I was going to Germany, he recommended that I go to Erfurt to see this guy’s concert. Of course it turns out it’a the same Bach guy whose podcast I’ve been listening to! My brother is Aaron from Yamaha in NY. Small world!
@DorHeledMusic 4 ай бұрын
Thank you Evan, this is so inspiring and informative! Would you say that these choral melody elaborations are similar to the little organ book, where the original melody is played in half-time on the organ?
@wtfbach 4 ай бұрын
Certainly. This is in effect Bach's first attempt at an 'Orgelbüchlein' of sorts. Try and find the forward I was reading: it draws comparisons between the two volumes. Thanks!
@neoelitist 4 ай бұрын
What is the instrument? sounds pretty close to pure sine wave? not too many overtones?
@wtfbach 4 ай бұрын
Pure sine indeed! Thanks for noticing. The episode (might give more context) is here: open.substack.com/pub/wtfbach/p/whats-a-pythagorean-comma-introduction-fd4?r=1xfu7e&
@neoelitist 4 ай бұрын
@@wtfbach cool, of course would sound even gnarlier with a church organ, but tuning that is easier said than done!
@BrunoMrx 5 ай бұрын
I would like to see this in a guitar! Great performance!
@caca232 5 ай бұрын
This is a great format! I love the commentary on the bottom.
@alexdb77 5 ай бұрын
This is gold. Cannot thank you enough for this work. Uplifting to say the most! A big thank you from Portugal
@DorHeledMusic 5 ай бұрын
Thoroughly enjoyable and %1000 authentic. Bravo! 🙏🎹❤️🎶✨
@octatonicgardenmarcospi4978 5 ай бұрын
So good. Tks!
@gcummings88 5 ай бұрын
A great show!!!
@jjzap2935 5 ай бұрын
Wonderful music conversation! I'm glad YT suggested the video after watching viewing Beato's interview with Brad. What an articulate elegant speaker Mr. Mehidau is. Thank You
@FlorisV82 5 ай бұрын
BEST interview with Mr Mehldau online! Thanks!!
@matiasperezzalazar8657 5 ай бұрын
Tied with the one with Beato
@mudbone7706 5 ай бұрын
Great interview! How about doing one with Dan Tepfer on his relationship with Bach's music?
@benarmeni3370 4 ай бұрын
This would be amazing
@rickhood 5 ай бұрын
I am relearning piano since 2021 after being away from it for more or less 30 years. I am mainly interested in Jazz, but Bach is the one composer in the classical realm I want to learn some of. I found this after listening to Rick Beato's interview of Mehldau. I hear what you are saying about Mehldau's love of music being in the forefront -- also his knowledges of music. I subscribed and looking forward to listening.
@txsphere 5 ай бұрын
Great interview, subscribed. I have never heard the idea Charlie Parker studied Bach. In a radio interview you can find here on KZfaq Paul Desmond asked if Mr. Parker had quoted an etude book and said "yes it was all done with books." Which isn't surprising as much technique it takes to play jazz. Even in early jazz there was an influence of Creole players like Jelly Roll Morton who were allowed opportunities to be educated in music. There are two different styles of clarinet playing, the Creole being far more technical because of their education and opportunities to play, you can hear their experience playing Sousa in their improvisations. There is a wonderful story that Stravinsky was in the audience listening to Mr. Parker play and in his solo he quoted the Rite of Spring, blowing Stravinsky's mind.
@octatonicgardenmarcospi4978 5 ай бұрын
It would be great if you could arrange a podcast with Rudolf Lutz. I really liked the questions you asked. Brad Mehldau
@wtfbach 5 ай бұрын
He's on my radar! Certainly.
@octatonicgardenmarcospi4978 5 ай бұрын
@@wtfbachGood to know. tks!
@tetraqartet6798 5 ай бұрын
Unequal version has some sort of warmth, a lively vitality that the equal hasn't
@radioazma 5 ай бұрын
So honest thank you