J. S. Bach - Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903 - T. Koopman

[palmoman]

thanks for uploading. I'm sure the people behind you really appreciated your glowing iPhone. Too bad you couldn't just enjoy the moment without employing your gadget.

[Strefanasha]

I love the harpsichord, and this seems well played, but the sound quality is not good enough (not helped by my developing deafness in my right ear).

I am sorry but I must give this a miss

[bachinblack94]

4:29 Wow...Glissandos on harpsichord...

Cool!

[cualquie]

interesting interpretation

[koos1981]

@robertgift Sorry you are making so abundantly clear you have no idea of baroque performance practice whatsoever, let alone harpsichord playing.

[louisvonbeethoven]

4:29 to hear the glissando in question if you want to skip through all that pesky brilliant playing stuff.

[MucusFelidae]

Aha. We are in the high-speed-playing part of Youtube again.

[hugoh1234]

5:57 bless you! ;)

[uberbakken]

INSANE!

[MsClavecin]

Thanks for this video, i loved this, but please, do you have just this peace in all recital? I would love to see more. Thanks !!

[robertgift]

@fmdsta Since I have not played this in so manyears, 1974?, I do not recall a glissando.

Nor would I play one if it were in the score.

[Hamstray]

@robertgift 1974? oh yes, during the mid 20th century knowledge on baroque music was truly the penultimate ... =p

[robertgift]

Wonderful.

I don't recall a glissando in the score.

I like Reger's version on organ better.

[fmdsta]

@robertgift If you pretend to find in the scores all the elements of a baroque performance, poor you! It seems you're totally foreign to baroque music...

[robertgift]

@fmdsta  Not "foreign". Glissandos are noise.

[ZoeEGrace]

@robertgift To you they may be. I find the occasional glissando thrilling on a harpsichord.

[robertgift]

@ZoeEGrace Glissandos are noise.

But a rapid chromatic scale istunning.

[ZoeEGrace]

@robertgift Yes, to the second part, don't agree with the first part.

[redeemer665]

@robertgift I like it how Koopman has the balls to insert a random glissando there and continue like nothing happened

[robertgift]

@redeemer665 Nothing "brave" about inserting noise. What is brave is improvising on the spot. Scares me so much that I practice my improvisations well before performance.

[ALRAesurrection]

@robertgift All the answers about why Koopman plays in this way, are in all the essays written during baroque era, especially those by Mattheson (renowed composer and friend of Bach), Kirnberger (pupil of Bach), Quantz (master of baroque era), Walther (cousin of Bach); plus study deeply the subject of "tempo giusto" and chronometre of Louliè.

[kenkim5]

@robertgift "improvising on the spot" is redundant. And if you are practicing your improvisations then they really aren't improvisations are they?

[robertgift]

@kenkim5 Don't knowho said "on the spot"

Correct. I practice my "improvisations" well before performance.

[micangess]

non fa niente.... pur di vedere Tonvs dal vivo è tutto ammesso :-)

[micangess]

Grazie x questo splendido video!

[Totma11]

I feel mixed about the fantasy. The clavecin has a fine dry clothe-like fundemental but the bloom and overtones are not luminescent... and that hurts the contrast between heaven and earth in the sound. As to the performance: I find the opnening 100 seconds unoriginal and unusually poorly conceived- especially for an artist who has reconceptualized much of this repertoire. But then: the undulating arpeggi & passaggi awaken a delectably spontaneous pathos. The fugue has fine focus & intensity.

[ALRAesurrection]

Ton Koopman, J.S. Bach, Willem Kroesbergen's cembalo: the only real Trinity

[Aeythvaenn]

5:57 Gesundheit! :-p

[KapustinIsGOd]

Thanks ! It's always nice to hear the Master in live (Although it's not his best one ;) ! So rare on Youtube.

[fmdsta]

@KapustinIsGOd Yes, Koopman's concerts are always very exciting: here, he really enjoys leading everything he plays very close to improvisation... think of that never heard "glissando", for example...