J. Pachelbel :: Ciacona in F Minor :: Wim Winters, clavichord
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ส.ค. 2016
- And so we ran into a problem...! The girls (and especially Evelien, our youngest) had asked many times lately when daddy could use their services again as beautiful page turners. The "beautiful" is not added by me, no false modesty here, although I think the girls believe honestly that their presence add to the overall human beauty of the video, a statement or conviction to which I would be the last one to object ;-).
And purely by accident, Pachelbel's famous Ciaona in F Minor jumped spontaneously from the shelve, and let it be so, again, purely by accident that page turnings of the Bärenreiter 1974 edition I use, need a page turner. Or two.
And so we started off that evening, with our Evelien as you could expect from a not yet 5 year old girl, forgetting her job immediately and forgetting the cameras at the same time. Starting to dance instead, responding in a natural way to the music. That she does often. You will see her but very rarely pass the clavichord, without unconscientiously dancing, moving, shaking her head, hands, arms, legs,in the rhythm of the music. Sofie is the same, although you would not tell if you watched her here in this video so seriously next to her daddy. She is eleven, so FULLY aware of the 'importance' of her job.
So there we stood, all three. Happy. But then daddy wanted to make a second take...things went slightly off script. More jumping, more expressiveness, more joy I'd say. All still happy, but The Neumann's didn't like the booming sounds of the jumps, but hey, they are to be neglected here. So third take. More jumps, more movements with arms and legs, dangerous at times, with one absolute high point: Evelien lifting my left arm from the keys. I should show you once that passage, it is really funny (not that I believed it was funny at the moment though :-) ). Unnecessary to say that it is essential for playing to keep both hands ON the keyboard. So a bit of discussion going on. Fun was over. She'd stayed at Anja's lap. Period. Once decided, ever decided. O, they say Evelien is 'exactly' her daddy (that exactly is emphasized then). Don't know what they mean by that. So we made our third take - the previous one was interrupted by demanding my left arm for dance purposes;- with Sofie only.
Next day.
"Daddy?"
"Yes, snoepeke" (that is the Flemish diminutive for candy).
"Daddy, why did you had to play more than one time?"
Daddy thinking (what a great question).
'Hmm, I...don't know, why do you ask?"
"Nothing."
Mila -the second generation cat - distracts her and off she goes.
And so I sat at the computer, still thinking on our conversation on the one take and looking at a too wide-angled shot that showed too much of the Erard, the stairs, cables... I could move the whole view to the left, but how to fill the empty spot then?
Ah! And there you have the solution: Sofie on the left, Evelien on the right, stolen from the first take. Thank you digital age, we not always agree, but now I owe you a little girls smile :-).
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I was really moved by this music, but also by your daughters- Sofie's passionate listening, and Evelien's dancing. It was expressive, musical, original- a little astonishing. I laughed. I also cried a little. This is such beautiful music. I don't know if it's appropriate to leave a long comment here, but I've wanted to write and thank you for a while. I came across your channel and then your website some months ago while preparing for a piano recital and looking up recordings of a Mozart sonata. Something about the way you share this music brought me to tears. The love and generosity in it, the way it defied conventional expectations of performance, of how we present and define ourselves, the way it was completely about the music, was humbling. Something in me was shattered at a deep level. It was a few days before the performance. I questioned what it means to play and share music. I questioned and examined my nagging and often crippling feelings of fear, of inadequacy, of nervousness. I questioned why I am here- one of those occasional, painful moments of awareness of existence. For a moment the world, or our little earth at least, felt small- I was overcome with a warm feeling of gratitude for receiving this. I was overcome with the thought that it's beautiful to be human, even if we're so transient, and to be able to play and hear music.
Your words are really touching... thank you so much. When we reach out to each other and little things like this bring beuatiful emotions to the surface as you are so kind of describing here... what else can we wish for? The story in the description of this recording is true: Evelien only had the "patience" for one take. But seeing her dance, so completely in herself, responding instinctively to the music only a child can do, made me have tears in my eyes too.... Such moments, one feels so blessed. To me, those moments are the essence of life, kind of.
Hope you recital went well !
very best wishes from Belgium
Wim
That's exactly how I felt. I laughed seeing how cute she is, then I shed a tear because it's so moving.
@@AuthenticSound Dear Wim, once or twice I've thought of removing this comment, because I am uncomfortable with it being pinned as a sign of support after what this channel has come to, but it was an honest sentiment from me at the time, and it is more honest to keep it there. So I hope you will allow me the same honesty from your side and not remove this one, as you have done with many others. It is hard to describe how sad it makes me. I really enjoyed your videos at the beginning- there was so much modesty and honesty in them, but slowly, the Double Beat videos started getting more agressive and defensive, and, to be honest, very lacking in scientific and artistic integrity for me. Critique was no longer responded to, and eventually it was even removed. It is one thing to enjoy a certain subjective performance, to use one's artistic freedom to the fullest, but another to manfacture and claim a truth and to preach it to thousands while fully knowing the overwhleming arguments against it, only choosing to knowingly ignore them and to hide them as much as possible from your followers. Not every player is also a musicologist, and I feel like it is only honest to know and respect one's limits and to not fake science. It often makes me think of the climate denial movement, and I see the exact same tactics in your approach. It makes me truly sad, because once upon a time I looked up to you as a player and was moved by your generosity, humbleness and love for music. It was all true for me then, and I will never take it back. Was I simply fooled, or did you change and go down a wrong path? I need to make my position now clear to anyone who reads my comment, and I hope with all my heart that you allow me that.
Nice to see the children growing up with such beautiful music and a musical Daddy.
Here once again, as i visit so much since posted 5 years ago. I pray you are well Maestro, you and your family. Greetings from South Africa. 🤲🏽❤️
I too have returned to this after many years. There is just something so sentimental and melancholy about a chaconne (passacaglia, actually). Apropos to sweet Evelien's interpretation, a baroque dancer is indeed what I picture in my mind when I hear a passacaglia. Such fluidity. Thank you Wim!!
Either I am very ignorant, or you have to be the best clavichordist I have ever seen.
:-)
Obv the mic jk
Adoro a la pequeña bailarina improvisando
Three musically moved souls. Beautiful!
I shall smile to the world when I watch the video every time. A music family is so familiar to the people who love music and art.♪~
I love that it ended on a minor chord.
Dit mooie stuk had ik nog nooit op clavecimbel gehoord. Uitmuntend gespeeld.
Evelien has the potential of becoming a great dancer, she senses the intrinsic dynamics and rhythms of the chaconne and improvises her unique moves,
Thank you so much for watching and writing the lovely words, I'll tell Evelien you liked it!
Such compositional mastery for Pachebel to lead the ear into another thought-room when the guest then is returned to the familiar entranceway.
How I love coming back to this video every once in a while, and just getting lost❤️
showed your comment to (now 8yr Evelien) and she smiled
I play it every day since the day you discovered it to me. How much music to discover! Thank you very much!
Great to read!
Love clavichord and your performance. It is mesmerizing.
Thank you so much !
Thank you Maestro Wim, for this beautiful and poetic performance ... you are a lucky father and you have two beautiful daughters!!
Thank you Marco, for your nice words and ... yes I am a very proud father :-) !
Monsieur Winters, votre video m'a mit les larmes aux yeux. Merci.
C'est si gentil de me laisser savoir...aussi pour moi, cette video est assez spécial...!
w.
So much beauty in the world . . .
Que hermosura. Lo admiro con toda mi alma.
Me parece hermoso ver a sus dos preciosas hijas acompañarlo y la menor bailar con tanto garbo y estilo.
Magnífico. Precioso.
Thank you, Wim. for recording this piece and make time to let the children help and "enjoy" a beautiful music experience. Thank you Sofie and Evelien you both were fantastic.
It's all possible thanks to you, xxx
xxx
Very well done and was very enjoyable by sense of hearing and sight.Thank you for you and your daughters contribution to my enjoyment of the clavichord, an instrument I am rarely exposed to...
Amazing -Very profound-Movement -the core of music -or the reaction to sounds in sequence.
So lovely, so adorable, both music and your daughters. Pachelbel would have been pleased. Thank you for posting!
Thank you so much, Hong Mai Le, for the nice words, so glad you liked it
Fantastic performance as usual, Wim. What a great idea to incorporate your adorable little interpretive dancer and lovely page turner into your video. Beautiful family, beautiful music and very entertaining. :)
That is an honor to read this from your pen, Michael ! The girls have watched already some of your alphabet videos and they love it. Sofie (she's 11) was proud saying that it was easy to understand. If you teach them a bit of English, the vlogs with the children will be much easier to make :-). And I'll send you some Belgian beer to thank you for that !
best wishes,
Wim
Hi Wim, I'm happy to hear that Sofie enjoyed my videos! Obviously the videos are mostly aimed at younger children but I always hoped that older kids from other countries would be able to use them to learn a bit of English as a second language, so that's wonderful. All of my videos have custom English subtitles too (not the auto-generated kind), which I think would help the girls learn English faster. Ha ha, no need to send me anything. Having the girls enjoy the videos is payment enough...but if you would share my channel with friends who have kids who might enjoy them, that would mean a lot. My wife and I got to sample some Belgian beer (and chocolate and waffles) when we visited Bruges and Brussels a couple of years ago and it was all fantastic. :) Cheers, Michael
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What a wonderful video on so many levels: your sensitive playing, the beautiful sounds from the clavichord and also your charming daughters. The love the younger one has for her daddy is palpable and her dancing interpretation of the Ciacona a sheer delight. The elder girl did her job demurely and without fuss or self-consciousness - what a splendid job you are doing bringing up your family so expertly. Thank you very much indeed for enriching my day.
The pure expression of beauty. No utilizing of fancy orchestrational or instrumental techniques to express emotions in a "greater way" like many of the romanticists do. The beauty that resides purely in the melodies and their stunning clear interplay makes the emotions so clear and direct to the heart. It's as if the whole work was intended to be like this from note to note. That is, for me, the greatest, most immersive connection to emotion one can have. I believe Pachelbel was a master of the soul and of emotional journeys. I just can't believe people were so plain back then as described simply in biographical textbooks. Sure we don't have much of any personal notes from the master, but one cannot just sit here and admire this music while also thinking that baroque composers were cold machine like people. Thus I believe Pachelbel to be one of the greatest masters of music. In my experience your interpretation, didn't, for one moment get in the way of this heartfelt emotional experience, and thus I have to conclude you have felt the same emotions as well and played very accurately. Thanks for your great output and please keep it going!
Great to read...!
What a pleasure to watch the little fairy dancing to this beautiful music! :)
what a wonderful cameo of family bliss. You are a great musician. Thanks for posting this sparkling conversation, it brings the baroque dance music alive...
The most beautiful!
Hermosa y perfecta interpretación de Wim . La pieza de Pachelbel y la atmósfera íntima del video son un deleite para el alma.
This is a breath of fresh air, how beautiful to watch these girls, each one in your own way, being taken by the melody. What a joy to listen to this, thank you!
Really glad you liked this, Vinicius, and thank you so much for letting me know!
best wishes,
Wim
beautiful performance, thank you so much!
great recording, great piece
Utterly charming and delightful performance!
Wim plays quite nicely as well. ;-)
So much love and joy in this video, in your rendition of this wonderful Pachelbel piece, and most especially in your video description! Cheers, all the best to you and your family! Thank you for sharing your gifts with us.
What an amazing father! You clearly have a wonderful relationship with your girls and have spent time away from the keyboard with them as well as time with them making and appreciating music in ways relatable to them. Father Bach would approve.
Amazingly beautiful and intimate. Thank you so much.
Thanks for listening, as always, Edward
Precious music and child!
This is so beautiful on so many levels. It's one of my favorite pieces of music - so melodic and moving. The sound of the Clavicord is beautiful. Your performance is spot-on. Your daughters' appreciation for and interaction with the music is itself a joy to behold. By the way, Evelien's dancing is what I do on the inside during a classical concert :) Thank you for sharing!
Sehr süß!!!
Excellent playing! Really enjoyed! When hearing your playing on your videos i really can appreciate all the voices and parts very clear and clean! A pleassure of chanel you have! ThanksGreat the little girl expressing the music with her movements and dance!
I wil tell the girls, thanks !
Es Hermoso lo que Transmiten 😊
Este Arte me deja siempre con la sensación de Paz
Thanks !
Mooi... een jonge ballerina in wording... Ook mooie muziek! Prettig eindejaar aan het hele gezin!
Ook voor jullie, Freddy, een belangrijk jaar voor Wondelgem!
Ascoltando la versione di Pachelbel mi sono commossa nel vedere come Eveline danzare con molto precisione sia nella parte ritmica e con le movenze di tutto il corpo tracciare la melodia.(mi ha riportato nel lontano 1985 a Torino in un convegno internazionale tenuto dal pedagogo Edgardi Willems su l’educazione ritmica sin dalla prima età ecc)E Sofìe seguire la partitura .Bravissime i miei complimenti e l’augurio di prosperità nel seguito.È una cosa bellissima vedere una famiglia oggigiorno così.👨👩👧👧
This is one of the best channels. Thanks. I am writing a book about Mozart and is a pleasure listen and watching you while I write. Thanks so much and excuse my poor english...
Thanks for letting me know, and just reach out to me if you think I could be of any assistance to your work !
Adore that piece and it sounded so gorgeous on that Potvliege! An additional thumbs up for the princesses!!!! Nice to see pink lady moving to the music... very clearly knows what is going on.
Thank you, really glad you liked it! As with the little princess, it is striking how well these young children respond to the emotion of the music, one can wonder what of that is left with us, grown ups, maybe more than we realize?
Very moving and so real!
Great video! The differences in the Children's role and response reflects the differences in my kids as well. One calm and attentive and another free-spirited and dancing. Great playing as well.
Wonderful
Lovely music, with a nice and very enjoyable interpretation. And a truly *delightful* video!
Thank you!
Thank you so much Paolo, for letting me know, it is much appreciated !
best wishes,
Wim
This was delightful, Wim! The girls make a perfection addition to the video. ;)
Thank you...the girls are my life...!
Truly an amazing piece and very beautifully played. Well done sir
so perfect playing!!
Very nice music from pachelbel, i knew his cannon but not this ciaconna. I was amused to see your little daughter dancing may be looking for your attention hehe :) thanks for your performs
Heel mooi gespeeld en wat leuk om te zien zo met je dochters Wim!
I’d like to hear this one on harpsichord too!
I enjoyed this very much! I have a CD of Pachelbel's organ works, he certainly was not a "one hit wonder" like he is often thought of as.
Thanks John! No, he was a genius, also considered as such by JSB on which he had much influence.
One of your best videos yet! (I've been going through them) Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
AWESOME!! I Can See how Much Your Daughters Love you So Much!, Forget About the Clavichord,And Believe me, I love The Clavichord, And Your Performance,BUt-- You as a Father, WOW !!!
Success in life is about You and Your Family :)
Grande! come sempre, Win.
Thank you , Luis !
Yes, this Pachelbel is also a favorite of mine. Nice performance. Somehow it makes me happy that it seems to be a "family achievement". Maybe it also has to do with hope that future generations still have ears for things like the wonderful and precious Hexachordum Apollinis.
Please some more arias of Pachelbel!
Thank you very much! The girls have the perfect age to participate from time to time, I guess Sofie will not do this in a few years from now, but who knows! I certainly do more Pachelbel, he intrigues me, going back from JSB to him, knowing that Pachelbel was of such big influence to him (as was Buxtehude). And his music goes surprisingly well on a big unfretted clavichord, which surprised me as well.
I love your videos! It's fantastic!
Thank you so much !
Beautiful, Wim!
Yes, gorgeous
This is so great
Great video and great music. The young one is a scene stealer! Both are wonderful Wim abd so is your playing!
Thanks Kostas, I'll ask Evelien one day to 'perform' on your music :--) !
+AuthenticSound that woukd be fantastic!
Pachelbel è pura poesia suonato in questo modo...
Thanks Leonardo !
Thank you so much for this video Wim. Watching it and reading about 'the making of' made me smile! :)
You should do more videos with the girls!
Thank you Philip !
Masterly played thanks.
Thank you !
you are wellcome !
Once again thanks Wim: for a glimpse of your world! Do your children share your penchant for the Clavichord? Such a beautiful and mellow instrument. The first time I heard the Clavichord was at the Purcell Rooms in London in the early 80's, Kathleen Crees was the artist and it was mainly a Baroque concert, being such a quiet instrument the sound was magnified with small speakers. It is great that your daughter has natural rhythm. A video worth watching.
Thank you, Stan, I am really glad this video could bring some pleasure! My children are used to the clavichord in a way it is always there, sounding many hours a day often...and they dance, sing (their girls group songs), play, argue, watch videos on the tablet, with clavichord sound on the background, which is not disturbing them (and for me: I'm only "complaining" if they start listening to their favorite songs, difficult to keep time then :-)).
Very good Win! We must know more about Pachelbels work!
Thanks! Its a very interesting music, so much better than famous Canon in D.
Hugs!
Pachelbel was a giant, much adored by JSBach, and of much influence. I have to record the afterthoughts today, and talk a little bit on his background (of which not too much is known by me... shame on me....:-) !
Made my night! Congrats, dear!
Humanly marvelous!!!
thank you
@@AuthenticSound You're welcome,sir
My feelings are somewhat different from John Kiunke's although I respect his feelings very much. I find that this piece, like his famous Canon, is the baroque version of Carl Orff. So far, I'm not referring to Wim's excellent performance... I can't help but hear the proclivity for repetition in this piece, which reminds me of the Canon as well as Carmina Burana. Now, I happen to love Carmina Burana, but it's long enough to provide us with variety and, face it, Pachelbel didn't feel the need to combine this piece with full orchestra, chorus, and ballet troupe. He did, however, provide (to my ear) over-redundance which get's old.
That said, Wim seems able to bring anything to life. It was still a delight to listen to due to the performer's skill and fun to watch his daughter's growing.
Isn't it ironic how full orchestras seem very adept at expression and rubato in baroque music. Yet, keyboard teachers are bent upon metronomic precision in performances from students. I've done it myself. It's fine for the beginner who is learning to leave the pedal alone and developing the ability to maintain proper tempi. But Wim is right in that we should allow the expressive nature of the music to fill the performance. The performer (Wim in this case) falls upon his audience so to speak. Only in these posts can we lift him up and join in the music as we would in actual performance. Let's learn from the little one. She gets it.
Thank you for the compliments, David, always a pleasure to read you, and yes, I can understand the way you look to Pachelbel. That is not a unique vision, and frankly, I had a similar picture of him in mind, until I started to play him again. These variations are of course very fashionable and appeal to emotion -and honestly, Pachelbel is VERY strong in producing something that sticks in the ear -, but if you would play his organ works trough, on an organ that is well suited for his music, a world opens. JSB of course went to Buxtehude and not to Pachelbel, and that decision was taken by himself, opposed to the wish of his older brother who wanted to send him to his teacher Pachelbel, and that fact alone might tell us something on the esteem JSB had for Buxtehude, but maybe even more for the larger organs of the North. But again, Pachelbel on an organ with the right characteristics, is really great music. I'll be playing some of his partitas the coming time, and I'm sure you will see a part of that aspect as well.
Funny story: in the Bach Dokumente (I'll make a video on those soon), there is a wonderful quote, I believe somewhere 1730, of a guy who writes on the "3 great 'B's'. I thought, reading that, well, that is early :-); but the names he gave were Bach, Buxtehude and ... Bachelbel ! Isn't that wonderful :-)?
I really enjoyed the video! Nice interpretations!!!
Thanks, Vicente!
ah so cute.what a lovely video wim.and I love your chaconne.
Thanks Sean!
This piece is part of the repertoire I learned by heart to be able to play anywhere! Your interpretation is the first one I've heard on a clavichord; I'm more used to hearing it on the organ ;) You played it marvellously, like everything I've heard from you so far. Congrats!
Thanks, Samuel, great to read you like it! Looking forward to reading you.
Wow. I am not a music pro but that was fantastic. Thanks Wim!
This channel welcomes all "non-pro's" with open arms, the more the better, it's about the music first ;-) !
Hi Scott, a quick question, if I could use your nice quote you left on my channel, to be featured in a book that will go along the publication of three cd's to celebrate my channel's music prod. nr 100? Thanks in advance!
Wim
great interpretation !!
Thanks !
Lovely.
thank you, so much!!
you're welcome !
I love you, thanks.
so cute
Leuk dat de meisjes de muziek niet alleen horen maar ook voelen. Barokmuziek heeft dat speciale effect dat het voorspelbaar melodieus en tegelijk ook grillig expressief is. Clavichord bij uitstek het huisinstrument van barokke componisten.
Dank je Edwin!
Een Chaconne is een 'hoofse' dans tenslotte, en hoewel Evelien misschien nog nooit dansles heeft gehad, zag het er vaak heel authentiek uit. Leuk dat ze haar handen op het instrument legt, voelt ze dan de trillende bastonen?
Ze ging helemaal in de muziek op, en bij het andere Pachelbel stuk dat je speelde ging ze er helemaal voor, prachtig.
Kan Sophie zelf als spelen? Notenschrift lezen kan ze vast al, toch?
In heel wat barokke huishoudens met een clavichord zal het in de 16-17e eeuwen precies zo zijn toegegaan. Gezamenlijk muziek maken met het hele gezin, wat een vreugde.
Last song of the swan...
sounds so much different and still beautiful, your daughter in red is a dancer =)) just need to learn minuet♥
Thank you so much Elena, really glad you liked this! Evelien has rhythm in her body, she starts in September in ballet class (she'll be 6 in October). So, to be continued (hopefully):-)
That was amazing, really... Your last Pachelbel was already a while ago... Have you thought on recording his Ciacona in D Minor? I think it's beautiful and I believe it suits the clavichord very well... And listening to it from your instrument, with your whole beat sensibility is surely to be blissful! This Ciacona is also very beaytiful, but I think I like the D minor one more... Thanks for sharing this beautiful interpretation with such love and passion from your whole family!
Very beautiful!
Thanks Martin !
Excellent recording, dancing, page turning and music making. I have taught a simpler form of this piece to a few of my young students and it was months later that I chanced to find a TH-cam version of it; that is how I found you. The clavichord is fabulous. Maybe you wrote something about it somewhere else. Can you tell me about it. Was it modelled on older instruments? I love the sound. Bach would have played such an instrument, I would think, in his home. Again, wonderful to have discovered you and such joyous music making.
Thanks Fred, it was probably one of the last 'innocent' moments of Evelien, she wouldn't be dancing anymore now (she's 6). I see you found more videos on the channel, so probably the ones on clavichord and Bach as well, it is an interesting subject (and an important one)
beautiful
I came back to listen to this one more time after some years - love it :-) Very enjoyable. Just curiosity : your daughters must have grown a lot since this video was made. Are they following their father's footsteps with an interest in keyboards, early music and/or art music in general ? And dancing ?
Mr. Wim I hate to correct you. Madame Evelien was there to provide, 'interpretive dance'; and what a beauty she was. I wouldn't have changed anything about what she did. I personally think it added to the overall performance. The music itself was so enchanting I feel that ALL elements combined: your playing, the melody itself, and Evelien's gorgeous dancing all added to the allure of the music. You have my permission to tell the girls they have a fan in America!!
I think out of all the videos of yours that I have watched this is the song that most captures my heart. In closing I do have 1 Q: Do either of your girls play any instruments yet?
Thank you, I will tell her! They started to play and then stop but Sofie starts to realize she is running out of time to 'start' so she probably will be more serious, we will see
This piece never fails to move me, but I really do think that playing it on a clavichord does give it a special and much more personal feel. And I sure do appreciate the dancing - it's what makes it different from other well produced music videos!
Meanwhile, I recently received your Bach CD played on the Silbermann in Strasbourg and enjoyed it immensely; are we going to hear more of you on organ on this channel, especially since you're right between two countries - Belgium and Netherlands, where there are just to many beautiful old organs?
Thank you, really glad you liked this (and the dancing!). Pachelbel's ciacona indeed sticks to ones mind and I believe that is a quality of his music. I have played the organ a lot, but since my clavichord arrived less and less. Never say never, but on short term, chances are low that I would perform such a big program soon again. With the arrival of the new pianoforte early next year, things will shift even a bit more towards keyboard music. It is a matter of time, and, you are right that many of the most beautiful organs of our small world are only few dozens or hundreds of kilometers away, but in the region where I live, there are no such historical instruments, even no new ones that could perform the great music of jsb. There is a CD production to come with a selection of music of this channel (a video is being released on that next week), and of course the big vinyl project with Bach's partitas is keeping us busy !
This has always been one of my favorite pieces, and I was excited to see that you recorded it on my subscription feed. And it's a fantastic performance!
One question though, why is it that you played each half of the first variation twice? Was it a conscious artistic choice on your part, or was it written in the edition you have?
Thanks for your reaction Adam, it is much appreciated!
Bärenreiter made (I believe) two editions, one early int he 1930's, and one more recent, the one I have (which still is not very good), and one of the differences is the adding of repeats in the score. I don't know if there are more recent scores (will look it up today, since I still have to record the afterthoughts for this recording), but anyway, repeating the different sentences was a normal practice, since the player could vary within the variations.
This is very inspiring! Thanks for the regular posts - your playing is something to aspire to. I have recently bought my first clavichord and would love to play this piece. Is this typically an organ piece? I have just found a score containing this published by ‘Harmonia’ - Incognita Organo volume 31. Would you happen to know whether this is a reasonable source? I realise a facsimile of the original would be better but it would take me too long to get my head around the unusual clefs I think! I notice lots of trills etc in your performance in many of the bars that are not in this score - I guess you are just embellishing the piece - or does the original specify these? I guess this would sound less interesting without embellishment. Anyway, thanks for a great recording - I will have to buy your CD at some point!
Thanks for the nice words and so great to read you have your own clavichord! It's often played at the organ, but I wonder how they've done that with temperaments those organs still had? F minor is a key that requires a pretty advanced temperament. I just played from the Barenreiter from the 60ties, what they wrote as pedal notes are easily be played in the left hand. I play this piece both on organ and keyboard but it feels like a keyboard piece to me just a tiny bit more. Hope this helps!
Thanks Wim. Yes I am loving the new clavichord. The ideal domestic instrument in the age of shrinking accommodation and ever more sensitive neighbours!
Very impressive interpretation of this piece. Do you have a video of your playing this piece on the organ (left hand part played partially on the pedal board, etc.)? I would be interested in seeing how your organ interpretation would differ from your clavichord interpretation. Thereafter, you might comment on the differences in the organ and clavichord interpretations and the reasons for those differences.
yes, it's on the channel just search for Pachelbel
Isadora Duncan 🙂
beautiful execution, and I wish your daughters to equalize you with skill and all the good possible.
can you do the Hexachordum Apollinis complete?? Thanks!
Hi Tommy, I am doing that, n°1, 2 and the aria sebaldina have been recorded. There is playlist on Pachelbel = th-cam.com/play/PLackZ_5a6IWUS09cafZvhZCR-1k8OhZm-.html
best!
Wim
what is the transcrption you are using ? i looked at imslp and didnt found it.
Bärenreiter
This was a nice piece, I'm looking forward to hearing more Pachelbel stuff played by you! Sofie is super professional, and Evelien already knows so many dance moves! :)
Thanks, Scozio, Evelien probably will have some ballet lessons next year, she loves to dance
4:10 the expected moment