Introducing the Harpsichord
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Steven Devine, Co-Principal Keyboardist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, tells us all about his German harpsichord.
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I love a good crunchy chord
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This is by far the best harpsichord I have ever heard.
1761 Hemsch in the Paris Conservatoire collection takes some beating...
I'm absolutely in love with the sound of the harpsichord. Absolutely beautiful to listen to.
I cannot stand it, it sounds like a typewriter to me. I even prefer a modern piano used for basso continuo parts in Baroque music.
@@classicallpvault8251 YOU HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED
Lucky Steven, having all those wonderful harpsichords! You should give us some more talks..this one was too short!
I Want More of this guy playing, and talking about instruments. *MORE*
I could just listen to him all day talking about harpsichords
Indeed … that brief excerpt made my heart sing .
Marvellous video, thank you
OMG! That thing must be a NIGHTMARE to tune!
I can't even imagine! 😮
I was today years old when I learned that the tinny-sounding piano that I always saw elegant young ladies playing for guests in the parlour of good homes in 18th Century period films wasn't actually a piano, but something called a harpsichord.
Getting educated, here.
In reality they'd more likely be playing the clavicord.
@@Ivannbeats bc I didn't know the second option existed.
An amazing piece of musical history. Very informative presentation. A magnificent instrument in every way. Thanks.
Yes!! I finally found the angelic sound that stopped me in my tracks when listening to classical music!! I always wanted to know what that sound was and now I finally do!! Thank you for making this video!!
What music did you hear the harpsichord? It was used mostly during the early classical music & baroque period...
@@mistersmith1883 It was played for me during a movie of mixing music genres. Yes early classical music
@@mistersmith1883 I first heard it on early Gorillaz albums from the 2000's and fell in love with the sound
Then I learned about Strawberry Field Forever and the Mellotron. Now I've been getting into the Rhodes, and so many songs have been created by these slightly modified pianos. It's like pre-synthesizers, and so impressive to me.
Beautiful instrument!
I agree with Steven on the German instruments. I would love one but can’t afford one nor could i tune or maintain it: maybe one day. Nice to see Steven doing well. Always remember his great talks and demos at Finchcocks.
There are Electric Harpsichords which have Pickups beneath the strings so it's easier to record without needing a Mic. Bill Napier-Hemy made a Touch-Sensitive Harpsichord that is expressive like a Modern Piano because the action has been slightly modified to make it work that way.
Also thankyou. I am only a RUclips viewer and have no letters after my name. Great Channel and very valuable to us all.
I wish this video was 10x longer
Michael Mietke harpsichords like this one can be both sweet and raucous; they have an incredible range of character and project well towards the audience. In contrast French harpsichords are sweeter to the player; more hedonistic, and in some rare occasions, can be bordering the miraculous like the Goermans-Taskin at the Russell Collection in Edinburgh, on which Trevor Pinnock made some fabulous recordings. Mr Pinnock incidentally plays a superbly balanced harpsichord made by David Way, inspired from a Hemsch design, on a wide repertoire. The Hemsch has the characteristic bird-like quill sound and vocal sustain that one finds in the best french designs. The two Mietke that are at Charlottenburg are the only existing harpsichords we know have been commissioned by J.S. Bach. They are richly decorated in the chinese porcelain style that was all-the-rage at the Prussian court. Several modern-day harpsichord makers make copies of the 1710 Mietke (the one in the video is by Colin Booth); to my knowledge the first of our contemporary makers who made a copy was (Paris-based) Reinhard von Nagel, for the William Dowd brand. Now in his ripe old age, he still makes them on occasion. Gustav Leonhardt recorded transcriptions of Bach lute suites on this instrument, as did Christophe Rousset.
Thanks for this really interesting post! I do love the Mietke instruments and (as you say) there are some really wonderful copies - Colin Booth has made a number of very successful copies. The model he chose for mine, though, was actually a double-manual expansion of a single-manual original double-manual by Johann Christof Fleischer made in Hamburg - also in 1710.
Please, Steven, don't stop!...I want to continuously hearing it...
I'm a guitarist and bassist but harpsichord is my favorite instrument
Beautiful!
Tried to find this instrument for ages after hearing "Golden Brown" by The Stranglers for the first time in a few years.
What was the piece at the very beginning?
Very informative and sounds fantastic. Would be nice though to see you show the difference, I'm very curious to how that would sound in one video with the same micophone used etc. especially the french one! tough from what you said I'd probably buy a flemmish then cry for not picking the german hahahah
+OrchestraEnlighten *Thanks for the primer on the two-manual harpsichord.* My ideal instrumentation for a performance of BWV 1050 would use both a Yamaha® C1X piano backing the violons in the _continuo_ and one of the largest available German or Flemish two-manual harpsichords for the cembalo solo (Upper Front 8'; Lower Back 8' + Center 4')
What is the name of the piece he plays a snippet of when he says it will be perfect for Bach?
2:05 J. S. Bach, "The Goldberg Variations", BWV 988.
This instrument is awesome
1:54, piece?
alright, no one asked so I will. does anyone know what the outro piece he played?
The beginning and end are both excerpts from the Praeambulum of partita no. 5 in G major by Bach (BWV 829).
good!!!
Yeah! I used to have a flemish 2X8 - but I would have preferred a german instrument.
Do you take loans to buy these things?
How much did one of them cost you ? roughly, in your currency
www.harpsichord.com/Europe/Europe_frmset.html They average about 12 000 $ each...
about 50 000 $ worth of instruments here... No wonder we all have to settle with cheap uprights...
⚠[usually] very informative. "List#1_00:17-Big as compared to what? #2_00:29-Three rows of (jacks). What is a jack? #3_00:42-Parallel and shorter strings. Little detail. Also, 4 foot as compared to what? #4_Ok, so there's no reason to pick at nits, knits? What is a nit? Sorry bout the critical comment. Not.
List#1: Most harpsichords are smaller, but the instrument shown in this video is larger than usual.
#2: Jacks are the moving parts that connect the instrument's keys to the plectrums that pluck the strings.
#3: "4-foot strings" refers to which octave that set of strings is tuned to (not the actual length of the strings). This naming system comes from pipe organs, which have several sets (called "ranks") of pipes named after the length of the longest pipe in that rank. For example, the longest pipe in an 8-foot rank is eight feet long, with the rest of the pipes being progressively shorter to play the higher notes. A 4-foot rank would sound one octave higher than 8', a 16-foot rank one octave lower than 8', and so on (halve the number to go up, or double it to go down).
I'm here because of Fischl's OST...
I'd rather get a Pedal Harpsichord because I'd wanna play Organ pieces on Harpsichord
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i have to say i love the Harpsichord but those old Harpsichord pieces are played most of the time fast with alot going on ... i like the slow Harpsichord much more
You don't hear this enough.
Bro look like grown up Ice age baby 💀
I play guitar why am i here
Randall & Hopkirk Deceased !!!
Who’s here from school Piedmont schools anyone?
if only i could play a piano...
If only you had 12k
Nah, you'd better learn to play the #harpsichord. 🎼🎶😉
Hello, why couldn't you Try Remaking A Daddy Grand Piano by putting on 88 Tuning Forks like what you did on an Upright Piano,
Please do the Same Thing on a Daddy Grand Piano For Most of us RUclipsrs, It will be a much Better Idea For us so we can Try and See and Hear It Thank You.
You should play ragtime on it!
Pianos are boring, Harpsichords are awesome.
What's your opinion on pipe organs then?
SaitoGamer I used to feel that way. I was 13. I grew up.
But expensive...
@@shiningarmor2838 Pipe organs can easily be converted into bongs with a smoke reservoir.
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So when folks try to address the harpsichord when playing BACH on a modern piano by going out of their way to clip the sound in an inorganic way that denies the expresivity of the modern piano. Well it's inauthentic and normally contrived. Anyone who doesn't feel JSB would've really dug a well prepaired Steinway is kidding themselves.
I'd say that playing Bach on a piano is "inauthentic and contrived" no matter how it is done, since he wrote his music for the keyboard instruments available to him: harpsichord, clavichord, and organ. Composers (at least good composers) don't compose music in the abstract -- they compose for the instruments known to them, working with the possibilities and limitations of the instruments they have available always in mind. The capabilities and limitations of a modern piano are very different from those of the keyboard instruments known to JSB.
Speculation about whether or not he would have enjoyed a Steinway or composed music for it is immaterial, since the music he DID write wasn't written for piano. However, if I was to speculate, I'd guess he would first be impressed by the range, power, and dynamic possibilities of the modern piano, while also being annoyed at how out-of-tune the thing is. If Bach then wrote piano music, it would probably be quite different from the music he HAS written, since he would no doubt make good use of the strengths of the piano while working around the limitations, just as he did with his actual compositions for harpsichord, clavichord, and organ. He'd probably also ditch 12-TET immediately and adopt a temperament that can produce decent thirds!
I’m only listening to this because of my music teacher 🤡🤠
National identity? You mean humans really are different in meaningful ways?
The harpsichord is such an unmusical instrument given that every note equals the volume of every other key on its keyboard. Where in history is there a composition which needs to be rendered without accent or dynamics? Even though Bach himself loved the touch sensitive clavichord, most of his repertoire is delegated to this horrendously insensitive beast and offered to the public as ‘authentic’ baroque sound. 💩
Just like the organ then ?
Ray No. The organ has a big range of stops to supply different colours, weight and expression. Listen to any recording of D minor Toccata & Fugue as evidence.
@@harrymullany4789 Yes, I know about the stops. What I meant was that your point "every note equals the volume of every other note" also applies to other instruments.
When you're playing the organ, it doesn't matter how hard you press the keys, the sound is the same (which is exactly your point about the harpsichord).
What's the piece at the beginning?
Got it. It's the Partita No. 5 in G major, BWV 829, Präambulum. Beautiful piece.
It's the first mvt of the 5th Partita by Bach.