J.S.Bach-First Prelude from WTC bwv 846 for Harpsichord

[ricardom1muniz2]

donde compraste tu clavecin??? y cuanto te costo????

[D2Ci]

watch?v=71x4MSlpGUk

[Green057]

ha ha ha, you dumb bastard.  it's not a schooner, it's a sailboat.

[1Hannah730]

I LOVE the Ave Maria of this song, arranged/superimposed by Gounod. So Gorgeous, great play here as well.

[EduardoZudaire]

Realmente hermoso... gracias!!

[C33Four]

This is such a ridiculously beautiful instrument and performance. Great work, I'm jealous for your harpsichord.

[WoodenFluteChile]

Magical, incredible..

[TheBlackFlute]

Sheet music for this somewhere?

[C33Four]

You can to IMSLP or WIMA. I'm sure one of them have it.

[jfa10014]

You don't often see Neupert historically correct instruments, which is delightful. The c major prelude is one that will stay with a player their entire life and grow and change.

[superkika500]

Yo tambien toqué esta partitura, es muy bonita

[mrmolinodelahoz]

Neupert harpsichords are not historically correct, and the resulting sound is evident of that.

[inseita]

sehr schön !i feel me in the year 1700.

thank you and best regards.......(D

[wcbroccoli]

You're about 2 decades too early.

Bach was only 15 years old in 1700.

The title page of "Das Wohltemperirte Clavier" is dated 1722.

[inseita]

very attentive. thank you.best regards

[LizaxCherie]

Magnifique piano. =O

[Pepinoli]

¡¿piano?! Dude, that's a harpsichord

[ugmos2unite]

awesome!!!

[kokoramoni]

hey you have a mistake!!!! on the ending part you should play -fa la do fa do la- not -fa la do mi do la- but overall you played impressive :D

[adiopunkskater03]

Bravo! the first prelude is always nice and fun to play. I'd always love to play on a Harpsichord. Perhaps one day. great playing!

[debartzen]

En clavecin aún suena mas lindo.¡Muy bien!

[FlawedNreturn]

its beautiful, your harpsichord has been my sanctuary very many drunk nights(i always listen)

[brooonage]

boooorrrrringgggg.

[Isosphere]

Right hand timing is uneven

[WingsOfBlack323]

i also love to play prelude 1..but i play it with many crescendos and diminuendos..you should try sometime to add those in..it makes it so much fun to play^-^you play prelude very well^-^

[PDNS]

I do the same thing, it really helps make it more... interesting. It's a good song, but a few more dynamics really adds to the effect.

[Renshen1957]

Crescendos and dimnuendos are not possible on the Harpsichord

[D2Ci]

@Renshen1957 Who cares about crescendo or dimnuendo. Harpsichord is better.

[Renshen1957]

@D2Ci As a Harpsichord owner for over a quarter of a century I am inclined to agree with you. I think you have taken my comment out of context, however.

My comment 2 years ago was to an individual who had posted he played the piece with crescendo or dimnuendo.

Best Regards,

Renshen.

[D2Ci]

@Renshen1957 I appreciate it, thanks.

And also I'd love to have a harpsichord as an actual lover of Baroque music.

BWV 972 (Transcriptions to Vivaldi's L'estro Armonico) would be very enjoyable to play. But I have neither ca$h nor place for it D': I bought an jWin electronical keyboard and myself learnt how to play this. Not so hard to play and 'twas easy to figure out where the notes are located. Haven't got any piano lessons however.

[Renshen1957]

@D2Ci I would suggest a few lessons to learn to read music, if you are lucky, you will find a sympathetic teacher who will let you study Bach, Couperin, Scalatti and skip most of the 19th and all of the 20th century.

Are you acquanited with J S Bach's Italian Concerto? Do you know of the imslp dot org ? It is a music archive full of free scores and the entire works of Bach BWV online. Google it, they have the BWV 972 etc.

Best Regards,

Renshen

Best Regards,

[D2Ci]

@Renshen1957 I have entire Bach collection (as FLAC) it's 'bout 50 GB. I listened 'em all (Italian Concertos). But sheet music isn't included in the archive however. And unfortunately I'm Turkish and live in Ankara. People don't know such music. Don't know how to get sheet music of Bach. I shall try bookstores.

[Renshen1957]

@D2Ci Google Search Results for International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) and WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive - Composers Too many Baroque pieces, too little time

Tons of free public domain sheet music online at these two resources.

Turkey has a rich music tradition, unfortunately unknown in the US. Likewise, many in the US do not know Baroque Music save for a few orchestral or vocal pieces by Handel

Message my account profile, anything I can do to help, let me know.

[musael22]

There is no such dynamic possibility on harpsichord.

[D2Ci]

@musael22 Harpsichord is different and better. Baroque is the golden era for music.

[oryx032000]

i love playing this prelude !

[D2Ci]

@oryx032000 Me too!

[warushinda]

beautiful....

[clubsandwedge]

'Playing this prelude is always a wonderful experience...'

YES!

:D

[gabflood]

Is this a pedal harpsichord?

[Hyardacil]

They make pedal harpsichords now? Really?

How would they work? After all the strings Are plucked.

[solarlunarxiii]

I think on a regular harpsichord, after a string is plucked, it's probobly softened by something. you know on a guitar after you pluck a string, it vibrates? I think on a harpsichord, when you put down the pedal, it donesn't soften it. it sustains it. does that make sense?

[Hyardacil]

After you let go of the harpsochord key, the plucking mechanism moves back to place. While doing that, it touches the string, stopping its vibration.

That's how I understood it.

With the pedal the plucking mechanism stays up? In that case, you can hit a key once with the pedal down, then you have to let go of it, in order to press the same note again.

[crybanshee]

A pedal harpischord works like a pipe organ. Say the harpischord has two manuals and the pedal: each one of the manuals and pedal control a set of strings. The pedal set is lower-pitched than the others. Anyway, I don't think they do them anymore...

[pordzio]

I think he meant harpsichord with organ pedal keyboard

[suffiice]

Yeah this ones nice, one of the first ones I learnt. Simple but amazing progressions!

[solarlunarxiii]

OH! YOU HAVE A HARPSICHORD (eyes enlarge) I WANT ONE! OMG NOW I HAVE TO BUY A HARPSICHORD! WAIT...I DON'T HAVE ROOM FOR A HARPSICHORD...STILL...I MUST HAVE A HARPSICHORD

[xCheshirexCatx3]

Hi could you give me the music if you have it thanx

v good

[chajabalk]

Dude, Prelude in C by Johan Sebastien Bach. You can find it anywhere.

[rawburDt27]

Reminds me of "Because" by the Beatles.

[elektrofly]

i think it's delightful...

nice dramatic camera angle too, by the way.

[BlackInkStyle]

This is really nice.

[voidforpurpose]

A measured and delicate take.

Kudos!

[SimSutcliff]

How can somebody say that this prelude can be "a bit boring"? Oh God, forgive them! Nice interpretation btw.

[Zippolata]

Big OUCH.......... Oooooooooooh, don't do this to Bach, Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze.....­.

[audiandre76]

the docs are coming to you!

[skoulikantera]

de borw allo mh to vlepeteeeeeeeeeee

[jImmyhitla]

~ To be honest- that prelude does bore more me a little. .. but your harpsichord excites me terribly - BeauuutifuL!

[camilocuesta]

that prelude is one the most difficult piece to play in a way it doesn't sound boring... but it is possible.

[MissyHolland]

Sigh . . . it's a double manual harpsichord

and the keyboard is always reversed on them.

Mine is similiar, a reproduction of a

Franco-Flemish model from 1736, close to

what JS Bach would have composed on.

[bielfm]

what a fking ugly piano, if its a piano

[bistro39]

"what a ***** ugly piano, if its a piano". what the heck, dude? i mean, please.

[bielfm]

this thing stills ugly man, take a lokk at it

[VVirman]

OMG it's not piano it's harpsichord?! are you stupid or something?! name of video is "J.S.Bach-First Prelude from WTC bwv 846 for HARPSICHORD"

[VVirman]

that was for bielfm

[camilocuesta]

hehe comments of ignorant people are always fun.

[bielfm]

lol this really is a ugly piano

[camilocuesta]

it's not a piano, it's a haprsichord

[bielfm]

stills ugly man..rofl

[chobrocoli]

well, you haven't actually seen the haprischord, all you've seen is the keyboard

[bielfm]

well thats true

[Pretzelman718]

@camilocuesta It's not a haprsichord, it's a harpsichord. =]

[D2Ci]

@camilocuesta care to correct the instrument's name?

H-A-R-P-S-I-C-H-O-R-D not H-A-P-R-S-I-C-H-O-R-D

[NagualElias]

i wanna harpsichord but they is so darn expensive.

[egyptlover16]

beautiful

[MissyHolland]

I play harpsichord too, mine is a copy of

a French-Flemish model from 1743. This is

one of my favourite pieces. But please will

you upload yourself playing the cadenza from

the allegro the the 5th Brandenburg? I want

my internet friends to hear, because it

means so much to me.

[pardopardal]

Really really beautiful!

[luciehkkz]

türkçe konuşl a

[dericofilho]

Just PERFECT.

[eeehws3]

lovely. i want one too now!! :'-(

[PolakwDublinie]

very nice, thanx for that!

[robbpeppertree]

I just played along with this. You know your harpsichord is tuned a semi-tone down?

[ThisDream]

Baroque tunning is lower than modern tuning. Baroque tunning can go as low as A=410.

[dolofonos]

Baroque and standard tuning are equally modern concepts. The method of tuning anything but equal temperament would in itself make any frequency with a pleasant audible range more 'Baroque.' Besides, for practical purposes (such as someone playing along with the recording), it is still sensible to conform to the standards so I would say that robbpeppertree's comment is a reasonable one.

[ThisDream]

Equally modern concepts, yes, but not equally modern practices. There is nothing wrong with tuning to a 440 no, but I think it makes sense to play period instruments in the tuning native to their period. In the end, though, no amount of research or tunning-related acedemia can replace great playing.

[dolofonos]

What I meant to say is that there was no Baroque standard during the Baroque period. The pitch that A was tuned to would depend on whatever pitch was present in the static device used to tune an instrument (organ, fork, etc.) in a given location. This pitch would be within ranges both well above and below 440Hz. It wasn't until the 19th century, when ordered by Napoleon, that pitch was standardized to any great degree.

[ThisDream]

yes! I never said baroque pitch was standardised, I said it was generally lower. Lets not forget my original post was to correct someone who though this harpsichord was simply flat.

[SFChristo]

Harpsichords are frequently tuned down. This is to approximate "old pitch" which varied quite a bit from our modern standard (A=440 hertz)

Some French models allow you to tune down a whole tone. One I played even allowed for a tone and a half!

[crystalpurple]

i love this song

[BlackLusterLord]

Harpsichord is a magic instrument...is my favorite, thanks a lot for this post!!

[meiriona87]

wow, sounds even better on a harpsichord

[jennipotter1]

This is just lovely thank you for posting this video

[mrbusy]

very beautiful playing indeed.

[MissyHolland]

Thank you!!! I love this and play it myself on my

'clavier'!!

[organmaster89]

that was awesome, i think im gunna take a wak at the harpsichord

[fokidis]

μπράβο σου πολύ ωραίο bachalex

[bayhoecott]

Why is Helmut Walcha who plays an ammer harpsichord, the most wonderful blind harpsichordist not on U tube.

He was the most inspirational and heavenly musician/ organist/ harpsichodist that ever lived.

[bachorgan]

Très belle interprétation chapeau !

[clubsandwedge]

This deserves 5 stars :)

[rivarmonico]

beautiful music, nice performed.

[AlexioBabis]

H 8eia Kallia leei "Mpravo!!!"Ths arese para poly!!Auto sou lew mono...!!!

[aacchh]

i want a harpsichord

[Lutzenberger]

wow. what a damn really ugly harpsichord...

[heituzi]

guess it's got to be a black whale like the steinways or else it's ugly. the same thinking that got us into the age of big black pianos and nothing else for 200 years. god forbid do a red or green one, or add a new feature or something.

[LambertoRetana]

¿Y la fuga? no me dejes asi

And the fugue?

[LambertoRetana]

Que bonito clavecin, de verdad esta precioso

How beautyful harpsichord realy

[Nietzschttgenstein]

I argee It wase beytaful!!! treuly.. Pley anothner sung plaes.