Jean Rondeau literally transcends Bach with a rare musical sense. It seems as if he "domesticates" the time of the note in a whirlwind that takes you to the heights while being rigorous. It is above all his power of transmission which is impressive with all the musical qualities that accompany them. Thank you for this video !
La si remarquable interprétation de Jean Rondeau nous place directement dans la réelle et vivante dimension musicale de l'auteur qui a composé cette oeuvre : un certain Jean-Sébastien Bach.
Quelle maitrise ! Du fait qu'on entend chaque note distinctement au clavecin, on ressent encore plus la difficulté de la pièce, la polyphonie et la parfaite indépendance des voix. Remarquable.
La sutileza de Jean Rondeau a la hora de tocar el clave es tan grande y magistral que incluso una pieza llena de fuerza y hasta de "violencia" como esta parece fluir de sus dedos con un apenas roce de las teclas, como si estas estuvieran esperando ansiosas a que sus dedos se posen sobre ellas para lanzar toda su energía. Grande Jean, grande Bach...
"Soli Deo Gloria" for this heavenly music.. Bach used to right that sentence in latin on his all composition "Soli Deo Gloria" what means for the Glory of God .. And like him of corse I confirm that; all the Glory to God in Jesus Christ
Yes, you play fast, but you turn this (well-known to me) piece of music into a thing of extra beauty. You can hear every note AND a new whole: the piece really sings to me. This is Bach perfection.
Whaou ! Quelle finesse et quelle justesse d'interprétation malgré la difficulté du morceau et le tempo choisi ! Toute la subtilité nécessaire à cette extraordinaire composition du Cantor de Leipzig. De la dentelle, vous dis-je !
1. Twenty eight people without fingers dislike this video. 2. Certain persons should be declared "national treasures". This man honors France - and the world.
Jean Rondeau, Né le 23 avril 1991, Claveciniste français. Biographie Diplômé du Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, avec un prix de clavecin et de basse continue obtenu à l’unanimité avec mention très bien et félicitation du jury en 2013, il reçoit en 2012 le 1er prix en clavecin du Festival de musique ancienne de Bruges et le 2e prix et prix de la meilleure interprétation d’une pièce contemporaine au Concours international de clavecin du Printemps de Prague. En 2013, il se voit décerner le titre de Jeune Soliste 2014 des Radios francophones publiques. Membre de l'ensemble baroque Nevermind, fondé avec trois amis également issus du Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, il a également fondé en 2011 le quartet de jazz Note Forget. En juin 2014, il signe un contrat d'exclusivité chez Erato, et son premier enregistrement, autour de Johann Sebastian Bach, intitulé Imagine, paraît en janvier 2015. En 2015, il est couronné « Révélation soliste instrumental de l'année » aux Victoires de la musique classique3. Discographie Johann Sebastian Bach, Imagine, Erato, janvier 2015 Notes et références 1. ↑ Prix remporté ex-eaquo avec le claveciniste canadien Mark Edwards. 2. ↑ Site des Radios francophones publiques [archive] 3. ↑ France Musique, « Palmarès 2015 des Victoires de la Musique Classique » [archive], 3 février 2015 4. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Rondeau_(musicien)
Wonderful performance. This is totally influenced by Scarlatti, from the structure, to the hand crossings and athleticism, but brought to perfection by the master. It’s curious why he didn’t complete the accompanying fugue. Did he feel an Italianate “Sonata” structure was incongruous with a Germanic fugue? That’s been my supposition.
Virtuosity is different from speed. But it is also natural, it is what one can expect from young people: a bit of patience and a lot of speed, with the urgency to "complete the job".
I regret to say it is not too quick! the Young harpsichordist gives bach ( euh back!) the surrealistic and diabolic substence of this abstractal piece pretty well!
I don't understand why he's playing it in b minor? Is that something to do with it being a harpsichord? I've seen the same on another harpsichord video and I'm confused, why has it not then been transcribed to sound the same on piano?
It's played in a different tuning than the one on piano. A = 415 Hz is usually used in harpsichord performances of baroque music, which is half a step lower than the modern A = 440 Hz tuning.
Gould always played on the piano, so he can't be brought up as a person to emulate on the harpsichord. I personally dislike harpsichord music played on the piano and 10 times dislike Gould playing harpsichord music on the piano. When I was 17 and didn't know any better, I started to listen to the Well Tempered Klavier played by Gould and gave up after about 3 or 4 of them in utter horror! I had the same reaction when I tried to listen to him playing Beethoven's Piano Sonatas. Many decades later I got in my car and the classical music station I was listening too was in the middle of a Beethoven Sonata. After a few minutes I said to myself "That's the worst performance of that sonata I've ever heard". At the end the announcer revealed in was Gould, so my opinion hadn't changed in over 40 years!
Please write down how each string sounds separately. Open these .wav files for free access. To home any person on the computer to play on the MIDI keyboard with such an excellent sound. To record each string separately for 10 seconds will result in approximately 10 minutes of personal time spent. I take care of the rest of the sound processing. You just need to find a good microphone and a computer for recording and that's it. Send me a file in which the sound of individual strings I cut into separate files and process the equalizers and as a result a ready-made digital musical instrument.
Milou has said it well. Especially important is the sound after you release the note, which in addition to the plectrum noise is a different level of sympathetic vibration of all the strings depending on how long you held the note. Worse, there is a different sound from the sympathethic vibrations of strings for each possible combination of notes, which is impossible, afaik, to replicate in sample ilibraries. I have used many, but compared to a real harpsichord, there is no comoarison.
Dear Brother Jean, I know every Bach note that it's necessary to play, what's going to 33 turns in a minute goes to 45 and 78 turns. You certainly see and hear and you are faster than every average person, but I see it and I hear it on average, so the Bah you performed for me has lost all the beauty. There are so many notes that I can not hear and enjoy in them because you are short of them. Simply too vigorous with errors in tone reduction. I do not know what others would say, but this is my best wishes for you. You're not a robot, are you? You are not?
There's no doubt he's a virtuoso; however, Bach intends his instrumental music to sing (he was himself a singer) and this tempo is too frantic and misses the poetry.
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However, Bach himself was a virtuoso, and according to his sons he liked to play fast. This would seem to cast doubt on your notions about Bach's intentions.
Fast is OK - I'm only saying that TOO fast impairs the articulation of some pieces and can make them incoherent. I admire this musician very much and the other performances I've heard by him are really of a very high quality. There are quite a few marvellous harpsichordists coming out of France nowadays - one of the slightly older generation that I like is Blandine Verlet.
Mike Keyes That is just a personal supposition that you have. We are basically not capable of knowing the perfect tempo we should approach - in first place because there are no recordings and secondarily since tempo was a very subjective topic back in those days. And it still is according to music from the baroque period. Especially Bach's compositions have the ability to sound beautiful in every tempo, as long as the performance fits as a whole, or at least mostly. There are always contrary examples. So, it definetely is useless to talk about taste when it comes to music. One might like it more poetic, but the other rather furious or hectic. There is such a wide variety in tastes and I think that is beautiful.
I think this should be considered Jean's personal interpretation, which is exactly what it is. He's not playing for his PhD in harpsichord, he's playing to entertain me and others in his listening audience, and that he certainly does. Take your gripes back to music school.
@@mikekeyes6102 I totally agree....I've studied French Clavecin for about 20 years and mainly just love the music. I'd take Christophe Rousset over this guy any day.
This is totally dreadful, all I can hear is the “knitting” the melodic line is totally covered by the percussive nature of the instrument. The whole thing was muscled out from start to finish, he is a great musician but the choices here are all wrong.
A large part of that, I'd say, is down to the recording. It's taken from very close to the instrument and the harpsichord, like most instruments, sounds a lot better with a bit of distance.
@@rich8037 This performance characterises Sir Thomas Beecham's observation that the harpsichord sounds like "two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm". This is not Bach but a Hanon exercise.
Most beautiful sound by the instrument, rushed, ostensibly "virtuoso" tempo by the player, details lost, song not sung. Did the virtuoso have to catch the train?
Jean Rondeau literally transcends Bach with a rare musical sense. It seems as if he "domesticates" the time of the note in a whirlwind that takes you to the heights while being rigorous. It is above all his power of transmission which is impressive with all the musical qualities that accompany them. Thank you for this video !
One of the most finely tuned Europeans my ears have ever had the blessings to listen to. 100% Pure dedication.
La si remarquable interprétation de Jean Rondeau nous place directement dans la réelle et vivante dimension musicale de l'auteur qui a composé cette oeuvre : un certain Jean-Sébastien Bach.
Monsieur Rondeau est magnifique! La Fantaisie de Bach est une pièce incroyablement difficile.
Love the little subtle parts he added in
I can imagine Bach playing this at his house to entertain his wife and kids. Certainly the most "fun" piece he has written for harpsichord.
A showcase piece, along with Chromatic fantasia/fugue, to promote equal temperation that allows such modulations and harmonies.
Beautiful men, beautiful music, beautiful life!
Quelle maitrise ! Du fait qu'on entend chaque note distinctement au clavecin, on ressent encore plus la difficulté de la pièce, la polyphonie et la parfaite indépendance des voix. Remarquable.
Love it. This guy is a master on harpsichord
Richard in Dallas
La sutileza de Jean Rondeau a la hora de tocar el clave es tan grande y magistral que incluso una pieza llena de fuerza y hasta de "violencia" como esta parece fluir de sus dedos con un apenas roce de las teclas, como si estas estuvieran esperando ansiosas a que sus dedos se posen sobre ellas para lanzar toda su energía. Grande Jean, grande Bach...
Baroque is brought on a whole new level here. Great job !
...except that piece is probably the least Baroque thing J.S. ever wrote. It's like Bach, Mozart and Piazzolla wrote a piece together.
Holy Smokes.... that was amazing!
"Soli Deo Gloria" for this heavenly music.. Bach used to right that sentence in latin on his all composition "Soli Deo Gloria" what means for the Glory of God .. And like him of corse I confirm that; all the Glory to God in Jesus Christ
M. Rondeau est un claveciniste incroyable.
He makes it sing, despite the complexity of the piece, brilliantly brought out...inspiring, Jean Rondeau, yet again!
New favorite piece by Bach (for now)
Updates....?
la bonne émotion de connexion avec le passé, merci
This is the first thing I ever heard Jean play and I never ever tire of it. Fast, yes - but brilliant.
C'est absolument magnifique! Ca coule comme de l'eau fraîche et un peu magique...
Major awesomely done! Rare and fresh!
Yes, you play fast, but you turn this (well-known to me) piece of music into a thing of extra beauty. You can hear every note AND a new whole: the piece really sings to me. This is Bach perfection.
Торопливость (суета) ему в этой вещи вредит, есть сбои в темпе, и даже неточности. Увы.
Whaou ! Quelle finesse et quelle justesse d'interprétation malgré la difficulté du morceau et le tempo choisi ! Toute la subtilité nécessaire à cette extraordinaire composition du Cantor de Leipzig. De la dentelle, vous dis-je !
Fenomenal! Belíssima interpretação! Obrigado!
Amazing virtuosity and wonderful interpretation
Céleste !!! J'adore cet interprète !!
great performance!
Merveilleux, splendide!
Surprised to hear chromatic passing notes in Baroque period. He was truly a pioneer of the era!
1. Twenty eight people without fingers dislike this video.
2. Certain persons should be declared "national treasures". This man honors France - and the world.
Jean Rondeau,
Né le 23 avril 1991,
Claveciniste français.
Biographie
Diplômé du Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, avec un prix de clavecin et de basse continue obtenu à l’unanimité avec mention très bien et félicitation du jury en 2013, il reçoit en 2012 le 1er prix en clavecin du Festival de musique ancienne de Bruges et le 2e prix et prix de la meilleure interprétation d’une pièce contemporaine au Concours international de clavecin du Printemps de Prague. En 2013, il se voit décerner le titre de Jeune Soliste 2014 des Radios francophones publiques.
Membre de l'ensemble baroque Nevermind, fondé avec trois amis également issus du Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, il a également fondé en 2011 le quartet de jazz Note Forget.
En juin 2014, il signe un contrat d'exclusivité chez Erato, et son premier enregistrement, autour de Johann Sebastian Bach, intitulé Imagine, paraît en janvier 2015.
En 2015, il est couronné « Révélation soliste instrumental de l'année » aux Victoires de la musique classique3.
Discographie
Johann Sebastian Bach, Imagine, Erato, janvier 2015
Notes et références
1. ↑ Prix remporté ex-eaquo avec le claveciniste canadien Mark Edwards.
2. ↑ Site des Radios francophones publiques [archive]
3. ↑ France Musique, « Palmarès 2015 des Victoires de la Musique Classique » [archive], 3 février 2015
4.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Rondeau_(musicien)
Merci beaucoup !!!
Ferocious!
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!! CAN'T STOP HEARING IT!!!!!!
Merveilleux 🎼☀️
Perfekcja w czystej postaci :)
Amazing and gorgeous!
Why is everyone talking about tempo, maybe no one else has been talented enough to play this music at proper speed since it was written.
The fingering required on a harpsichord - it has no pedal - so it flows- this Jean has it down
Plain genius...
Brilliant..........
los pensamientos del ayer se transforman en la emociones del presensente
A very dramatic piece. I think that the Tempo is correct and it reminds me Richter on piano. Rondeau is a great performer.
I think he should play piano.Too much energy.Just a point of view.
@@adrianfundescu5407 |piano sucks.
@@adrianfundescu5407 Hear how he plays Scarlatti or Rameau.
My friend Malcolm Archer has just recorded the Goldberg .... so privileged to see him perform ....
@@adrianfundescu5407 nowhere to hide with the harpsichord ... he is brilliant!
As for my personal taste the BWV 906 sounds great on the harpsichord and not that much on the piano. Thanks for sharing.
BRAVO!!!!!!!
Ich könnte Monsieur Rondeau ewig bei der Aufführung dieses schwierigen Stücks zusehen und zuhören!
Almost sublime, despite neglectable mistakes, not affecting the musicality of the whole performance.
WOW!! I think I'll take up the triangle...or maybe a kazoo.
fantastic
A showcase piece, along with Chromatic fantasia/fugue, to promote equal temperation that allows such modulations and harmonies.
Utterly sublime ... my friend Malcolm Archer has just recorded Goldberg ....
Music in paradise? Good title.
великолепно!
This is a great interpretation!!
론도 옵하 사랑합니다(...) ㅠㅠ 진짜 내한 연주회 안하실거예요!? 서울에서 하시면 얼마든지 뵈러 올라가겠습니다😭
Rates with Handel for bravura style - good to see Bach in the mode.
With Scarlatti, perhaps.
Don't like his ferocious tempos - but he is a technical wonder. Bach deserves more savoring and cherishing.
THIS IS THE CORRECT TEMPO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Indeed!
Wooooow
Kto z polski
Kto ma to na muzykę
@@florinvasian6560 chciałbym
He might have 4 espressos
Francisco Walker
Five is the dangerous number!
Wonderful performance. This is totally influenced by Scarlatti, from the structure, to the hand crossings and athleticism, but brought to perfection by the master. It’s curious why he didn’t complete the accompanying fugue. Did he feel an Italianate “Sonata” structure was incongruous with a Germanic fugue? That’s been my supposition.
There are placed where it is a bit rushed right? I mean I don't know for sure, because I have only played and heard it on a piano.
Neupert cembalo?
쟝 론도 옵하 사랑해요. 코로나에서 살아남으세요. 초코파이 한상자 드릴게요
are You Ok? It is the from the angels!!!
Virtuosity is different from speed. But it is also natural, it is what one can expect from young people: a bit of patience and a lot of speed, with the urgency to "complete the job".
I regret to say it is not too quick! the Young harpsichordist gives bach ( euh back!) the surrealistic and diabolic substence of this abstractal piece pretty well!
Jean had short hair?
I don't understand why he's playing it in b minor? Is that something to do with it being a harpsichord? I've seen the same on another harpsichord video and I'm confused, why has it not then been transcribed to sound the same on piano?
It's played in a different tuning than the one on piano. A = 415 Hz is usually used in harpsichord performances of baroque music, which is half a step lower than the modern A = 440 Hz tuning.
The tempo is a bit overwelming for me, but I'm just used to the slow tempo of Gould.
Henry Wang The young man is on fire, and should play as long as he burns.....
Gould always played on the piano, so he can't be brought up as a person to emulate on the harpsichord. I personally dislike harpsichord music played on the piano and 10 times dislike Gould playing harpsichord music on the piano. When I was 17 and didn't know any better, I started to listen to the Well Tempered Klavier played by Gould and gave up after about 3 or 4 of them in utter horror! I had the same reaction when I tried to listen to him playing Beethoven's Piano Sonatas. Many decades later I got in my car and the classical music station I was listening too was in the middle of a Beethoven Sonata. After a few minutes I said to myself "That's the worst performance of that sonata I've ever heard". At the end the announcer revealed in was Gould, so my opinion hadn't changed in over 40 years!
inesorabile forse ma bravo
Ja!
nerolux Nein!
He would be good at Scarlatti. Lot of energy…
Oui dans les sonates de Scarlatti ,il devrait être génial !
He has very fluent fingers but rushes breathlessly through the music, not allowing natural breathing points. It sounds like a finger exercise.
Kto dostał to do posłuchania z muzyki?
Chciałbym
Tango
Great musician . Not so fast next time.
ngl its a amazing performace but the start is a but wrong in the trills
Kto z Polski?
Wrong note at 2:17
it's not important.
@@veromaestro5194 it does sound jarring
Please write down how each string sounds separately. Open these .wav files for free access. To home any person on the computer to play on the MIDI keyboard with such an excellent sound. To record each string separately for 10 seconds will result in approximately 10 minutes of personal time spent. I take care of the rest of the sound processing. You just need to find a good microphone and a computer for recording and that's it. Send me a file in which the sound of individual strings I cut into separate files and process the equalizers and as a result a ready-made digital musical instrument.
Well said.
Milou has said it well. Especially important is the sound after you release the note, which in addition to the plectrum noise is a different level of sympathetic vibration of all the strings depending on how long you held the note. Worse, there is a different sound from the sympathethic vibrations of strings for each possible combination of notes, which is impossible, afaik, to replicate in sample ilibraries. I have used many, but compared to a real harpsichord, there is no comoarison.
Beaucoup trop vite...
"Y'a trop de notes 🥱"
too fast! the dramatic sense of many passages is lost
Dear Brother Jean, I know every Bach note that it's necessary to play, what's going to 33 turns in a minute goes to 45 and 78 turns. You certainly see and hear and you are faster than every average person, but I see it and I hear it on average, so the Bah you performed for me has lost all the beauty. There are so many notes that I can not hear and enjoy in them because you are short of them.
Simply too vigorous with errors in tone reduction. I do not know what others would say, but this is my best wishes for you. You're not a robot, are you? You are not?
it starts to get really choppy near the end and ornaments just really sound forced rather than enhance the piece.
Gould has the tempo.
Well, its fast, so loses the subtlety of, say, Glen Gould.
No one interpreted this fantasy like Gould. Others are just in rush to finish it...
There's no doubt he's a virtuoso; however, Bach intends his instrumental music to sing (he was himself a singer) and this tempo is too frantic and misses the poetry.
However, Bach himself was a virtuoso, and according to his sons he liked to play fast. This would seem to cast doubt on your notions about Bach's intentions.
Fast is OK - I'm only saying that TOO fast impairs the articulation of some pieces and can make them incoherent. I admire this musician very much and the other performances I've heard by him are really of a very high quality. There are quite a few marvellous harpsichordists coming out of France nowadays - one of the slightly older generation that I like is Blandine Verlet.
Mike Keyes
That is just a personal supposition that you have. We are basically not capable of knowing the perfect tempo we should approach - in first place because there are no recordings and secondarily since tempo was a very subjective topic back in those days. And it still is according to music from the baroque period. Especially Bach's compositions have the ability to sound beautiful in every tempo, as long as the performance fits as a whole, or at least mostly. There are always contrary examples.
So, it definetely is useless to talk about taste when it comes to music. One might like it more poetic, but the other rather furious or hectic.
There is such a wide variety in tastes and I think that is beautiful.
I think this should be considered Jean's personal interpretation, which is exactly what it is. He's not playing for his PhD in harpsichord, he's playing to entertain me and others in his listening audience, and that he certainly does. Take your gripes back to music school.
@@mikekeyes6102 I totally agree....I've studied French Clavecin for about 20 years and mainly just love the music. I'd take Christophe Rousset over this guy any day.
TOO
FAST
Do you have a train to catch M. Rondeau ? Because you seemed to have abandonned the melody for the train.
Why does this song remind me of Bowser?
This is totally dreadful, all I can hear is the “knitting” the melodic line is totally covered by the percussive nature of the instrument. The whole thing was muscled out from start to finish, he is a great musician but the choices here are all wrong.
A large part of that, I'd say, is down to the recording. It's taken from very close to the instrument and the harpsichord, like most instruments, sounds a lot better with a bit of distance.
@@rich8037 This performance characterises Sir Thomas Beecham's observation that the harpsichord sounds like "two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm". This is not Bach but a Hanon exercise.
Most beautiful sound by the instrument, rushed, ostensibly "virtuoso" tempo by the player, details lost, song not sung. Did the virtuoso have to catch the train?
IT'S NOT A PRETTY PIECE AT ALL.