two things, the performance is damn near perfect, and i bet its stylistically superior though i've only heard 3 others play it, he plays at the proper speed, fast, and illustrates a kind of dance movement, a lot of appropriate staccato, and made an excellent choice in playing the harpsichord, which has that bite that a soft piano doesn't not to mention, the video. what a phenomenal video. well shot, the shot of the hands, and hiding the face up to a certain point, kind of humorous as well, really stylistic
Almost every Rondeau video has this quality, both from the performer and the video crew. Jean truly is an energic player which, for me, makes him one of -if not- the best harpsichord interpreters out there.
I adore Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas and hold quite dear the performances of his pieces by virtuoso harpsichordist Igor Kipnis. For many decades I thought Kipnis take on Scarlatti was unequaled until listening to Jean Rondeau energetic and breathtaking performance of his works. What privilege for us to listen to such a musical gem played so brilliantly!
The added 2nd (or 9th) in the opening LH chords [A minor (add2) / E7 / A minor (add2)] is amazingly effective in previewing the "craziness" of this Scarlatti sonata....
You don't have Vertigo? If you want to rock out, get it. Fantastic. I'm totally in love with guy. First new harpsichord player I've heard in ages that isn't just dull. I want to lie under his harpsichord while he plays and just close my eyes.
While he makes me wish I too owned a harpsichord, his videos make me endlessly happy that I own a comb. But I'm really looking forward to more of his Scarlatti. Jean Rondeau is a musical genius, in my opinion.
I'm just a woodworker but I find this great fun ! I find 'inventive' just the word to describe Scarlatti's composition, and as for Monsieur Rondeau -- what a guy ! I'd share a bottle of wine with him any day :-)
Alright, but what kind of harpsichord is this one? Sound a bit more as a piano or a fortepiano, and is also different from the ones I know... have a pal who is a professional harpsichordist and his harpsichord sound as the Trevor Pinnock or Kipnis or Rousset ones, not at all as this one! Am a bit surprised... I maybe drunk. 😉❤
In realtà no, sembra che a suo tempo fossero stati giudicati "alla pari". Consiglio di ascoltarsi le 8 grandi suite di Handel comunque. Forse le più belle suites pubblicate nel XVIII secolo.
Jarchiporz You’re right about the fantastic, fabulous performance, but forget Mozart; this quirky, jerky, irregular and highly original music of Scarlatti is a million miles away from the perfectly balanced poise and elegance of Mozart - they inhabit totally different musical worlds.
Agreed maniac every composion offer a unique slant, something was in the water me thinks, combination of Iberian harmony and we'll agua of some derivatives
I'm agree with you. The influence of hispanic music is evident. During XVIII century Naples was under Borbonic, so spanish influence in south of Italy was very strong.
@@andrealuisi8690 he lived in Seville for four or five years, and then Madrid for the rest of his life since 1733. In Seville he listened - and learned a little bit of- all the flamenco of that time. He actually married a Spanish woman after his first wife died.
Good old Scarlatti! Crazy stuff. Those Italians ... Love 'em! ;-) You know he was so fat he had to sit sideways at the keyboard? He also played without using his thumbs. I guess that was normal in that period before they figured out, hey, this thing is useful! Weird.
@@infledermaus I've gotta get some of these books you read. You made another comment about Bach on another video that also piqued my interest. I want to know more of these interesting tidbits about these early composers.
@@smitbar11 of course they wouldn’t make him obese. Paintings were of an idealised image you wanted to be remembered by. Louis XIV was obese yet still depicted as a muscular Roman general.
There is something mesmerizing about the way he plays the harpsichord. Kind of like drinking a cup of Earl Grey. Not sure why, but that's what popped into my mind first. lol. I'll listen to this repeatedly.
I'm all for psychoanalytic associations. Earl Grey, a quintessential distillation of Western Culture, as is this piece of music and its performer, who's pretty cute too! Disconcerting Covid days. Spending all my time watching and writing all my imaginary friends on UA-cam. There are a lot of brilliant people watching and leaving comments of UA-cam. Wish I could have a party for them. Would be a great and stimulating evening.
It is to bring forth this music, to make it alive, invisible, impalpable like an ontological horizon ceaselessly pushed back, that Jean Rondeau interprets Scarlatti. Unique !
it takes a while till it's this good. I doubt he just sits down and sight-reads difficult pieces like this. I reckon you'd be fed up listening to anybody practice in about a week of not sooner. ;)
I first heard, and was instantly smitten, when hearing Lurch play the harpsichord on the old Addams Family TV show. Lurch had such rapturous body English and facial expressions while playing the harpsichord. Then my sister's boyfriend Ivan gave me a tape (remember tape recorders?) of the Bach D minor harpsichord concerto. My fate was sealed. Similar thing happened when I heard a pipe organ for the first time, age 6, at St. Matt's Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Feeling the pews vibrate with the bass pedal notes. Will never forget that.
well said ! i remember it well, with lurch in full flow, then followed by his tortured expression whilst contemplating the finer points of it all, on his treasured ' krupnik' instrument that in one episode he nearly lost.
wow I thought this was wild when someone like Eliot Fisk plays this on guitar but on harpsichord it is like an orchestra out of its mind! in a good way that is!!! Awesome
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un tocco unico, meraviglioso. Preciso, rapido, appassionato a tratti disperato
Harpsichord, superb playing, long hair, ripped jeans, books, a bicycle, bohemian furnishings.....what's not to like? Equally amazing, he's committed this entire work to memory.
Dire que j'adore est trop fade ! Merci de m'avoir fait redécouvrir les splendeurs du clavecin que j'avais fini par trouver ennuyeux (à part dans les récitatifs) à force de sagesse...
Technique transcendante , sens de l'improvisation, ruptures, du très grand art. La vidéo est parfaite, on s'imagine Scarlatti dans un décor plus ou moins semblable. Voila un claveciniste très au dessus du panier. Look à la scott ross, surement pas une coïncidence.
Merci pour votre comment. Merci aussi parce que J'ai appris un nouvel idiome français..."au dessus du panier" "above the basket" more or less, which I guess is the equivalent of "top notch"
@@WINCHANDLE Pas tout à fait, pour l'expression anglaise "top notch" en français on emploi le terme "impeccable" ou encore "parfait". L'expression "au dessus du panier" pourrait se traduire en anglais par "the best of the best".
Thinking to myself -- "Wow, this guy really works miracles on that harpsichord" -- sees that it's Jesus playing -- "Wow, he really is great at parties!"
I think Scarlatti is a remarkable composer. But I can't help but think that his contemporaries might have thought him somewhat deranged after listening to some of his pieces, like this one. LOL!
NONE of Scarlatti's 455 other sonatas resembles K175. It has some 5- and 6-note chords (the thumb covers 2 white keys). Great rendering. Rafael Puyana, Genoveva Galvez, and Judith Norell also play K175 quite well. If you like eerie sonatas, try K443 (only by Puyana); K444, K120, K119, K184, K365, K531, K519, K218, K99, K61, K56, K50, K31, K27, K25, K22; slower: K54, K58, K253, K84. Galvez's album that starts with Scarlatti's Fandango (the other tunes there are amazing). Antonio Soler's Fandango (prefer Puyana).
I said this about a year ago but it got buried so I’ll say it again, I think there needs to be a version of this on the organ. I think it would sound absolutely beautiful
There are a lot of discerning listeners/performers making comments below. We are all different, and people perform things differently. Vive la difference. Do we want people to play things exactly the same way? Booooring! Another great example of this is all the negative comments people leave about Cameron Carpenter, organist. I love Cameron. Look him up. Consider this: Hell for a French Chef would be cooking Boef Bourginone (sp?) the exact same way for all eternity. Picasso, who as a youth could paint like an Old Master, ditched convention, and the rest is history. Wow, something original and new!
Scarlatti wrote for this man. Brilliant, fresh interpretation is what Scarlatti demands!
Most of Scarlatti’s sonatas were actually written for Princess/Queen Maria Barbara (and Scarlatti himself).
two things, the performance is damn near perfect, and i bet its stylistically superior though i've only heard 3 others play it,
he plays at the proper speed, fast, and illustrates a kind of dance movement, a lot of appropriate staccato, and made an excellent choice in playing the harpsichord, which has that bite that a soft piano doesn't
not to mention, the video. what a phenomenal video. well shot, the shot of the hands, and hiding the face up to a certain point, kind of humorous as well, really stylistic
Almost every Rondeau video has this quality, both from the performer and the video crew. Jean truly is an energic player which, for me, makes him one of -if not- the best harpsichord interpreters out there.
How do you define "perfect" in relation to his rendition?
Beautiful
What an unbelievable performance. Scarlatti always surprises!
His house is my dream apartment. Just look at how warm and cozy everything is. And the instruments, of course
It could be someone else’s house but yes I agree
Apprezzo al massimo lo spirito che M. Jean Rondeau mette nelle sue interpretazioni. Ci regala uno splendido Scarlatti. Grazie
A true master. It is not often that we see one such as this man - even in a time of virtuosi, like ours is.
Top notch recording. Warner put the effort in with all of Rondeau's work.
I adore Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas and hold quite dear the performances of his pieces by virtuoso harpsichordist Igor Kipnis. For many decades I thought Kipnis take on Scarlatti was unequaled until listening to Jean Rondeau energetic and breathtaking performance of his works. What privilege for us to listen to such a musical gem played so brilliantly!
For me, I thought Scott Ross was unparalleled. Then I heard Rondeau, and thought, "He's got the touch."
The added 2nd (or 9th) in the opening LH chords [A minor (add2) / E7 / A minor (add2)] is amazingly effective in previewing the "craziness" of this Scarlatti sonata....
I'm still rocking out to Dynastie! Excited for the new album regardless. Watching Rondaeu play always makes me wish I owned a harpsichord....
You don't have Vertigo? If you want to rock out, get it. Fantastic. I'm totally in love with guy. First new harpsichord player I've heard in ages that isn't just dull. I want to lie under his harpsichord while he plays and just close my eyes.
While he makes me wish I too owned a harpsichord, his videos make me endlessly happy that I own a comb. But I'm really looking forward to more of his Scarlatti. Jean Rondeau is a musical genius, in my opinion.
Saint Steven Perhaps you allude to George Sand, who it is said would sit under Liszt’s piano while he played.
Well I own two, but he makes me wish I had better ones.
I'm just a woodworker but I find this great fun !
I find 'inventive' just the word to describe Scarlatti's composition, and as for Monsieur Rondeau -- what a guy !
I'd share a bottle of wine with him any day :-)
You are not JUST a woodworker. Remember that one of the greatest people in the world's history was a carpenter!
@@georgealderson4424 Harrison Ford?
@@rodriguezelfeliz4623 haha I guess he talks about Joseph, father of Jesus ^^'
we can hear this music just because a woodworker build that instrument
Qui siamo davanti a qualcosa di oscuro e indiavolato bellissima!
Absolutely bloody fantastic!
The shortest comments are often the best.
One of my favorite Scarlatti sonatas of all time!!
Alright, but what kind of harpsichord is this one? Sound a bit more as a piano or a fortepiano, and is also different from the ones I know... have a pal who is a professional harpsichordist and his harpsichord sound as the Trevor Pinnock or Kipnis or Rousset ones, not at all as this one! Am a bit surprised... I maybe drunk. 😉❤
Domenico Scarlatti è un Genio del Clavicembalo. Nel suo duello Musicale con Handel ha prevalso a mani basse. 😁😊🎼🎹🎹🎹🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶❤🌅
È un genio della musica, non solo del clavicembalo.
In realtà no, sembra che a suo tempo fossero stati giudicati "alla pari". Consiglio di ascoltarsi le 8 grandi suite di Handel comunque. Forse le più belle suites pubblicate nel XVIII secolo.
He´s perfect!
It sparkles with beauty.
BRAVOoooooooooo!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍♥️🎩♥️🎩♥️🎩♥️🎩💯🎹💥💪🎹💪🎹💪🎹💪💥💥💥💥💥👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💎🎹💎🎹💎🎹💎🎹🎹💯💥🎹💥🎹♥️
Vraiment Jean Rondeau, incroyable!!!!!
WOW!😮
I think I love Harpsichord more than Piano; I KNOW I love this guy's playing ..
@@noobaccount7580 i mean, Rachmaninoff?
big guitar
Organ>piano and harpsichord
The clavecin has a golden sound which the piano doesn't.
The right tool for the job is always best. I love fortepiano, pianoforte, harpsichord, organs, regals, muselears...
Scarlatti is like a mixture of Mozart and Paco de Lucía. xD
Fantastic performance, dear Jean. It is fabulous indeed. Thank you!
Jarchiporz
You’re right about the fantastic, fabulous performance, but forget Mozart; this quirky, jerky, irregular and highly original music of Scarlatti is a million miles away from the perfectly balanced poise and elegance of Mozart - they inhabit totally different musical worlds.
Agreed maniac every composion offer a unique slant, something was in the water me thinks, combination of Iberian harmony and we'll agua of some derivatives
I'm agree with you. The influence of hispanic music is evident. During XVIII century Naples was under Borbonic, so spanish influence in south of Italy was very strong.
@@andrealuisi8690 and also the fact that Scarlatti lived in Madrid for years -and loved it-!!
@@andrealuisi8690 he lived in Seville for four or five years, and then Madrid for the rest of his life since 1733. In Seville he listened - and learned a little bit of- all the flamenco of that time. He actually married a Spanish woman after his first wife died.
Esa es la capacidad retórica de Scarlatti que hay que comunicar!!! Bravo
THIS is punk ba-rock at its finest. Wonderful!
Good old Scarlatti! Crazy stuff. Those Italians ... Love 'em! ;-) You know he was so fat he had to sit sideways at the keyboard? He also played without using his thumbs. I guess that was normal in that period before they figured out, hey, this thing is useful! Weird.
@@infledermaus I've gotta get some of these books you read. You made another comment about Bach on another video that also piqued my interest. I want to know more of these interesting tidbits about these early composers.
@@zorgitron Plenty of paintings of Domenico Scarlatti, on none of them does he look particularly fat
@@smitbar11 of course they wouldn’t make him obese. Paintings were of an idealised image you wanted to be remembered by. Louis XIV was obese yet still depicted as a muscular Roman general.
There is something mesmerizing about the way he plays the harpsichord. Kind of like drinking a cup of Earl Grey. Not sure why, but that's what popped into my mind first. lol. I'll listen to this repeatedly.
I'm all for psychoanalytic associations. Earl Grey, a quintessential distillation of Western Culture, as is this piece of music and its performer, who's pretty cute too! Disconcerting Covid days. Spending all my time watching and writing all my imaginary friends on UA-cam. There are a lot of brilliant people watching and leaving comments of UA-cam. Wish I could have a party for them. Would be a great and stimulating evening.
Thanks for your love and support lovely fan... God bless you Elaine 😍
🤩Incredibilmente bello, magica suggestione! ❤️🔥
I have goosebumps. Fantastic take on this piece
Amazing
This fantastic Rockstar proves that Scarlatti was ahead of his time
Scarlatti was of his time, but just a very original and unique part of the rich tapestry of baroque music.
Maravillosas disonancias, como una vieja guitarra española
우와!!! 언제 들어도 심쿵💘💘😭 넘 멋져요 옵하!!!! 정말 아름다운 선율 이예요!!!!😆👏👏👏👏
Stupendo
Sem palavras,toque de alma!!
he's so talented♥
I remember learning this after hearing Landowska playing it on an old vinyl disk. I’ve always wondered what Scarlatti was thinking…
It is to bring forth this music, to make it alive, invisible, impalpable like an ontological horizon ceaselessly pushed back, that Jean Rondeau interprets Scarlatti. Unique !
Imagine being his neighbor! Hearing all that beautiful music.
Imagine BEING the neighbor. Playing all of that beautiful music.
@@im7559 Actually, I can't. I have ten thumbs. But I do have good ears.
it takes a while till it's this good. I doubt he just sits down and sight-reads difficult pieces like this. I reckon you'd be fed up listening to anybody practice in about a week of not sooner. ;)
@@singhsinga4592 Wrong c:
@@nothingisreal6816 i don'r get your comment. Never mind though.
I admire his focus with the camera person all but sitting on his lap.
I first heard, and was instantly smitten, when hearing Lurch play the harpsichord on the old Addams Family TV show. Lurch had such rapturous body English and facial expressions while playing the harpsichord. Then my sister's boyfriend Ivan gave me a tape (remember tape recorders?) of the Bach D minor harpsichord concerto. My fate was sealed. Similar thing happened when I heard a pipe organ for the first time, age 6, at St. Matt's Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Feeling the pews vibrate with the bass pedal notes. Will never forget that.
well said ! i remember it well, with lurch in full flow, then followed by his tortured expression whilst contemplating the finer points of it all, on his treasured ' krupnik' instrument that in one episode he nearly lost.
Haha Bach's D minor harpsichord concerto is a gateway drug. It's an incredible piece that really got me into Bach, and then harpsichord in general.
Perfection all around ❤
Beautiful ! Thank you for posting !
Lui é bravissimo! 😍
Really well played!
me encanta, me encanta.
Wonderful! G R E A T !!!!
Speechless
wow I thought this was wild when someone like Eliot Fisk plays this on guitar but on harpsichord it is like an orchestra out of its mind! in a good way that is!!! Awesome
un tocco unico, meraviglioso. Preciso, rapido, appassionato a tratti disperato
I want to be this guy's neighbor
im a pianist and wish i could have neighbours like you 😢
Amazing!!!!!
Love it!
Hélas j apprécie j ai 78 ans est ce que les jeunes écouteraient ça????????
what a beautiful living room, i want to live in a place like that
increible!
Wow! No conocia ese insstrumentista del clavechembalo
Bonjour les dissonances très XX° siècle. Encore un compositeur bien en avance sur son temps, et c'est tant mieux.
amazing musician and beautifully done video! :)
That is some serious hair and beard flow
he is soooooo handsome !
Thorin Oakenshield contemplates the Lonely Mountain
@@KroonFrans ...and his eyes...!
Fantastico!
Muy intensa! Me encanta!
Harpsichord, superb playing, long hair, ripped jeans, books, a bicycle, bohemian furnishings.....what's not to like? Equally amazing, he's committed this entire work to memory.
The external paintwork needs urgent attention.
@@Beach_comber No, it's charming, we like to call that, "genteel decrepitude".
How many microphones do you see in the video?
Rondo tape avec rage sur son pauvre clavecin. Affligeant !!! Où donc est parti ce merveilleux Scarlati ?
Very nice. Succes allways.
Dire que j'adore est trop fade ! Merci de m'avoir fait redécouvrir les splendeurs du clavecin que j'avais fini par trouver ennuyeux (à part dans les récitatifs) à force de sagesse...
Thanks ❤️
Technique transcendante , sens de l'improvisation, ruptures, du très grand art. La vidéo est parfaite, on s'imagine Scarlatti dans un décor plus ou moins semblable. Voila un claveciniste très au dessus du panier. Look à la scott ross, surement pas une coïncidence.
C'est vrai
Merci pour votre comment. Merci aussi parce que J'ai appris un nouvel idiome français..."au dessus du panier" "above the basket" more or less, which I guess is the equivalent of "top notch"
@@WINCHANDLE Pas tout à fait, pour l'expression anglaise "top notch" en français on emploi le terme "impeccable" ou encore "parfait". L'expression "au dessus du panier" pourrait se traduire en anglais par "the best of the best".
Thinking to myself -- "Wow, this guy really works miracles on that harpsichord" -- sees that it's Jesus playing -- "Wow, he really is great at parties!"
And there's a beach umbrella and a Tiki Bar in the apartment also. I want an invitation!
@@WINCHANDLE we all want it! Haha...
@@Jarchiporz Imagine having dinner next to a damn harpsichord god. I'm in!
I think Scarlatti is a remarkable composer. But I can't help but think that his contemporaries might have thought him somewhat deranged after listening to some of his pieces, like this one. LOL!
Totally understand what you mean, it’s as if his mind is all over the place never being able to settle always moving from home to home.
(But I bet the women listeners loved it!)
Oddly enough, I'm deranged but people think I'm only crazy. Harpsichord does that, you know
Effectivement Scarlati est totalement massacré
Отличный звук. Неужели запись делалась в одновременно с видео съемкой
Superbo!
1:58 He conducts himself in the way that Glenn Gould used to do!
NONE of Scarlatti's 455 other sonatas resembles K175. It has some 5- and 6-note chords (the thumb covers 2 white keys). Great rendering. Rafael Puyana, Genoveva Galvez, and Judith Norell also play K175 quite well. If you like eerie sonatas, try K443 (only by Puyana); K444, K120, K119, K184, K365, K531, K519, K218, K99, K61, K56, K50, K31, K27, K25, K22; slower: K54, K58, K253, K84. Galvez's album that starts with Scarlatti's Fandango (the other tunes there are amazing). Antonio Soler's Fandango (prefer Puyana).
Excellent
Incredible. That will blow the powder out of the wig👍
Thanks for laugh in theses scary Covid days. I guess you are a Brit?
PS I wish I could have a party for people leaving hilarious comments. sorry "these"
William Shepard American now. If Mr Trump is still in power at the end of January the UK is where I’ll spend my retirement
I've been waiting patiently for something new from him. Ok, not so patiently. It's about time!
Dude you really rock
This is a fabulous cluster pluck.
Mad genius vibes: The Sound
Crunchy :D i love it
This is ProgMetal!!!!
Que lugar tan bonito, sencillo y acogedor para hacer musica. Magnifica interpretación.
Bravo
Barroco has returned ... woow
Brilliant....Sophia
Super!!!
장 론도 옵하 진짜 옵하 사랑해요 ㅠㅠ 코로나 끝날때 까지 건강히 몸관리 잘해주세요 제발 ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
The first time I actually liked a harpsichord piece
K175 is one of the sonatas that works better on the instrument for which it was conceived; the slower ones in particular work very well on the piano.
This composition has to assume the performer is accomplished and quite wild and a bit deranged! What a wonderful combination!
The very last G resolving to Ab, so jazz 😎
Actually G# to A, a very common 18th century resolution and used by Scarlatti often.
Fino señores 🧐🍷
Bravissimo! And let it be said, no one takes his fingers off the keys like JR
I said this about a year ago but it got buried so I’ll say it again, I think there needs to be a version of this on the organ. I think it would sound absolutely beautiful
Agree with you
Quel magnifique clavecin ! Qui a construit cet instrument ?
Great performance! I wonder if Scarlatti broke as many harpsichords as Beethoven did pianos?
Impressive
Maestro! Saludos desde Chile
I don't know much about music but dang that cinematography is excellent!
Wow!! Can you tell me who made the harpsichord? 🙏🏼
There are a lot of discerning listeners/performers making comments below. We are all different, and people perform things differently. Vive la difference. Do we want people to play things exactly the same way? Booooring! Another great example of this is all the negative comments people leave about Cameron Carpenter, organist. I love Cameron. Look him up. Consider this: Hell for a French Chef would be cooking Boef Bourginone (sp?) the exact same way for all eternity. Picasso, who as a youth could paint like an Old Master, ditched convention, and the rest is history. Wow, something original and new!
Wooow! Toca como los angeles
Yeaaaah !