Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: More Palatino

[VicodinAddicted]

thanx

[reekpeekseek]

sweet jesus... this one hell of a song!

[Trinitrotolaissance]

@reekpeekseek The sugar makes you wanna shake your leg!!!

[gfduda3]

belo!!!

[dadapopa]

omg he was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was among the first major keyboard composers of Europe, and his work as a teacher helped establish the north German organ tradition.

if you don`t beleve me, check wikki !!!

[cosmicpanda]

@dadapopa, I believe perhaps otacs was responding to the question regarding the name of this piece. Sweelinck's variations were frequently on tunes from outside Holland, so it's fair enough to be curious.

[Csybor]

Very beautiful!

[fizetr]

the name of this piece, is more palatino???? is that english or dutch?

[Ferdinand1989]

@fizetr It's Latin for 'in the Palatine fashion', referring to the Palatinate area of Germany. I think.

[ComicBoy497]

i have to write a text about this composer, could you please help me a bit? i'm desperate...

[Trinitrotolaissance]

There should be plenty of information on wikipedia, but feel free to PM me your questions. I'll see what I can do.

[arlanvsarie]

can i juse the video for a project on history

[Trinitrotolaissance]

sure, of course! Van Asperens' version is also great.

[alra1975]

Performed on the sublime double virginal by Martinus van Deer Biest built in 1580, an instrument that superlative words cannot describe...

[Trinitrotolaissance]

Thanks, didn't know that :)

[alra1975]

You are welcome, all the informations are contained in the original box set by Philips/Harlekijn records, I have both the LPs vynil set and the CDs version of these sublime recordings...

[alra1975]

You are welcome, all the informations are contained in the original box set by Philips/Harlekijn records, I have both the LPs vynil set and the CDs version of these sublime recordings...

[alra1975]

You are welcome, all the informations are contained in the original box set by Philips/Harlekijn records, I have both the LPs vynil set and the CDs version of these sublime recordings...

[marsvltor2]

Colin Tilney did a lovely recording of the English Virginalists on this instrument on Archiv in the 1970s...definitive.

[wertgtwert]

Beautiful !

[pc0sence]

Viewer # 1000.

[alra1975]

OCTOBER THE 12t.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY TON KOOPMAN, MAY GOD BLESS WITH ETERNAL LIFE TRUE BAROQUE PERFORMERS!!!!

[alra1975]

Sublime as only Ton Koopman can be. Check out Koopman's version of this same piece but by Buxtehude, another rare pearl of beauty.

[FlorestanEusebius]

If you hear him play like this, one could challenge the assertion that he is a better organ-player than a harpsichordist...

[alra1975]

And these old recordings are from when he was about 35 years old....

[FlorestanEusebius]

That's amazing! Maybe he focused more on organ-playing and conducting later on?

Ashkenazy and Barenboim were much better pianists when they were young than nowadays. But I don't know about their organ-playing;-)

[alra1975]

No,Koopman won the Prix d'Eccelence, both on organ and cembalo about at the same time; he was the best pupil of Leonhardt and he got lots of international prices when he was in his 20s. Before the age of 30 he was already good enough to perform all the organ triosonatas of Bach, with fast tempi and adding a different ornamentation (crowns, double trills, mordents) even on the pedals, varied at every repetition. About at 30 years he begun to conduct. The rest is history...

[FlorestanEusebius]

Maybe I should check out more of these early recordings, to be honest I like this more than the later Bach-recordings (on harpsichord and organ)I've heard sofar where I sense sometimes a lack of breath, an inclination to rush things a little...but this is excellent indeed!

[alra1975]

The WTK that I sent you is almost from the same time of this recording..... So it not a matter of age....

[FlorestanEusebius]

I found the CD box with Sweelinck from Philips...but it says it's from 2001?

[alra1975]

My dear Florestan, every time they reprint a record they indicate the new date. If we should believe to this, Horowitz, Richter etc., should resurrect every 5 years! The Philips recordings are from the second half of the '70 (all on historical cembalos, virginal and organs), when Koopman had long hair and giant beard....

[FlorestanEusebius]

How could I question your Koopman-knowledge...tonight I showed my father the video's of your favourite, he exclaimed: "That guy could be my twin-brother!" Indeed, en profil they look very similar. Let me add that my father also had a long beard in the 70s and that he used to play jazz-organ in his youth, so the circle is closed...

[alra1975]

Dear Florestan, there is an "epidemy" of Koopman/Mercante/Marchand dads: also mine is an hybrid between Antonio Mercante and Sean Connery.... I have immediately a great sympathy also for your father, tell him that he has a fan in Venice!

[firebreathone]

I think he was older than that. I doubt he was 35 when he played this

[alra1975]

In fact he was not 35, he was 33-34 as this was recorded in 1977-78 and Ton was born in 1944...

It is not very difficult to know this if you own the original recordings...