Mein junges Leben hat ein End: J.P. Sweelinck

monumenta musica neerlandica:
variations on
mein junges leben hat ein End
mein Freud und auch mein Leid
Mein arme Seele soll behend scheiden von meinem Leib
Leben kann nicht länger stehn
es ist schwach es muß vergehen
es fährt dahin mein Leid

by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck 1562-1621
played by ernst stolz
virginal: Terwal, Oss fecit
paintings by Jan Lievens
www.ernststolz.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

• cembalo
• harpsichord
• sweelinck
• clavecin
• gouden
• eeuw
• dutch
• music
• virginaal
• early
• keyboard

[monoamiga]

This is one of most beautiful and one of most nostalgic masterpieces of old centuries... It's like an exquisite sadness...

GREAT PERFORMANCE!

I used to play it on organ.

[ernststolz]

thank you!

[lichtbroeder]

I've read that virginals were played with the musician standing. Elizabeth I played in this manner. Yet I've also seen a 17th century Dutch painting that shows a woman seated at a virginal.

Would standing versus sitting have an effect on how one plays - more freedom of movement when standing perhaps?

[ernststolz]

Yes but the ladies then had other dresses. The ladies were standing not the men, at least in paintings. In my opinion, their playing had a social function and I don't think they studied all day long

[tweenoo]

awesome, and very good photography, by the way.

[ernststolz]

Thanks!

[janmdkorteachternaam]

Who is the old man in the video? ;-)

But serious: wonderful free and breathing interpretation. Pure artistic craftmanship

Next week i'm celebrating my 40th birthday: Mein junges leben......

[7777777mike]

Pure bliss.

[ernststolz]

Welcome! (to be honest I'm not sharing it, I'm giving it all)