I literally could not breathe throughout this. Marvellous! Really one of the best harpsichordists in the world, especially when it comes to the French baroque.
Quelle prestation magistrale! J'ai vraiment adoré! Cette rapidité et cette facilité c'est absolument formidable et magnifique! Les passages de mains sont formidables! Vraiment bravo à l'interprète!!!!
What can you say?! Skip Sempe, one of the great harpsichordists. This interpretation carries you into the very soul of the music. Tempo doesn't matter as long as the performer brings a piece to life with seemingly effortless ease. Mr Sempe has a beautiful harpsichord in an ideal acoustic, and skilled cameraman and recording engineers to complete a wonderful package. Thank you for the posting.
Probably the fastest of all the versions on YT - electrifying! Sempé seems totally relaxed as he plays, but his fingers are a blur at times! If you can play it this fast without making mistakes, why not? Royer clearly intended the piece to show off the player's virtuosity (and his own, of course)!
@@equitissingularis965 This piece is about a people group from antiquity known as the Scythians. They were a nomadic people group that lived around modern day Crimea. They were known as great horsemen so these people's marches would have been on horseback so it would have been fast I guess.
Skip Sempé avec une exceptionnelle virtuosité illustre ce qui fait l'intérêt de cette oeuvre qui, plus que son intérêt musical, est une extraordinaire démonstration de l'originalité du clavecin par rapport aux autres intruments à clavier.
Such display of skill and musical dominance in the execution of this marvelous piece is a pleasureful and enchanting viewing experience. Congratulations to you!
Alchemist - Over the last decades Skip Sempé has flourished as a harpsichordist, chamber musician, conductor, artistic director, teacher, coach, lecturer, scholar, and writer. He is the founder of the ensembles Capriccio Stravagante, the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra and Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons, and has served as the artistic director of the Paradizo label, the Piccola Accademia di Montisi, the Paris-based Terpsichore festival, and been an artist in residence at BOZAR in Brussels and at the Utrecht Early Music Festival. Cutting through the noise - Considered to be one of the last pioneers of the early music movement, Sempé has recovered and preserved a musical aesthetic and artistic mission that is slipping away. With over forty prizewinning recordings as a soloist and with Capriccio Stravagante, concerts worldwide, and a collection of thought-provoking essays, Memorandum XXI, he has revolutionized early music performance and challenged a dated, standardized ‘Baroque sound’. Pursuit of musical adventures - Once a student of Gustav Leonhardt, Sempé is an original seeker with a rich imagination, a musical philosopher who thinks about historical performance practice and a persuasive essayist who expresses his individual ideas on artistic history with verve. Above all, he is a musician who beguiles and astounds with his magical-sensual store of previously unheard sounds. His superb sense of harpsichord touch, finely tuned ear for achieving variation in the instrument’s sonority, and spontaneous musical personality supported by virtuosic keyboard skills has made him a coveted ‘test pilot’ for some of the finest harpsichord makers of our time. Recordings & Musicians - In 2006, he founded the Paradizo label, which has released many prizewinning recordings as well as Memorandum XXI, a collection of Skip Sempé’s essays on music and performance with five CDs. Sempé’s previous twenty recordings are all still available on the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Astrée, Alpha, Teldec and Mirare labels. He is regularly invited as a guest director, and has performed with Julien Martin, Josh Cheatham, Olivier Fortin, Pierre Hantaï, Sophie Gent, Doron Sherwin, Jordi Savall and the ensembles Collegium Vocale Gent, Pygmalion, Vox Luminis, Capella Cracoviensis, Chanticleer, Les Voix Humaines, the Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal, the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra and the Concert des Nations. Impact - Sempé’s solo harpsichord and ensemble performances have inspired generations of young musicians. He has served on the international harpsichord juries of Brugge, Leipzig and Rouen, and also teaches extensively, including the annual masterclasses at the Villa Medici / Académie de France à Rome. Skip Sempé is a chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Haha, there's a confusion there, "scythe" in French doesn't mean the farmer's tool but a nomadic, horse-riding people (called "Scythians" in English) who are known for their ferocity in war. :D Besides, Royer ended up working for Louis XV as the "maître de musique des enfants de France" (basically teaching music to the King's children and family :D).
@@MrLoknar Oh reaaaaly? So it should be the 'ride' of the scythians! Thanks, just got this notification. And hey you never know if he was trying to be punk rock with the title ;b
Wow!! Mr. Sempe brings out this piece's virtuosic nature to the fullest!!! Try playing this on a Grand Piano and all you'll get is cluttering noises + metacarpal syndrome!!
he plays this piece better than jean rondeau, although rondeau is good too, love his scarlatti piece with long hair, great film, but this piece tells me why he's a conductor
You are right! I have been practising this piece on my spinet and also my piano but it just doesn't sound right. Will be getting my hands on a harpsichord to practice it on very soon!
Yup......! Tho' it must be said, listening to it's full 6:10, one begins to wonder much more forcibly than Yuja, both in the sound 'dynamic range' and double manual speed and dexterity , just what Skip's typing speed is....
I'd love to hear gospel music played on a harpsichord. The semi junk pianos of central WV mangle God's music to a point of painfulness. Harpsichords rock!
This is a prove that harpsichord is a unique instrument. No piano will ever rightly render this piece as it must be.
Harpsichord has the power that no ones reach
Royer is a composer I've recently discovered, but he was a visionary. How much did I lost in not discovering him before!
I literally could not breathe throughout this. Marvellous! Really one of the best harpsichordists in the world, especially when it comes to the French baroque.
Breathtaking doesn't even come close to complimenting this piece. I'm just in awe.
Quelle prestation magistrale! J'ai vraiment adoré! Cette rapidité et cette facilité c'est absolument formidable et magnifique! Les passages de mains sont formidables! Vraiment bravo à l'interprète!!!!
Skip Sempé BRAVO !!!!
I have watched this many times. This is a flawless performance, surpassing by far anything else I came across. And at 3:42 what speed !!!
This is my favorite recording. Not only does Sempé play masterfully, I can see him do it from the perfect angle, too.
One of the growliest pieces I've ever heard!
Great playing
Jesse Lepkoff try listening to some D'anglebert
What can you say?! Skip Sempe, one of the great harpsichordists. This interpretation carries you into the very soul of the music. Tempo doesn't matter as long as the performer brings a piece to life with seemingly effortless ease. Mr Sempe has a beautiful harpsichord in an ideal acoustic, and skilled cameraman and recording engineers to complete a wonderful package. Thank you for the posting.
4 people could not understand the beauty of this, because they are still mesmerised by fire.
Bravo, ROYER musique Française éternelle!
Still my favorite version and execution. In 2022. Many guys play it well but they lack of something. Not necessary technical but style.
First heard Skip in a recital at St Alban's Birmingham as far back as 1992. A truly magnificent player.
No words. It's amazing.
love the trill at 3:10 It adds so much.
Probably the fastest of all the versions on YT - electrifying! Sempé seems totally relaxed as he plays, but his fingers are a blur at times! If you can play it this fast without making mistakes, why not? Royer clearly intended the piece to show off the player's virtuosity (and his own, of course)!
Agreed. I think if you were also compelled to march with a scythe, this quick tempo is appropriate!
Jean Rondeau's version is also amazing ,and better in my opinion
@@equitissingularis965 This piece is about a people group from antiquity known as the Scythians. They were a nomadic people group that lived around modern day Crimea. They were known as great horsemen so these people's marches would have been on horseback so it would have been fast I guess.
I like musicians who keep focused on the hands rather than doing stupid grimaces. Bravíssimo!
Fantastic performance.
What a pleasure to hear such a wonderful sound.
Skip Sempé avec une exceptionnelle virtuosité illustre ce qui fait l'intérêt de cette oeuvre qui, plus que son intérêt musical, est une extraordinaire démonstration de l'originalité du clavecin par rapport aux autres intruments à clavier.
Beautifull sound ! And WHAT a performance with ease.... realy Chapeau !))
Such display of skill and musical dominance in the execution of this marvelous piece is a pleasureful and enchanting viewing experience. Congratulations to you!
Always come back to this version, amazing!
The fastest and the most intense La Marche des Scythes I ever heard !! I am loving your performance.
Try giving Jean Rondeau's version a listen!
@@nothingisreal6816 Which one? He has two interpretations as far as I remember.
This is such a perfect performance! Bravo!
It is my favorites songs, regards from Chihuahua México
Alchemist - Over the last decades Skip Sempé has flourished as a harpsichordist, chamber musician, conductor, artistic director, teacher, coach, lecturer, scholar, and writer. He is the founder of the ensembles Capriccio Stravagante, the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra and Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons, and has served as the artistic director of the Paradizo label, the Piccola Accademia di Montisi, the Paris-based Terpsichore festival, and been an artist in residence at BOZAR in Brussels and at the Utrecht Early Music Festival.
Cutting through the noise - Considered to be one of the last pioneers of the early music movement, Sempé has recovered and preserved a musical aesthetic and artistic mission that is slipping away. With over forty prizewinning recordings as a soloist and with Capriccio Stravagante, concerts worldwide, and a collection of thought-provoking essays, Memorandum XXI, he has revolutionized early music performance and challenged a dated, standardized ‘Baroque sound’.
Pursuit of musical adventures - Once a student of Gustav Leonhardt, Sempé is an original seeker with a rich imagination, a musical philosopher who thinks about historical performance practice and a persuasive essayist who expresses his individual ideas on artistic history with verve. Above all, he is a musician who beguiles and astounds with his magical-sensual store of previously unheard sounds. His superb sense of harpsichord touch, finely tuned ear for achieving variation in the instrument’s sonority, and spontaneous musical personality supported by virtuosic keyboard skills has made him a coveted ‘test pilot’ for some of the finest harpsichord makers of our time.
Recordings & Musicians - In 2006, he founded the Paradizo label, which has released many prizewinning recordings as well as Memorandum XXI, a collection of Skip Sempé’s essays on music and performance with five CDs. Sempé’s previous twenty recordings are all still available on the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Astrée, Alpha, Teldec and Mirare labels. He is regularly invited as a guest director, and has performed with Julien Martin, Josh Cheatham, Olivier Fortin, Pierre Hantaï, Sophie Gent, Doron Sherwin, Jordi Savall and the ensembles Collegium Vocale Gent, Pygmalion, Vox Luminis, Capella Cracoviensis, Chanticleer, Les Voix Humaines, the Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal, the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra and the Concert des Nations.
Impact - Sempé’s solo harpsichord and ensemble performances have inspired generations of young musicians. He has served on the international harpsichord juries of Brugge, Leipzig and Rouen, and also teaches extensively, including the annual masterclasses at the Villa Medici / Académie de France à Rome. Skip Sempé is a chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
3:11 - perfect humour!
Esta es una de las obras para clave más viurtuosas sin lugar a duda!!! y la interpretación genial!!!
When I press 'like' again, it unlikes. Where is the 'love' feature?
If the time came to march with your own scythe, Skip's style/version captures that emotion best. Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite!
Haha, there's a confusion there, "scythe" in French doesn't mean the farmer's tool but a nomadic, horse-riding people (called "Scythians" in English) who are known for their ferocity in war. :D Besides, Royer ended up working for Louis XV as the "maître de musique des enfants de France" (basically teaching music to the King's children and family :D).
@@MrLoknar Oh reaaaaly? So it should be the 'ride' of the scythians! Thanks, just got this notification. And hey you never know if he was trying to be punk rock with the title ;b
@@MrLoknar Thanks :)
2:35 left hand!
Powerfull
How can a human's finger movement be that rapid and precise?
@@user-eo1tw9ly8q Decades of praticing and doing the same thing.
A shower for the soul. Refreshing.
Shower is the exact word to describe this thunder , wonderful music.
I'm fascinated by the tail of a lovely Italian harpsichord in the left background...
I love the pace of this interpretation...
thank you!
très beau... bravo
Excellent! Bravo!
Very nice performance & harpsichord as well!
Absolute sonic perfection.
At first I was like: "6 mins? Geez"
But then I was like: "WHERE IS THIS MUSIC TAKING ME!? IT'S WONDERFUL!"
Fantastic technique!
Wow!! Mr. Sempe brings out this piece's virtuosic nature to the fullest!!! Try playing this on a Grand Piano and all you'll get is cluttering noises + metacarpal syndrome!!
Ganz gut! Fabulous.
Yes!
Amazing
Yes! This is unreal
Bravo!
Wow....he is virtuoso artist !!
Amazing, very inspiring!!!
Grande Skip!!
Sublime.
Amazing and intese. I would like to listen also the Zenti copy we see behind. The venue is fascinating too
Excelent! Merci de l'avoir poste.
You are genious!!! So nice playing. God bless you! U R The Best!!!
멋있다...
exellent madness. I love it. The best interpretation of this piece I've heard.
seriously, the rest are stumbling in comparison
@@equitissingularis965 u ve got bad ear.
@@monteverdi79 ? You must have bad eyes since I am agreeing with you
@@equitissingularis965 then I do apologize, English isnt my first language and I must have misunderstood...
@@monteverdi79 Well at least your ears are fantastic!!
Totally fantastic! I'm going to start playing harpsichord :)
Got a spare $100K?!
@@peteacher52 $2000 will get you started. It won't buy much, but you'll get a plucked keyboard. Where did the $100k come from?
@@paulcaswell2813 I payed 1900€ for mine! :D 100k is not even necessary for a historical copy, my teacher got one for probably 20k-30k
@@sapiensfromterra5103 A glorious 1770s double Kirckman (inlaid, Venetian swell, and machine) went for £40,000 a couple of months ago...
Bravo-o-o!
The amount of practice this probably took.
Complimenti 👏
he plays this piece better than jean rondeau, although rondeau is good too, love his scarlatti piece with long hair, great film, but this piece tells me why he's a conductor
Increíble!
3.15. Wonderfully cheeky!
You are right! I have been practising this piece on my spinet and also my piano but it just doesn't sound right. Will be getting my hands on a harpsichord to practice it on very soon!
Did you manage to get one?
wow!!
Masterpiece :P
absolute lol at the way he sits. but i guess when you're Skip you can do whatever you want
Yup......!
Tho' it must be said, listening to it's full 6:10, one begins to wonder much more forcibly than Yuja, both in the sound 'dynamic range' and double manual speed and dexterity , just what Skip's typing speed is....
Royer = God
La marche? Sounds more like a run... lol...
Great performance indeed.
You can find it at IMSLP in modern notation PDF.
4:24 !!!!!!!!
Hans Dampf True, though it still sounds wonderful.
Un envol. Le seul.
곡도, 연주자도 엄청나다...
you guy are a maker of Nirvana
@AndreaSPitaim I agree with U.
👏
I would advise myself to be it too :) "Well-tempered" fingers from Bach will do well as preparation :):)
I'd love to hear gospel music played on a harpsichord. The semi junk pianos of central WV mangle God's music to a point of painfulness. Harpsichords rock!
It won't let me post the URL, but it's imslp dot org, and look up Royer.
미쳤네 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
O.O 2:52
too god damn fast, but enjoyable still
omg lol!
OMG... The quickest harpiscorder in the world... Slower, please? [2]
Está muy bien balanceado, ni tan lento como la versión de W. Christie ni tan rapido como Jean Rondeau.
This is absolutely amazing.
Bravo!