Scarlatti K119

[HERIBERTO37ify]

Rafael Puyana!!!! Mi favorito, el mejor clavecinista contemporaneo!!!!!

[helelinha]

Beautiful Music! Beautiful Harpsichord! I Love Harpsichord!

[EricHaverpowell]

I didn't know there were harpsichords with three manuals

[SirRichard94]

Harpsichord always reminds me castlevania...

[AoWGamer]

So ein Cembalo mit 3 Manualen hat echt Stil!

[Mr98giuliano]

This piece make me happy!!!!!

[Braybaroque]

A unique instrument (of the few three-manual antique harpsichords this is reported to be the only authentic one, all the others had the third manual added in relatively recent times). And a unique player, with excellent technique, style and "verve". Unfortunately rarely heard today, in the 1950's Puyana was a pioneer of playing in true Baroque style, and an inspiration for the following generation of harpsichordist. Bravo maestro!

[vcxlll]

the first time i saw a harpsichord, i thought it was a coffin -.-

[Steinbach1984]

Never seen that before, a harpsichord with three keyboards. Didn't even know they existed!

[VONHIMMELBACH]

I am in love with the Harpsichord!!! <3 and with Scarlatti hahah

[Mr98giuliano]

how many harpsichord like this are in the world?

[jvinikour]

@ Hauptwerkian, this may have played on Mezzo about six years ago, but this is from a film made much before that!

[Mr98giuliano]

fantastic sonata, and fantastic execution on a harpsichord with three keyboards...wonderful!!!

[guitarpick678]

Seriously, that is what I want to be doing ALL THE TIME.

If I had that instrument I wouldn't leave it alone

[Mylazyweekends]

THis is an absolutely Beautiful Harpsichord.

[rejrockmetal]

Wow

[singer1924]

Probably one of the most fascinating instruments ever. Nice it belongs to somebody who uses it so beautifully.

[drfarrin]

ha, the suit looks like it belongs in the baroque era, but considering the entire setup of the room (minus the chairs) is in the baroque style, I thin it matches quite well.

[mokenshi]

haha great playing but what an awful suit. =p

[Maxobillion]

He can be playing in his pajamas for all I care. It's about the music and the skill, not about his sense of fashion or lack thereof.

[sosome57]

My God, what a beautiful instrument! And he handles it so well, too. Not just a show piece! The Scarlatti cross hand! Ya gotta love Scarlatti.

[Lieder83]

Congratulations!

[giu13pet]

harpsichord to three keyboards... but?!?!?!?....

[notoncemoreagain]

@giu13pet Its 359 years old... so I can assure you its not a fake or a new variation!

[GilesGame]

16',8'.8'.4';

lute & harp stops to 16' !

couplers!  it has been reproduced it is magnificent!

[sauterio]

Hermosa pieza y hermoso clavecín

[luck4fuck]

wow how the he,l is my comment from 2months ago -3? i was just asking a question

[Amunhotep4th]

I am utterly amazed at the perfection of Puyana and this marvelous harpsichord. Puyana brings this wonderful piece by Scarlotti and this harpsichord into a new light of enjoyment. I am thankful for its existence !

[luck4fuck]

are piano and harpsichord music the same?

[sshare]

Almost all music written for harpsichord can be played on piano (not vice-versa)...but ideally music should be played on the instrument it was written for, in order to get the intended effect.

[colourfulwithaU]

On the page, they are in a way. But how each instruments brings them to life is very different. Also, there are no dynamics on a harpsichord, so 'forte' and 'pianissimo' and the like are meaningless terms on a harpsichord.

[morffmusic]

I LOVE this piece on harpsichord-it just doesn't sound the same on piano! Ohhh the dissonances! LOVE IT!

[CanadaPisces]

Most enjoyable! TY!

[paulostroff99]

CanadaPisces-TY for this gem. You were wrong on one thing though-he is not good-he is great!!!

[rodstartube]

fat fingers

[Zoloft61]

so what? Isaac Stern had fat fingers and so had Andres Segovia.

[metteholm75]

@Zoloft61 Ah, - he brings hope to people with short 5th-fingers :)

[24161412416141]

This is MEZZO, of course it is brilliant!

[chrismerriil1974]

absolutely brilliant. u are a treasure and some to not miss in concert.

[AnthonyB777]

Blazing saddles!!!

Very Good,

Try searching for Irena koblar for the piano version - superb

[gianpaga11]

Fantastico! Grande musica e bravissimo esecutore. La msuica barocca vive!

Grazie per il video

[thatMikhail]

I love clavecin and Scarlatti.

[Only4Russian]

Me toooooooo!!!!!!!

[johannsebastienbach]

you know what, scarletti's thinking is very advanced.This piece is already showing signs of progression towards roccoco,classical vieness style.

[MGIDPAB]

no conocia a este compositor pero me gusta muy alegre.

[skaterTaaLi]

jamas habia visto un clave de tres teclados :| alguien me puede explicar para que sirve el tercero? gracias !

[baroqueboy]

El tercer teclado sirve para utilizar el registro de dieciseis pies, que suena una octava más baja que el registro principal, creo que en español se llama el doblemano. El hombre que toca el clave no usa el tercer teclado porque sólo se usa en música alemán, como la de Bach. Siento que mi español no es muy bueno.

[LayTheTrap]

what a gorgeous sound

[pir0ka]

Que vivan Domenico Scarlatti,y los otros compositores del siglo XVIII!!!!!!

[astrophil79]

Wow. I don't see it with 3 manuals often.

[kirisuconductor]

Este es uno de los artistas más insignes de mi país, discipulo de Wanda Landowska, dos gran prix du disque y un fiero interprete de Bach, por favor suban más videos de él, Vive la Colombie!!! This is one of the most important artist in my country, wnda Landowska's pupil, a fierce Bach performer and two first awards in France, please upload more videos of him, Viva Colombia!!!

[jewish1972]

es una pena k esta musica, en tiempos muy popular, hoy no la conozca nadie

[kirisuconductor]

Por eso hay que asistir a festivales y apoyar toda manifestación artística en todas partes, así estas y otras músicas se mantendrán vivas... y no creas, en el mundo hay millones que escuchan esto ... bueno, tal vez cientos de miles... pero somo una gran comunidad!!! Como diría Argenta: ¡VIVA LA MÚSICA CLÁSICA!

[jewish1972]

pues es estupendo k 100s de miles escuchen esto, pero debieran ser aun +

[susumu07]

This video is great, but a bit old. Does this harpsichord still exist?

I wish they still made 3-manual harpsichords. I'd very much like to play one. I can only imagine what Beethoven would have cooked up if he had one of these monsters.

[SFChristo]

I want one! But I don't want to have to tune it, it has a 16', two 8's a 4 AND a 2' stop! I hate tuning my own 8,8,4.

[BayAreaBiker2001]

This looks like something an organist might use for practice.

[johnorford1931]

RicheyEinstein, you might acknowledge your source, being Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor and wit. Some say he referred to cats and not skeletons. He also compared it to a bird-cage played with toasting forks. You can only play soft or loud on a harpsichord - horrible thing. "A musicologist is man who can read music, but not hear it." (Beecham again).

[ufayad]

Apparently this harpsichord is the largest ever made, and the maker's instruments were well sought after even in his day(1700's). I wouldn't be surprised if it is worth a million dollars, especially since this is antique, heavily ornate, and still operational... its also one-of-a-kind...

[sciprio]

What instrument is this?

[handelfan610]

its called a harpsichord.

[RichyEinstein]

Sounds like a couple of skeletons copulating on a tin roof...

[jewish1972]

oh, please, i love this music!

[RichyEinstein]

me too...

[jewish1972]

then you are 1 mre to add to the 100s of 1000s of people who like this music. I love harpsichord, it is clearly the musical instrument of the aristocrats

[jewish1972]

i wish so, too

[ergos645]

A joy to watch, thanks for posting!

[Pianoman1770]

that is by far the most beautiful harpsichord ive ever seen! great video! thanks for posting!

[isitvalottioryoung1]

And of the two, I'm leaning towards 1/6 comma meantone --especially when the music strays from D maj/min or A min, it sounds crunchy, like the backside of 1/6 comma...

[isitvalottioryoung1]

My guess is either 1/6 comma meantone, or Vallotti.

[isitvalottioryoung1]

2) So, what tuning is this?

Well, obviously it IS, in fact, a historical tuning. For one thing, it's clearly pitched around 415 or so (IT'S IN D MAJOR --if you go over to your piano and hit C you'll be close).

I, for one, don't hear a single Pythagorean fifth in there anywhere...

I can't rule out Zarlino for certain (as I don't have enough experience with it) but it doesn't sound like anything close to a "Just" system to me, and furthermore, the fifth/fourth between D and A sounds just fine.

[isitvalottioryoung1]

"The scales and modes that we know today" arose from medieval misinterpretation (Boethius Musica instrumentalis, et al) of the original Greek diatonic practice. (they basically got it upside down, you might say...)

[isitvalottioryoung1]

OK folks, I don't even know where to begin here.

1) "...the modes and scales that we know today, are based on the 'wohltemperierte Tuning' by J.B. Bach."

JOHANN BERNARD BACH!!??!! Wow, that's news to me! If you meant Sebastian Bach, and you simply made a typing mistake, than I apologize for picking on you. Nonetheless, "the scales and modes that we know today" are most certainly not based on J.S. Bach's tuning...

[isitvalottioryoung1]

In fact we didn't even know what Sebastian Bach's tuning was until Bradley Lehman's recent research...

The assertion that J.S. Bach advocated equal temperament was a mistake made in the 1893 edition of Grove.

[isitvalottioryoung1]

By the way, Bernhard Bach was Sebastian's cousin.

(I guess if I'm going to make a fuss I should spell it right, huh? In my own defense, I spelled it in the English/Irish manner, so I suppose it's no different than calling J.C. Bach "John" Bach, which I am very often wont to do.)

[psychobilly16011988]

i didn't mean the pytagorean Tuning itself, i thought it should be the natural tuning and its relationship between 2 tones, which as i said don't fit toghether an octave higher, pytogoras just discovered those relationships...

[psychobilly16011988]

that was the answer to ockeghem78 (2 months ago)

[tockoriusoschael]

¡Bravo, don Rafael! Yo tengo varios discos suyos, hermoso clave, además, para expresar ese toque de grandiosa alegría de los clavecinistas italianos. ¡Muchos saludos y feliz año desde Argentina!

[eddiemperor]

Baroque music is the shit!!! Heavy Metal and Baroque!!!

[tockoriusoschael]

When the lights went out you can desesperate ¿Ah? The Music is the Music, my friend, you should learn to hear it at first before send any opinion about, ¿Capisci?

[gonrolgonrol]

The transition at about 0:34 is really funny ;)

[thecritiquevirtuoso]

how?

[gonrolgonrol]

It my subjective opinion of the "topic" played about between 0:34-1:00. The theme is literally funny to me.

[Mikesmoreno]

Bellisimo.

[ockeghem78]

I wonder what kind of tuning they used for this harpsichord, some chords sound a bit too narrow for my taste... I think they should have used a different kind of tuning, a lower one indeed. A = 415 or less

[psychobilly16011988]

they used the natural pyhtagorean tuning, the modes and scales that we know today, are based on the "wohltemperierte Tuning" by J.B. Bach. Scales in nature aren't tuned as we know them, e.g. if you take a string, which is 1 foot long you'll get the tone C, just for example, if you take a string that is just half of it, you won't get the C exactly an Octave higher, this is natural, pianos are detuned in a way so that every tone comes out exactly the same one octave higher.

[ockeghem78]

I doubt they would have used pythagorean, thirds and sicths would sound awful, maybe a Zarlino's tuning, although it does not sound very accurate to me...

[totallyamused]

I adore this longo and also have never seen a three manual harpsichord. Thanks for sharing!

5 big red stars *****

[sauterio]

Creí que era el único thrasher que escuchaba música barroca xD

Gran video!!

[Laurel69]

Yo muy thrasher no soy, soy más hard rockera-heavy metalera, y también me encanta la música barroca. XD

[eddiemperor]

No estas solo wey!!! Thrasher tambien y barroco.

[THRASHER1488]

Un Colombiano Grande, uno de los mejores en el Clavicembalo. Gracias Maestro, un abrazo desde Colombia tu Tierra.

[NorbertZF]

I wish that he would record ALL of the Scarlatti sonatas. I have a two CD set that he did some years ago and they ARE GREAT! Also would like to purchase a DVD, if any available, of his performances. Thanks much!

[wheidelberg]

Very nice. I too, am fascinated by the three manual instrument. I have seen two with pedal, but not three manuals.

[jewish1972]

this is the 1st time i see 3 scores harpsichord.

[deutschland2002]

meraviglioso...

[TrueBCW]

Cool piece!

[Pianowrestler]

I love this piece! Such amazing dissonants in it...

[irishmaestro]

A triple-manual harpsichord?! I've never actually seen a harpsichord with more than two manuals (which is pretty much the norm nowadays). How unusual! Nicely played, too.

[thecritiquevirtuoso]

I'd take Scott Ross's renditions anytime. but none the less, it's still awesome

[ssuahneseiw]

Oh God, this three manual Hass sounds great!

[tigrankalevian]

Una vez en la Alhambra Andrés Segovia le dijo a Puyana: "Maestro, ahora que tenemos más confianza me atrevo a preguntarle, ¿cómo un gran músico como usted eligió para expresarse un instrumento que suena como un somier?" Puyana contestó: "Se confunde, yo toco un clavicémbalo; usted habla del instrumento de Wanda Landowska; pero ya que estamos de confidencias, ¿cómo un gran músico como usted escogió pasar la vida haciendo música abrazado a un bidet que además no suena?"

[clashtitans2]

An original 18th century 3 manual harpsichord!! wonderful playing.

[andrerendeiro]

Thank you for posting this marvelous piece wonderfully played!

Never seen a 3 keyboard harpsichord...

[guitars2112]

A fine piece. thanks for the upload.

[cembalist]

Great to see both Puyana and this notorious Hass instrument in action. What's the year of the recording?

[hauptwerkian]

BBC(1985)

[jujumatt]

Thanks for posting this, it makes interesting watching