Harpsichord Performance: Comparone Plays Scarlatti
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- Опубліковано 16 сер 2007
- Harpsichordist Elaine plays Sonata in D minor, K. 517 by Domenico Scarlatti on her 2-manual harpsichord built in 1968 by William Dowd.
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You know you watch this for a bit and think it's pretty cool, then it kinda goes deeper and you realize how
amazing humans actually are.
My thoughts exactly
+Aneira Silvermoon. What does that mean?
+Gordon Ackerman Try to be a little less sensitive to these slangy compliments, dear friend. I'm sure that Aneira is looking at the wonder of what a vast spectrum of human capability is exhibited throughout history, and her remark was prompted by how well Ms. Comparone embodies the very best of the good in humanity.
+randolph patterson Dear Gordon, indeed. May I express how delightfully courteous, and, ever gracious, your prose, to Madame, is? Lest Madame's sensibility, and sensitivity (oh, the chancy surging of such two linguistic predicate-family elements...) be slightly set on edge, with such bold attempts at incorporating the vernacular, within the corpus of the florid cornucopia of the ever praiseworthy and sincere remarks, concerning Madame's art, I rest assured that, with gentle persuasion, and with no pride, nor prejudice, your love and friendship, towards Madame, will find a middle march of great expectations, a veritable grand tour, a villette, may I say, of the highest and noblest degree, north and south! This short note, hastily written on my pedestal table, gazing at the andirons Lord Glattisborough, on his return from India, gave me. Jeffrey, or, Geoffrey!
Jeffrey Hawthorne Goines Holy fuck. Bravo. That is all.
This is the most metal thing I've ever heard
Thanks! My strings are as metal as they can get!
It don't mean a thang if it ain't got that twang. Baroque 4ever.
I.. buy m thism... Stratovarius i love this. Wow
This piece can definitely be used as an intro for a death metal album
Same as i thought. Great Performance. Mozart is so much closer to Scarlatti than to Bach...
Awesome recital. The harpsichord always sound like three or four different instruments at once.
+Shifter Gynoid That's kind of why the sound appeals to me!
+Elaine Comparone enjoyed the piece - this has always been my favourite musical instrument.
Onl;y a pity that the rest of the world knows that the piano got invented because the dynamic range of the harpsichord (i.e. the range wher you get a pure tone (and not some stack of harmonics) was very limited. We also klnow that eg Bach Scarlatti had an exceptionla sensitive playing style. Thus it is time to go see whether you cvanf ind somebody who can do an intelligence test and a psychiatric tests to see in which type of home you fit. Thanks!
The percussive plucking and the note the string produces sound like two different instruments.
Add in the double or triple stop, some additional voices and it sounds like four to six instruments.
Shifter Gynoid
It sounds like a mix of modern piano and guitar.
ah yes, the "technical heavy metal" of the baroque period. such a treat! this is my 30th-odd viewing...many more to come...
This harpsichord has a beautiful sound! It sounds like several instruments playing together; at times the resonance almost sounds like orchestral strings ... I love it. Also, great performance!
Thank you so much for your encouraging comment!!!!!
No sound can compare to that of a harpsichord and it's unique beauty.....
Amen!
The clavichord sound familiar
I mean it's literally just a piano harp...
...yes
@@seamorington2760 Much softer. It doesn't pluck the strings but gently hammers them - very softly!
Holy hell that bass note is just IMMENSE. I can almost feel the reverberations!
Almost? Get better speakers.
This is why I say Classical is Metal before Metal even existed. I can easily see him and a large handful of other composers, if around today, being in hard rock and metal music. You are a talented woman.
I think you hit the nail on the head about the Metal. It was probably a wild time back then (especially when the Royalty weren't around.) We can't even imagine!!
@@ElaineComparone I taught English in Korea and musical instruments came up. They had never heard of a harpsichord, nor been exposed to the sound. This was the first video to come up when I searched and they just ate it up. I nearly had a riot on my hands, because they demanded I explain to them exactly what this was. After 5 minutes of them getting more and more frustrated, I started speaking in Korean saying, "Okay, it's a British super piano." (갠차나요, 그것 는 영국인 슈퍼 피아노). And that was something they understood.
🤘🏾
Still gives me chills today.
I nearly had a riot in my ESL class in Korea. They demanded I explain precisely what this instrument was. Finally I had to speak in Korean, "It's a British super-piano."
Its the ancestor of the piano basically, a precursor
I found this video because I was looking for a piece to annoy my son with, who tends to dislike the harpsichord. However he loved it. Beautiful.
With me and my mom it's the other way round, I love the harpsichord, and my mom who is a professional pianist hates it. lol.
How can anyone not like the harpsichord???
@@AFFysDESky I know!
Andrew Forbes Right?
@@AFFysDESky I hate celery, so what does that tell you?
Harpsichord sounds so much better than piano to my ears.
To my ears too!! Thanks for your comment!!
One of my favorite instruments next to the violin.
I play the violin!
YAYYY me too! Well, I'm in hiatus.
I play the viola :P
You mean before : I play violin but want to learn keyboard
sehun yehet viola better though
Coming from a metal fan, this sounds pretty cool.
Faster than Yngwie!😉
You should check out k517 by Tourniquet, this but with metal drums
your fake so what you just said doesn't really carry any meaning
@Zachariah Hugh sounds like a scam
You should listen to Castle Vein by Heaven Pierce Her
he managed to put a harpsichord in a metal song and make it sound more lit than hell itself
Still enjoying this performance in 2021. :)
Glad to hear it!! Thanks for letting me know!
2022 here
I am a big fan of all E.Comparone's virtuoso playing, but this is outstanding. This final descending trills,give me goosebumps. Fabulous.
Thank you so much for your appreciative comment!!
When you realize she's not reading music
She do that shit from memory
+Jaylie Piatt If you imagine it as remembering pages and pages of printed notes, that would indeed be daunting, but that's not how you remember it. To a large extent, for a piece you know well it's muscle memory, but also, you only have to know what immediate follows what you are currently playing, and even a listener who knows the piece well is able to do that. The biggest fear for a performer is actually playing a piece where long phrases or passages are repeated, and not remembering whether you're on the first or second playing! Not so much a problem when playing alone, but fatal if playing a concerto with an orchestra!
+Jaylie Piatt
actually i can't imagine taking my focus off playing to look at a sheet of paper.
+Jaylie Piatt Fun fact: Humans can remember complex music patterns easily but can't memorize a simple 20 digit number.
+Jose Juan Rivera Reyes funny you mention this. i took the WAIS-IV in 2012 and scored >99% (very superior range) for number string/digit sequence memorization (both forward and reverse). average in almost everything else, however :p just thought i'd share. lol
+Jaylie Piatt a lot of it is muscle memory as well
I've listened to this sonata, oh I don't know, 30 times and I still can't figure out how a human can reproduce this music perfectly, not to mention dozens of others, from memory. Thank you E. Comparone. You brought beauty into this world, at least mine
I'm glad you like it enough to listen more than once,----that's like my liking it enough to practice it hundreds of times----the only way to get it really well!
I'm going to go out on a limb here and saw this lady may be mildly familiar with the harpsichord
Technique, from this observer, amazing. And she cares. The dynamics of the harpsichord are to me a challenge, and Elaine makes the come through emotionally and technically.
Sometimes when I feel a bit down, watching your fingers fly around cheers me up.
Leo
Man, I love this instrument. Such a curious, eerie yet beautiful sound it makes.
And good lord she's quick on her fingers. Great work. Simply wonderful to listen to.
God, the Harpsichord has to be the most underrated instrument ever.
God this is gorgeous! I love the harpsichord! Such a wondrous instrument.
2 million views for Scarlatti played on the harpsichord. Well done, Ms. Comparone.
This rendition is just breathtaking, and this is probably one of the most beautiful harpsichords I have ever listened to in terms of roundness and richness of note. Just...wonderful. Beyond compare. I was close to tears listening to it.
Thank you so much for your enthusiastic response. I'm very grateful. I've been enjoying practicing on this instrument as I work on some French repertoire.Much credit must go to the recording engineer for the excellent sound.
Harpsichord is such an awesome instrument.
You are so AMAZING!!!! - You made me cry with your beauty and connection to that most beautiful instrument madame! I wish you were my mentor...Live on a thousand years!
Joseph Rivera-Ramos Thank you for your kind words and good wishes.
+Joseph Rivera-Ramos Since you're going there with that kind of exaggeration, rather say, "BANZAI!". It means live on TEN thousand years! :D
@@ElaineComparone Try this Elaine, I've been taking c60 for a couple years and I can tell you it works! Live long and prosper🖖 livelongerlabs.com/
This is the kind of stuff I'd pay to see live. Seeing the philharmonic orchestra at my city's theaters is not bad, but I miss so much this kind of concert.
bravo. this is seriously my favorite performance or even recording of k.517 ive ever heard and its my favorite song - so ive heard a lot of pros and amateurs take a crack at it but, your timing and what you emphasized is perfectly what i love. obviously you just played it as you wanted lol, but thank you so much. im very happy to have this to listen to now
+Timothy Grace Glad you like it. It's not perfect, but neither is life.
What a mesmerizing performance! It's not often I get to listen to harpsichord performances like this one.
About one decade ago I saw this video for the first time, and I was impressed by Ms. Comparone's performance and the brilliance of this sonata. This led me to later decide to resume my piano studies and face the challenge of this piece. It remains a challenge to overcome, but going back to studying music was extremely meaningful to me. Thank you so much for producing such an inspiring and life changing video, and bravo for your impressive technique!
For me, this is the most eerie and mysterious musical instrument ever. It’s sound it’s unmatched in its field.
Oh my; such beautiful playing, Ms. Comparone! I've just purchased this on iTunes, and I look forward to seeing how many other songs you have on iTunes. Thanks for sharing your talent with us!
I'm glad you're enjoying the music. iTunes should have a decent selection.
You are amazing, it makes me happy to see you playing and I feel quite inspired to practice even more my humble piano :)
Your "humble piano" will appreciate very much your playing it and I know you will enjoy it too!
This is an excellent performance. May future generations appreciate Scarlatti.
I can’t get enough of this and keep coming back to this video. I start to be able to hear the melodies of the left and right hand individually and it’s like fual for my brains.
Yes. Hearing the voices individually is what this music is about. Congratulations on your awareness!
Elaine Comparone Thank you for playing this piece in such an amazing way! That’s why I keep playing this video over and over and that made me get aware and opened my eyes, or better yet my ears. My mind actually.
I'm here because I love progressive metal and musicianship.
+Asiimov I guess we've found a good place to learn then, bro....
+Asiimov Wellcome guy !
OH MY GOODNESS ITS VIVALDI!!!! I LOVE YOUR CONCERTOS!!
If you continue to love musicianship (as opposed to just the technical aspects -- as if it were a linear competitive sport), you may likely find yourself moving away from metal -- or at least branching out... Some metal seems to forgo the music, and try to make it all about 'moving fingers' etc. -- even the tone (or loss of quality of tone) seems to throw melody and harmony to the curb a lot of times....
yup
went from nu to thrash to death to djent to prog death to tech death
and now i'm here listening to baroque harpsichord pieces
Harpsichords make everything better.
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I think I just found the music I'm going to play the next time I have to take a dump; it will no doubt enlighten the experience to new, profound heights.
Update to follow.
pls deliver op
Owen McGrath himself this ain't reddit biyatch
/s
8/10 9/10 with rice
f1lthyb4con Thanks for putting that image in my head! ¬.¬
It never gets old. This is my 3rd time listening to it today.
Still in 2023 ! Absolute Perfection ❤
huh..maybe i could try this- *she starts playing* .....fuck
She plays like the angels!!!! Wow!!! I hope to see her one day personally in a concert.
Thanks for your enthusiastic remark!
Best performance of this sonata i've ever heard! Not too fast and definetly not to slow, just perfect!
eargasm
eyegasm
Nice term
I like
Sounds like a very classy boss battle.
She's unique. I can listen again and again.
Thanks for your comment and your good ear!!
There are no words to describe how awesome this is
I love this instrument and man this lady can get down on it!
Always a pleasure to listing to, a most brilliant preformance by miss Comparone, The godess of the Harpsichord !
It is such a skill and dedication she always puts in her music, it is breath taking !! And the music Scarlatti compose, is surley a most majestic way to show the greatness of human brilliance in music, and skill. Most majestic, and extremly talented composed, it is almost not of this earth .
Hi Dennis! It's been so long!! Thank you for your kind comments! Have you seen my new Haydn uploads? I know how much you like him. I thought of you and your appreciation of Haydn when I recorded the pieces. There are more to come. I hope you are enjoying life and playing the piano!
Elaine Comparone Hello dear friend!
I will for sure listing to them !! I follow your music with love, how you play music, is as no one else does. It is so rich and so full of joy and love. I don';t want to miss that !!
Thanks for your respons, It means a lot to me !
I will watch the video's you mentioned, and will love every second of it, as you said, I am a huge fan of Haydn ! so you will see me there !
Thanks again dear Elaine
with all due respect to ms. comparone, please be advised that the "goddess of the harpsichord," as someone incorrectly defined her here, was wanda landowska. ms. comparone would agree, I am sure.
Darkboy2525 Shit, she's an alien.
+nick parry. Excuse me. That is an offensive remark, especially when directed at a lady. What does it mean?
What a wonderful player.
Elaine - I think Wanda Landowska is looking down from heaven and proud to see you carrying on her legacy. Your playing is really that good. Bravo!
I've never seen somebody play this while standing. It's refreshing, and your performance is beautiful.
Yeah, that was neat! Was this common practice of the time?
+Reverie I think the classic embouchure at the harpsichord is addressing it in a standing position. Of course, an exceptionally tall person may need to sit. Remember how Lurch had to hunch over one in "The Addams Family"?
+randolph patterson I once commented about Lurch in a harpsichord piece. nobody knew who I was talking about.
+Derric Greene the late Ted Cassidy was an accomplished organist, but the Krupnick Harpsichord on the Addams Family was a non-functional prop. Vic Mizzy played a 2 manual revival harpsichord with a 16' stop for the background music which Lurch had to feign playing.
This is nuts! I've seen like 20 other performances of this piece here in YT and none of them come even close to this.
Thank you very much for your kind ( and observant!) comment!! I appreciate it!
@@elainecomparone9586 No, Thank you! for letting us enjoy such magnificent performance.
Absolutely enrapturing. She isn't merely playing the instrument, she's breathing and speaking through it, and it's more like an audible dance that fills the room with a mysterious force of nature. I love how we can hear her hands touch the keys at times, and that she masters the composition with such complete awareness of its implications. The harpsi itself is beautiful and is full of rich, complex , impossible sounds. It appears to have been built in the furniture style called William and Mary, most apt for a baroque piece....
I was today years told when I was introduced to the harpsichord, and let me tell you. I am in awe. my musical world and perception is forever changed
A couple of surprises, for me at least: standing up to play, which I’ve never thought of, and the sonata played in its entirety on the lower keyboard only without coupling. Amazing talent on display. Thank you very much for a captivating rendition.
I love the way you play this piece of Scarlatti.
I'm practising it but my tempo is almost Andante compared with your Presto.
I know that practice, work and patience will produce a good result.
Thanks for your art!
P.S.: I do love the movement of the left hand at 1:32 it looks hard but it is easy when the hand recalls the exact distance.
Saludos from Iquique, Chile
Play this at 2x.
Her talent is incredible
What a wonderful masterpiece, I enjoy the powerfully graceful sound of the harpsichord immensely. Very well played!
sorry Mrs Comparone, you should avoid crossroads as I truly believe the Devil is looking for "that" contract you signed with
XD
Reminds me of the scene in "Reefer Madness" where the stoned dude says, "Faster! Faster!" to the woman at the piano.
Fantastic! I love to listen to his wonderful piece.
I honestly think harpsichords are metal as fuck
Hell yes
I actually got here because my friend and I were discussing how we thought it was amusing that Top Gear's James May, who studied harpsichord at university, is also into hard rock, but after watching this we can kinda see how you could get from here to AC/DC and GNR without too huge of a mental leap. Pretty awesome.
I just personally think harpsichord helps add that certain ambience to heavier metal
Fantastic way to start your day! High octane.
This is beautiful, almost like a storm.
Harpsichord's are one of my favorite instruments. I'm so glad I took general music in school and studied them lol :)
Harpsichord in Brazil is "Cravo" :D
+"MrEfraimfc" i cant get over your icon
In Spanish “clavicordio”
Clavecin, in French
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!
Bom
Almost every day I hear this!Great!
What wonderful sensibility and intuition, bro! Thank You!
I don't know if you read all of your comments, but just in case you do:
Have you ever composed any music of your own? Or do you stick to playing?
I'm asking because I would very much like to hear (or read the notes of) any potential music spawned from a mind as interesting as yours
+vOddy75 I don"t see all the comments that come , but I did chance to see yours and I do thank you. I seem to find plenty of satisfaction learning other people's music and I've never had any particular desire to write my own. Maybe because I approach each piece as if it were a blank slate and I can write my own ideas on it. Also I don't tend to listen to other interpretations of what I'm working on. I have made arrangements of various pieces, like the "Bach with Pluck " series as well as Joplin rags. I like working with instrumental color. Thanks for asking!
Elaine Comparone
Interesting. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
I am not disappointed that you haven't made your own music. I think that your view that existing works are slates that can have different ideas imposed on them is telling of something great within you.
Have a good day.
I haven't composed any pieces since I know nothing of music theory, but I do often think up of a random melody along with one or two lines of accompaniment. I just play the double bass tho.
+vOddy75 Hi, according to your question: Yes, I composed several songs in general I can compose any style of music I just have to think and play, if you like you can visit my channel and see some of my work
+Elaine Comparone remarkable!!
theres an electronic artist named Savant that mixes NES sounds with harpsichord sounds and it sounds awesome.
Thanks for discovering Savant for me, really awesome stuff, but not heard harpsichord, though a few classical bits here and there.
Mindmodic
Check out Robin Hood! His best song, imo.
Starfish,Melody Circus, Overworld, Bad Baws are some of my many favorites
Savant is what sent me here. I wondered what instrument he used that always sounded so cool. Turns out this is it! Now It's my favorite instrument.
i'm here for savant tho. lel
I'm always a fan of your videos Mr. Comparone! Wonderful performance of one of my favorite composers.
So Great !!! You and Scarlatti. Thank you very much for sharing!
this like video game music. castlevania
Or like the Old Clockworks in Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon
You mean video game music is like this
Makes me think of 1600-1700s era of music
Sounds better than a grand piano honestly...
Sounds like a personnal opinion.
Its different.
Obviously its his opinion ffs. Why do you feel the need to point that out?
That's debatable.
She's right, piano sucks in comparison to how the harpsichord plucks the soul.
It's the way it was written!
My boyfriend saw this and then made me sit down and watch it with him. He likes harpischord and googled it and this was the first thing that came up. We enjoyed watching and listening!
I'm glad you enjoyed it together!!
That is stunning! It takes my breath away! I love it! Thanks so much!
Thank you so much for your response!!
“When god plays the harpsichord”
fck piano, harpsichord is king.
I just discovered this piece, incredible performance! 🔥🔥
one of the best pianists and harpsichord Eleine Comparone thank you for this beautiful piece of scarlatti provided to us in this video. still I amazed at the cleanliness and rhythm interpretation
Kick Ass yes yes yes get it lady!
Once you hear this on the harpsichord the piano version sounds like child's play in comparison. Amazing!!!!
103 people think Guitar Hero is how real music is played!
excuse you dont compare my plastic guitar skills to those in the dislikes
I bet she can't FC souless 4
15,000 vs 283.....I honestly don't know what kind of subhuman one would have to be to dislike this performance. Surely there are not this many fools alive today, I imagine it's some kind of youtube metrics bot that adds dislikes to fudge search results, similar to how reddit or other "social media" sites fudge their ratios to try to make up for assumed bots, with bots.
Harpsichord, and Scarlatti, doesn't get any better....
Thanks so much for your vote of appreciation!!
BEAUTIFUL!!!
This is amazing. Holy crap I didn't know music like this exsisted
It's amazing, isn't it? There's more like it. Keep tuned!
This is actually a very easy song but she makes it sound virtuostic!
I guess that's what true artists do.
Well, easy... That's all relative, I tried playing this on a guitar and it's not THAT easy :D
Hey Thomas. I would like to know why you think this is easy. Is it the fact that it's mostly melodic runs up and down the keyboard? I'm just curious, because what you said makes me think that you may be a very good keyboard player. All I want is your opinion.
I´m a mediocre pianist at best (I´d better be called a key-stomper), but Thomas Gill is IMVHO absolutely right. If you take a look at the score the piece reveals itself as not THAT difficult at all. The problem comes with that nagging "prestissimo" Scarlatti put before the very first note. All in all, playable by everybody, but not at its intended tempo. I seriously doubt I could go that fast!
@Abdülhak Haklıkabak You need to stop with this "if you can't do it better don't criticise". If it worked like that Olympic medalists wouldn't have coaches, they would just coach themselves. If you don't recognize the fact that (at least when it comes to music) one can give a reasonable opinion even without being able to replicate the piece better, you must know about music much less than the person you're taunting. The piece is indeed "easy" in the sense that it's easily structured. The difficulty, as the guy above me said, resides in the speed at which the piece is intended to be played. This is not a critique to Ms. Comparone in any way, which is extremely skilled in playing the piece flawlessly at such great speed.
Only one word to define that performance, PERFECT!!
Just can not stop listening to this amazing piece…… Wonderful Scarlatti - wonderful you Elaine…………!!!
Who still listening in 2019?
you are obviously...
Pretty dank
Amazing...absolutely my favorite instrument of all time.
Absolutely amazing.
El caso es que tiene pinta de que vas a visitarla a su casa y que te va a decir: hola hijo, ¿te preparo una tortilla?
-No, mejor tócame a Scarlatti, que lo quiero flipar un rato.
The piano is based off the harpsichord. It came before the piano..
This is a harpsichord
A wonderful performance of an amazing piece by an incredible harpsichordist. Thank you for sharing!
It is an amazing piece! I agree! And I'm happy to share it with you.
Beautiful!
I didn't know you stand to play the harpsichord
+Daph Duck You don"t have to. At that concert I was using a tall stand that the harpsichord sits on. I have another shorter-legged stand that allows me to sit. Standing is a lot more fun!!!
Elaine Comparone imteresting!
you only stand when you need to evoke the devil with that.