Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer Jory Vinikour, harpsichord French double harpsichord by Cucchiara and Pierce Recorded April 13, 2011 in Shaker Heights, Ohio USA
I see comments posted years ago, I want to let you know that this video does not get old. This performance of an harpsichord is beautiful, long live music. ✊️
Cripes. It looks even harder to play than it sounds. This is the first time I've actually properly watched someone play it although I've known the piece for 25 years. It will be a few more years before I can hope to attempt this.
A truly Cyclopean undertaking at the keyboards! Bravo Jory!!! Have heard this many times (and recorded various in concert! but this performance is really flying at 40,000 feet!
I'm sitting here slack-jawed, this is so wonderful! Unbelievable virtuosity. 'Orgasmic' is the only word that comes close to describing. Beyond perfect.
I know I'm replying to years ago comments and it's 2020 now, and I usually don't leave comments since the last year cuz I make terrible comments, but the cultures and human mind started getting gradually retarded & lazy since the early 1990s, not since 2014. It has just gotten much worse in the last 5-6 years or so, even in 2020 it's worse than 2017. I could even say everything started getting worse in the 1960s, because this was when modern designs (e.g furniture) with little or no art started appearing, but whatever..
I wish I could feel what it is like to press down on harpsichord keys. Also, I’ve been watching this video since it’s posted. I still very much enjoy it.
Nice. Very well played and, most importantly, it's not rushed. You've got the tempo right, making all the notes well articulated. Some musicians play it way too fast.
A most impressive performance! I showed this clip to a friend and she has a degree in music and was amazed how Mr. Vinikour could make this harpsicord project the sound as he did considering that harpsicords should not be able to modulate the increasing or decreasing of the volume like a modern pianoforte.
You may be gratified to learn that I have heard ColinTilney say that he cannot play this piece! But then very few can. Amazing technique, and though I hear a bit of harmonic roughness occasionally, it is no more than one would expect when using such a resonant instrument and playing at such a pace. Bravo! Bravo!
Hello! I have been without a working computer, so VERY slow to respond. You may have misunderstood the remark (from one year ago!), or I misunderstand your question! Although no living performer can necessarily guarantee absolutely "authentic" performances - i.e., the composer has been dead for 250 years, I am playing on a harpsichord, (basically) built to Baroque tenets, tuned as we believe the instrument was tuned 250 years ago. Any more questions, please ask!
I just wonder what the «recommended» tempo is? I’ve seen the settings on a metrome, but, Imve also heard conductors like Karajan and Zubin Mehta do versjons of «Symphonie Fantastique (Berlioz), and Karajan feels painfully slow once you’ve heard Mehta. And I also came across some person plaging Rameau in a concert, and compared to what I’ve become «used» to, it was also (in my ears) painfully slow. Mind you, I once player the recorder as a kid, but I can no longer read music, I just listen to it and let the professionals (like you) play, and leave the listening up to myself. Now, a composer will write something on the tempo, but hos much is up to the performer? Seems to me I’ve read something about Bach not doing that on (some of) his piano pieces, the ones that were attacked (quite well, I think) by Glen Gould. And last but not the least: Your performance is mindblowing! And the camera work perfect. I want to see how you play, not the concert hall or your face (not that I mind, but compared your video with some of that new dreamy barefoot guy, and you’ll know what I mean). Keep up the excellent work, Sir!
What's so interesting is how Rameau came across composing this. To imagine what it takes to consider all the things he pondered over to construct it knowing that he had so much advanced knowledge of music theory. Damn it's amazing. Or maybe I'm just overly romanticizing the process...fuck it I don't care. Oh yeah: your playing is pretty fucking sexy, bro.
A very intricate and comical one indeed. Kind of insulting how many baroque fans are blindly dismissing any electronic revisions (or electronic anything) as anything else other than "noise". Just goes to show that listening to smart music doesn't make you a smart person.
@@johnbazy True. Too many purists in the baroque scene. This paradoxically may be a reaction to baroque music lending itself very well to modern adaptations. Electronic versions of Bach's music are as old as the synthesizer and Loussier's Bach got me interested in jazz.
This is an old one, but I feel like I should verify: I wasn't referring to the Classical period in musical culture. I was referring to the whole scheme of "classical" music, you know, the thing that has span from the 11th century to about the early 20th century from today's point of view, that thing.
As I don't know about ancient Greek legends, I asked a classics student friend of mine who the cyclopses were, he simply replied "They were BLACKSMITHS". Predating both Verdi's anvil chorus from Trovatore and the chorus of real anvils in Wagner's Rheingold, I think this performance brings out the anvil imitations very well.
We makin outta the auction house with this one 🔥🔥🔥
I see comments posted years ago, I want to let you know that this video does not get old. This performance of an harpsichord is beautiful, long live music. ✊️
la musique est immortelle, cette vidéo aussi. 🕊
Never getting old .. quality exists forever !!!!
When yer broke as hell but are watching people bid 700k on the spitfire 😂
Lol
this fire song plays during the most insane auction bid battles in your life
Still too poor to afford the spitfire
@@mihai434 same
JoguitoproxXnoobgetrektez bidded 30M
Yooooo This is a good night for me. Just discovered rameau and im h o o k e d
I need that lancaster so bad!
Cripes. It looks even harder to play than it sounds. This is the first time I've actually properly watched someone play it although I've known the piece for 25 years. It will be a few more years before I can hope to attempt this.
I absolutely love a well played harpsichord. This is one of the best.
legend says his still cooking in the auction house
NO WAY WHAT YOU DOING HERE BRO.
@@oceancrawlertestmodel8194 cooking
Awesome! The harpsichord is one of my very favorite instruments and your talent and technique are amazing! Very well done!
Upon hearing it again several times, I just confess it is truly cyclopean.
POV you finally got enough money for that one gun
Jeebus,, what just happened... I don't think my ears will ever be quite the same.
A truly Cyclopean undertaking at the keyboards! Bravo Jory!!! Have heard this many times (and recorded various in concert! but this performance is really flying at 40,000 feet!
Genius composer, talented harpsichordist, beautiful sounding instrument.
Best version of ‘Les Cyclopes’! I really love it, thx for nice play!
I'm sitting here slack-jawed, this is so wonderful! Unbelievable virtuosity. 'Orgasmic' is the only word that comes close to describing. Beyond perfect.
Still my favorite playing of Les Cyclopes, bravo maestro. I still enjoy hearing you play after all these years.
This is wonderful music even in 2014!
sera por siempre y para siempre uno de los generos mas legendarios!
ESPECIALLY in 2014. The human mind has severely retarded since then and culture along with it.
Sorry but we are in 2017 my dear ;D
Don't worry. Sony gives us Justin Bieber. Our culture is saved!
:/
I know I'm replying to years ago comments and it's 2020 now, and I usually don't leave comments since the last year cuz I make terrible comments, but the cultures and human mind started getting gradually retarded & lazy since the early 1990s, not since 2014. It has just gotten much worse in the last 5-6 years or so, even in 2020 it's worse than 2017. I could even say everything started getting worse in the 1960s, because this was when modern designs (e.g furniture) with little or no art started appearing, but whatever..
roblox wild west howling peaks piano be like:
The only difference: the howling peaks one is a fricking piano that plays itself.
A fantastic performance. Bravo Jory. I always show this to my students to inspire them.
That piece of music, and the passionate way you play it, brings me so much pleasure. Thank you.
came back here after quite a lot of time without having listened to proper harpsichord playing. these are tears of joy!
Marvelous performance. Thank you.
Remarkable piece, equally remarkable instrument and on top of it all, stunning playing. Thank you for sharing Maestro Vinikour.
Excellent work 🎶 Awesome music 🌹
Great interpretation of a masterpiece. Congratulations.
Magnifique œuvre de Rameau magistralement interprétée !
I wish I could feel what it is like to press down on harpsichord keys. Also, I’ve been watching this video since it’s posted. I still very much enjoy it.
Pressing down harpsichord keys is the best thing in the world 😊
Fantastic playing, fantastic piece!
Pretty sure this made the billboard top 100 in the year 1724. What a banger of a piece by Rameau.
Roblox WIld West used this xD
I'm learning this ;) gonna take yearss...
ur from discord right
@@BonesFPS. No :)
@@mirauxd9512 you are noob.. let me tag u rn
Yes
I didn't make any comentary still...it's a bit strange, I listened it like a thousand times, you're great sir
Incredibly kind of you! I am blushing!
@@jvinikour damn! You're pushing me to buy one!
beautiful playing and beautiful instrument!!
Thank you so much!!!
Непревзойдённое произведение! Прекрасное исполнение!
Congratulations to the maximum, I enjoyed this a huge amount!
Fantastic way of playing it.
WOW and triple Wow!!!!!!
Me fascina la música de Rameau, muchas gracias por las recomendaciones
looks like just random tapping of piano buttons, but the music is epic
@@Rdr2Gtavymas to me it looks like that
im no piano expert
I agree: fantastic piece! I like Rameau so much!:-) Bravo! Thanks for posting.
Absolutely incredible, played by heart without a peep at a sheet !
dear Jory, thank you for posting, I still remember how you played this in Gmunden. I like it! Elena Burundukovskaya
Amazing. I study harpsichord and your videos are very inspiring. Thanks.
That's it! That's what Rameau should sound like. Love it!
Fantastic!
me when auction
This was excellent!
Gorgeous playing, so musical, not just merely super acrobatic, which it is, but great breathing!!!!!
1:52 never heard that tiny little rythmbreak elsewhere. I am drummer & I am impressed a lot just by that.
speechless me dude, ur amazing
Wonderful job!
i really enjoyed this interpretation fantastic😄😄😄
Wow.........the madness........beautiful
Nice. Very well played and, most importantly, it's not rushed.
You've got the tempo right, making all the notes well articulated.
Some musicians play it way too fast.
absolute great!!!!!!!
Bravissimo Chapeau 🎩🎼🎹🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶😊
amazing! :)
Fantastic! Love it :-)
who else wants a harpsichord?
this song was in roblox the wild west on the piano default when nobody is playing amen
maestro simplemente maestro amo este tipo de musica
Thank you so much for your kind remarks!!!
Sounds great!
Very nice!
Goodness!! I just listened! Although not exactly "my thing," it is impressive!!!
A most impressive performance! I showed this clip to a friend and she has a degree in music and was amazed how Mr. Vinikour could make this harpsicord project the sound as he did considering that harpsicords should not be able to modulate the increasing or decreasing of the volume like a modern pianoforte.
Amazing!
You may be gratified to learn that I have heard ColinTilney say that he cannot play this piece! But then very few can. Amazing technique, and though I hear a bit of harmonic roughness occasionally, it is no more than one would expect when using such a resonant instrument and playing at such a pace. Bravo! Bravo!
French Revolution boss music
this song is so good
Hello! I have been without a working computer, so VERY slow to respond. You may have misunderstood the remark (from one year ago!), or I misunderstand your question! Although no living performer can necessarily guarantee absolutely "authentic" performances - i.e., the composer has been dead for 250 years, I am playing on a harpsichord, (basically) built to Baroque tenets, tuned as we believe the instrument was tuned 250 years ago.
Any more questions, please ask!
I just wonder what the «recommended» tempo is? I’ve seen the settings on a metrome, but, Imve also heard conductors like Karajan and Zubin Mehta do versjons of «Symphonie Fantastique (Berlioz), and Karajan feels painfully slow once you’ve heard Mehta. And I also came across some person plaging Rameau in a concert, and compared to what I’ve become «used» to, it was also (in my ears) painfully slow. Mind you, I once player the recorder as a kid, but I can no longer read music, I just listen to it and let the professionals (like you) play, and leave the listening up to myself. Now, a composer will write something on the tempo, but hos much is up to the performer? Seems to me I’ve read something about Bach not doing that on (some of) his piano pieces, the ones that were attacked (quite well, I think) by Glen Gould.
And last but not the least: Your performance is mindblowing! And the camera work perfect. I want to see how you play, not the concert hall or your face (not that I mind, but compared your video with some of that new dreamy barefoot guy, and you’ll know what I mean).
Keep up the excellent work, Sir!
Just earned a new subscriber!
fantastique
so nice
You seem to play the instrument so comfortably! I feel like I can hear every note in the song. Very impressive and entertaining. Thank you.
I love how it sounds like someone is running away from a cyclopes! This is unqie but so good!!
What's so interesting is how Rameau came across composing this. To imagine what it takes to consider all the things he pondered over to construct it knowing that he had so much advanced knowledge of music theory. Damn it's amazing. Or maybe I'm just overly romanticizing the process...fuck it I don't care.
Oh yeah: your playing is pretty fucking sexy, bro.
Monstro!!!
Oh my 🔥
Magistral interpretación.
there is an interesting interpretation of this rondeau: it's called Unpleasant Sonata by Igorrr
A very intricate and comical one indeed. Kind of insulting how many baroque fans are blindly dismissing any electronic revisions (or electronic anything) as anything else other than "noise". Just goes to show that listening to smart music doesn't make you a smart person.
@@johnbazy True. Too many purists in the baroque scene. This paradoxically may be a reaction to baroque music lending itself very well to modern adaptations. Electronic versions of Bach's music are as old as the synthesizer and Loussier's Bach got me interested in jazz.
That’s how I found out about this piece
superbe!
Fabulous
I like it!!!
Holy shit that was fine.
I think I'll keep practicing classical music so I can play this.
***** No, it's not classical. It's French Baroque.
> Classical
Maybe if you practice classical enough, you might just master Baroque!
This is an old one, but I feel like I should verify: I wasn't referring to the Classical period in musical culture. I was referring to the whole scheme of "classical" music, you know, the thing that has span from the 11th century to about the early 20th century from today's point of view, that thing.
+TheLivingHeiromartyr true, i find baroque much harder myself too. there's almost nothing comparable to bach's fugues in difficulty
You are as Mozart!!!! Great!!!!
Jory shreds!
Well played! Post a bit more often maybe? We've been waiting for a new video for years...
The wild west
classical tunes to waste hundreds of thousands of dollars to
@@cookiehawk bro the wild west is a Roblox game
@@mattcountryballsii1351 The Wild West was a period in history.
Bravo!
As I don't know about ancient Greek legends, I asked a classics student friend of mine who the cyclopses were, he simply replied "They were BLACKSMITHS". Predating both Verdi's anvil chorus from Trovatore and the chorus of real anvils in Wagner's Rheingold, I think this performance brings out the anvil imitations very well.
OMG he is a master
Pufff....wow
all my homies know this from the auction house
спасибо
Congratulations
Nice piece
Shoutout to the people who recently won paterson
In my time they were 204k now it is even triple that
nice playing :)