Chaconne by Robert de Visee

[xvirgomoonx]

How can there be any other song aside from this one?

[shrimpfarmersunion]

Four words- Rolf Lislevand's "Nuove Musiche"-

An album of Baroque music played in a modern production. for me it nothing short-of changed the way I listen and look for music.

[majav15mg]

@shrimpfarmersunion I just downloaded that album from iTunes, first time I download anything from there and... it's just perfect.

[shrimpfarmersunion]

@majav15mg

Glad you liked it!

Look for other albums under the ECM brand for similar sensibilites.

They do mostly jazz, but some classical, and everything in between.

[pacotinho92]

Bravo

[AGLMIL]

Excelent! Played with your soul!!!!

[beethoven30]

briliant :)

[metamodo]

Amazingly beautiful thank you!

[marcoramelli]

Grande interpretazione! il Maestro Lislevand terrà delle masterclass e un concerto ad ingresso gratuito il 13 Novembre 2010 a Milano nel festival Corde d'Autunno alle ore 18:00 cordedautunno.it

[Deathrape2001]

Very good player! Good swing - not all mechanical sounding like most 'classical' =)

[tonyyyyguitar]

@Deathrape2001

you are right, it swings

if it is mechanical - - its probably done by metronome addicts

[Cadmium77]

@tonyyyyguitar

Look up the word "rubrato"....not "vibrato", but "rubrato"..

[luteguitar]

@Cadmium77 do you mean "rubato"?? , "rubrato" in italian doesn't mean nothing

[Cadmium77]

@luteguitar

Yeah, "rubato"... a spelling error on a rarely used word, WTF..

[culodigatto1]

Lo strumento sembra veramente notevole. Lui è "personale" (capisco anche i 10 no puristi) ma bravissimo.

[omoshiroidayo]

oh its scaring to see him so young im really frightened of getting old...

[alfredfripper]

very beautiful!

[silenceseaandsky]

thank you for sharing this beautiful music with us , Rolf Lislevand and torisand

[ReyChikaishi]

It is extremely beautiful.

The angel of the mind hums love of the flower.

Sincere thanks.

[1977ledzep]

Merveilleux

[crreativeme]

IMO, this is one of the most beautiful pieces I've ever heard--and that takes in a lot of territory for me. Thank you so much for sharing.

[intothevoid70]

Such a beautiful song.

[erdayi76]

i think it's the best emotional chaconne i've ever heard

[Noemipassy]

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[tomophirwedge]

This is fantastic!

Does anyone know where I could find a (good) transcription for this for the classical guitar?



[ozanbilal]

astonishing!

[65LAYAN]

Lindo!!

[pithair1]

take that Sting

[0x0221]

@pithair1 ROFL

[Lerbun2008]

Da notare, specie per i meno esperti, la tecnica del pollice della mano dx,per come viene usato in questo video è veramente ottimo

[soponcius]

Extraordinaria la musicalidad de Lislevand, es lo que más he admirado en todos sus conciertos y discografía. Y por supuesto, su técnica impecable!

[LucienProvencher]

Awesome! And I like the way he mutes the bass notes with his right thumb,

[badguitarp]

wonderfull sound didnt know that these guitars exist :O looks nice tho

[ninebreaker21]

@badguitarp The theorbo was created primarily to accompany singers in early opera. Despite its other name, chitaronne, it is not a guitar but a member of the lute family. The body is so large that the top two strings (closest to the ground) are tuned down an octave to prevent string breakage). A guitar analogy would be having your small E and B strings tuned an octave lower, so that your third string would be the highest.

[badguitarp]

@ninebreaker21 thanks for the explination:) respect.

[xhwcxtzo]

cool please can you send me the transcriptions?

[torisand]

I'm sorry, I don't have these transcriptions.

Vennlig hilsen

Tor Inge

[Llobet1983]

I think this is absolutely brilliant!!

[Deerse]

Soulfull and very musical playing .

[musictranscription]

Do you want me to transcribe it?

[thoyo]

that would be great!! i'd really appreciate it

[ellaer]

did you transcribed it?

can you send me a copy

[tomophirwedge]

has this been transcribed for guitar?

[gamgagirl]

I love this guy. God bless him.

[nagisuiwater]

Oh !

[RichySoprano]

wow !

[Pichounator]

This is what I call professional.

[0o0Simo0o0]

Rolf Lislevand, An Idol

[tomophirwedge]

this is a wondeful piece of music... he plays with a lot of intelligence and a great kind of feeling... very inspiring...

[endra93]

it's not so expensive: you can find a theorbo round 4000/5000 euro...i think this one costs 7000

[MartinRaetzJr]

Great!

[liuterpramsan]

bravo Maestro Lislevand, thank you very much for your live concert in Parma 22-03-2009, we've very appreciated yours performance!!

[gavin1895]

A marvellous picture from the XVII century... Five stars to Rolf and his music...

[blassman]

Que claridad para decir las cosas!!!

[stefushaasus]

awsome technique.Especially the articulation of the thum is amazing.

[geddadiaX]

what a great sounding instrument, love to see a nutcase on it

[byf43]

DaisyDiffy, me too =) Especially after hearing a live concert with Duo Delta playing renaissance music on lute.

[Blake12000]

Incredible... my favourite lute/theorbo related vid on youtube!

[lr2d2]

супер! просто потрясающе!

спасибо!

[ThisDream]

Its beautiful but I wonder why its so rhythmically straight? I don't much inegales, like in Lislevand's Belle Homicide CD? Still, Lislevand is the maestro, I'm sure he could explain it...

[marsvltor2]

Not on the lute admittedly, but the finest exponent of notes egales has to be Kenneth Gilbert on the harpsichord. A masterclass for all interested in French music of the 17th-18th centuries...

[Muso8787]

Yeah, baby! Theorbo is shagadelic.

[keto6789]

is this a lute?? It has single course strings.

[ipekavenk]

i love it rolf!

[PeriodinstrumentfaN]

funny how people comment on how a musician looks and not how he plays... :i

[williejax2]

we really don't know how lucky we have been to view this wonderful performance of a bitchin' difficult piece! Maestro Lislevand is one of the best lutenists living today. we are all in awe. yah, maybe he looks a little like Mike Myers but hey Mike should be honored to know he looks like Rolf!

[ThisDream]

Its a beautiful performance but its not that difficult! Have you tried it on theorbo? it fits under the fingers very well, which is one of the great things about a lot of the lute repertoire...

[dominiquedv]

I thik I saw Rolf Lislevant last yeat in St Michel en Thiérache, isn't it? It is a great player of ancient guitars and lutes!

[Gminor7]

Stunning. I'm sure we'll see this on US tv soon . . . . Yeah right.

[endra93]

why nobody answer to me?

[endra93]

Hi guys,i'm andre lislevand,his son...well,he doesn't look like mike myers...this is a tiorba by Lourdes:on norwegian tv!

[Jeefwee]

So I'm not the only one who thinks this guy looks like Mike Myers :P

haha.

[Lute1697]

Very nice performance and hopefully we see and hear more Visee pieces soon!

[lucisuciu]

... amazing !!!

[00Dega00]

He is great and got a wonderfull sound. But i think he played this piece a bit too fast :/

[GaleoDeus]

The Theorbo was sever supposed to be a solo instrument. It's a continuo instrument, which is why there is very little solo music around. This would probably sound better on an archlute, which is tuned like a Renaissance lute, but with the long neck and bass strings.

[kkallebb]

Actually, de Visee's solo theorbo music exploits the theorbo's peculiar re-entrant tuning so well that it would make no sense whatever to (transcribe) and play it on the archlute.

[endra93]

Hey,this is a tiorba by Lourdes

[bigpapasterl]

Does anyone know if there is a Lislevand recording with this de Visee piece? It is far and away the most beautiful solo theorbo peice I've heard, but I have to come to YouTube to listen to it!!

I'm having trouble finding much solo theorbo music at all. Much more common as a continuo instrument, I suppose.

[LutenistDeMari]

'This player' has since played better; listen to him on his disk 'La Belle Homicide'. As to whether Lislevand is 'Vapid' - one man's 'metronomical' is another man's 'subtle'.

[LutenistDeMari]

Ah - its not that quick; I speak as one making it right now myself. But its not too dificult, just takes work and getting used to having no nails.

[divinelymorticia]

ahh, why id it have to end?

[vjdthird]

took the words right out of my mouth

[luisdiazsantana00]

Excelente video!

[celsomachado111]

well this is a chitarrone milanese.

[kkallebb]

Most theorbos, I believe, have only six fretted strings. This one has eight. Is that historical? Do any scores require the fretting/stopping of the seventh and/or eighth strings?

[LutenistDeMari]

Yes, there have been documents mentionning that 8 is good; however the majority of surviving instruments have 6.

[LutenistDeMari]

Yes, there have been documents mentionning that 8 is good; however the majority of surviving instruments have 6.

[hsvbeary]

This has been in my favorites for a long while and I love listening to it often, it's so beautifully played and the tone is about the best of the lutes on youtube. I kept thinking "who does he remind me of?" and then tonight I realized that he reminds me of Harold from Harold and Maude.

[sejb12992]

What an incredible instrument. I was thinking about taking guitar lessons, but now I realise where my heart truly lies.

[JedermannSalzburg]

Ein typischer Lislevand - was eigentlich das größte Lob für diese herrliche Darbietung ist.

[RecitalGuitarist]

Wondeful performance, a highly interesting and unique instrument! More please!  This guyis good!

[baroque2]

I dream of having a theorbe like this. I would give anything for one.

[Mikeliuto]

This instrument was made by Lourdes Uncilla, Jose Miguel Moreno´s wife (the lute and guitar player of Spain). She does not teorbes actually, but Jose Miguel Moreno yes.I have the same instrument :) seek :

miguel rincon on youtube

Regards

[BarNuun]

A very fine master and very precise.

[sgcatalan]

exelent video, lislevand plays great

[firsttimeindatube]

One can like or dislike him. In my view there are no doubts that Rolf Lislevand is one of the best lute players in the world today, and his live performance which I was lucky to see some time ago only proved this! But this recording seems to be pretty old - does anybody know how long ago it has been done?

[ThisDream]

You seem to know your stuff - could you tell me if he is using nails or not? I read that some theorbists did...

[firsttimeindatube]

There are no nails - just fingertips, to achieve a very "natural" and close feeling of the instrument.

[ThisDream]

I thought so. His tone is excellent.

[saalfeldthegreat]

There are online communities for lute and therbo players that sell them along with luthiers.

[frankaaro]

Those of you who like Lislevand should check out his solo recordings "La Belle Homocide" (Gaultier, Dufaut, Gallot, Mouton, Bouquet, Mezangeau) and "Inatvolantura" (Bach).

[docetrago]

I like very much of the Intavolatura [ Bach ]. Even recognizing that Nigel North´s playing is clear and vivid in Bach : Lute Music, from Amon Ra Records, I am truly addicted to Lislevand´s Intavolatura !!!

I enjoy it always, I listen to it everyday. Really, Lislevand is undoubtedly the most stylish and unique Lute and Theorbo player worldwide !!!

He is great !!!

[frankaaro]

What's the point of hanging around youtube justto write comments like this smithy? You made your point, others can enjoy Lislevands playing without you writing this shit?

[ruadagloria]

great performance.

[guyoftheplace]

smithsherman just wants us to play everything in the north german organ fantasy school, or possibly like busoni.  yech.

[giancarlodipierro]

simply stated: the best lutenist on the scene today...great tone, control, expertise...go Rolf!

[SoloGuitaristNet]

This is very fine playing. Just enough dynamic variation, a few rolled chords. This is more than de Visée wrote into the piece. If one is looking for great tonal variation then they should understand that the Theorbo is not a guitar and requires different technique. One needs to keep themselves fairly well anchored due to the many strings (note the pinky). Four or five fingers on six strings is quite different than on the same 11 or 13 courses.

[playfromthesoul]

Mr. Lislevand should know by his age that exact repetition of any idea is the true path to boredom. Repetition in music is there for a reason, that being, to offer the listener yet another way to express the same idea. This goes for repeated notes as much as repeated themes, as well as repeated phrases. Otherwise, there is no point. Is there? Yet, the real problem in this performance is the lack of an idea of what to do with the notes in the first place.

[playfromthesoul]

No! The one thing lower in life form is someone criticizing a person of whom he or she knows nothing. At least Smithsherman has the decency to focus his remarks on the performance, like it or not.

[jamarriage]

Magnifique! you can feel those hearty basses resonating within you transporting you back to Versailles as Rolf's playing always does, encore!

[MonteverdiXVI]

Hi is a trully great player, complete in control and extremely comfortable with his technique, very musical ! Wonderfull !

[apodyterion]

Wonderful performance!

[beholt]

I love Lislevand playing!

[glaoud]

Les mots manquent pour exprimer ce qu'on ressent à l'écoute de cette musique merveilleuse!

Merci à Youtube de rendre possible la decouverte de cet univers fabuleux

[aumentada]

lindo! (beautiful!)

[Luthval]

Great, one of the greatest lute player !

[erscott13]

Beautiful. I've never seen an instrument like that before.