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Thank you very much!

That was only a practice video during the pandemic lockdown from my living room. And yes, I did next record it on a very nice harpsichord which you can see here in a better playlist of the complete Inventions (Bach Inventions at Augustinian Library): ruclips.net/video/Fa3V6nBJY-g/видео.htmlsi=tMYzKE3-d3_dEDyg (I will look forward to seeing your recording on a harpsichord too.)

Thank you for your kind words. Yes, this piece is a rare gem. And yes, I too love that counter melody. Knowing the operette Eine Nacht in Venedig and all the lyrics to this songs really helps one appreciate this music. Be sure to also look for my video of the Strauss Waltz "Ich bin dir gut"! :-)

​@@paulmauffray I highly appreciate your performance of the rare waltzes op. 455, as well as op. 154! It would be wonderful one day to listen to a similarly beautiful interpretation of another late Strauss's masterpiece, namely op. 453 "Hochzeitsreigen".

@@antares7880 Thank you for that suggestion. I will have to learn the Hochzeitsreigen too. So many wonderful pieces by Strauss that are rarely ever played ...

@@paulmauffrayIndeed, waltz 4A evokes the beauty of the ending of Act I of the operetta, which is simply amazing! Each melody of this waltz is another musical treasure from this stage work. I have great sentiment for "Eine Nacht in Venedig", because it was the first operetta that I saw live in the theater, and I was simply enchanted by the beauty of this music and the cheerful atmosphere of the entire work.

​@@antares7880I'm glad you enjoy our performance. I too developed my love for this waltz through my appreciation of the operetta which I was lucky to see at the Volksoper when I was living in Vienna :-) "Komm in die Gondel mein Liebchen, oh steige nur ein Allzulang schon fahr' ich trauernd so ganz allein..."

Thank you. This orchestra actually sounded much better when we performed in a different hall, and the microphones were perhaps too close here. It is such a fun and difficult challenge to navigate all the rubato and tempo changes, but such beautiful music that all orchestras should perform more often :-)

Thank you for your comment. Yes, it is indeed a great fugue to play even as a solo harpsichord fugue as I did here. As for the F major chord at the end, I chose to end it that way because the ending it inconclusive and leads into the next movement "All we like sheep" which begins in F major :-)

me too ;-)

while sometimes I might play this slightly faster, that was the way it felt best then for that instrument andin that acoustic. Be sure to share a link to your own interpretation too ;-)

yes, exactly. thanks for your comment

son ses ut insanı rahatsız edici bir duygu uyandırır çünkü son sesten sonra ılk ses tekrardan gelmiyor.Ölüme ithafen ve Amat kitabından geçen bir metin.Notaları yazdığınızı görünce kitapla bağdaştırdım.

You can hear the upper manual keyboard in my similar videos at the Augustinian Library of the Bach Inventions #1 in C major, #3 in d minor, #6 in E major, #14 in B-flat major, and here in the Scarlatti Sonata K. 11 in c minor ruclips.net/video/-BRbz8kz-Qg/видео.html

@@paulmauffray !!!gracias!!!

mine too :-)

That is in the Mendel Museum / Augustinian Monastery in Brno, Czech Republic.

@@paulmauffray thank you for your music

Yes, I have seen that version with those extra notes, however, in an edition I found those extra notes were written in smaller print as an ossia option. Also, in the autograph copy that I found they were not there and it ended as I do here.

Bella Italia, home of Scarlatti and beautiful harpsichords :-)

Glad you like it!

Thank you, but the instrument I played in my Augustinian Library harpsichord recordings was even better than this practice instrument. Glad you liked it :-)

Thank you for your comment. Yes, I too think if this as French music because it was found in Paris :-)

Thanks. And yes, we had very limited time to make our videos in that beautiful library especially since there was such little sunlight and moving and tuning the harpsichord takes up so much of the time. Glad you enjoyed it.

Aw, thank you so very much!

Glad you liked it :-)

@@paulmauffray A lively bouncing song. That Chadick was so marvelous and versatile! Superb choral music. Thanks for posting.

Thank you, if that was a compliment :-) An important aspect of playing this on harpsichord is that you are truly limited in how fast it can go. I too absolutely need to connect with how each key is plucking each string while also having the space to add my own ornaments. I hope you like it and wish you could experience how wonderful that instrument felt to play.

Aw, thanks, but this one in particular is thanks entirely to the musicians :-)

That was only with the 8' register, but I plan on making a new recording on my French double-manual harpsichord where I will use two sets of 8' and alternate between both manual for a forte and piano effect. ...

@@paulmauffray Thank you! I also have a NEUPERT Telemann Harpsichord, I have just received as a present from somebody. The Cembalo was made around 1976 and is in very good condition. I tried this solfeggio on my Telemann Harspichord too, but on yours it sounded like you used also thr 4' Register, maybe becuase of the brilliance.

The most significant improvement I made to that Neupert was that I had a professional replace all the old leather plectra with delrin plectra. I highly recommend that you do the same. Also, if your Neupert still has steel strings, please get those replaced properly with brass and iron strings. If both of those upgrades are done correctly, the quality and value of your Neupert will increase by at least double.

yes, clefs such as soprano clef, tenor clef, and alto clef were used more frequently for keyboard music in the 18th century.

Prince of Bulgaria, wow. Thank you for your comment.

@@paulmauffray , yes, also, he wrote a waltz - Hochzeitsreigen op. 453, in honnor of Ferdinand's wife, Bulgarian Princess Maria Louisa.

I'm so glad you liked it.

Hello, thank you for the polite way that you phrased your question. In short, yes, it is indeed a deliberate choice, however, it is more complicated than that. Uneven notes were common before the 19th century as for instance notes inegales in French baroque music. The metronome was not invented until during Beethoven's time, and ridged exact mechanical precise playing is the worst thing you can do on a harpsichord. Since there is no variety of dynamics on a harpsichord, the main method of expression comes from subtle and tasteful fluctuations in the rhythm. Therefore, I try to use expressive playing which emphasizes the musical aspects of the phrases and gives the instrument a human voice. Otherwise harpsichord playing would sound boring and could be replaced by a computer.

I suspected as much, but you explained it very well, thank you so much. I'm off to fill in my gaps in music history))))@@paulmauffray

in fact, these days, I am now even more influenced by the freedom of Francois Couperin's L'art de toucher le clavecin (where he specifically requests to play as if there were no barlines and to not feel the need to be limited to the printed rhythm) as well as unmeasured preludes of the baroque and fantasies and toccatas from the earlier baroque such as by Froberger and Frescobaldi.

Yes, truly beautiful music which Tchaikovsky happened to have composed while he was in Ukraine!

Thank you

Thank you. The smaller keys unfortunately do not make this less daunting but instead add a new challenge. After playing piano for many years, the fingers develop a muscle-memory of the distance of each interval, and that is thrown out of place slightly when one plays harpsichord. At least after having focused primarily on harpsichord now for a few years that is no longer such a problem for me :-)