Aleksandar Serdar - Chaconne in G major, HWV 435 - Handel

[@WennAde]

I can see he became so emotional towards the ending that it was hard for him to play anymore. No wonder; it was pure magic of art making. Händel is alive and we met him.

[@malenasheytanova9967]

Baroque music isn't a stern, passionless statement of puritanism. Baroque is extremely vigorant, flamboyant, exuberant even - it's also very improvisational. And there's virtuosity in it - the kind that comes out effortlessly and very lightly - not the one stat strucks with a hammer. Baroque is full of joy and injoyment. And that's precisely what this interpretations accomplishes to do. Mindblowing performance, one of a kind!

[@daninastefan1110]

Absolutely superb interpretation! Bravo!

[@sapphire6722]

One of my favorite key board pieces. Serdar brings out the beauty of the modern piano as well as the music itself. I love his use of ornaments and how he regulates the speed of the variations. Wonderful!

[@paradiddleday]

Excessive in every way-and I love it!!!

[@うちゃぎ-m3k]

リストがこの曲を弾いたなら、こんなふうに弾くかなーと思いながら聴きました！ 自由で、これはこれで好き❤

[@eleonoraorlando1555]

Perfetto, magnifico, ipnotico, fantasioso... il migliore !!!

[@Altagraciadeorituco]

Magnificent, superb interpretation. Music at its best!!! thanks for posting.

[@enjoymusic_enjoylife]

Damn I always get goosebumps when it goes from minor to major. It's undescribable

[@franr.3691]

All of Händel's magnificent keyboard works were composed during his youth and were published in various countries in Europe at that time, so we already know where Bach got all his inspiration from. This is for those who say that Handel was inspired by Bach hahahah lol it is the exact opposite. Bach was perfectly familiar with Handel's music and copied works such as Brockes Passion or Armida Abbandonata Cantata from his own hand.

[@nakrat11]

The slow middle portion is so devastating and beautiful.

[@dickkelly173]

Lovely idiosyncratic performance. Elegant left hand.Perfect encore.

[@tecnikcapitalhumanorecurso7293]

Handel's was one of the greatest keyboard composers ever...I simply cant understand how his keyboard music is overrated...this is one of the most beatufiul pieces that I've ever ear

[@sapphire6722]

I agree with you! The keyboard suites are phenomenal and also challenging to perform!

[@hablemosde1950]

That's right. Usually Handel is consideres a lesser composer than Bach but I think that they are justo very different... Bach' s keyboard music is really more complex (not always, but many times) but the Handel's music is much more poetic...his music has a beatuiful kind of emotions and feeling that it was not present in other baroque compositors.. And your right! Handel is both, mental and technically demanding

[@hablemosde1950]

That's right. Usually Handel is consideres a lesser composer than Bach but I think that they are justo very different... Bach' s keyboard music is really more complex (not always, but many times) but the Handel's music is much more poetic...his music has a beatuiful kind of emotions and feeling that it was not present in other baroque compositors.. And your right! Handel is both, mental and technically demanding

[@hablemosde1950]

Yeah!!! you are right!!! Handels music is the most poetic in baroque era! His keyboard music is not an exception

[@hablemosde1950]

Yeah!!! you are right!!! Handels music is the most poetic in baroque era! His keyboard music is not an exception

[@juanmanuelmartinez1747]

El modo menor en el medio es una genialidad, sublime, también la interpretación.

[@MrLleal]

Ufffff!!! Bravissimo!!!

[@SarrasaniPianoCircus]

oh, excellent playing, rich of expression and so well varied in sound and phrasing.

[@athanasiusjames1]

Sublime!

[@jelicagligorijevic2047]

BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!

[@demetradeus9601]

Awesome 🎉❤

[@tatjanadimitrijevic6377]

Glorious playing!

[@MastaDamascus]

Personally, I love his interpretation. I think a little romantic flair suits this piece well.

[@drserdard9362]

Awesome

[@sapphire6722]

I think Handel would be thrilled to hear this interpretation on the modern piano!! So beautifully played!

[@larikipe940]

Yes, quite.

[@Nodalema]

Glorious playing. Bravo!

[@mmdeguti2509]

I loved this passionate interpretation, regardless it is or it is not compatible with the baroque.

[@INDIGOBLUE555]

Well put Marta Deguti, let apart the " philologycally correct ", this rendition deserves attention, yet being,at some extent a sort of showing off exercise.

[@drserdard9362]

Bravooo

[@leongunnyli6059]

Heard this piece played by Perahia by chance. Hugely underrated piece I have to say! Serdar also played this with passion.

[@paulcaswell2813]

Underrated? Very much a central piece in the harpsichord player's repertory!

[@薩摩千洋]

とても音が良いです。

[@Lurcanio1]

Very eccentric version.

[@zdrastvutye]

this is how to play handel- like a boss

[@drserdard9362]

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[@DanijelPavlovic]

1 word- " serdtrill " ;-) just perfect.

[@contempomxmusica3806]

very coool!

[@barristanselmy2758]

Sounds better on harpsichord. But he did a great job none the less.

[@drtee51]

Yeah, a little Romantic. But this piece plays pretty well a bit Romantic, especially the minor versions in the middle. I'm not crazy about his taking every single one of the repeats, though. I think he'd have done Handel a favor by playing most of them just once. They don't all bear repeating.

[@franr.3691]

Many say that Handel on piano sounds "romantic". Well, Handel was the most romantic composer of the Baroque, especially in his keyboard works.

[@ChristianDaguet]

Magnifique !!!

[@ttrons2]

Not commonly heard in concert. I do not know why .

[@polipolipublic]

indeed unlike a baroque style, but awesome playing

[@tomkelly9841]

I personally like Annie FIscher's version better but different strokes .................

[@JoJo-qe5qg]

not the baby edison one

[@markmiretskiy8288]

I'd say it's substantially better vs. Lazar Berman by few levels.

[@GeorgeCarlin88]

where is trills, mordents etc.. Harpsichord version is emotional than this.

[@bortniansky]

Ugh!

[@shnimmuc]

Technically brilliant. Very un-Baroque. A great, but fairly unknown work.

[@Spartanjebi]

a lot of bach in this handel piece

[@shnimmuc]

It was written before Bach wrote his first set of suites. There is a lot of Handel in Bach`s first suites.

[@franr.3691]

Lol Handel didn't even know Bach and his music.

[@user-fu7zf4ck9z]

@@franr.3691 Händel knew Bach, he just ignored him because he knew he was that good

[@franr.3691]

@@user-fu7zf4ck9z Händel knew nothing of Bach, did not even know that he existed. Bach was an unknown composer. Bach did know Händel's music perfectly and copied Händel's works such as Bockes Passion or Armida Abbandonata Cantata from his own hand. All of Handel's harpsichord works are from his youth and were published throughout Europe, so we already know where Bach got all the inspiration from.

[@user-fu7zf4ck9z]

@@franr.3691 Oh yeah, of course Bach knew Händel and he definitely was inspired by him. Händel had to know of Bach’s existence and that he had a reputation of being a killer organist at least. He probably knew some published works by Bach as well but clearly didn’t see him as a rival or chose to not mess with him (unlike with Scarlatti)

[@paulpisano762]

Some good ornamentation but tempi and rubati rather self-indulgent.

[@polyphoniac]

Truly a comment worthy of a prim old maid (or the equivalent, a severely housebroken academic).

[@brunoszwajcer6404]

une version intéressante faisant la part belle à la virtuosité avec une expressivité belle mais excessive

[@fcouperin]

agreed, sounds like a weightlifter trying to dance

[@nikolaacimovic8854]

Very agressiv and filled with external effects...Händels piano suites are very very intimate peaces...Execution should be very fine in scence of tonal quality.This man plays like shooting with Kalshnikov...It has realy nothong to do with propper style of european music of that time...

[@user-fu7zf4ck9z]

This is not a suite though. It’s a Chaconne with like 20 variations that is not really meant to be a very intimate piece at all (except for the middle part). Just look at the first bar and the huge clumpy chords. This is mostly a loud piece with much tonal expression

[@tomsrensen9382]

Doesn't work for me either.

[@aksiiska9470]

8:41 she would be a pretty clickbait

[@houmano5190]

Over-interpretation. This is supposed to be a baroque piece, not some Chopin.

[@franr.3691]

Many say that Handel on piano sounds "romantic". Well, Handel was the most romantic composer of the Baroque, especially in his keyboard works.

[@blauundweiss1957]

Leider zu schnell.

[@GeorgeCarlin88]

no info for ignorant people... you must learn search.

[@oliverrabisco4710]

Too fast, sorry. Without emotions. He wants to show he can play fast.

[@benitoaeneasdorfler3012]

too much pedal my friend...

[@benedetti]

you're right...too much indeed

[@paulcaswell2813]

The correct instrument would help immensely...

[@tonyadzinikolov]

If you are musician and can not listen without prejudice music, or anything, you are perception is not subtle, direct and open to inspiration - hence you are Boring - probably to yourself too- unless you are dumb soulless academic... sorry for you. ... but actually the world suffers from people who think they know too much and are sure about it... but to make it more efficient: f...ck off!

[@user-fu7zf4ck9z]

Pedal in baroque music is sometimes necessary, the piano as a hammering instrument can’t completely imitate the plucky nature of the harpsichord, so to create more texture, a bit of „reverb“ is actually essential. I‘d say the rubato and the tempo choice is the problem here. Still a beautiful interpretation

[@organmosic]

no, sorry but no

[@demetradeus9601]

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