I was really moved by this music, but also by your daughters- Sofie's passionate listening, and Evelien's dancing. It was expressive, musical, original- a little astonishing. I laughed. I also cried a little. This is such beautiful music. I don't know if it's appropriate to leave a long comment here, but I've wanted to write and thank you for a while. I came across your channel and then your website some months ago while preparing for a piano recital and looking up recordings of a Mozart sonata. Something about the way you share this music brought me to tears. The love and generosity in it, the way it defied conventional expectations of performance, of how we present and define ourselves, the way it was completely about the music, was humbling. Something in me was shattered at a deep level. It was a few days before the performance. I questioned what it means to play and share music. I questioned and examined my nagging and often crippling feelings of fear, of inadequacy, of nervousness. I questioned why I am here- one of those occasional, painful moments of awareness of existence. For a moment the world, or our little earth at least, felt small- I was overcome with a warm feeling of gratitude for receiving this. I was overcome with the thought that it's beautiful to be human, even if we're so transient, and to be able to play and hear music.
Your words are really touching... thank you so much. When we reach out to each other and little things like this bring beuatiful emotions to the surface as you are so kind of describing here... what else can we wish for? The story in the description of this recording is true: Evelien only had the "patience" for one take. But seeing her dance, so completely in herself, responding instinctively to the music only a child can do, made me have tears in my eyes too.... Such moments, one feels so blessed. To me, those moments are the essence of life, kind of. Hope you recital went well ! very best wishes from Belgium Wim
@@AuthenticSound Dear Wim, once or twice I've thought of removing this comment, because I am uncomfortable with it being pinned as a sign of support after what this channel has come to, but it was an honest sentiment from me at the time, and it is more honest to keep it there. So I hope you will allow me the same honesty from your side and not remove this one, as you have done with many others. It is hard to describe how sad it makes me. I really enjoyed your videos at the beginning- there was so much modesty and honesty in them, but slowly, the Double Beat videos started getting more agressive and defensive, and, to be honest, very lacking in scientific and artistic integrity for me. Critique was no longer responded to, and eventually it was even removed. It is one thing to enjoy a certain subjective performance, to use one's artistic freedom to the fullest, but another to manfacture and claim a truth and to preach it to thousands while fully knowing the overwhleming arguments against it, only choosing to knowingly ignore them and to hide them as much as possible from your followers. Not every player is also a musicologist, and I feel like it is only honest to know and respect one's limits and to not fake science. It often makes me think of the climate denial movement, and I see the exact same tactics in your approach. It makes me truly sad, because once upon a time I looked up to you as a player and was moved by your generosity, humbleness and love for music. It was all true for me then, and I will never take it back. Was I simply fooled, or did you change and go down a wrong path? I need to make my position now clear to anyone who reads my comment, and I hope with all my heart that you allow me that.
Que hermosura. Lo admiro con toda mi alma. Me parece hermoso ver a sus dos preciosas hijas acompañarlo y la menor bailar con tanto garbo y estilo. Magnífico. Precioso.
I too have returned to this after many years. There is just something so sentimental and melancholy about a chaconne (passacaglia, actually). Apropos to sweet Evelien's interpretation, a baroque dancer is indeed what I picture in my mind when I hear a passacaglia. Such fluidity. Thank you Wim!!
Thank you, Wim. for recording this piece and make time to let the children help and "enjoy" a beautiful music experience. Thank you Sofie and Evelien you both were fantastic.
Very well done and was very enjoyable by sense of hearing and sight.Thank you for you and your daughters contribution to my enjoyment of the clavichord, an instrument I am rarely exposed to...
what a wonderful cameo of family bliss. You are a great musician. Thanks for posting this sparkling conversation, it brings the baroque dance music alive...
What a wonderful video on so many levels: your sensitive playing, the beautiful sounds from the clavichord and also your charming daughters. The love the younger one has for her daddy is palpable and her dancing interpretation of the Ciacona a sheer delight. The elder girl did her job demurely and without fuss or self-consciousness - what a splendid job you are doing bringing up your family so expertly. Thank you very much indeed for enriching my day.
Fantastic performance as usual, Wim. What a great idea to incorporate your adorable little interpretive dancer and lovely page turner into your video. Beautiful family, beautiful music and very entertaining. :)
That is an honor to read this from your pen, Michael ! The girls have watched already some of your alphabet videos and they love it. Sofie (she's 11) was proud saying that it was easy to understand. If you teach them a bit of English, the vlogs with the children will be much easier to make :-). And I'll send you some Belgian beer to thank you for that ! best wishes, Wim
Hi Wim, I'm happy to hear that Sofie enjoyed my videos! Obviously the videos are mostly aimed at younger children but I always hoped that older kids from other countries would be able to use them to learn a bit of English as a second language, so that's wonderful. All of my videos have custom English subtitles too (not the auto-generated kind), which I think would help the girls learn English faster. Ha ha, no need to send me anything. Having the girls enjoy the videos is payment enough...but if you would share my channel with friends who have kids who might enjoy them, that would mean a lot. My wife and I got to sample some Belgian beer (and chocolate and waffles) when we visited Bruges and Brussels a couple of years ago and it was all fantastic. :) Cheers, Michael
The pure expression of beauty. No utilizing of fancy orchestrational or instrumental techniques to express emotions in a "greater way" like many of the romanticists do. The beauty that resides purely in the melodies and their stunning clear interplay makes the emotions so clear and direct to the heart. It's as if the whole work was intended to be like this from note to note. That is, for me, the greatest, most immersive connection to emotion one can have. I believe Pachelbel was a master of the soul and of emotional journeys. I just can't believe people were so plain back then as described simply in biographical textbooks. Sure we don't have much of any personal notes from the master, but one cannot just sit here and admire this music while also thinking that baroque composers were cold machine like people. Thus I believe Pachelbel to be one of the greatest masters of music. In my experience your interpretation, didn't, for one moment get in the way of this heartfelt emotional experience, and thus I have to conclude you have felt the same emotions as well and played very accurately. Thanks for your great output and please keep it going!
So much love and joy in this video, in your rendition of this wonderful Pachelbel piece, and most especially in your video description! Cheers, all the best to you and your family! Thank you for sharing your gifts with us.
This is a breath of fresh air, how beautiful to watch these girls, each one in your own way, being taken by the melody. What a joy to listen to this, thank you!
What an amazing father! You clearly have a wonderful relationship with your girls and have spent time away from the keyboard with them as well as time with them making and appreciating music in ways relatable to them. Father Bach would approve.
Excellent playing! Really enjoyed! When hearing your playing on your videos i really can appreciate all the voices and parts very clear and clean! A pleassure of chanel you have! ThanksGreat the little girl expressing the music with her movements and dance!
Ascoltando la versione di Pachelbel mi sono commossa nel vedere come Eveline danzare con molto precisione sia nella parte ritmica e con le movenze di tutto il corpo tracciare la melodia.(mi ha riportato nel lontano 1985 a Torino in un convegno internazionale tenuto dal pedagogo Edgardi Willems su l’educazione ritmica sin dalla prima età ecc)E Sofìe seguire la partitura .Bravissime i miei complimenti e l’augurio di prosperità nel seguito.È una cosa bellissima vedere una famiglia oggigiorno così.👨👩👧👧
Adore that piece and it sounded so gorgeous on that Potvliege! An additional thumbs up for the princesses!!!! Nice to see pink lady moving to the music... very clearly knows what is going on.
Thank you, really glad you liked it! As with the little princess, it is striking how well these young children respond to the emotion of the music, one can wonder what of that is left with us, grown ups, maybe more than we realize?
Great video! The differences in the Children's role and response reflects the differences in my kids as well. One calm and attentive and another free-spirited and dancing. Great playing as well.
AWESOME!! I Can See how Much Your Daughters Love you So Much!, Forget About the Clavichord,And Believe me, I love The Clavichord, And Your Performance,BUt-- You as a Father, WOW !!!
This is one of the best channels. Thanks. I am writing a book about Mozart and is a pleasure listen and watching you while I write. Thanks so much and excuse my poor english...
This is so beautiful on so many levels. It's one of my favorite pieces of music - so melodic and moving. The sound of the Clavicord is beautiful. Your performance is spot-on. Your daughters' appreciation for and interaction with the music is itself a joy to behold. By the way, Evelien's dancing is what I do on the inside during a classical concert :) Thank you for sharing!
Very nice music from pachelbel, i knew his cannon but not this ciaconna. I was amused to see your little daughter dancing may be looking for your attention hehe :) thanks for your performs
7 лет назад
You're confusing a _canon_ with a _cannon,_ which is a large, heavy piece of artillery.
Leuk dat de meisjes de muziek niet alleen horen maar ook voelen. Barokmuziek heeft dat speciale effect dat het voorspelbaar melodieus en tegelijk ook grillig expressief is. Clavichord bij uitstek het huisinstrument van barokke componisten.
Een Chaconne is een 'hoofse' dans tenslotte, en hoewel Evelien misschien nog nooit dansles heeft gehad, zag het er vaak heel authentiek uit. Leuk dat ze haar handen op het instrument legt, voelt ze dan de trillende bastonen? Ze ging helemaal in de muziek op, en bij het andere Pachelbel stuk dat je speelde ging ze er helemaal voor, prachtig. Kan Sophie zelf als spelen? Notenschrift lezen kan ze vast al, toch? In heel wat barokke huishoudens met een clavichord zal het in de 16-17e eeuwen precies zo zijn toegegaan. Gezamenlijk muziek maken met het hele gezin, wat een vreugde.
Once again thanks Wim: for a glimpse of your world! Do your children share your penchant for the Clavichord? Such a beautiful and mellow instrument. The first time I heard the Clavichord was at the Purcell Rooms in London in the early 80's, Kathleen Crees was the artist and it was mainly a Baroque concert, being such a quiet instrument the sound was magnified with small speakers. It is great that your daughter has natural rhythm. A video worth watching.
Thank you, Stan, I am really glad this video could bring some pleasure! My children are used to the clavichord in a way it is always there, sounding many hours a day often...and they dance, sing (their girls group songs), play, argue, watch videos on the tablet, with clavichord sound on the background, which is not disturbing them (and for me: I'm only "complaining" if they start listening to their favorite songs, difficult to keep time then :-)).
Pachelbel was a giant, much adored by JSBach, and of much influence. I have to record the afterthoughts today, and talk a little bit on his background (of which not too much is known by me... shame on me....:-) !
Yes, this Pachelbel is also a favorite of mine. Nice performance. Somehow it makes me happy that it seems to be a "family achievement". Maybe it also has to do with hope that future generations still have ears for things like the wonderful and precious Hexachordum Apollinis. Please some more arias of Pachelbel!
Thank you very much! The girls have the perfect age to participate from time to time, I guess Sofie will not do this in a few years from now, but who knows! I certainly do more Pachelbel, he intrigues me, going back from JSB to him, knowing that Pachelbel was of such big influence to him (as was Buxtehude). And his music goes surprisingly well on a big unfretted clavichord, which surprised me as well.
Thank you so much Elena, really glad you liked this! Evelien has rhythm in her body, she starts in September in ballet class (she'll be 6 in October). So, to be continued (hopefully):-)
My feelings are somewhat different from John Kiunke's although I respect his feelings very much. I find that this piece, like his famous Canon, is the baroque version of Carl Orff. So far, I'm not referring to Wim's excellent performance... I can't help but hear the proclivity for repetition in this piece, which reminds me of the Canon as well as Carmina Burana. Now, I happen to love Carmina Burana, but it's long enough to provide us with variety and, face it, Pachelbel didn't feel the need to combine this piece with full orchestra, chorus, and ballet troupe. He did, however, provide (to my ear) over-redundance which get's old. That said, Wim seems able to bring anything to life. It was still a delight to listen to due to the performer's skill and fun to watch his daughter's growing. Isn't it ironic how full orchestras seem very adept at expression and rubato in baroque music. Yet, keyboard teachers are bent upon metronomic precision in performances from students. I've done it myself. It's fine for the beginner who is learning to leave the pedal alone and developing the ability to maintain proper tempi. But Wim is right in that we should allow the expressive nature of the music to fill the performance. The performer (Wim in this case) falls upon his audience so to speak. Only in these posts can we lift him up and join in the music as we would in actual performance. Let's learn from the little one. She gets it.
Thank you for the compliments, David, always a pleasure to read you, and yes, I can understand the way you look to Pachelbel. That is not a unique vision, and frankly, I had a similar picture of him in mind, until I started to play him again. These variations are of course very fashionable and appeal to emotion -and honestly, Pachelbel is VERY strong in producing something that sticks in the ear -, but if you would play his organ works trough, on an organ that is well suited for his music, a world opens. JSB of course went to Buxtehude and not to Pachelbel, and that decision was taken by himself, opposed to the wish of his older brother who wanted to send him to his teacher Pachelbel, and that fact alone might tell us something on the esteem JSB had for Buxtehude, but maybe even more for the larger organs of the North. But again, Pachelbel on an organ with the right characteristics, is really great music. I'll be playing some of his partitas the coming time, and I'm sure you will see a part of that aspect as well. Funny story: in the Bach Dokumente (I'll make a video on those soon), there is a wonderful quote, I believe somewhere 1730, of a guy who writes on the "3 great 'B's'. I thought, reading that, well, that is early :-); but the names he gave were Bach, Buxtehude and ... Bachelbel ! Isn't that wonderful :-)?
Hi Scott, a quick question, if I could use your nice quote you left on my channel, to be featured in a book that will go along the publication of three cd's to celebrate my channel's music prod. nr 100? Thanks in advance! Wim
Excellent recording, dancing, page turning and music making. I have taught a simpler form of this piece to a few of my young students and it was months later that I chanced to find a RUclips version of it; that is how I found you. The clavichord is fabulous. Maybe you wrote something about it somewhere else. Can you tell me about it. Was it modelled on older instruments? I love the sound. Bach would have played such an instrument, I would think, in his home. Again, wonderful to have discovered you and such joyous music making.
Thanks Fred, it was probably one of the last 'innocent' moments of Evelien, she wouldn't be dancing anymore now (she's 6). I see you found more videos on the channel, so probably the ones on clavichord and Bach as well, it is an interesting subject (and an important one)
This piece is part of the repertoire I learned by heart to be able to play anywhere! Your interpretation is the first one I've heard on a clavichord; I'm more used to hearing it on the organ ;) You played it marvellously, like everything I've heard from you so far. Congrats!
Mr. Wim I hate to correct you. Madame Evelien was there to provide, 'interpretive dance'; and what a beauty she was. I wouldn't have changed anything about what she did. I personally think it added to the overall performance. The music itself was so enchanting I feel that ALL elements combined: your playing, the melody itself, and Evelien's gorgeous dancing all added to the allure of the music. You have my permission to tell the girls they have a fan in America!! I think out of all the videos of yours that I have watched this is the song that most captures my heart. In closing I do have 1 Q: Do either of your girls play any instruments yet?
Thank you, I will tell her! They started to play and then stop but Sofie starts to realize she is running out of time to 'start' so she probably will be more serious, we will see
Very impressive interpretation of this piece. Do you have a video of your playing this piece on the organ (left hand part played partially on the pedal board, etc.)? I would be interested in seeing how your organ interpretation would differ from your clavichord interpretation. Thereafter, you might comment on the differences in the organ and clavichord interpretations and the reasons for those differences.
That was amazing, really... Your last Pachelbel was already a while ago... Have you thought on recording his Ciacona in D Minor? I think it's beautiful and I believe it suits the clavichord very well... And listening to it from your instrument, with your whole beat sensibility is surely to be blissful! This Ciacona is also very beaytiful, but I think I like the D minor one more... Thanks for sharing this beautiful interpretation with such love and passion from your whole family!
hi ,i like those pachelbel's works play on clavichord.(i played some of his works on piano b4) and make me remember when i in abrsm g8 piano exam(aural part) the examiner play pachelbel's''aria qaurta'' hmm....am i lucky? :D
Hi Tommy, I am doing that, n°1, 2 and the aria sebaldina have been recorded. There is playlist on Pachelbel = ruclips.net/p/PLackZ_5a6IWUS09cafZvhZCR-1k8OhZm- best! Wim
I would like to ask about the Pachelbel Chaconne repeats. Is there any new source found which mentions those repeats, i remember years now we play the piece plain, why this new element here.I haven't seen the autograph of course, but perhaps you can explain me why this change occurs in your perfomance?
Thanks Stavros, it is more convenient to put the question here, since I can connect it direct to the specific video. The autograph of this is something that might bring a solution, I haven't seen it, but I'm playing from the more recent (but still old) Bärenreiter edition, which is an updated version of the one many still use and in which the repeats are not present or some are written out. My guess would be that it is not clear from whatever source the edition is based on. There is a new Pachelbel edition I believe, that I have to check out still. Personally with this music in that time in variation style, I wouldn't think too much if you feel playing a repeat or not. Change a little bit in ornamentation each time, or much if you feel to, we should not forget that those scores were produced with different purposes than e.g. Beethoven would do over a century later, or even more so composers way in the 19th century. Hope this helps! Wim
J'aime beaucoup la façon de jouer de Wim Winters , si bien en accord avec la mélodie qu'il semblerai que chaque fois , il a écouté et regardé au dessus de l'épaule de chaque compositeur qu'il interprète . On dirait un enfant qui saurait mieux qu'un adulte comment interpréter de façon naturelle et logique , c'est bien étrange mais cela fonctionne totalement ! Pour moi , cet interprète est le nouveau Glenn Gould au clavicorde , l'ancêtre du piano , portatif et non au piano .
Entendons nous , Glenn Gould était un génie de la fraîcheur dans la vélocité , vous ne possédez pas cette facilité mais par contre , il me semble que vous avez donc un talent certain pour comprendre de façon pratique la logique interne du style des musicien chose peu commune , car il me semble que vous recomposez sans vous départir des notes de la partition , Dinu Lipati faisait cela et c'était magique . J'ai l'impression de redécouvrir des oeuvres . " Le style est l'homme même " Buffon : Discours de réception à l'Académie .
I came back to listen to this one more time after some years - love it :-) Very enjoyable. Just curiosity : your daughters must have grown a lot since this video was made. Are they following their father's footsteps with an interest in keyboards, early music and/or art music in general ? And dancing ?
I was really moved by this music, but also by your daughters- Sofie's passionate listening, and Evelien's dancing. It was expressive, musical, original- a little astonishing. I laughed. I also cried a little. This is such beautiful music. I don't know if it's appropriate to leave a long comment here, but I've wanted to write and thank you for a while. I came across your channel and then your website some months ago while preparing for a piano recital and looking up recordings of a Mozart sonata. Something about the way you share this music brought me to tears. The love and generosity in it, the way it defied conventional expectations of performance, of how we present and define ourselves, the way it was completely about the music, was humbling. Something in me was shattered at a deep level. It was a few days before the performance. I questioned what it means to play and share music. I questioned and examined my nagging and often crippling feelings of fear, of inadequacy, of nervousness. I questioned why I am here- one of those occasional, painful moments of awareness of existence. For a moment the world, or our little earth at least, felt small- I was overcome with a warm feeling of gratitude for receiving this. I was overcome with the thought that it's beautiful to be human, even if we're so transient, and to be able to play and hear music.
Your words are really touching... thank you so much. When we reach out to each other and little things like this bring beuatiful emotions to the surface as you are so kind of describing here... what else can we wish for? The story in the description of this recording is true: Evelien only had the "patience" for one take. But seeing her dance, so completely in herself, responding instinctively to the music only a child can do, made me have tears in my eyes too.... Such moments, one feels so blessed. To me, those moments are the essence of life, kind of.
Hope you recital went well !
very best wishes from Belgium
Wim
That's exactly how I felt. I laughed seeing how cute she is, then I shed a tear because it's so moving.
@@AuthenticSound Dear Wim, once or twice I've thought of removing this comment, because I am uncomfortable with it being pinned as a sign of support after what this channel has come to, but it was an honest sentiment from me at the time, and it is more honest to keep it there. So I hope you will allow me the same honesty from your side and not remove this one, as you have done with many others. It is hard to describe how sad it makes me. I really enjoyed your videos at the beginning- there was so much modesty and honesty in them, but slowly, the Double Beat videos started getting more agressive and defensive, and, to be honest, very lacking in scientific and artistic integrity for me. Critique was no longer responded to, and eventually it was even removed. It is one thing to enjoy a certain subjective performance, to use one's artistic freedom to the fullest, but another to manfacture and claim a truth and to preach it to thousands while fully knowing the overwhleming arguments against it, only choosing to knowingly ignore them and to hide them as much as possible from your followers. Not every player is also a musicologist, and I feel like it is only honest to know and respect one's limits and to not fake science. It often makes me think of the climate denial movement, and I see the exact same tactics in your approach. It makes me truly sad, because once upon a time I looked up to you as a player and was moved by your generosity, humbleness and love for music. It was all true for me then, and I will never take it back. Was I simply fooled, or did you change and go down a wrong path? I need to make my position now clear to anyone who reads my comment, and I hope with all my heart that you allow me that.
Adoro a la pequeña bailarina improvisando
Three musically moved souls. Beautiful!
I shall smile to the world when I watch the video every time. A music family is so familiar to the people who love music and art.♪~
Nice to see the children growing up with such beautiful music and a musical Daddy.
Monsieur Winters, votre video m'a mit les larmes aux yeux. Merci.
C'est si gentil de me laisser savoir...aussi pour moi, cette video est assez spécial...!
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Que hermosura. Lo admiro con toda mi alma.
Me parece hermoso ver a sus dos preciosas hijas acompañarlo y la menor bailar con tanto garbo y estilo.
Magnífico. Precioso.
Here once again, as i visit so much since posted 5 years ago. I pray you are well Maestro, you and your family. Greetings from South Africa. 🤲🏽❤️
I too have returned to this after many years. There is just something so sentimental and melancholy about a chaconne (passacaglia, actually). Apropos to sweet Evelien's interpretation, a baroque dancer is indeed what I picture in my mind when I hear a passacaglia. Such fluidity. Thank you Wim!!
How I love coming back to this video every once in a while, and just getting lost❤️
showed your comment to (now 8yr Evelien) and she smiled
Dit mooie stuk had ik nog nooit op clavecimbel gehoord. Uitmuntend gespeeld.
Evelien has the potential of becoming a great dancer, she senses the intrinsic dynamics and rhythms of the chaconne and improvises her unique moves,
Thank you so much for watching and writing the lovely words, I'll tell Evelien you liked it!
Love clavichord and your performance. It is mesmerizing.
Thank you so much !
Thank you, Wim. for recording this piece and make time to let the children help and "enjoy" a beautiful music experience. Thank you Sofie and Evelien you both were fantastic.
It's all possible thanks to you, xxx
xxx
Such compositional mastery for Pachebel to lead the ear into another thought-room when the guest then is returned to the familiar entranceway.
I love that it ended on a minor chord.
Precious music and child!
What a pleasure to watch the little fairy dancing to this beautiful music! :)
I play it every day since the day you discovered it to me. How much music to discover! Thank you very much!
Great to read!
Either I am very ignorant, or you have to be the best clavichordist I have ever seen.
:-)
Obv the mic jk
Amazing -Very profound-Movement -the core of music -or the reaction to sounds in sequence.
Very well done and was very enjoyable by sense of hearing and sight.Thank you for you and your daughters contribution to my enjoyment of the clavichord, an instrument I am rarely exposed to...
Thank you Maestro Wim, for this beautiful and poetic performance ... you are a lucky father and you have two beautiful daughters!!
Thank you Marco, for your nice words and ... yes I am a very proud father :-) !
So nicely played AND so cute !!!! Thanks!
what a wonderful cameo of family bliss. You are a great musician. Thanks for posting this sparkling conversation, it brings the baroque dance music alive...
beautiful performance, thank you so much!
So much beauty in the world . . .
Es Hermoso lo que Transmiten 😊
Este Arte me deja siempre con la sensación de Paz
Thanks !
What a wonderful video on so many levels: your sensitive playing, the beautiful sounds from the clavichord and also your charming daughters. The love the younger one has for her daddy is palpable and her dancing interpretation of the Ciacona a sheer delight. The elder girl did her job demurely and without fuss or self-consciousness - what a splendid job you are doing bringing up your family so expertly. Thank you very much indeed for enriching my day.
Fantastic performance as usual, Wim. What a great idea to incorporate your adorable little interpretive dancer and lovely page turner into your video. Beautiful family, beautiful music and very entertaining. :)
That is an honor to read this from your pen, Michael ! The girls have watched already some of your alphabet videos and they love it. Sofie (she's 11) was proud saying that it was easy to understand. If you teach them a bit of English, the vlogs with the children will be much easier to make :-). And I'll send you some Belgian beer to thank you for that !
best wishes,
Wim
Hi Wim, I'm happy to hear that Sofie enjoyed my videos! Obviously the videos are mostly aimed at younger children but I always hoped that older kids from other countries would be able to use them to learn a bit of English as a second language, so that's wonderful. All of my videos have custom English subtitles too (not the auto-generated kind), which I think would help the girls learn English faster. Ha ha, no need to send me anything. Having the girls enjoy the videos is payment enough...but if you would share my channel with friends who have kids who might enjoy them, that would mean a lot. My wife and I got to sample some Belgian beer (and chocolate and waffles) when we visited Bruges and Brussels a couple of years ago and it was all fantastic. :) Cheers, Michael
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The pure expression of beauty. No utilizing of fancy orchestrational or instrumental techniques to express emotions in a "greater way" like many of the romanticists do. The beauty that resides purely in the melodies and their stunning clear interplay makes the emotions so clear and direct to the heart. It's as if the whole work was intended to be like this from note to note. That is, for me, the greatest, most immersive connection to emotion one can have. I believe Pachelbel was a master of the soul and of emotional journeys. I just can't believe people were so plain back then as described simply in biographical textbooks. Sure we don't have much of any personal notes from the master, but one cannot just sit here and admire this music while also thinking that baroque composers were cold machine like people. Thus I believe Pachelbel to be one of the greatest masters of music. In my experience your interpretation, didn't, for one moment get in the way of this heartfelt emotional experience, and thus I have to conclude you have felt the same emotions as well and played very accurately. Thanks for your great output and please keep it going!
Great to read...!
Hermosa y perfecta interpretación de Wim . La pieza de Pachelbel y la atmósfera íntima del video son un deleite para el alma.
Amazingly beautiful and intimate. Thank you so much.
Thanks for listening, as always, Edward
So much love and joy in this video, in your rendition of this wonderful Pachelbel piece, and most especially in your video description! Cheers, all the best to you and your family! Thank you for sharing your gifts with us.
Utterly charming and delightful performance!
Wim plays quite nicely as well. ;-)
great recording, great piece
This is a breath of fresh air, how beautiful to watch these girls, each one in your own way, being taken by the melody. What a joy to listen to this, thank you!
Really glad you liked this, Vinicius, and thank you so much for letting me know!
best wishes,
Wim
What an amazing father! You clearly have a wonderful relationship with your girls and have spent time away from the keyboard with them as well as time with them making and appreciating music in ways relatable to them. Father Bach would approve.
Excellent playing! Really enjoyed! When hearing your playing on your videos i really can appreciate all the voices and parts very clear and clean! A pleassure of chanel you have! ThanksGreat the little girl expressing the music with her movements and dance!
I wil tell the girls, thanks !
Mooi... een jonge ballerina in wording... Ook mooie muziek! Prettig eindejaar aan het hele gezin!
Ook voor jullie, Freddy, een belangrijk jaar voor Wondelgem!
.....of flamenco danseres!!
Very moving and so real!
so perfect playing!!
Ascoltando la versione di Pachelbel mi sono commossa nel vedere come Eveline danzare con molto precisione sia nella parte ritmica e con le movenze di tutto il corpo tracciare la melodia.(mi ha riportato nel lontano 1985 a Torino in un convegno internazionale tenuto dal pedagogo Edgardi Willems su l’educazione ritmica sin dalla prima età ecc)E Sofìe seguire la partitura .Bravissime i miei complimenti e l’augurio di prosperità nel seguito.È una cosa bellissima vedere una famiglia oggigiorno così.👨👩👧👧
Adore that piece and it sounded so gorgeous on that Potvliege! An additional thumbs up for the princesses!!!! Nice to see pink lady moving to the music... very clearly knows what is going on.
Thank you, really glad you liked it! As with the little princess, it is striking how well these young children respond to the emotion of the music, one can wonder what of that is left with us, grown ups, maybe more than we realize?
Great video! The differences in the Children's role and response reflects the differences in my kids as well. One calm and attentive and another free-spirited and dancing. Great playing as well.
Heel mooi gespeeld en wat leuk om te zien zo met je dochters Wim!
AWESOME!! I Can See how Much Your Daughters Love you So Much!, Forget About the Clavichord,And Believe me, I love The Clavichord, And Your Performance,BUt-- You as a Father, WOW !!!
Success in life is about You and Your Family :)
The most beautiful!
Hah came across this looking for the Joris Potvlieghe workshop visit vid and your youngest here had me chuckling the whole way through! :)
Lovely music, with a nice and very enjoyable interpretation. And a truly *delightful* video!
Thank you!
Thank you so much Paolo, for letting me know, it is much appreciated !
best wishes,
Wim
This is one of the best channels. Thanks. I am writing a book about Mozart and is a pleasure listen and watching you while I write. Thanks so much and excuse my poor english...
Thanks for letting me know, and just reach out to me if you think I could be of any assistance to your work !
Great video and great music. The young one is a scene stealer! Both are wonderful Wim abd so is your playing!
Thanks Kostas, I'll ask Evelien one day to 'perform' on your music :--) !
+AuthenticSound that woukd be fantastic!
Wonderful
Truly an amazing piece and very beautifully played. Well done sir
This is so beautiful on so many levels. It's one of my favorite pieces of music - so melodic and moving. The sound of the Clavicord is beautiful. Your performance is spot-on. Your daughters' appreciation for and interaction with the music is itself a joy to behold. By the way, Evelien's dancing is what I do on the inside during a classical concert :) Thank you for sharing!
This was delightful, Wim! The girls make a perfection addition to the video. ;)
Thank you...the girls are my life...!
I’d like to hear this one on harpsichord too!
Made my night! Congrats, dear!
Humanly marvelous!!!
thank you
@@AuthenticSound You're welcome,sir
Pachelbel è pura poesia suonato in questo modo...
Thanks Leonardo !
I enjoyed this very much! I have a CD of Pachelbel's organ works, he certainly was not a "one hit wonder" like he is often thought of as.
Thanks John! No, he was a genius, also considered as such by JSB on which he had much influence.
Very nice music from pachelbel, i knew his cannon but not this ciaconna. I was amused to see your little daughter dancing may be looking for your attention hehe :) thanks for your performs
You're confusing a _canon_ with a _cannon,_ which is a large, heavy piece of artillery.
Masterly played thanks.
Thank you !
you are wellcome !
Leuk dat de meisjes de muziek niet alleen horen maar ook voelen. Barokmuziek heeft dat speciale effect dat het voorspelbaar melodieus en tegelijk ook grillig expressief is. Clavichord bij uitstek het huisinstrument van barokke componisten.
Dank je Edwin!
Een Chaconne is een 'hoofse' dans tenslotte, en hoewel Evelien misschien nog nooit dansles heeft gehad, zag het er vaak heel authentiek uit. Leuk dat ze haar handen op het instrument legt, voelt ze dan de trillende bastonen?
Ze ging helemaal in de muziek op, en bij het andere Pachelbel stuk dat je speelde ging ze er helemaal voor, prachtig.
Kan Sophie zelf als spelen? Notenschrift lezen kan ze vast al, toch?
In heel wat barokke huishoudens met een clavichord zal het in de 16-17e eeuwen precies zo zijn toegegaan. Gezamenlijk muziek maken met het hele gezin, wat een vreugde.
Grande! come sempre, Win.
Thank you , Luis !
One of your best videos yet! (I've been going through them) Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Once again thanks Wim: for a glimpse of your world! Do your children share your penchant for the Clavichord? Such a beautiful and mellow instrument. The first time I heard the Clavichord was at the Purcell Rooms in London in the early 80's, Kathleen Crees was the artist and it was mainly a Baroque concert, being such a quiet instrument the sound was magnified with small speakers. It is great that your daughter has natural rhythm. A video worth watching.
Thank you, Stan, I am really glad this video could bring some pleasure! My children are used to the clavichord in a way it is always there, sounding many hours a day often...and they dance, sing (their girls group songs), play, argue, watch videos on the tablet, with clavichord sound on the background, which is not disturbing them (and for me: I'm only "complaining" if they start listening to their favorite songs, difficult to keep time then :-)).
I love your videos! It's fantastic!
Thank you so much !
Sehr süß!!!
Very good Win! We must know more about Pachelbels work!
Thanks! Its a very interesting music, so much better than famous Canon in D.
Hugs!
Pachelbel was a giant, much adored by JSBach, and of much influence. I have to record the afterthoughts today, and talk a little bit on his background (of which not too much is known by me... shame on me....:-) !
Beautiful, Wim!
Yes, gorgeous
Yes, this Pachelbel is also a favorite of mine. Nice performance. Somehow it makes me happy that it seems to be a "family achievement". Maybe it also has to do with hope that future generations still have ears for things like the wonderful and precious Hexachordum Apollinis.
Please some more arias of Pachelbel!
Thank you very much! The girls have the perfect age to participate from time to time, I guess Sofie will not do this in a few years from now, but who knows! I certainly do more Pachelbel, he intrigues me, going back from JSB to him, knowing that Pachelbel was of such big influence to him (as was Buxtehude). And his music goes surprisingly well on a big unfretted clavichord, which surprised me as well.
great interpretation !!
Thanks !
sounds so much different and still beautiful, your daughter in red is a dancer =)) just need to learn minuet♥
Thank you so much Elena, really glad you liked this! Evelien has rhythm in her body, she starts in September in ballet class (she'll be 6 in October). So, to be continued (hopefully):-)
My feelings are somewhat different from John Kiunke's although I respect his feelings very much. I find that this piece, like his famous Canon, is the baroque version of Carl Orff. So far, I'm not referring to Wim's excellent performance... I can't help but hear the proclivity for repetition in this piece, which reminds me of the Canon as well as Carmina Burana. Now, I happen to love Carmina Burana, but it's long enough to provide us with variety and, face it, Pachelbel didn't feel the need to combine this piece with full orchestra, chorus, and ballet troupe. He did, however, provide (to my ear) over-redundance which get's old.
That said, Wim seems able to bring anything to life. It was still a delight to listen to due to the performer's skill and fun to watch his daughter's growing.
Isn't it ironic how full orchestras seem very adept at expression and rubato in baroque music. Yet, keyboard teachers are bent upon metronomic precision in performances from students. I've done it myself. It's fine for the beginner who is learning to leave the pedal alone and developing the ability to maintain proper tempi. But Wim is right in that we should allow the expressive nature of the music to fill the performance. The performer (Wim in this case) falls upon his audience so to speak. Only in these posts can we lift him up and join in the music as we would in actual performance. Let's learn from the little one. She gets it.
Thank you for the compliments, David, always a pleasure to read you, and yes, I can understand the way you look to Pachelbel. That is not a unique vision, and frankly, I had a similar picture of him in mind, until I started to play him again. These variations are of course very fashionable and appeal to emotion -and honestly, Pachelbel is VERY strong in producing something that sticks in the ear -, but if you would play his organ works trough, on an organ that is well suited for his music, a world opens. JSB of course went to Buxtehude and not to Pachelbel, and that decision was taken by himself, opposed to the wish of his older brother who wanted to send him to his teacher Pachelbel, and that fact alone might tell us something on the esteem JSB had for Buxtehude, but maybe even more for the larger organs of the North. But again, Pachelbel on an organ with the right characteristics, is really great music. I'll be playing some of his partitas the coming time, and I'm sure you will see a part of that aspect as well.
Funny story: in the Bach Dokumente (I'll make a video on those soon), there is a wonderful quote, I believe somewhere 1730, of a guy who writes on the "3 great 'B's'. I thought, reading that, well, that is early :-); but the names he gave were Bach, Buxtehude and ... Bachelbel ! Isn't that wonderful :-)?
Wow. I am not a music pro but that was fantastic. Thanks Wim!
This channel welcomes all "non-pro's" with open arms, the more the better, it's about the music first ;-) !
Hi Scott, a quick question, if I could use your nice quote you left on my channel, to be featured in a book that will go along the publication of three cd's to celebrate my channel's music prod. nr 100? Thanks in advance!
Wim
This is so great
Lovely.
ah so cute.what a lovely video wim.and I love your chaconne.
Thanks Sean!
Excellent recording, dancing, page turning and music making. I have taught a simpler form of this piece to a few of my young students and it was months later that I chanced to find a RUclips version of it; that is how I found you. The clavichord is fabulous. Maybe you wrote something about it somewhere else. Can you tell me about it. Was it modelled on older instruments? I love the sound. Bach would have played such an instrument, I would think, in his home. Again, wonderful to have discovered you and such joyous music making.
Thanks Fred, it was probably one of the last 'innocent' moments of Evelien, she wouldn't be dancing anymore now (she's 6). I see you found more videos on the channel, so probably the ones on clavichord and Bach as well, it is an interesting subject (and an important one)
This piece is part of the repertoire I learned by heart to be able to play anywhere! Your interpretation is the first one I've heard on a clavichord; I'm more used to hearing it on the organ ;) You played it marvellously, like everything I've heard from you so far. Congrats!
Thanks, Samuel, great to read you like it! Looking forward to reading you.
Thank you so much for this video Wim. Watching it and reading about 'the making of' made me smile! :)
You should do more videos with the girls!
Thank you Philip !
I really enjoyed the video! Nice interpretations!!!
Thanks, Vicente!
thank you, so much!!
you're welcome !
Very beautiful!
Thanks Martin !
I love you, thanks.
Mr. Wim I hate to correct you. Madame Evelien was there to provide, 'interpretive dance'; and what a beauty she was. I wouldn't have changed anything about what she did. I personally think it added to the overall performance. The music itself was so enchanting I feel that ALL elements combined: your playing, the melody itself, and Evelien's gorgeous dancing all added to the allure of the music. You have my permission to tell the girls they have a fan in America!!
I think out of all the videos of yours that I have watched this is the song that most captures my heart. In closing I do have 1 Q: Do either of your girls play any instruments yet?
Thank you, I will tell her! They started to play and then stop but Sofie starts to realize she is running out of time to 'start' so she probably will be more serious, we will see
Very impressive interpretation of this piece. Do you have a video of your playing this piece on the organ (left hand part played partially on the pedal board, etc.)? I would be interested in seeing how your organ interpretation would differ from your clavichord interpretation. Thereafter, you might comment on the differences in the organ and clavichord interpretations and the reasons for those differences.
yes, it's on the channel just search for Pachelbel
That was amazing, really... Your last Pachelbel was already a while ago... Have you thought on recording his Ciacona in D Minor? I think it's beautiful and I believe it suits the clavichord very well... And listening to it from your instrument, with your whole beat sensibility is surely to be blissful! This Ciacona is also very beaytiful, but I think I like the D minor one more... Thanks for sharing this beautiful interpretation with such love and passion from your whole family!
so cute
En ze hebben inderdaad goed meegeholpen... De grootste als bladdraaier, de jongste met het bewijs dat muziek haar raakt, en tot bewegen aanzet...
Kinderen op die leeftijd zijn ongelofelijk, Freddy (dat hoef ik je niet te vertellen ;-) )
hi ,i like those pachelbel's works play on clavichord.(i played some of his works on piano b4)
and make me remember when i in abrsm g8 piano exam(aural part) the examiner play pachelbel's''aria qaurta''
hmm....am i lucky? :D
great !
I just dont like the sound of that harpsichord lol
It's a clavichord...!
Not offended that quick, don't worry 😎
what is the transcrption you are using ? i looked at imslp and didnt found it.
Bärenreiter
can you do the Hexachordum Apollinis complete?? Thanks!
Hi Tommy, I am doing that, n°1, 2 and the aria sebaldina have been recorded. There is playlist on Pachelbel = ruclips.net/p/PLackZ_5a6IWUS09cafZvhZCR-1k8OhZm-
best!
Wim
I would like to ask about the Pachelbel Chaconne repeats. Is there any new source found which mentions those repeats, i remember years now we play the piece plain, why this new element here.I haven't seen the autograph of course, but perhaps you can explain me why this change occurs in your perfomance?
Thanks Stavros, it is more convenient to put the question here, since I can connect it direct to the specific video. The autograph of this is something that might bring a solution, I haven't seen it, but I'm playing from the more recent (but still old) Bärenreiter edition, which is an updated version of the one many still use and in which the repeats are not present or some are written out. My guess would be that it is not clear from whatever source the edition is based on. There is a new Pachelbel edition I believe, that I have to check out still. Personally with this music in that time in variation style, I wouldn't think too much if you feel playing a repeat or not. Change a little bit in ornamentation each time, or much if you feel to, we should not forget that those scores were produced with different purposes than e.g. Beethoven would do over a century later, or even more so composers way in the 19th century. Hope this helps! Wim
Many thanks for your answer , so we base on taste and on the historical aspect of the repeats.
beautiful execution, and I wish your daughters to equalize you with skill and all the good possible.
beautiful
J'aime beaucoup la façon de jouer de Wim Winters , si bien en accord avec la mélodie qu'il semblerai que chaque fois , il a écouté et regardé au dessus de l'épaule de chaque compositeur qu'il interprète . On dirait un enfant qui saurait mieux qu'un adulte comment interpréter de façon naturelle et logique , c'est bien étrange mais cela fonctionne totalement !
Pour moi , cet interprète est le nouveau Glenn Gould au clavicorde , l'ancêtre du piano , portatif et non au piano .
Merci bien, Remi... lire le nom du génie Glenn Gould dans une réaction sur un de mes videos... cela me fait silent un instant...
w.
Entendons nous , Glenn Gould était un génie de la fraîcheur dans la vélocité , vous ne possédez pas cette facilité mais par contre , il me semble que vous avez donc un talent certain pour comprendre de façon pratique la logique interne du style des musicien chose peu commune , car il me semble que vous recomposez sans vous départir des notes de la partition , Dinu Lipati faisait cela et c'était magique . J'ai l'impression de redécouvrir des oeuvres . " Le style est l'homme même " Buffon : Discours de réception à l'Académie .
thanks !
I came back to listen to this one more time after some years - love it :-) Very enjoyable. Just curiosity : your daughters must have grown a lot since this video was made. Are they following their father's footsteps with an interest in keyboards, early music and/or art music in general ? And dancing ?
i think you can actually dance flamenco to that really well..!!