Ciaccona per Cembalo - R. Alessandrini LIVE - Bernardo Storace

[ceciamable]

ecco come suonare male il cembalo..ma che botte!! si sentono le urla dei martelletti!! troppi accenti, tempo poco stabile.

[AmericanVideoGames]

Did you record the audio yourself?

[Gudrun74]

@AmericanVideoGames It's from a radio broadcast

[KonradlaTaccola]

Bravo Rinaldo!

Luca Palermo

[fao1975]

I wonder why some harpsichord players still have this funny idea that playing "a tempo" is just an option. It seems that he slows down on most of the cadenzas... quite boring, if we consider that there are so many cadenzas in a ciaccona.

[allengarvin]

Frescobaldi, 1615: This manner of playing must not always follow the same meter; in this respect it is similar to the performance of madrigals, whose difficulty is eased by taking the beat slowly at times and fast at others, even by pausing with the singing in accordance with the mood or the meaning of the words.

Same source:

Cadenzas even when notated as fast must be well sustained, and when one approaches the end of a passage run or a cadenza, the tempo must be taken even more slowly.

[starcommander55]

Of course the Ciaccona was a type of dance, and changing tempo randomly while someone is trying to dance to the music tends to get stuff thrown at you...

So the question becomes, should this be treated as a dance and kept in strict tempo? Or should this be treated like a canzona and played freely?

Either interpretation has valid arguments, this performer chose the later, and it makes for a really good performance. However, you could argue against his interpretation as well... meh, I like it.

[MatthezAustria]

@starcommander55 - yes, it is a ciaccona, a dance, that is clear. But I think at this point of developement, the form is used as an artificial tool as for variation. Storace explores meter, harmony and character - I don't think this particular ciaccona is meant to dance...

[KonradlaTaccola]

Ciacona originally was meant to adnce, but later it became a formal piece of music, introducted in suites de dance or by itself.

[grocheo]

boring? you need some jazz

[andresandreani]

where is he?