J.S. Bach - French Suite #2, BWV813 (Bob van Asperen)

[xxrook]

Prachtig gespeeld, dit raakt me echt. Zo muzikaal. Dat iets rekken aan begin van de maat vind ik schitterend, alles blijft toch keurig binnen de maat en op ritme. Het is heel eerbiedig en waardig gespeeld. Zeer cantabile. Luister eens naar de Handel fluit sonates waar Van Asperen Frans Brügen begeleidt. Een juweel, een gouden kleinood!

[otirudam]

I told you, i needed your love very badly, and since there was no way of locking ourselves in, we had to part. And the parting was so sweet and bitter, i am here

amidst the bushes wondering what really happened, or did it all happen or was it just my imagination.

[harpsichordgal]

Wonderful old harpsichord. The ornamentation is absolutely correct.

[IFioriMusicali]

great , amazing, pure magic !

[VelikyUstyug1]

The instrument is remarkable! - As to playing too slow- He plays with the 'I'm so aristocratic and tired' style of Leonhardt... for better or worse. For my tastes it is boring- but sincere and warm of heart.

[broadwood1830]

The harspichord sounds well but Bob van Asperen plays to slow. The lot of unnecassary trills make his playing not really better. J. S. Bach was no old and boring man when he wrote this composition. To hear this interpretation makes me sleepy

Sabine

[Trinitrotolaissance]

Try some Scarlatti, that will wake you up! ;-)

[Alanuboat]

@broadwood1830 La acentuacion es correcta. El barroco es un estilo particular, no necesariamente debe ser muy rápido para llamar la atención. Hay partes rápidas como el bourre o gige y lentas como alemande y sarabande. La belleza está en el contraste. Luz vs, oscuridad. Nunca me duermo con Bach.

[Csiga1000]

Schöner Klang, aber die Tempi....

[danielkirk1]

My ears love this harpsichord! Beautiful upload thank you, and god bless the best composer: Johann Sebastian Bach.

[brookwall]

This sounds to me to be a superb recording.

[Trinitrotolaissance]

It truly is!

[AGLMIL]

Bob van Bach play Johan Sebatian van Asperen!!!!!!!!!

[AGLMIL]

Fantastic interpretation and sound,Bach very happy

[daniel15671]

This is really beautiful playing.

[indigoblue555]

Pure magic !

[thinkgreenlovepurple]

so beautiful...

i play piano only, but I love the harpsichord, and I love Bach!

[Trinitrotolaissance]

Not surprising at all, how can one not like Bach!

[thinkgreenlovepurple]

I agree !

[eddings33]

06:49 ? Nicht sehr respektvoll. Was hätte der Meister wohl selbst dazu gesagt?

[Trinitrotolaissance]

Are you serious? lol

[TheGravicembalo]

veramente bello!

[franz1828]

superbe musicien ,superbe instrument,certainement très difficile à jouer !!!

[ClassicalMusicReview]

I suspect that Bach was 'unsatisfied' with more than what you (or he)mention.He was politic and decided not to go into a rave.The piano is an incredible instrument but so uncultured (with regards to soul) compared this sort of highly evolved Harpsichord that the comparision had to be unbearable for him.

[muzykowedma]

Thank you for the wonderful recording!

[ClassicalMusicReview]

It's no wonder that J.S. Bach had such a poor opinion of the piano after playing such brilliantly refined harpsichords as this. It would be at least another 75 years after Vater constructed this that the 5 pedal pianos of Dussek,Moscheles,& Field's day could offer a competitive sophistication of aestheticry tonally. Personally I feel that the piano has never fulfilled it's promise to successfully replace instruments like this. Not even the best German grand pianos 100 years ago sound so good.

[alra1975]

Bach was unsatisfied by the poor action without any sensitivness of the fortepiano of Silbermann; their sound was even worst than their no-sensitiveness typical of percussive action that has no control over the string, unlike the strung action of cembalo, spinet, virginal, or the mechanical action of the organs that make feel the air under they key, or the tangent action of the clavichord.

The percussive mechanic of piano is only dynamic in contrast but not sensitive at all toward the string.

[maidestone]

Spellbinding performance on a lovely instrument. Great clarity of the multiple voices from the right hand in the Allemande.

[castello18]

Beautifully played by Van Asperen :)

[indigoblue555]

Pure delight ! I wonder I could ever listen

to some more Bach on a such sounding harps.

Some infos are welcome. Thx.for sharing this great musical time=

[00bean00]

It sounds less like a harpsichord than a harp!

[TomBandfield]

I know what you mean, especially on the high notes. Lovely. :-)

[00bean00]

I'm listening to it now as I'm gonna study, and it sounds like a sharper, deeper, guitar!

[incasmaya]

fantastic german harpsichord!