When I was 18 my mother asked me what I really wanted for my birthday. I said I really want a clavichord. Two days later I got a brand new Lancia Delta car outside the door. I wanted to cry. Bach is still my friend. I will never bargain Him for anything else.
Absolutely epic. The more I study the Chaconne, the more it blows my mind that a mortal man wrote this. Amazing how it adapts to whatever instrument it is played on, like no other song does. Thanks for the awesome upload!
Merci , après avoir écouté plusieurs arrangement de cette chaconne et malgré ma grande passion pour le clavecin , ma préférence est pour votre interprétation qui j'avoue est magnifique au clavicorde .
I'm glad you uploaded this wonderful piece. I'm a violin playera and I can tell that you aproached the Chaconne yo the keyboard in a very violinistic way. Thank you so much.
Hmm. Much of the counter-point in this arrangement is from the piano (and orchestral) version of Joachim Raff (1822-1882), also can be found on imslp. Otherwise, it’s very nice to hear this piece on clavichord, really nice tone and interpretation. Thanks for uploading!
This makes me want a clavichord... really nice expressive playing without being oppressive. Nice performance. I'm working out the Brahms arrangement for LH only on piano. Love this channel. Keep up the good work!
There are a very few people who - whenever they play - it is inherently musical, and beautifully shaped. You, Wim, are one of those people. Absolutely stunning, and perfectly poised, like everything you upload.
I love the vantage points too. It really looks and feels like a Vermeer painting - or rather Vermeer movie for the 21st Century. Sometimes it really sound like the lute so often found on those paintings. The joy is timeless. Musica laeticiae comes & medicina dolorum - as it says on the Vermeer in our National Gallery. Dolorum it is - given Bach's circumstances when he wrote it. The strict form and gentle beauty makes it bearable. Thank you so much, I just discovered you, you are giving a lot of joy to us all. The instrument appears perfect in these familial settings to express the intimacy of Bach's tentationes and explorationes in distress and their taciturn solutions.
Excelent! From a fellow musician (i am a recorder player)! This piece is the culprit for my career in early music! I am working on a transcription for recorder myself!
It sounds beautiful in your lovely keyboard, but the magic it amounts in the violin where it seems impossible to pile up such many beautiful notes together, plus the expressive nature of the stringed instrument is beyond any thinking. But your work is amazing.
The most beautiful composition of all time, played poetically and beautifully by a true musician. Great ornaments, tempo choice, drama and execution. Great Wim, great win!
This sounds just beautiful! I'm writing a book, and your music helps me to write better! I listen to you playing the Clavichord each and every time I write, thank you!
Glad you liked it Derek, yes the clavichord was in 'her' element that night. Of course, the recording helps in building the sound for your speakers, you should once hear it live...!
I had only heard the Busoni transcription before (among the keyboard versions, that is), and only played in an expansive way on a 9-foot piano, so this is a fascinating contrast. The closeups of your hands are very helpful.
Thank you for these kind words, I'm glad that I could be inspiration! I just watched your video of the Bach chaconne on viola, it is also very beautiful performance!
Wow, one of my favorites by Bach, and I like the angles - especially the over keyboard view. I have a feeling this is going to be one of the more popular videos on Authentic Sound! :-)
Enjoyed your performance very much. Thank you for sharing. As for the transcription itself, I feel it has a lot of elements in the spirit of Bach's composition style. Perhaps more so than other more commonly-known piano transcriptions, for example, the use of sequence in the added passages brings a more symmetrical and contrapuntal structure to the accompaniment. However, I do not think Jacques Drillon's intention was to re-create "what Bach would have". There are clearly elements that are akin to piano playing style, such as the many use of extreme high and low registers at the same moment, which Bach typically reserves, and use only for absolute dramatic peaks in a piece. Also the thick chord texture in certain places felt out of place for the clavichord. I'm sure these passages would have been treated much differently had the intended instrument be a plucked string keyboard instead. A great transcription in my humble opinion regardless. This had been a very interesting listening experience. I studied the Chaconne quite extensively near the end of my university years. countless hours of analyzing, playing, and listening to every single recording I could find (and I am no expert still!). So I feel very sentimental to hear it again from a great performer and instrument.
Great to read, thanks! To the advantage of the transcriber, I added some thick chords myself, since here, live, they seems to work fine. O, it's always a choice... I believe there is a transcription by Leonhardt available now in the new Bärenreiter edition of this transcriptions and I'll have a look at that once it arrives, could be interesting to compare!
It is indeed a perfect choice, Wim! Chaconne is my favourite Bach piece and ever since I found your channel I hoped you would play it someday. Loved your performance (lots of 'goosebump' moments). Best wishes to you, Anja, Sofie and Evelien for 2018. May all your dreams for AS come true!
Riascolto e rimango affascinata del splendido suono del clavicordo.Io conosco la versione di Busoni per piano eseguita del grande ABM. Anche questa trascrizione è veramente interessante.Grazie !
Wow! I love the vantage points here. You still make it look so effortless, but sheesh!! You are obviously very talented! So much control! Did I ever mention how much I love your channel? Haha! So much here 😊
Dear Wim, What a nice surprise was it to discover this new video of the ageless variations of Bach's Chaconne. Unlike Golderg's variations, these are shorter and therefore more dynamic, in which a fast keyboard instrument has an obvious added value. You also well control the pace when it has to be slower. Thank you so much Wim Winters. Blessings from me, Eytan Suchard.
Not being at home, the speakers on my laptop did not pay justice to this Chaconne nor to your clavichord, but the music is still there. Thanks, and happy new year to you, Wim, Anja and your daughters.
Wim, since I found out about your channel over a year ago, I've always wanted to hear you play this. At the time, I was working on this piece on the classical guitar and now I'm about to play it for an audition at the San Fransisco Conservatory. It's my 2nd favorite piece that exists, and it sounds as I've always imagined it would sound like on the clavichord. Listening to this of course has added to my interpretation and will help prepare me for my audition. I have great appreciation for you making such an excellent recording of a piece that has such meaning to me. Thank you.
...excellent rendition! congrats! your metric is so very strong that I can alw. feel the pulse of the (originally Spanish) dance, plus you find so many possibilities to express the different moods and voices in only one register, bravo!! Love the "Spanish guitar" in 4:00" ff. and the "instrumentation" in 4:38'' > we adore the devil's interval, yes we do!! also arpeggi brilliant :) a source of inspiriation! thx 4 sharing!
Dear Wim, see my comment from last year. Thank you so much for this. I had the opportunity to hear these variations as they were played by Hagai Shaham en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagai_Shaham who was a high-school friend but I am more excited to hear a clavichord version as it is really unconventional. In this case it is even easy to hear the accords of the main theme because the clavichord is highly articulated.
So much to admire: Joris Potvlieghe's marvelous creation, your phrasing: rhythmic clarity, dynamics, subtle tempo gradations, the camera work, your dexterity, the tuning and maintenance of this instrument. This instrument seems to be growing in grace, as is your daughter in her mother's footsteps. Happy New Year, indeed, and renewed appreciation for the great art of AuthenticSound. rjs When will we hear the forte piano?
Thank you so much Wim; yours is a tremendous, beautifully phrased realisation. There are some tricky passages and I admire the way you make light of them; I only wish I could play it as cleanly as you do! I agree with Mohamed Alnajjar that this recording is destined to attract very many views. I did not spot many changes: bar 7 needed adjusting and I may follow your solution of (I think) f, d bflat in the bass with the first chord (from the bass) f, d, a f - have I got that right? - on paper, it puts a parallel octave in the left hand, but that is OK.
This is great. I love the Chaconne- it is an incredible piece of music. But the funny thing is Wim when I first heard it ( not your playing but on an online music course on a lone violin) I hated it so much! I could not stand it really. How crazy is that?! Then I heard it on a period violin on you tube I think it was and tried to understand it. Then I began to like it. Then I went to a concert and heard it played live and it was amazing. Now I love it!
Nice, didn't know that transcription. It works, but here we are talking about a piece that is Earth-shattering, you can literally hear his life tumbling down after the passing of his wife. So the piece needs more power than that of the clavichord. Anyhow, good job since the piece is both long and technically difficult.
I am currently learning this piece after watching this. I do not have a clavichord but I found the pianoteq has quite good modelling sound of a specific type of clavichord. I can only cover one page per week it is quite hard for me. Hope I can play and remember all notes in Sep.
Wow Thank you Wim ...really well played .. i used to play this on Guitar many years ago...the arrangement isnt so different .. you may have got me to re-learn this and record ..thanks .. Mike
I shall have to check this version out - I play a version by Pierre Gouin, also on IMSLP, and also Gustav Leonhardt (Bärenreiter) Interesting to see how different people's approaches to arranging this are.
Dear Wim: There is no clavichord method. Why not write one? I think you should do it. We have all learned with a harpsichord method. How many clavichords are there in the world?
Thank you so much Miguel for this great suggestion. Joan Benson wrote a book on clavichord playing, but i believe there could be a more extensive method indeed talking on principles that apply to all keyboards, including piano playing (the clavichord is for a reason the 'mother' of all keyboard instruments). I keep this thought with me. In fact, I started the idea already a bit I realize now, by the online course I recently made: bit.ly/2AByorn
Beautiful, I find it very natural (contrary to the Busoni transcription which, while not bad, is actually an entirely different animal from the original).
I always considered Chaconne as a funeral march; I play it in the violin exactly in the same tempo, and I realised soon that the dynamics are completely different; it is much more demanding to play it in this tempo…
Very interesting. It seems, however, Brahms sticks closer to what Bach wrote with less doubling and dipping below violin range… There also seems to be several add ins by Jacque Drillon that seem new to me (will need listen again with a score)… Never fully preferred the add in power of the Busoni most major pianists seem to use. Bach doesn’t need more! Indeed for the rest of the Solo violin sonatas and suites I read strait off an enlarged photocopy of a mini score for violin solo… same with the cello partitias… which curiously do not have fugues as do the 3 sonatas (which I suspect has technical reasons, but don’t really know)… for me, these 12 solo works alone are almost like a bible (while the rest of Bach’s solo keyboard works alone swims deeply cosmic as the Bhagavad Gita). Indeed to me Bach represents the man god in music ; Mozart the Genius, and Beethoven the hero… Of course there are others : Geswaldo though Harry Partch (the later of which I consider to be yet more far reaching than even Schoenberg… as he not only designed and built all his own instruments, but wrote for an expanded scale of micro tones, but didn't fall prey to the 20 century plug in electornics...). Indeed the harpsichord personality is rather distant from the piano and even more so from the flow of a violin. It has a more staccato sometimes choppy effect which a piano can cover up with a bit of pedal… plus dynamic ranges, so the transformation is rather intense but indeed enjoyably so. You also seem to add in some extra ornamentation which is much more suitable to harpsichord. Funny too, it does not seem you are playing much faster, indeed it starts off sounding slower than many violinists I’ve clocked doing it in around 17 mins… Different of course is not better nor worse, but like stated : “interesting”. You do have a far cleaner smoother technique than mine … and a lovely young advantage in that charming page turner! Cheers!
Have you compared Drillon's transcription to Brahms' transcription for the left hand. I have both, but have not had time to do a comparison. At least one harpsichordist, Jean Rondeau, has used the Brahms with two hands.
I haven't, my guess is that Brahms' transcr. would be really hard on the clavichord, where every note needs its own attention. This transcr. is on the edge of what is possible on the clav. Leonhardt has made one too, should buy it soon.
When I was 18 my mother asked me what I really wanted for my birthday.
I said I really want a clavichord.
Two days later I got a brand new Lancia Delta car outside the door.
I wanted to cry.
Bach is still my friend.
I will never bargain Him for anything else.
Tienes mucha suerte 😢
Absolutely epic. The more I study the Chaconne, the more it blows my mind that a mortal man wrote this. Amazing how it adapts to whatever instrument it is played on, like no other song does. Thanks for the awesome upload!
Glad you liked it Protos!
Che emozione sentire e vedere la ragazzina partecipare.Bravissima idem il maestro.
Merci , après avoir écouté plusieurs arrangement de cette chaconne et malgré ma grande passion pour le clavecin , ma préférence est pour votre interprétation qui j'avoue est magnifique au clavicorde .
I'm glad you uploaded this wonderful piece. I'm a violin playera and I can tell that you aproached the Chaconne yo the keyboard in a very violinistic way.
Thank you so much.
Thanks for listening Nicolas!
Hmm. Much of the counter-point in this arrangement is from the piano (and orchestral) version of Joachim Raff (1822-1882), also can be found on imslp. Otherwise, it’s very nice to hear this piece on clavichord, really nice tone and interpretation. Thanks for uploading!
This makes me want a clavichord... really nice expressive playing without being oppressive. Nice performance. I'm working out the Brahms arrangement for LH only on piano. Love this channel. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Fidel and good luck with the Brahms!
Nice camera shot at, 2:00. Love the fact you took a shot down close to the keyboard.
I think that starting from now, every first video of the new year should be a piece by Bach. :)
Agree :)
@@AuthenticSound I like the idea of that.
You never cease to amaze me in a positive way, Wim... Thank you for this upload.
Wow, thank you!
There are a very few people who - whenever they play - it is inherently musical, and beautifully shaped. You, Wim, are one of those people. Absolutely stunning, and perfectly poised, like everything you upload.
Thank you so much for the so kind words, Simon...!
I love the vantage points too. It really looks and feels like a Vermeer painting - or rather Vermeer movie for the 21st Century. Sometimes it really sound like the lute so often found on those paintings. The joy is timeless. Musica laeticiae comes & medicina dolorum - as it says on the Vermeer in our National Gallery. Dolorum it is - given Bach's circumstances when he wrote it. The strict form and gentle beauty makes it bearable. Thank you so much, I just discovered you, you are giving a lot of joy to us all. The instrument appears perfect in these familial settings to express the intimacy of Bach's tentationes and explorationes in distress and their taciturn solutions.
Excelent! From a fellow musician (i am a recorder player)! This piece is the culprit for my career in early music! I am working on a transcription for recorder myself!
Would love to hear that!
This is certainly one of those pieces I could not live without and this version is superb. Many thanks!!
Oh dear...this is so beautiful, Mister Winters! This had me teared up and moved with the first notes.
thank you so much
A pleasure, and thank you.
What a beautiful combination! This wonderful music and the sound of a clavichord. Thank you for the oportunity of hearing that.
It sounds beautiful in your lovely keyboard, but the magic it amounts in the violin where it seems impossible to pile up such many beautiful notes together, plus the expressive nature of the stringed instrument is beyond any thinking. But your work is amazing.
The most beautiful composition of all time, played poetically and beautifully by a true musician. Great ornaments, tempo choice, drama and execution. Great Wim, great win!
One can never go wrong with choosing JS. Thank you for this New Year greeting - greetings to you and your family.
Thanks Robin
This sounds just beautiful! I'm writing a book, and your music helps me to write better! I listen to you playing the Clavichord each and every time I write, thank you!
o that is so great to read, so great to know, thank you
This is one of my favorite pieces by Bach!
Your clavichord almost sounds like a fortepiano at times, such a big sound!
Glad you liked it Derek, yes the clavichord was in 'her' element that night. Of course, the recording helps in building the sound for your speakers, you should once hear it live...!
Mine too.
Me same
I love how many different ways you can play this beautiful piece on keyboard instruments.
Irrepressible tears in the eyes performance.
I had only heard the Busoni transcription before (among the keyboard versions, that is), and only played in an expansive way on a 9-foot piano, so this is a fascinating contrast.
The closeups of your hands are very helpful.
Glad you liked it Elene!
A lovely transcription and a wonderful way to start the new year. Thank you, Wim!
Glad you liked it Robin!
Me ha encantado la interpretación, soberbia, expresiva y cálida en lo necesario. Magnífico sonido para youtube, buen video y gran ayudante. Gracias
Thank you Wim, for playing this interpretation. As always, expertly executed.
This is such an amazing performance and interpretation. It has really given me some new ideas to try out for the next time I perform this.
Thank you for these kind words, I'm glad that I could be inspiration!
I just watched your video of the Bach chaconne on viola, it is also very beautiful performance!
This piece alone could serve as an essay on Bach's harmony. Beautifully played. Happy nre year.
Glad you liked it Matthew and happy 2018 to you as well
Beautiful piece and thank you Sofie for helping :-)
Wow, one of my favorites by Bach, and I like the angles - especially the over keyboard view. I have a feeling this is going to be one of the more popular videos on Authentic Sound! :-)
Glad you liked it Momo!!
Great transcription. If you haven't already, you might also be interested in Leonhardt's transcription (recently published by Baerenreiter).
Glad you liked it Lawrence, and yes, that is on the list definitely!
Next step Busoni transcription on the Erard?
Enjoyed your performance very much. Thank you for sharing.
As for the transcription itself, I feel it has a lot of elements in the spirit of Bach's composition style. Perhaps more so than other more commonly-known piano transcriptions, for example, the use of sequence in the added passages brings a more symmetrical and contrapuntal structure to the accompaniment.
However, I do not think Jacques Drillon's intention was to re-create "what Bach would have". There are clearly elements that are akin to piano playing style, such as the many use of extreme high and low registers at the same moment, which Bach typically reserves, and use only for absolute dramatic peaks in a piece. Also the thick chord texture in certain places felt out of place for the clavichord. I'm sure these passages would have been treated much differently had the intended instrument be a plucked string keyboard instead. A great transcription in my humble opinion regardless.
This had been a very interesting listening experience. I studied the Chaconne quite extensively near the end of my university years. countless hours of analyzing, playing, and listening to every single recording I could find (and I am no expert still!). So I feel very sentimental to hear it again from a great performer and instrument.
Great to read, thanks! To the advantage of the transcriber, I added some thick chords myself, since here, live, they seems to work fine. O, it's always a choice... I believe there is a transcription by Leonhardt available now in the new Bärenreiter edition of this transcriptions and I'll have a look at that once it arrives, could be interesting to compare!
It is indeed a perfect choice, Wim! Chaconne is my favourite Bach piece and ever since I found your channel I hoped you would play it someday. Loved your performance (lots of 'goosebump' moments).
Best wishes to you, Anja, Sofie and Evelien for 2018. May all your dreams for AS come true!
Best wishes for you too Margreet!
Riascolto e rimango affascinata del splendido suono del clavicordo.Io conosco la versione di Busoni per piano eseguita del grande ABM. Anche questa trascrizione è veramente interessante.Grazie !
Trebley.
This was Segovias triumph on the Classical Guitar.
Critics said it couldn't be done on Guitar.
Segovia did it.
BRAVO !!!!!!! MAGNIFIQUE !!!!!!
Merci beaucoup!
Wonderful transcription (and playing of course)! I can tell you had fun playing it!
Glad you liked it!
Wow! I love the vantage points here. You still make it look so effortless, but sheesh!! You are obviously very talented! So much control! Did I ever mention how much I love your channel? Haha! So much here 😊
wim, this channel only grows in my mind and in my heart. please keep this incredible work.
So nice to read, it's what drives me, thanks Enzo
Dear Wim, What a nice surprise was it to discover this new video of the ageless variations of Bach's Chaconne. Unlike Golderg's variations, these are shorter and therefore more dynamic, in which a fast keyboard instrument has an obvious added value. You also well control the pace when it has to be slower. Thank you so much Wim Winters. Blessings from me, Eytan Suchard.
Thank you so much Eytan, glad you liked it!
As a violinist, this is one of my all time favorites. Thank you for the performance!
Not being at home, the speakers on my laptop did not pay justice to this Chaconne nor to your clavichord, but the music is still there. Thanks, and happy new year to you, Wim, Anja and your daughters.
Happy 2018 to you as well Pierre-Henri!
This arrangement and performance are both magnificent achievements. Thank you, Wim!
Incredibly touching and beautiful. Thank you for making my 2020 a nice new year!
Si ascolta sempre volentieri questa composizione .Magistrale esecuzione complimenti .
best transcript i ever heard - thx4sharing!
Wow! Thanks for sharing! It´s always a delight to listen your renderings
thanks!
... as if it was composed for clavichord... Excellent performance. Bravo.
:-)
I have long loved the harpsichord. You're turning me into a lover of the clavichord as well!
Few things more addictive than a clavichord....!
Wim, since I found out about your channel over a year ago, I've always wanted to hear you play this. At the time, I was working on this piece on the classical guitar and now I'm about to play it for an audition at the San Fransisco Conservatory. It's my 2nd favorite piece that exists, and it sounds as I've always imagined it would sound like on the clavichord. Listening to this of course has added to my interpretation and will help prepare me for my audition. I have great appreciation for you making such an excellent recording of a piece that has such meaning to me. Thank you.
Glad you liked it Liam and great you shared your story here!
Magnificent transcription and wonderful playing !
You've finally played my favorite piece of music of all time! Thank You so much nuestro Win! Happy New year!@-@
Glad you liked it and happy new year to you as well Albert
...excellent rendition! congrats! your metric is so very strong that I can alw. feel the pulse of the (originally Spanish) dance, plus you find so many possibilities to express the different moods and voices in only one register, bravo!! Love the "Spanish guitar" in 4:00" ff. and the "instrumentation" in 4:38'' > we adore the devil's interval, yes we do!! also arpeggi brilliant :) a source of inspiriation! thx 4 sharing!
A wonderful job! You play beautifully on a beautiful instrument.
Thrilling! Splendid sound and playing. Thank you and I liked the video a lot.
Thanks Edward!
Really a beautifull piece!!!
I do very much like your interpretation of this.
outstandingly beautiful performance, thank you!
Thank you,it is a wonderful rendition!
Glad you liked it, Nikola!
Dear Wim,you are welcome,where can I find this transcription score?
Amazing! Congrats ... and thank you for sharing your music. 👏👏👏♥️🎶🎵
Wonderful, touching, full of meaning - thank you for sharing
one of my favourite pieces 😍
Dear Wim, see my comment from last year. Thank you so much for this. I had the opportunity to hear these variations as they were played by Hagai Shaham en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagai_Shaham who was a high-school friend but I am more excited to hear a clavichord version as it is really unconventional. In this case it is even easy to hear the accords of the main theme because the clavichord is highly articulated.
This sometimes faster than your Chopin etudes and "speed" preludes?
Beautifully played.
Thanks!
A great way to start the New Year. Thank you!
Glad you liked it Martin
Inspiring! the ease and beauty! Thanks!
Glad you liked it Uldy
I don't agree with all of the added contrapuntal lines but, well, you can't please anyone. Great interpretation and performance
So much to admire: Joris Potvlieghe's marvelous creation, your phrasing: rhythmic clarity, dynamics, subtle tempo gradations, the camera work, your dexterity, the tuning and maintenance of this instrument. This instrument seems to be growing in grace, as is your daughter in her mother's footsteps. Happy New Year, indeed, and renewed appreciation for the great art of AuthenticSound. rjs When will we hear the forte piano?
Hi Robert, all great to read, thank you! The pianoforte is in its last run now, probably be strung one of the next weeks. I'm waiting with you...!
Beautiful performance and a revelation to hear it on your clavichord
Thanks Jim!
Wonderful playing and great sounding instrument. Very enjoyable. Thank you :-)
A suggestion for the text at the beginning. If you use a black border with white text, the text will be visible on any color background.
Thanks! I see if I can do that. I know the common buttons in SOny Vegas, but so many options are untouched.
That's a nice transcription of this work. I personally would prefer hearing it on the clavichord over the violin. Thank you Wim.
Glad you liked it Joseph
Amazing :) It almost sounds like a synthesizer at the arpeggios 5:07!
Thank you so much Wim; yours is a tremendous, beautifully phrased realisation. There are some tricky passages and I admire the way you make light of them; I only wish I could play it as cleanly as you do!
I agree with Mohamed Alnajjar that this recording is destined to attract very many views.
I did not spot many changes: bar 7 needed adjusting and I may follow your solution of (I think) f, d bflat in the bass with the first chord (from the bass) f, d, a f - have I got that right? - on paper, it puts a parallel octave in the left hand, but that is OK.
Glad you liked it Martin and thanks again for the suggestion!
Did you find an email?
Great interpretation, great sound!
This is great. I love the Chaconne- it is an incredible piece of music. But the funny thing is Wim when I first heard it ( not your playing but on an online music course on a lone violin) I hated it so much! I could not stand it really. How crazy is that?! Then I heard it on a period violin on you tube I think it was and tried to understand it. Then I began to like it. Then I went to a concert and heard it played live and it was amazing. Now I love it!
Great to read!!
Nice, didn't know that transcription. It works, but here we are talking about a piece that is Earth-shattering, you can literally hear his life tumbling down after the passing of his wife. So the piece needs more power than that of the clavichord. Anyhow, good job since the piece is both long and technically difficult.
I love your clavichord!
Happy new year from Perú!
Happy 2018 from Belgium back!
Wonderful performance and a truly amazing work.
Bravo
I am currently learning this piece after watching this. I do not have a clavichord but I found the pianoteq has quite good modelling sound of a specific type of clavichord. I can only cover one page per week it is quite hard for me. Hope I can play and remember all notes in Sep.
This piece is indeed very difficult I just memorised the first 60 measures
Mooi. Gelukkig nieuwjaar.
Gelukking nieuwjaar ook voor jou Willem!
Ein glückliches neues Jahr euch beiden.
Wunderschöne!!
Great piece and beautiful playing!
Is that the historically informed way of page turning? Modern turners would use the other hand to ensure minimum space intrusion
this feels so right
I keep thinking that the bach concertos for keyboard and orchestra would sounds great on your clavichord :)
Glad you liked it Ian
Wow Thank you Wim ...really well played .. i used to play this on Guitar many years ago...the arrangement isnt so different .. you may have got me to re-learn this and record ..thanks .. Mike
Glad you liked it Mike!
:) :) ::)
I shall have to check this version out - I play a version by Pierre Gouin, also on IMSLP, and also Gustav Leonhardt (Bärenreiter) Interesting to see how different people's approaches to arranging this are.
Leonhardts version is on my wishlist for long... !
Dear Wim: There is no clavichord method. Why not write one? I think you should do it. We have all learned with a harpsichord method. How many clavichords are there in the world?
Thank you so much Miguel for this great suggestion. Joan Benson wrote a book on clavichord playing, but i believe there could be a more extensive method indeed talking on principles that apply to all keyboards, including piano playing (the clavichord is for a reason the 'mother' of all keyboard instruments). I keep this thought with me. In fact, I started the idea already a bit I realize now, by the online course I recently made: bit.ly/2AByorn
Excellent 👌.
Beautiful, I find it very natural (contrary to the Busoni transcription which, while not bad, is actually an entirely different animal from the original).
sublime. please record more of scarlatti sonatas
Amazing!! Thanx for this.
thank you
I always considered Chaconne as a funeral march; I play it in the violin exactly in the same tempo, and I realised soon that the dynamics are completely different; it is much more demanding to play it in this tempo…
Very interesting. It seems, however, Brahms sticks closer to what Bach wrote with less doubling and dipping below violin range… There also seems to be several add ins by Jacque Drillon that seem new to me (will need listen again with a score)…
Never fully preferred the add in power of the Busoni most major pianists seem to use. Bach doesn’t need more! Indeed for the rest of the Solo violin sonatas and suites I read strait off an enlarged photocopy of a mini score for violin solo… same with the cello partitias… which curiously do not have fugues as do the 3 sonatas (which I suspect has technical reasons, but don’t really know)… for me, these 12 solo works alone are almost like a bible (while the rest of Bach’s solo keyboard works alone swims deeply cosmic as the Bhagavad Gita). Indeed to me Bach represents the man god in music ; Mozart the Genius, and Beethoven the hero… Of course there are others : Geswaldo though Harry Partch (the later of which I consider to be yet more far reaching than even Schoenberg… as he not only designed and built all his own instruments, but wrote for an expanded scale of micro tones, but didn't fall prey to the 20 century plug in electornics...).
Indeed the harpsichord personality is rather distant from the piano and even more so from the flow of a violin. It has a more staccato sometimes choppy effect which a piano can cover up with a bit of pedal… plus dynamic ranges, so the transformation is rather intense but indeed enjoyably so. You also seem to add in some extra ornamentation which is much more suitable to harpsichord.
Funny too, it does not seem you are playing much faster, indeed it starts off sounding slower than many violinists I’ve clocked doing it in around 17 mins…
Different of course is not better nor worse, but like stated : “interesting”. You do have a far cleaner smoother technique than mine … and a lovely young advantage in that charming page turner! Cheers!
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Have you compared Drillon's transcription to Brahms' transcription for the left hand. I have both, but have not had time to do a comparison. At least one harpsichordist, Jean Rondeau, has used the Brahms with two hands.
I haven't, my guess is that Brahms' transcr. would be really hard on the clavichord, where every note needs its own attention. This transcr. is on the edge of what is possible on the clav. Leonhardt has made one too, should buy it soon.