Sweelinck: Fantasia Chromatica / M.M.Neerlandica

[room128]

First heard this in my first semester of musicology. I fell in love with it. Even though it's played on an instrument with no ability to create dynamic effect, it manages to impart that quality through its pacing. Beautiful peace.

[patr2can]

Very nice.

Will you perhaps be doing the A Phrygian Fantasia as well at some point? That seems to be lacking altogether on YouTube, which is a pity - it's a very bold piece of music.

[VampilaAtelier]

&&& Beautiful ,fragrances comings from aromatics elixirs from brilliance perfumer as that intimate ...level perform ...adorable ,Lord Ernst !

[OceanderTethyseus]

it is very similar to parts of the Musical Offering.

the article on Sweelinck in Wikipedia states that Bach *may* have been influenced by Sweelinck, and thereby it implies that there is no concrete evidence for Bach's having been so influenced.

if anyone has evidence of such, please post a reference to it in reply to this comment.

[ernststolz]

yes but don't forget that the theme of the musical offering was not Bach's

[OceanderTethyseus]

@ernststolz

yes, of course. i am not referring to the theme, but, rather, the harmonic treatment of decending chromatic lines.

[OceanderTethyseus]

^^descending

it seems so similar, i can't imagine that Bach was unaware of it, though perhaps there was a succession of intermediate influences, e.g.,  Sweelinck directly influences X, and X directly influences Bach, where X is one or more composers or a succession of composers.

since i've been broadening my exposure to Baroque composers, i've found that Bach is quite the imitator.

[godblessiowa]

thank you

[gonrolgonrol]

Great playing.

[ernststolz]

Thanks!

[rubenrombouts]

welke stemming is hier gebruikt?

[ernststolz]

middentoon

[planethelp]

Ernst, you really rock my world. Magnificent!

[ernststolz]

Thanks for your enthusiasm!

[decimaquinta69]

Fantastico

[ernststolz]

Thanks!

[passacaglia28]

Very well done. This sounds like a very difficult piece to play.

[ernststolz]

Thanks, it is not an easy piece, that is correct. but the hexachord fantasia is more difficult.

[passacaglia28]

I see. I will have to do a search on that one. Cheers. :)

[josealanreyes]

Do you play it? It would be great to hear you.

[erwin8888]

Ernst,

Kun je dan voorbeelden geven van andere uitstekende Nederlandse componisten?

[ernststolz]

Ik speel een paar andere Nederlandse oude componisten hier, maar er zijn er ook nog wel wat in de 19e en 20e eeuw, die je beslist moet horen.

[erwin8888]

Nederlands grootste! Maakt me trots een Nederlander te zijn.

[ernststolz]

Er zijn beslist andere uitstekende Nederlandse componisten die minder bekend zijn geworden.

[horaciobarroco]

Fantastic, Ernst!

Deep interpretation for this music taht reminds metaphysical world of Leibniz, in Teodicea.

I hope once we could play together

[ernststolz]

Thanks Horacio, I certainly hope so one day! Ciao

[Cantormatis]

Wow, this almost sounds like bach, doesn't it? Very very adventurous! What year was this composed??

[ernststolz]

Bach knew the music of Sweelinck very well.

This must be composed between 1600 and 1621, difficult to say.

[gloriaivandavalossha]

This a wonderful piece and you play it beautiful ,like the other pieces you play .Bravo ! Do you have CDs ? I hope so !

[ernststolz]

I am still working on my CD with Dutch masters. I need some more time for this, please come back later.

[CorneliusFractogram]

I really, really like Sweelinck, and I absolutely love this particular piece. I have only heard it played brilliantly by Bob van Asperen before, and am I glad to have found this. And apparently you studied with him! This piece blows my mind, there's such great wisdom encoded in there. I thank you very much for this!

[ernststolz]

Thanks, I am glad to hear this!

[XiahgoSQUEE]

Fantastic, really.

[ssballs]

Heerlijk.

[castello18]

fantastic work, I try to listen to this piece every day. You play it brilliant. :)

[cheesehoven]

Wonderful performance. Thank you.

[Bachlives2]

It's funny how Sweelinck put's a D # in this piece but the D# is not really there in this tuning it's an E-flat

[ernststolz]

You mean in measure 53? That is because of the B-Major chord. Of course there were some attempts to split the black-keys (especially in Italy)

[Bachlives2]

Yeah that part... It's kinda funny though because B Major does not really exist.... Yeah in Italy they did attempt the split sharps a lot i think...

[ernststolz]

It is really exceptional, but being a chromatic opus, it is allowed and otherwise it would have been C flat major, that would have been even more non existing, don't you think?

[wolfgang7445]

You know, you are possibly one of the most talented individuals I know of. You play a large variet of "older" music, AND you speak many languages. Remarkable

[ernststolz]

Thank you for your comment, but: numquam perfectum!

[wolkowy1]

Very sensitive, good 'singing-style' playing of a very beautiful piece. The meantone-tuning fits perfectly. Thanks for sharing.

[FoliesEspagne]

Do you ever perform in the Netherlands with recitals? I never encountered your name in the circuit of Amsterdam. Great playing!

[ernststolz]

Well that is quite a story, I didn't plan my career when I was younger. I studied to many instruments and concentrated on teaching etc.

[GaleoDeus]

Freakin' incredible.

Is that a 2x4 or a 1x8+4?

[ernststolz]

just 1x8 and thanks

[jimbyers6]

gorgeous! Be sure to listen to John Downland's Forelorn Hope Fancy. which came first doesn't really matter. They are contemporaries.

[brfrancisco87]

Thank you very much, Ernst, for sharing with us fans of Sweelinck, and divulgating such beautiful music throughout the world.!

[brfrancisco87]

Really, really nice version. Extremely beautiful interpretation. What a treat!! A more instrospective face of the "Silly Simon"!

I am amazed with the possibility of interpretation of this piece- I see very beautiful frantic, steady fast rhythm and tempo versions, and also really beautiful versions like YOURS, with a lot of care to the depth achieved through mannered tempo and a very sensible work with rhythm.

[Moenstah]

Fantastisch dat je dit op youtube hebt gezet! Toch vind ik heel stiekem dat het iets mooier is als het ding breed gestemd is.

[ernststolz]

bedankt, maar zo'n strakke fis vind ik in dit werk toch niet te versmaden!

[Monrealese]

The massive build up of tension in this piece is almost imbareble. First a slow statement and play with that, then adding another tune to play play with that, then both, and faster, and more and the end the first statement slaps around your face in all the voices double tempo, triple tempo to one of the most beautifull final chords ever.

Mindblowing piece and wonderfully played!

[ernststolz]

this is a strongly descripted, great!

[capekurtz]

I liked the tempo but to me this piece comes over better on the organ.

[ernststolz]

yeah! but in Sweelinck's time the average organist would have studied the piece on harpsichord or clavichord, moreover this repertoire, belongs fully to the harpsichord.

[Luthval]

Beautiful, as usual. Thanks for making those "monuments" alive.

;-)

[ernststolz]

Merci, that's nice to hear, salut!

[kommos]

Bravo!

[ernststolz]

thanks!