This video demonstrates how the piano-forte is Chopin's instrument, because he meticulously chose the dynamics of every note to make his works sounds as beautiful as they do.
That was my first observation! Has he borrowed a complete playable cembalo/harpsichord? Any way he got it, it is fun to watch and note that the waltz he chose as third I think, Valse de L'adieux, sounds as it could have been OK to listen to, and it made me wonder how sweet Domenico Scarlatti would have sounded on a harpsichord - I think Scarlatti's music WAS composed on harpsichord, yes?
They are really fun to play, too. My piano teacher had one....and 18th century one (I think...or 19th century). She let me play some of my piano music on it sometimes. It is a satisfying feeling under the keys to feel it catch and pluck the string. Far different than the piano, but I loved them both.
@@THECONTINENTALMAN ...man, it is subjective; you know that. Beauty is in the eyes and ears of the beholder. Let me be even more frank. It sounds like a Circus Calliope when something legit like Chopin is played on a harpsichord.
The way you fix the camera with a vaguely baleful stare at 0:55 and then start playing "Valse de L'adieu" while continuing to stare at the camera for what feels like a prolonged amount of time (as if to tell your viewers "I don't trust you as far as I could throw you") is the best thing I have seen on RUclips. Period.
Thank you so much , i have waiting for a harpsichord version for so long thank you so much for giving me the opportunity for me to listen to chopan this incredible instrument thank you .
Beautiful instrument you got there! I am a harpsichord player, so most of the (melodic) passages sound good to me :D Number 6 especially sounds just like something from the baroque period. btw. Chopin loved Scarlatti, so it may be not that far fetched^^
This is so uncexpected, and really, pretty sublime! The drier, cleaner acoustic of the harpshichord really demonstrates what a mind blowing contrapuntal and harmonic genius Chopin was, proving that the emotions are truly in the actual musical lines, not the extra expressive drama an individual performer adds. Thanks for your hard work here, so wonderful!
Very interesting. Now we understand how the piano forte was an important evolution over the harpsichord. So much better with the variations in hammer volume and pedal dampers. Very convincing! Thank you.
The harpsichord's timbre sadly was lost. Cristofori should invented a way to play the harpsichord soft and loud without changing the plectrums for the hammers.
Your music channel and your great passion for music are impressive, I love to see you play and feel the passion for classical music that I had lost a bit. Congratulations and congratulations
Chopin knows Bach very well, and in fact when he travelled across the europe he takes whit him the 2 volumes of the well temperated clavier. Also in all his composition there is a remind to baroque armony, in particular Bach's armony
Playing romantic piano on the baroque instrument is a new level of difficult. He's having to concentrate HARD. It's a keyboard instrument but it behaves differently to a piano so kudos to him for being being able to pull it off as well as he did.
Harpsichord keys measure 20 mm, while piano keys measure 22 mm, it is more difficult to play harpsichord because you have to take more care and be more precisely.
@@yektasabeti4795 Because circus music had not yet been invented, so the people just would have freaked and thought it was the devil delivering then to a carnival from Hell.
@@lathapriyashivakumaar3846 Would not have because Chopin's composition relied a lot on the sustain pedal. The composition doesn't work without it in many of Chopin's pieces, because the harmonies get lost or disconnected. Same reason that it generally wouldn't work if you peformed Beethoven or Brahms symphonies on two or three harpsichords. The symphony would not really come out of those instruments. In fact, this harpsichordist here is secretly, and very cleverly demonstrating this here. It's really quite genius!
Pity the performer plays the harpsichord like a piano, not utilizing one of harprichord's main strengths - using different registers and both keyboards at the same time. The piece starting at 1:22 would have benefitted from it enormously.
As someone that knows very little about classical music, and even less about the composers, I must investigate more of Chopins music. I'm mightily impressed with what I hear, thanks for the tutelage 😊
A consequence of the artificial sound is either the quality of instrument construction or player technique (how note lengths are manipulated to create a basic form of 'dynamics')
Amazing job with these! Of course I don't have to tell you this, but for all others, playing a harpsichord is a completely different instrument and skillset than a piano. I find it much more difficult than a piano. To do what he did is quite spectacular. There is nothing better, though, than a fresh French double with all the stops pulled. The power you feel is even more than a 9' concert grand piano, for sure!
Needed to make use of the upper manual for some different sounds -- both lute stop (not sure if this harpsichord had it, but that was at least a common feature on the upper manual), and different number of string ranks between the 2 manuals (with even the option to couple upper to lower). That's how you got different volumes on a harpsichord (apart from a few experimental models that had a swell pedal or a mechanism for moving the jacks/quills towards or away from the strings).
The creaking stool in the background sounds so harmonically adequate here.
Butt drum
My dude you are not wrong
And this comment is gonna blow up
Bruh huh
Especially at the heroic polonaise part
👏👏👍👍😁😁
I once asked an organist if he could play Chopin on the organ. He said he'd need to grow more fingers and a couple of extra feet.
Refer him to Cameron Carpenter...lol
@@maestrobjwa90 cameron carpenter sucks lmao
@@thekathal subjective
On a tracker action with coupled manuals, coupled pedal, and full organ, he’d need servo-assisted feet and fingers!
@@phph1731 depends on whether the maker was competent or not
Vinheteiro hired Mozart to stare at us because he is playing Chopin.
I figure it's the same picture of Wolfgang that he carries around in his wallet!
@@atvalleau 😆😆😆
@@atvalleau lol
He should’ve hired Chopin
@@cptnmxrt1862 but it was Mozarts birthday he had a little surprise.
This video demonstrates how the piano-forte is Chopin's instrument, because he meticulously chose the dynamics of every note to make his works sounds as beautiful as they do.
Well spoken. This is also a profound demonstration of how orchestration effects composition itself.
Chopin sounds clunky and stilted on anything without an expression pedal
Finally an intelligent comment. Literally the first comment worth reading.
The waltzes actually sound fine, but the nocturne sounds terrible on the harpsichord.
Not to mention having a sustaining pedal.
Beautiful instrument! I will order one on Blocket some day 😄
No, please no.
Oof oh no lol
Dont do it
6th
Well 7th
Don't worry guys Mozart is staring at us for him.
lol
That was my first observation! Has he borrowed a complete playable cembalo/harpsichord?
Any way he got it, it is fun to watch and note that the waltz he chose as third I think, Valse de L'adieux, sounds as it could have been OK to listen to, and it made me wonder how sweet Domenico Scarlatti would have sounded on a harpsichord - I think Scarlatti's music WAS composed on harpsichord, yes?
🤣
Yes, I do. XD
@@wolfgangamadeusmozart8015 I never knew you could be so creepy if you stared at me...
The sound of the harpsichord is just so satisfying
Disagree. Might just be that Chopin sounds awful on harpsichord
D
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They are really fun to play, too. My piano teacher had one....and 18th century one (I think...or 19th century). She let me play some of my piano music on it sometimes. It is a satisfying feeling under the keys to feel it catch and pluck the string. Far different than the piano, but I loved them both.
I agree supreme leader
Level of difficulty: Vinheterio does NOT stare into our souls!!
I'll actually add this to my offical Piano Difficulty Levels. I think my teacher knows him xD
So nice of you to assume that I have a soul.
@@ATGG do that plz!!😂
Bro it's high.
The painting does though
* People exists *
Has a piano: plays Bach
Has a harpsichord: plays Chopin
Lmfao
Imagine playing Alkan on a harpsichord tho...
Good. We need to troll the piano peeps for stealing all our repertoire and mass release the abomination
real
@@anotherhumanbeingblyat8935
The op 39 overture would sound awesome on harpsichord.
I love the sound of harpsichord. There should be more of them.
So that's how Chopin sounded like when Bach was playing some Chopin.
You scare me Mr Satie
Criminally underrated comment right here
Not really coz Bach was dead when Chopin was alive lol
My mind crashed
@@witchkingofangmar9373 r/woosh
Plot twist: He's now staring at us through the painting
•O•
gusano
Sorry, but the painting shows Mozart.
MIND BLOWN
I thought he changed but NOPE
It’s not a Chopin
If people are allowed to play Bach on a piano, you are allowed to do this. That's my verdict.
Hahaha great point 😂😂
@@AnnaKhomichkoPianist yea
Ok fine but can we pleease have just a leeetle more metronome?
Exactly! People should just play whatever music on whichever instrument they prefer. With or without pedal or stops, lol
W punkt! 😄
Will a harpsichord get me a wife?
No, just complaints from neighbors.
Maybe
Não... senão ele já seria casado kkkk
No ... better than that, it will keep the brainless of both sexes away from you.
I will key you in ,but it is not a black or white rule.You may end up finding only a plucky one,who will just string you along.
Well done. Harpsichord has a way of exposing every flaw in your playing.
Lol 😂😂
First flaw was picking the harpsichord
@@joon0 100% agree. Yikes the instrument f..s up the whole thing up. But also underlines, what a brilliant composer Chopin was!
@@yanbu000 meh it doesn't sound that bad
@@THECONTINENTALMAN ...man, it is subjective; you know that. Beauty is in the eyes and ears of the beholder. Let me be even more frank. It sounds like a Circus Calliope when something legit like Chopin is played on a harpsichord.
Yooo playing Bach on a harpsichord is literally a dream come true
It will be the next video!
HOLY MOLY VINHETEIRO REPLIED TO MY COMMENT I can rest now....
@@Lord_Vinheteiro thank youuu
@@ckchang-wg2lw lol noice.
@@Lord_Vinheteiro play the cadenza of Brandenburg concerto no 5
It makes me genuinely happy that you’re making a living based on something you’re so passionate about in life. :)
That’s life goals indeed :)
Passionate? Did you see his face? 😂
You are absolutely right. His passion is inspirational !
Making a living with music? He looks like a person in good economic situation
It's my dream, too.
If he is not staring at us it's hard play.
If he did a mistake it's impossible to play.
Yeah
Don’t worry the painting at the back is still staring at our souls
@@johnmorgann lol
@@johnmorgann 🇷🇺
Really ? Other pianists can play the Nocturne n°2 and he can't.
Thanks for doing this because it's been made obvious that Chopin's compositions are meant for an instrument other than the harpsichord.
I fucking love the harpsichord. It is THE BEST instrument there is. It should be everywhere. Damn shame its not in more songs. ROCK ON BROTHER!
So a harpsichord is an 8-bit piano.
Lol yes!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Most accurate description ever, fellow gamer!
Hmm so this instrument is used for Mario theme😏
Yea
Y es!!
“Mom, can we get Chopin?”
“We have Chopin at home”
Chopin at home:
😂
Noice joke duuuuude😂😂😂
Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet!
what
i don't get it?
This guy got me a pure metalhead born and raised into classical music
I mean, metal takes after classical in a lot of ways.
Man, wait until you hear classical played as a metal track. Moonlight sonata 4th movement is particularly face melting!
you will love to listen to people like jason becker, jeff loomis, uli jon roth, yngwie malmsteen etc
@@northwestnerd4950 you got any good videos you can recommend?
@@northwestnerd4950 You mean the 3rd movement right?
Good that you hired 6-year-old mozart to do the staring
So you noticed too 😂
The way you fix the camera with a vaguely baleful stare at 0:55 and then start playing "Valse de L'adieu" while continuing to stare at the camera for what feels like a prolonged amount of time (as if to tell your viewers "I don't trust you as far as I could throw you") is the best thing I have seen on RUclips. Period.
Vinhreto read my mind, the other day I googled what does Chopin sound like on a harpsichord. I’m freaking right now.
@Adolf Hitler I guess you are more into Richard Wagner than Chopin. It is too Polish right
Good griefs, he's a fine pianist AND a mind reader !!! Such superpowers !!!😃😄😃😄😃
Why did Bach throw away his harpsichord?
Because it Baroque
The harpsichord is now baroquen 😂
ba-dum-tiss*
Nooooo, now he wants it Bach! It could be fixed...
H A H A H A H A H A
Handel that joke with care it is very old lol
It's so strange hearing Chopin without dynamics.
Still, fascinating hearing the harmonies this way.
Very interesting experience all around.
You know that the peace is really hard when he is looking at the piano
Well, it's a harpsichord. The keys on that are a different size, maybe he's just not used to that yet.
Even in the title, he have said that it's a Harpsichord.
I searched 'person who stares into your soul as he plays piano' and I ended up here...
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Vighnesh Ganti lol
Amazing
(and thanks for putting my portrait)
LOL
Up
Rock me Amadeus!
Hey Wolfie!
What you again!
Bravo! I love Chopin AND the harpsichord. Great idea to put them together. Thank you 🇨🇦
The camera couldn't stand him staring at her anymore, she focused on the cabinet in the background
Thank you so much , i have waiting for a harpsichord version for so long thank you so much for giving me the opportunity for me to listen to chopan this incredible instrument thank you .
"Chopin is not Chopin without pedals" - W.A. Mozart
what did I just read hahahaah
And I believe Bach said that “too much pedal when playing in the low register of the keyboard will blur everything”
Mozart died before Chopin bearth
I prefer the wise words of Vivaldi: « Debussy knows nothing of true musical forms nor intonation; he is to the piano what AutoTune is to pop »
Hey! Do not play it with full throttle!
I love the ease with which you play. So much effort to make it all seem effortless. There's such joy in what you do.
Beautiful instrument you got there!
I am a harpsichord player, so most of the (melodic) passages sound good to me :D
Number 6 especially sounds just like something from the baroque period.
btw. Chopin loved Scarlatti, so it may be not that far fetched^^
I'm listener from japan. I am soothed by your performance.
自分もー
Konnichiwa
Hello from Russia
@@野口昌克-p5i 同志がいたか！
This is so uncexpected, and really, pretty sublime! The drier, cleaner acoustic of the harpshichord really demonstrates what a mind blowing contrapuntal and harmonic genius Chopin was, proving that the emotions are truly in the actual musical lines, not the extra expressive drama an individual performer adds. Thanks for your hard work here, so wonderful!
Very interesting. Now we understand how the piano forte was an important evolution over the harpsichord. So much better with the variations in hammer volume and pedal dampers. Very convincing! Thank you.
The harpsichord's timbre sadly was lost.
Cristofori should invented a way to play the harpsichord soft and loud without changing the plectrums for the hammers.
The haprsichord... Such a beautiful sound!
Totally agree!
IKR!
instead of beating the strings with small hammers like piano it pinches the strings
I am from Poland and i am so happy because You play Chopin’ s music 😛👍
Your music channel and your great passion for music are impressive, I love to see you play and feel the passion for classical music that I had lost a bit. Congratulations and congratulations
I love how the camera's focus knows who the GOAT is.
Amazing talent. Thank you for taking the time and effort to bring these pieces to life on the harpsichord. So impressive.
Wowzers! It sounds more like Baroque than Romantic! Lol! Would be hilarious if Chopin was watching this and either be impressed or not!
Chopin knew the harpsichord so I don’t think he would be surprised :)
@@AnnaKhomichkoPianist I literally thought Chopin was the piano guy! Interesting to hear!
And also like most keyboard composers he studied bachs well tempered clavier and was was inspired to write those preludes.
He will be impressed
Chopin knows Bach very well, and in fact when he travelled across the europe he takes whit him the 2 volumes of the well temperated clavier. Also in all his composition there is a remind to baroque armony, in particular Bach's armony
i love this guy and his looks of abject terror :P
Nice word choice
@@cameronmakowski6640 ty much, i wish i could say I made it up but my sister did.
you have no idea how i get this many likes
4:41
Playing romantic piano on the baroque instrument is a new level of difficult. He's having to concentrate HARD. It's a keyboard instrument but it behaves differently to a piano so kudos to him for being being able to pull it off as well as he did.
Harpsichord keys measure 20 mm, while piano keys measure 22 mm, it is more difficult to play harpsichord because you have to take more care and be more precisely.
He's not used to playing on the harpsichord, on the piano every key placement is locked in his head already
Mozart is doing it for him
I grew up with this instrument and still love it
It’s amazing how much music you have in your head. Bravo.
Chopin is great and a proof is that even with harpsichord he remains great!
...and we've been playing Bach on piano for centuries... and there is no other composer who remains greater than him!
Nah
Mozart's portrait on the wall: "Am I a joke to you?"
I love your music. You are kind, nice, hilarious and humorous. You are a genius!
It's great to see someone enjoying music so much.
Please keep making these videos the genuinely make me happy and it calms me down
This is so cool for me because I play the harpsichord and it's a really beautiful instrument
Imagine playing Scott Joplin on a harpsichord 😂
That's would be funny for sure 😂
You're in luck! Search for E. Power Biggs on Spotify. He's recorded a bunch of Joplin on the Pedal Harpsichord.
ruclips.net/video/pa5EhAZie3M/видео.html
@Adolf Hitler Thank you Hitler, very cool.
@@DailyBach wow that's interesting. Thanks!
Baby Mozart is staring at us this time.
One of those notes resonated in my ears every time he played it!!! Felt like a bee thought my ears were flowers...
It actually works quite well
I especially liked the creaky chair accompaniment.
It’s sooo good
Imagine going back in time and playing this during the Baroque period. You would be burned at stake...
Why?
@@yektasabeti4795 yes.
@@yektasabeti4795 Because circus music had not yet been invented, so the people just would have freaked and thought it was the devil delivering then to a carnival from Hell.
@@MontoyaMatrix but Handel made a lot of pieces for the harpsichord. Would chopin’s music be considered circus music?
@@lathapriyashivakumaar3846 Would not have because Chopin's composition relied a lot on the sustain pedal. The composition doesn't work without it in many of Chopin's pieces, because the harmonies get lost or disconnected. Same reason that it generally wouldn't work if you peformed Beethoven or Brahms symphonies on two or three harpsichords. The symphony would not really come out of those instruments. In fact, this harpsichordist here is secretly, and very cleverly demonstrating this here. It's really quite genius!
Well done! Proving that great music is great in any medium when performed with skill and musicality.
I think it sounds cool! Always loved the rich golden Sound of the Harpsichord.
Pity the performer plays the harpsichord like a piano, not utilizing one of harprichord's main strengths - using different registers and both keyboards at the same time. The piece starting at 1:22 would have benefitted from it enormously.
English:
Mr. Lord Vinheteiro, where did you buy that harpsichord?
Portuguese:
Sr. Lord Vinheteiro, onde comprou esse cravo?
Acho que foi no OLX, vi um cravo parecido com ele sendo vendido lá por 25 mil.
@@JJ_Assalt agora me diga em ingles
Tá falando sério?
@@JJ_Assalt Não foi não, em uma entrevista ele disse que mandou fazer esse cravo e pagou cerca de 95mil
Speak English or Spanish guys, please
This is like playing Bach on a piano.
Wait,
we don’t already do that?
And it sounds rubbish.
I love the Harpsichord, I love the Prelude No. 20 added at no extra cost !
As someone that knows very little about classical music, and even less about the composers, I must investigate more of Chopins music. I'm mightily impressed with what I hear, thanks for the tutelage 😊
It's so funny how my ears hear a vintage harpsichord as artificial(electronic) - Beautiful sound, so glad I got to listen to your awesome playing 😎
A consequence of the artificial sound is either the quality of instrument construction or player technique (how note lengths are manipulated to create a basic form of 'dynamics')
Why is Homer Simpson staring at the painting at the bar?
-It's Mozart.
Took me a second
XD
Hahahahaha!
You came here just to see comments about that painting right?
It is mozart!
@@Lord_Vinheteiro lol
@@Lord_Vinheteiro O vinheta, volta para o PANICO PFVR
@@Lord_Vinheteiro Oh hello there notice me senpai
@@Lord_Vinheteiro I know Sir
It sounds better than what I was thinking when I read the title! Great job!
Oh Lord, you make me love Chopin even more. Thank you.
I'm glad someone invented the piano.
I’m glad someone invented you
@leles tita: Without the harpsichord, there's no piano.
Big ups to the Italians for inventing the piano!
Bartolomeo Cristofori, the inventor of a piano
Clavichord and fortepiano are better for me.
This what you do when you’ve learned every single piece of music there is to learn
this sounds good, but at the same time feels so wrong.
Absolutely intriguing!!
This made my day. Thanks so much for sharing it. Can't wait for your Bach video!
Amazing job with these! Of course I don't have to tell you this, but for all others, playing a harpsichord is a completely different instrument and skillset than a piano. I find it much more difficult than a piano. To do what he did is quite spectacular. There is nothing better, though, than a fresh French double with all the stops pulled. The power you feel is even more than a 9' concert grand piano, for sure!
....and a 16' register ?? Heaven shakes!
Play some bach on that harpsichord
Liszt
BOTH 🙏🏻😘🙏🏻
He said in another comment that he will play Bach next!
The repeated A flat sounded less like rain drops and more like the buzzing of an alarm clock . . . ick
Never thought I needed to know this. Thanks for the enlightenment!
I thought I would like Chopin on harpsichord, but it still sounds like Chopin
The first one sounds as if I’m in a haunted old clown theme park
Sooo true
Love it
Needed to make use of the upper manual for some different sounds -- both lute stop (not sure if this harpsichord had it, but that was at least a common feature on the upper manual), and different number of string ranks between the 2 manuals (with even the option to couple upper to lower). That's how you got different volumes on a harpsichord (apart from a few experimental models that had a swell pedal or a mechanism for moving the jacks/quills towards or away from the strings).
The buzzing sound almost makes it sound like it is played on The Floppotron. Well. perhaps not really.. But It made me think of it :P
LOVE THE SOUND OF THE HARPSICHORD:) NICE WORK AND COOL IDIEA
Cravo é um dos meus instrumentos preferidos! Gostei muito do vídeo. Espero que venham mais vídeos tocando cravo!
O melhor é saber que esse talento é do Brasil, me encanta escutar você tocar.
Good music will always defend itself.
You absolute mad man. Love it
Allways a pleasure watch you at the piano. Thanks.
It is very frustrating when there are two keyboards, but maestro using only one
Mozart is now 265 years old! Happy birthday to him!
Chopin is 211
Alternative title: If Chopin was Baroque
That would be scarlatti.
@@Taki-NeobaroqueDZ okay
@@Taki-NeobaroqueDZ okay
@@Taki-NeobaroqueDZ okay
This is just amazing
Crazy idea! Amazing as always 👏👏
eu amo o harpsichord é um dos meus instrumentos preferidos, gostaria de um dia ter um