Comments on: BWV 853 Prelude

By: john lewis grant

john lewis grant — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:47:30 +0000

I’ve just listened to the Bach C major prelude, Bk 1, at your site. It’s a great reading. How rare it is to hear a great interpretation of this deceptively simple piece in the middle of the internet wilderness.

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:50:29 +0000

SUBLIME!!!! Un grande entre los grandes…

By: sid

sid — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:20:16 +0000

esta es verdadera musica es magnifica me encanta es delicada pero fuerte a la vez

By: ju

ju — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:44:51 +0000

Simplesmente maravilhoso

By: Donny

Donny — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:32:27 +0000

Second guessing and sorrow interspersed by moments of tragety.

Beautiful

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:31:16 +0000

Wonderful!!!!!!!!!

By: Nadia Bach

Nadia Bach — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:44:23 +0000

SUBLIME!!!! Un grande entre los grandes…

By: Ricardo Aquino Pereyra

Ricardo Aquino Pereyra — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:20:10 +0000

Para quien Habla español se abre un mundo nuevo (el Viejo Mundo) al oir a los compositores clasicos . . .

By: mari belle

mari belle — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:38:05 +0000

it feels like leaving someone you don’t like to leave but needed as if he was crying while playing it really is a sad song

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:55:25 +0000

I cannot believe the tragedy that was distilled into the first moments of this prelude, BWV 853. It is as if one is holding drinking glass, and the next second drops and shatters it. It is heartbreaking each time I hear it. But what I hear is the playing of Richter when I listen to this. The missing quality that Carlos Gardels doesn’t supply, my mind fools me to add in.

It is like the blind spot built into our eye that when we actually see a broken green circle or broken red line because of the optic nerve attached in one spot, our mind translates it to a complete green circle or complete red line.

But this is not a criticism of Gardels, it was once well said that “It is unfair to compare another pianist to Richter, unfair for the other pianist.”

But when a person unfamiliar with the piece comes across a competent recording or performance, and then walks away thinking the music is nothing special, soft and moody, but not Wow! Is it unfair to that person… to Bach?

It reminds me of hearing a masterclass with the great cellist Bernard Greenhouse. The student plays. The audience listens and thinks she was perfect. Then Greenhouse plays the same piece to show how its done and everyone realizes at that moment that the student did a great injustice to the work.