J.S.Bach, Sinfonia No.14,BWV 800,Kaung-Ae Lee;Harpsichord

[SwingwenuSwagga]

It's very difficult to play the masters and allow your own personality to be heard as well. Every player has the ability to add their own colour to a piece, but most are too frightened. I think you do this quite well.

[campcasey62]

Wonderful.

[OakAged72]

Skilled playing. The technical ability is respectable. However to my ears there is something missing... some essential "Bachness" that moves me like nothing else. It takes more than correctly playing the sequence of notes as written on the page to conjure the feeling of the stone castles, silk coats, and powdered wigs. Bach's music sings of glorious exaltation even as it wails of pain; laments loss while proclaiming triumph; etc. It's deep, dark, brilliant, and freaking gorgeous. Listen to more.

[IpsaPaphum]

@OakAged72 Music 'says' different things to different people, but sometimes apparently you hear the same as someone else ----> "laments loss while proclaiming triumph"!

[mrmolinodelahoz]

An extremely musical, lyrical and affable interpretion which is so enjoyable to absorb in one´s spirit.

The instrument also sounds very nice.

Lovely musical experience.

[mavs972]

Talented, but I personally hate the harpsichord.

[teddingtontcu]

Moderato girl Moderato. All the life has been taken out of it. And let the sustain SING Bach.

[hashirimedes]

Though it is not easy, I like this sinfonia.

Your performance served as a reference very much.

[vitellia]

I'd prefer a rather less sedative interpretation of this piece. Still, I think she kept her own interpretation going strong, and it is convincing in its own way. I wonder how she'd interpret the profound f-minor sinfonia. I'll forward to more from this interesting new harpsichordist.

[MrPfund]

Sinfonia 14? I thought this was a miscellaneaous piece.

[rasoros]

I would love to hear Kaung playing Hendrix's "all along the watchtower" on the harpsichord.. that would be amazing.

[satindesire]

Goodie! Go cry to your dead mommy, you evil little boy, and learn your lesson that trolling people on the internet is bad for your health. Perhaps you'll think twice before being cruel to someone else after today.

[satindesire]

Yes, I'll keep playing this game til you grow too tiresome to bother with, which I'm assuming might be soon since the quality of your insults has faded along with your IQ. Dealing with ignorant trolls like yourself is somewhat of a hobby of mine.

[choirboyfromhell1]

You're the wrong sex, benjaros2 likes the little boys over at John's.

[satindesire]

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[satindesire]

You're quite welcome. Now you know what it feels like.

[satindesire]

My screen name is just a screen name, just like anyone else's. It doesn't HAVE to mean anything.

Uninvited commentary? Well, now you know what it feels like you thick-skulled peon. Don't invite yourself to be flamed by flaming other people who -certainly- don't deserve it. Your mother should be terribly ashamed of your attitude.

[satindesire]

Um. No. I won't explain myself and especially not to you. You are a vitriolic, sad, toxic human being who really needs love and inner peace instead of being hateful and cruel to strange people you don't even know.

[lscully2]

Funny. I find that that plant probably has more musicality or sense then you as show by your rather idiotic and repulsively mannered statement concerning her. May I ask what qualificatiosn you have to reprimand her Bach?

[satindesire]

This coming from such a negative person shouldn't mean much, seeing as how your last few comments on this website on several other videos have been similarly catty.

What's the point of acting like an arrogant ass on the internet, exactly?

[Babejuda]

Beautiful playing. Brava.

[tantoedge]

Young and Talented! Bravo!

[tayuyaXkimimaro]

Wow, just beautiful. Makes me want to cry T.T Such a beautiful piece playes marevlously! Congrats!

[yashil777]

this is great. dosn't the harpsichord just bring u that great era baroque, isn't it ever so brilliant. the brilliant feathers making this brilliant, unusually pleasant sound. isn't it buetifull? and what a great Harpsichordist, playing ever so brilliantly, and most importantly respecting the composer, which one would braley see on youtube.

[BitterGrin]

"Can somebody please recommend a really good harpsichord method book or something to improve at playing in the style of 17th/18th harpsichord players. Thanks."

Buy a harpsichord and bang on it till it sounds good like a proper musician.

[13orthanc13]

amazingly lyrical and sensitive reading..well played...

[acernegundo]

Not to be a music nerd or anything, but I just love Baroque harpsichord pieces. My college has a harpsichord, but sadly they keep it in the attic of the music building.

Bravo on a performance well done!

[CreditOrDebit]

Well that is a bright idea; put them on eBay and the school can do something better with the money they're worth.

.

Do check first that there is no still-living benefactor.

Cheers.

from,

del-boy.

[dolofonos]

Hopefully they do not, or some poor musician is going to find out about frozen registers and cracked soundboards the hard way.

[Rik77]

This is really graceful reading. I like it. :)

[baroqueboy15]

Too slow for my liking of harpsichord/virginal playing. Bach deserves better

[yashil777]

how would u know the tempo of Johann Sebastian Bach playing this piece?

[pauledunn]

Question:

Can somebody please recommend a really good harpsichord method book or something to improve at playing in the style of 17th/18th harpsichord players. Thanks.

[NagualElias]

bach's WTC has preludes and fugues in al 24 keys. it pretty much covers evrything. If you are an UBER beginner get his six little preludes. he originally wrote them for is students.

[wcbroccoli]

Nothing Bach wrote gives instructions on how to play the harpsichord.

Apart from his children J.B., W.F. and C.P.E., for which students did Bach write the "Six Little Preludes"? These pieces were written during his years as Prince Leopold's salaried Capellmeister. When would Bach have had time or need for students?

[Rik77]

CPE Bach wrote a book on correct ornamentation and playing style. I don't know the name of it unfortuantely, but I'm told it's very useful.

[Renshen1957]

Try Mark Kroll's Playing the Harpsichord Expressively: A Practical and Historical Guide. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2004.

[bachkorea]

쳄발로 짱입니다^^

[Gordauch]

Very pleasant reading. Is the instrument in a classic temperament?

[zin1005]

It was in a Valoti tuning.

[enantiodrom]

Lovely singing, maybe a bit broad tempo does not pay off

the structure of the piece beyond the cantabile

[mrbusy]

Superb performance. Very nice choice. Please upload more!

[manfuckthisshit]

Beautiful harpsichordist, and hot to boot.

[heituzi]

Manf: That's not appropriate.

[manfuckthisshit]

How is that not appropriate?

[dolofonos]

Yeahr, that isa nrot arpropriarate, aprawragi!

[MissyHolland]

Request, request, request!! The harpsichord cadenza

from the Allegro to the Fifth Brandenberg! Pleeeezee

with Glenn Gould sprinkles on top!

[mdaghino]

Hi nice play. I have a suggestion for you..why don t you play for us Präludium E-Dur BWV 937 from Bach? It is one of my favourite master pieces....

[khanbijian]

great

[heituzi]

Absolutely fabulous.

[YGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGYG]

I don't like the sound of Harpsichords/klavichords/organ­s unless it's CHRISTMAS!!!

(^O^)

She plays very nicely though. That would sound so lovely on the piano.

[Oric]

It's refreshing to hear Bach's keyboard works on a real harpsichord. That's what he composed his music on (well, maybe he composed it in his head, who knows with Bach), but I love the harpsichord instead of piano.

Not knocking piano of course, Bach is fun on the piano. But once you've got the Italian Suite on harpsichord, you'll never go... bach.

Oho.

[friekunater]

great job on this song. ive never heard a harpsichord but it goes well wth all old songs like Beethoven, Scarlatti, Bach, and especially Mozart. cool^^

[clashtitans2]

lol. Try playing beetoven sonatas on a harpsichord! sounds horrible to me.

[matteylemage]

German and European culture and music - harpsichord a european invention and culture

[lpluss]

The keybed on a harpsichord is really shallow, so even though plucking the string gives it maybe a bit more resistance than a piano, the a pianist can easily become frustrated at how easy it is to strike keys accidentally. Go find one and try! Once you get used to it, it's loads of fun...and ornaments are often much easier!

[poptart777]

is every thing on a harpsichord the same as a piano.....i know it is notewise .......but

[tamakisa]

that's lovely!!!

i've never played the harpsichord... are the keys heavier than the piano???

[namenSlosER]

No, not at all. It feels like flying above the keys ;o)

[operaticxingenue]

GOD I wish I had a harpsichord~ XD

[zzzxtreme]

they look pretty huh. black with white lining or something.

[NagualElias]

I love your playing! Ever thought of doing a bach concerto? my favorite is the first movement of bwv 1052!

[zin1005]

Oh!!!, That is also my favorite. I will play the BWV 1052 in May and July. in May with a Harpsichord(two harpsichord) and in July with a Baroque orchestra(on orginal baroque Instrument).

[fuzzylongbeard]

Bravo!

[FetishManD7]

It's not BWV 785 (inventio 14).

This is BWV 800

[zin1005]

You are right!!! The number is BWV 800.

I will change this number.

Thank you for your help.

[Ravel87]

That harpsichord sounds lovely, how much would something like that model cost?

[joheewt]

Very nice.

[DBJ06]

Fine. The sound of the recording is not the best eventhough the instrument sounds lovely. Is that part of a recital? would like to hear some more.

Daniel B.J from Colombia.

[zin1005]

yes, that is some part of a recital.

I will doing that continue more video file, you can see more.

[jpcq1109]

You're excellent Ae Lee, hello from jpcq1109 from Costa Rica, I'm also playing the harpsichord since one year ago!

bye!

[zin1005]

Hi!!!

That´s good news.

[OckJuHyun]

beautiful. Yay Koreans!

[zin1005]

Harpsichord-maker is Mr. Dietrich Hein from Germany

[Donzelague]

Wonderful playing. Can you tell us who built the harpsichord?

[muratoztopcu]

are you human?

[mostlyclassics]

Kaung-Ae -- you are clearly a superb harpsichordist and musician! Who built the instrument?

[FelipeAraya]

beuty ^^

[christian6657]

That was beautiful! like you ;).