Let the north German name dropping continue: Praetorius!
Man, he is ...( 7 months ago by adithya0427)
Man, he is something else.
This is true human achievement.
He sat the way that ...( 6 months ago by gspaulsson)
He sat the way that worked for him. And man, did it work for him. Does it spoil the music for you? Then close your eyes and just listen. It's effing amazing.
What fantasia is ...( 5 months ago by gapifirst)
What fantasia is this? What's the catalog number.
There is no catalog ...( 5 months ago by sbareg)
There is no catalog number concerning Sweelinck's pieces. But if that can help you, it's the first g minor monothematic fantasia, N °3 in the Dover edition.
So, it's called the ...( 5 months ago by gapifirst)
So, it's called the first g minor monothematic fantasia. That's it right? Monothematic meaning one theme obviously right? What's the theme? Anyone else can jump in if you know the answer.
The whole piece is ...( 5 months ago by sbareg)
The whole piece is built like a fugue, with four independant voices. At the beginning, the melody we hear (d,f,g,a,b,a,d) is the theme, and is immediately repeated by the second voice, but upside down, like an inversed canon. Then, the theme remain omnipresent, treated in various manners like canons, but also augmentations (at 2:37, there are two voices, the long notes are the subject but slower) and diminutions (at 4:36, an inversed canon of the subjet with shorter notes).
thanks for your ...( 4 months ago by lizm3zz0)
thanks for your explication, very interesant your analisis
this is such an ...( 4 months ago by kingstravinsky101)
this is such an amazing piece. this piece got me to go explore music before bach.
that was GREAT! ...( 3 months ago by eligarf)
that was GREAT! awsome post.
Firs time I hear ...( 3 months ago by trixxxxxx26)
Firs time I hear Sweelinck - Thanks to you youtubers...
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Sweelinck was his ...( 3 months ago by Impressionist1)
Sweelinck was his favorite composer.His works are fantastic...
I thought orlando ...( 3 months ago by Ravel87)
I thought orlando gibbons was his favorite composer?
Obviously you don't ...( 3 months ago by FoliesEspagne)
Obviously you don't live in Amsterdam. He was even on our national Dutch banknotes with a value of 50 Euro before the Euro was introduced. To play Sweelinck on the piano is worse than playing Debussy on the electrical guitar. Horrible indeed although his Bach performances is a torture I will never forget
I read his great ...( 2 months ago by Impressionist1)
I read his great comments about Sweelinck...I think he wouldn't mind if I said his one of the favorite composers was Sweelinck.
sweelinck was his ...( 2 months ago by zzmlxzz)
sweelinck was his favourite composer?! i like this piece very much.I have not words for that:)
i'm tired of ...( 1 month ago by aerugo49)
i'm tired of baroque purists slamming the piano. i'm sure Sweelinck would have loved to have played the piano. are you against electricity as well? a piano is an advancement in a unique line of percussive string instruments. i need not remind you that there have been many, in many forms.
Wow!!! Che ...( 1 month ago by francescaemc2)
Wow!!! Che meraviglia!!! Thank you for posting this gift.
The piano is not so ...( 1 month ago by scarnaby)
The piano is not so much an advancement over the earlier keyboard instruments as some people just have bad opinions. I'm looking at you Folies. It just goes to show that people from any country can play the music of a country as well or better than people from that country.
yes certainly it ...( 1 month ago by aerugo49)
yes certainly it may be wrong to call it an "advancement", i do prefer the piano though. the thing is, you can't really play Debussy, Chopin or Beethoven on a harpsichord. i love what the piano does for baroque music, and in particular what Glenn Gould does for baroque music. i can understand why many people hate him. he was outrageous at times. but unquestionably a virtuoso. if someone appreciates the rather unique expression behind this virtuosity i think is simply a matter of taste.
At first listening ...( 1 month ago by echlyn)
At first listening this I thought it was Bach, some sort of variation from the Kunst der Fuge.
Yeah eindelijk een ...( 1 month ago by Aapton)
Yeah eindelijk een Nederlands componist eens aan het woord. Altijd maar die Duitsers enzo:)
Nice playing. Glenn Gould is really a genius
Thank you very much ...( 4 weeks ago by agatr)
Thank you very much for this gem!
I'm beginning to ...( 2 days ago by BesACB)
I'm beginning to understand why Gould loved Sweelinck so much!
This is true human achievement.
°3 in the Dover edition.
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