Handel Harpsichord Suite 4 in D minor, HWV 437

[cembaloish]

most likely, people working didn't hear music like this. The harpsichord was an instrument of wealth. And no YouTube, can you imagine no YouTube

[axderaq]

so beautiful...

[nathams1705]

dommage que la prise de son soit trop lointaine et qu'il y a trop de reverb .

J'aurais aimé me sentir plus prêt de l'instrument .

Sinon c'est bien joué.

[paradoxicus]

Para mí una Obra Maestra.Imposible definir su belleza.

[FiatObscuritas]

Delicious!!!

[tizbic2]

Does anyone else find themselves just waiting for 6:31? Wow that was a great piece of music.

[MrFerminleon]

The Keyboard suite in D minor (HWV 437) was composed by George Frideric Handel, for solo keyboard (harpsichord), between 1703 and 1706. It is also referred to as Suite de pièce Vol. 2 No. 4. It was first published in 1733.(From Wikipedia)

[JonathanMartinovici]

what beautiful music, and what wonderful playing! I got to play a harpsichord for the first time today. They're such beautiful instruments. I never really realised how much a performer can do to manipulate the sound that comes out of a harpsichord.

Thanks for sharing this video.

[youarelovedSOmuch]

Can some one help me out? I thought Handel's sarabande mvt. 4 (hwv 437) was about 3 and a half minutes like I've seen numerous other places on youtube. It also does not go like this. Is this a different variation or something?

[taminoss]

@youarelovedSOmuch

The thing is that what you have been listening until now it´s been the third movement of this suite (minute 04.30), but not the complete one. This is the original version, not the orchestral ones.

[youarelovedSOmuch]

@taminoss

Ahh, thank you. So then, this is the original third movement in its complete entirety, and on a harpsichord (like the original). Okay, thank you very much.

-youarelovedSOmuch

[aldudennie]

beautiful...

[NeoBossman]

This was recorded on an instrument by Andrew Garlick based on the Goujon (fraudulently labelled 'Ruckers' on the name batten!) now housed in the Paris Conservatoire. William Christie, Kenneth Weiss, Christoper Hogwood, Kenneth Gilbert and numerous other artists have recorded on the original.

Sophie Yates - awarded the prestigious Erwin Bodky Prize at the Boston Early Music Festival in 1987 - plays with delicacy, style and grace. If only the Chandos label in the UK would stop deleting her CDs!

[NeoBossman]

This was recorded on an instrument by Andrew Garlick based on the Goujon (fraudulently labelled 'Ruckers' on the name batten!) now housed in the Paris Conservatoire. William Christie, Kenneth Weiss, Christoper Hogwood, Kenneth Gilbert and numerous other artists have recorded on the original.

Sophie Yates - awarded the prestigious Erwin Bodky Prize at the Boston Early Music Festival in 1987 - plays with delicacy, style and grace. If only the Chandos label in the UK would stop deleting her CDs!

[frenchiecocorico1]

@NeoBossman The harpsichord Jean Claude Goujon (1749) & Jacques Joachim Swanen (1784) is housed in the Music City Museum in Paris (ref. E 233) but not at the Conservatoire. The label "Rückers" on the nameboard wasn't fraudulent. The Rückers (family of harpsichord builders) disappeared in the middle of 17th century. This inscription means this harpsichord was a copy made following Rückers models. Though, the builder's name is written inside the case. Swanen equiped it with buffle plectra

[SatansLittlePony]

She's so intense, almost intimate. She's hardly comparable with any other harpsichordist I can think of.

[irishmaestro]

I've really fallen in love with Sophie Yates's playing lately. Her playing is unassuming, artistic and thoroughly musical. Her focus in playing Handel is playing Handel, and not showing off unnecessarily. She's really giving Scott Ross a run for his money as my favourite Handel player. ^__^

[tizbic2]

I absolutely love the part that start about 6:32 until the end. It's intense!

[billegeto]

the music of an era when people had time to stop and listen, but even when working, they had a different stress level. is this why we idealize those times...?

[danbcarson]

@billegeto I am glad I'm not the only one who idealizes those times.

[szilvavirag]

@billegeto 'but even when working, they had a different stress level.' Which social class are you thinking of now? Don't get me wrong: I love this era with music, art and all, but I'm very careful with idealizing anything...

[billegeto]

@szilvavirag correct (helyes). i was thinking mostly about people living in the area of influence of this music: Europe (don't even think of South America), mostly urban. but still, having no radio, no television, no mobile phones, i believe even in South America, stress levels must have been generally lower. fear of death or poverty or rejection is universal and eternal, but looking at the news each evening does add to it something. Handel's music reminded of and talked about things above fear.

[mickinson]

@billegeto

Yeah so stress at modern shit like not being able to buy shit from amazon 'cause the servers are down was significantly diminished, but I think your opinion is so poorly considered that I'm even willing to call you a fucking idiot in the comments on such a beautiful piece of music.

[mickinson]

@billegeto

Eeeerm, no, the music of an era of decadence and neglect for the vast majority of people alive at the time, just because the music reaches heights incomparible doesn't mean that the common man had it any easier. You have to be seriously naive to believe that anybody other than a tiny minority of people got to listen to such brilliance at the time.

[MrFudoken]

@billegeto Are you kidding or really ignorant? Nobody in sane mind idolizes those times. You seem to forget Händel composed music for the king, not the people.Only the music of that time is idolized.

[zacisherebenders]

@billegeto Wonderful music yes but most people would have lived in abject poverty during this period. Only the "elite" would have had the opportunity to enjoy this.

[paulomtts]

Beatiful tunes.

[SatansLittlePony]

sophie yates plucks the strings of my heart.

[koboricci]

Reminds me of Barry Lyndon, a favorite of mine.

[indigoblue555]

A baroque marvel,graciously performed.

[singer8310]

this is awesome! :D