Glenn Gould plays Sweelinck - Fantasia in D

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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (15621621) was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was among the first major keyboard composers of Europe, and his work as a teacher helped establish the north German organ tradition.

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  • A classic. Glenn Gould is as good as it gets.

  • This song is naturally rich in flavor, but Gould accentuates the depth of the colors. Ahhhh.

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  • @Sakurazuka1999 I really like this piece on piano, but I don't have any kind of training and had to look up equal temperament. Is Sweenlick better in a choral arrangement or strings? Suggestions?

  • Both composer and pianist bring us closer to God.

  • @brentstull Why not?

  • @Sakurazuka1999 Yes, that's true. It erases a significant part of the harmonic richness.

  • The slight hum is a ground loop - put an isolation transformer in the audio line from player to recorder. Radio Shack 270-054 works.

  • @alipitogen Definitely! It's sad that history made this great mind step back behind the other great composers of Baroque.

  • Hmmm, I really love Glenn Gould but playing Sweelink on piano in equal temperament is like playing Chopin on a Korg synthesizer...

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