This is certainly one of the best performances of this piece I’ve ever heard. I’ll play this video when I want to show people the art of harpsichord playing.
I wonder how anyone could going back to listening Bach on a modern piano (typically played in a horrible romaticized way by pianists) after listening to this! A performance that can actually compete with my references (by Staier and Ross). Bravo!
I LOVE THE WAY MARCO PLAYS THIS FRENCH SUITE WITH NOTES INEGUALES WHICH HAS A VERY STYLISH MOVEMENT TO THE COMPOSITION. MARCO IS REALLY ONE OF THE LIVING MONUMENTS TO ANTIQUE MUSIC WELL RENDERED. GRAZIE.
This is one of those very, very few interpretations of the French Ouverture that absolutely transcends the printed page, that transports the listener to the highest realms of musical heaven, exactly as Johann Sebastian meant it to be. What an artist, Mr. Mencoboni! Such a magnificent statement. Marco's interpretation of this divine music of Bach is beyond words - as it should be.
Straordinaria esecuzione della suite. Conoscevo Marco Mencoboni di nome, ma non l'ho mai ascoltato suonare dal vivo. Questa registrazione è ottima, e permette almeno per avere un'idea della sua bravura a capacità espressiva. Devo ascoltarlo in concerto.
At the harpsichord keyboards, Marco has a veritable - and brilliant - orchestra at his fingertips. Supremely gifted. I have been intimately immersed in the harpsichord, and harpsichord making world for many years and frankly, do not know a finer and more brilliant interpretation of this work than Marco's.
Bellissima esecuzione La perfetta retorica bachiana, interiorizzata e fatta propria Meravigliosi gli abbellimenti Grande libertà e al tempo stesso rigore e vitalità ritmica
Magnificent performance of this massive work! Each movement breathes its own expressive character, yet there is a wonderful momentum and coherence to the entire work. Bravo!
Sublime , voluptuous, and infused with kinetic energy; he communes with the gods as he plays. Don't bother playing the harpsichord any other way. Bravo, you have my heart!
Votre interprétation est très inspirée. Certainement vous vivez le clavecin fait par Bruce de l'intérieur de vos entrailles et le faites vivre avec une grande beauté? Merci tellement fort de nous offrir des moments merveilleux. François
Just a little of lilting gigue-sque (almost swing) touch in the Allegro section of the Ouverture and in Echo adds a dancing sparkle to the rhytmic monotony and fits well with the French baroque style. Thumbs up :)
Marco Mencoboni is the highest expression of what art is: pure emotion. All the music that goes through It is much better than what we have known or imagined. Wonderful. Thanks Marco, we love you.
This beautiful music, as he sits on a cheap plastic chair- shows that true art is innate and not reliant on things. Playing from memory without the written music adds such a fantastic organic quality to the performance.
If you look closely, you will notice that this is not a cheap plastic chair but an elegant Italian wooden chair the like of which became the model for all those cheap plastic chairs...
Firstly thank you. I recall having a lesson on the Bach 4th Partita. At the end of the lesson my teacher played the French Overture to me. It was the first time I heard it and it had a profound effect on me, and what a treat to have that huge repeat in the first movement!
I think Marco is the best harpsichord player in the world🌎 I've watched many on RUclips but for me he's the Best! He plays superb/sublime, fantastic he puts his whole heart an soul into his playing! Long live Marco he brings pure joy to this world.
I wonder what made you upload this twice? Did you want us, the listeners/viewers, to realize there are no 2 performances identical (of-course not - it is human being playing, not a robot), only similar with tiny slight bit of very small changes, or does my mind playing tricks on me and in reality it is the same upload? Is it the conduct of your sense of humor? - either way, I'm not tired to praise this/these excellent performance/s. Bravissimo! I would like though to ask you - as an Early Music's expert - one question that bothers me a lot and I was ashame to ask because of my ignorance: is it OK to fuse the 1st part of the, let's say the 1st Gavotte, with the 1st part of the 2nd Gavotte, thus using Bach himself in the repetition of each part? and, if so - is it OK nevertheless to use our own creative decorations during the process of performing? Thanks for all your uploads.
wolkowy1 the first video will be deleted soon by the director caused by a wrong footage application. Gavotte 1/2 is conceived as just one piece, personally I dont like to add my proper variations to this music, especially when Bach is the composer but many colleagues adore to do that... tks for you comments
Er lässt das Cembalo singen, er frönt nicht der "Musik ist Klangrede"-Zerhackung. Allein das schon macht ihn zu einem ganz besonderen Musiker. Und, was ich darüber hinaus faszinierend finde, er macht sich die Mühe, im Gegensatz zu vielen Kollegen, das mehrschichtig-komplexe Cembalo-Repertoire auswendig vorzutragen. Und mit einer derartigen Leichtigkeit!
No. I am sorry to correct your absolutely wrong statement, which is clearly born out of an individual fantasy. Bach was a servant of God, yes with a capital letter G, his whole life- God of the trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
@@Francispia Well, he believed in the lutheran god, wich is just one god of the many, but just like the other gods of religion it was not real. Bach, on the other hand, existed, and we know that for sure
@@ezequielstepanenko3229 No need to argue after reading the non sensical things you wrote. Bach :"“Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.” “I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.” “The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.” A random idiot in the youtube comments "There is no God!!1".
he makes the harpsichord sing - his ornaments would make Bach smile
I love your profile pic and you have great taste in music !! 💜
This is certainly one of the best performances of this piece I’ve ever heard. I’ll play this video when I want to show people the art of harpsichord playing.
A harpsichordist that lives and breathes! Thank you...
Ouverture 00:25
Courante 13:51
Gavotte I/II 16:19
Passepied I/II 19:25
Sarabande 21:58
Bourrée I/II 25:17
Gigue 27:34
Écho 29:59
Thank you so much!
Merci beaucoup !
brong this to the top youtube !!!
I wonder how anyone could going back to listening Bach on a modern piano (typically played in a horrible romaticized way by pianists) after listening to this! A performance that can actually compete with my references (by Staier and Ross). Bravo!
What a music, what a interpretation, what a instrument.
Mr Mencoboni is definitely my favourite harpsichordist.
I LOVE THE WAY MARCO PLAYS THIS FRENCH SUITE WITH NOTES INEGUALES WHICH HAS A VERY STYLISH MOVEMENT TO THE COMPOSITION. MARCO IS REALLY ONE OF THE LIVING MONUMENTS TO ANTIQUE MUSIC WELL RENDERED. GRAZIE.
‘’When we see several quavers in conjunction we play them unequally. …Our custom enslaves us…’’ - M. François Couperin
This music makes me glad to be a human.
@Dònal Brügge He said specifically about >this< music, which was composed by a human, and i agree that there is much human glory to it
Effectively. but there are few humans who feel this. it is not an intellectual question but a spiritual one
@Dònal Brügge but you need to be human to appreciate it
Such underrated musical miracle! Thanks and respects to the performer!
Exactly, Marco Mencoboni is a miracle of expression. I love Marco Mencoboni. The millions years of human evolution have been worth it!!!
Maestro Mencoboni, grandioso interprete della perfezione di Dio fatta voce udibile. Grazie Johann Sebastian, grazie Marco...💗💗💗
Thank you Mr mencoboni the greatest master of the harpsichord. Your performance is divine.
This is one of those very, very few interpretations of the French Ouverture that absolutely transcends the printed page, that transports the listener to the highest realms of musical heaven, exactly as Johann Sebastian meant it to be. What an artist, Mr. Mencoboni! Such a magnificent statement. Marco's interpretation of this divine music of Bach is beyond words - as it should be.
Sorry. I think Mencoboni surpasses Bach's score with his wonderful talent and emotion.
@@diegoteruel7069 Yes. Bach has been surpassed by Marco Mencoboni. Right.
Formidable musicien, il donne un charme inimitable à ses interprétations. C'est à la fois solide, rigoureux et plein de grâce.
Précis !
Truly the summit of all interpretations of this masterpiece that I know so far. Thank you.
You have become one of my favourite musicians on RUclips. I'm glad to have discovered you.
Straordinaria esecuzione della suite. Conoscevo Marco Mencoboni di nome, ma non l'ho mai ascoltato suonare dal vivo. Questa registrazione è ottima, e permette almeno per avere un'idea della sua bravura a capacità espressiva. Devo ascoltarlo in concerto.
At the harpsichord keyboards, Marco has a veritable - and brilliant - orchestra at his fingertips. Supremely gifted. I have been intimately immersed in the harpsichord, and harpsichord making world for many years and frankly, do not know a finer and more brilliant interpretation of this work than Marco's.
Stupenda interpretazione. Grazie Maestro Mencoboni!
An absolutely wonderful performance ! Grazie !
Bellissima esecuzione
La perfetta retorica bachiana, interiorizzata e fatta propria
Meravigliosi gli abbellimenti
Grande libertà e al tempo stesso rigore e vitalità ritmica
Whith a helicopter view and fantastic
detail at the same time.
This harpsichordist truly is a great musician.
One of the very greatest !!
Magnificent performance of this massive work! Each movement breathes its own expressive character, yet there is a wonderful momentum and coherence to the entire work. Bravo!
Absolutely epic performance.
Closest from perfection, bravo!
maravilloso...de una energía y lirismo conmovedor...gran interpretación...
Sublime , voluptuous, and infused with kinetic energy; he communes with the gods as he plays. Don't bother playing the harpsichord any other way. Bravo, you have my heart!
Absolutely brilliant! One of the best players this harpsichordist has heard!
The only one. I love Marco Mencoboni!
Absolutely beautiful.
Respect Maestro!
Was für ein schönes Cembalo, was für eine tolle Interpretation dieses wahrhaft königlichen Werks!
Absolutely, stunningly beautiful, capturing the lilting, yet intense nonchalance of the French style like no one I've ever heard.
Semplicemente meraviglioso. Un'interpretazione rispettosa della prassi esecutiva ma così personale. Una vera gioia ascoltarla!
Phantastic!! Best interpretation till now. Unfortunately it seems that the microphons arnt in best possition.. But it is perfect playd, BRAVO.
Caro Marco, che bella ed emozionante interpretazione! Fra le migliori della storia! Grazie.
Ma che bravo! e' la prima volta che ascolto la sua arte.. una vera gioia! (ti scrivo in italiano pensandoti tale!)
Meraviglioso .... non ci sono parole.... Maestro per me è stato una scoperta anche se immagino lei abbia una fama internazionale ....
just superb. musically and visually. grazie!!!
Complimenti, anche per la scelta del luogo d'esecuzione e per la qualità della registrazione.
Grande grandissimo musicista , memoria straordinaria ed introvabile
Di fronte a tanto poderosa maestria ci si sente immersi nella Creazione!!!
Votre interprétation est très inspirée. Certainement vous vivez le clavecin fait par Bruce de l'intérieur de vos entrailles et le faites vivre avec une grande beauté? Merci tellement fort de nous offrir des moments merveilleux. François
Marvelous playing and music! This is one of the best advertisements for the harpsichord you will ever hear.
Marco - wonderful ... your phrasing is so impressive!
Harpsichord is truely the best instrument ever. Listening to this piece, I felt like I was bring into Bach's bedroom watching him play. Brilliant.
Bellissimo! Passionate and yet lively interpretation!
Just a little of lilting gigue-sque (almost swing) touch in the Allegro section of the Ouverture and in Echo adds a dancing sparkle to the rhytmic monotony and fits well with the French baroque style. Thumbs up :)
Marco Mencoboni is the highest expression of what art is: pure emotion. All the music that goes through It is much better than what we have known or imagined. Wonderful. Thanks Marco, we love you.
Straordinario interprete! Gran voglia di conoscerlo meglio. Grazie Maestro!
What an astonishing piece of music
This beautiful music, as he sits on a cheap plastic chair- shows that true art is innate and not reliant on things. Playing from memory without the written music adds such a fantastic organic quality to the performance.
If you look closely, you will notice that this is not a cheap plastic chair but an elegant Italian wooden chair the like of which became the model for all those cheap plastic chairs...
I love the echo piece. The whole performance is fantastic. Thank you very much for your videos and your playing.
Firstly thank you. I recall having a lesson on the Bach 4th Partita. At the end of the lesson my teacher played the French Overture to me. It was the first time I heard it and it had a profound effect on me, and what a treat to have that huge repeat in the first movement!
Bravo MARCO. I adore you. you are the greatest.
Marco Mencoboni is not only a great and sublim musician, I think also that is a beautiful a mervellous human being.
Splendida esecuzione.!
mi obra preferida para clavecin de bach...excelente interprete
arturo zeballos piiis
N’ink’j’kkkjk’l’npl’k’
N’y na-t-il kobolds a n’ont v
"I do not always play Bach. But when I do, I play harpsichord de Dos Niveles."
I think he knows this piece quite well☺️ Such talent is extraordinary. I rather imagine him as Bach playing this from his soul.
He probably didn't sight read it from memory.
Grazie Maestro, grazie di cuore. A lei e al sommo Bach
I think Marco is the best harpsichord player in the world🌎 I've watched many on RUclips but for me he's the Best! He plays superb/sublime, fantastic he puts his whole heart an soul into his playing! Long live Marco he brings pure joy to this world.
Miraculous!! Lovely - what a wonderful performance!!
Complimenti Maestro!
Superbe!
wow i love the lower register of this harpsichord
Marco lets Bach get right into your brain doesn't he?
This guys knows what he is doing!!!
Magical
Bravo maestro. Fantasía
Not sure, but it seems that playing without reading scores gives more emotion.
just like how memorizing music makes singers listen better
True…
Magnificat!!!!!
Hat mir sehr gut gefallen. Danke.
If Bach were alive today, what song would you have liked to hear about YT played by him? And why exactly this Overture?
Beautiful interpretation. For a piano interpretation none better than Ekaterina Derzhavina 's also on RUclips.
Right you are!!!!! Right on the money there!!!! :)
phantastic! gracie
Grandissimo.
Suono stupendo
Potrebbe darci qualche informazione sulla presa?
Microfoni, preampli, disposizione…
Herrlich!!!
I would love to be able to buy these recordings digitally. Any plans to make them available?
I wonder what made you upload this twice? Did you want us, the listeners/viewers, to realize there are no 2 performances identical (of-course not - it is human being playing, not a robot), only similar with tiny slight bit of very small changes, or does my mind playing tricks on me and in reality it is the same upload? Is it the conduct of your sense of humor? - either way, I'm not tired to praise this/these excellent performance/s. Bravissimo! I would like though to ask you - as an Early Music's expert - one question that bothers me a lot and I was ashame to ask because of my ignorance: is it OK to fuse the 1st part of the, let's say the 1st Gavotte, with the 1st part of the 2nd Gavotte, thus using Bach himself in the repetition of each part? and, if so - is it OK nevertheless to use our own creative decorations during the process of performing? Thanks for all your uploads.
wolkowy1 the first video will be deleted soon by the director caused by a wrong footage application. Gavotte 1/2 is conceived as just one piece, personally I dont like to add my proper variations to this music, especially when Bach is the composer but many colleagues adore to do that... tks for you comments
It's very good, but there's something unhinged about how everyone is raving about it. Do they just enjoy gushing?
Ask Joe Biden
Please delete the opening signal sound, which ruins this great video.
Is this a copy of a French Double? Sounds like a Taskin or Blanchet? What's the disposition?
splendid
Er lässt das Cembalo singen, er frönt nicht der "Musik ist Klangrede"-Zerhackung. Allein das schon macht ihn zu einem ganz besonderen Musiker. Und, was ich darüber hinaus faszinierend finde, er macht sich die Mühe, im Gegensatz zu vielen Kollegen, das mehrschichtig-komplexe Cembalo-Repertoire auswendig vorzutragen. Und mit einer derartigen Leichtigkeit!
Is echo a daance ? Why i dont find anything about this type of music ?/
Wonderful played!!!! But sound mixture is too hard, nearly a little brutal.
Great performance! Is this a Ron Haas Harpsichord? Thanks
slkchao Bruce Kennedy
@@cantarlontano it's looks and sounds beautiful. After Mietke?
A Jalapeño all technical infos are at the end of the video
@@cantarlontano I see it, thank you.
Where is this recorded at?
This is an example of why Bach was not human but a god, a god superior to all gods
No. I am sorry to correct your absolutely wrong statement, which is clearly born out of an individual fantasy. Bach was a servant of God, yes with a capital letter G, his whole life- God of the trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
@@Francispia Well, he believed in the lutheran god, wich is just one god of the many, but just like the other gods of religion it was not real. Bach, on the other hand, existed, and we know that for sure
@@ezequielstepanenko3229 Imbecile.
@@CM-qd9dp great argument
@@ezequielstepanenko3229 No need to argue after reading the non sensical things you wrote.
Bach :"“Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.”
“I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.”
“The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.”
A random idiot in the youtube comments "There is no God!!1".
Who is the harpsichord maker?
Xtrem _423 bruce kennedy
Bruce Kennedy
Prächtig
I did like that peace, but not so much the kind of "spastic movements" of the interpreter!
Noblesse oblige..
Fantastic play but why so many histrionic faces would be better without
Unfortunately this harpsochord sounds like a cardboard contraption. Far beneath the qualities of the interpret.