François Couperin - Les barricades mystérieuses

The piece was performed by Scott Ross.
This is my favourite performance of the piece, and it was removed from KZbin, so I am uploading it. If, however, there should be a reason to remove the video, I'd appreciate it to be informed.
I'm only someone who enjoys music, so if you have questions, don't expect me to know too much!
It seems that trying to find Scott Ross' performances for sale is very hard. Even though I looked for to buy albums, I only managed to find download links online. (except for his Scarlatti set and a DVD)
If anyone knows how to find them, I think a lot of people would be glad to know here!
Links: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ro...)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francois...
Download link: www.mediafire.com/?gqbr4cwvfrx...

[@RedEyeHill]

Still one of my all-time favourites. I could listen to it all day...as I have been today hehe.

[@wheelsntraks]

I enjoyed this, Mr. Ross' version greatly when first I heard it. Was disappointed when it was removed. I'd gladly purchase it if it was available. It seems those who own the rights to Mr. Ross' genius are not willing ( or unable) to republish his work for those of us who weren't fortunate to enjoy his artistry while he was alive. Most unfortunate.

[@SchumannDeppe]

In my opinion, this is by far the best rendition of this piece. Thanks for posting it again.

[@TilanusCommodor]

My favorite interpretation of this piece for all times. It's the benchmark for me when I try to play the piece! It's also not simply just another great piece played by genius Scott Ross, but also the piece itself immediately creates a feeling of pureness that connects you with to outer world at an extremely intense introverted point of view.

[@johnswimcat]

For me one of those rare pieces that are so complete let leave one wanting more. All the emotions that run through while listening to this superb performance...

[@GallusInsuber]

Wonderful interpretation, the best I personally know. Scott Ross - What a great and unlucky musician.

[@ClariceAust]

I loved this track by Scott Ross which was part of an album in the early 1980's. But the album, like so many things, was lost and the track was never credited properly. I never forgot this music though. It was only about 30 years later that I found it again! I so love it.

[@paradoxicus]

Después de buscar y escuchar todas Les Barricades...,en youtube,creo humildemente que esta es la mejor interpretación puesta.

[@OspreyD40]

My favorite recording is the vinyl-only Nonesuch recording by Aimee Van de Wiele. The pacing is perfect, the tone gentle, lovely and contemplative. Similarly to other wonderful Nonesuch harpsichord music vinyl records,in enthralling performances, it has sadly not been released on CD. This comes close in to Van de Wiele's tempo. I don't care for the instrument sound, but the playing is fine! Thank you!

[@AndreaSPitaim]

Best rendition of this piece on yoututube. Thanks for posting.

[@daniel15671]

Scott Ross was a briiliant musician with a great heart. This is one of his many great renditions.

[@FluttershyOakley]

He had such elegance, such refinement with the instrument...and such a composition of near total contentment...lovely! Xxx

[@josevictorsanchezavina1483]

We have to kmow more about good music. Cos our soul needs it!

[@rman91]

his phrasing is amazing - I love near the end of the last couplet when he really exaggerates the rubato on the melody in the bass

[@fisherroastedpeanut]

This piece sounds way ahead of its time. Truly beautiful.

[@joshuaPP00]

everything is so perfect : Scott Ross was such a master ; I love the way he taught as well , if you haven't seen his lesons , check it out : he teaches a young frenchman player and an italian too

[@nannymac47]

Perfect! Absolutely, positively..... PERFECT! Some of the performances are so slow and they 'slog' through the mud barely able to move. This performance has life.

[@libramoon2]

Lively and lovely.......😇

[@igorkovanovic9456]

Indeed: this is one of the truly great readings. I don't need to say any more! By the way everyone- does anyone else think of death listening to Les Barr. Myst. or am I by myself here. Not Death as such, but rather a tranquil ending of a good life... a final recollection of one's life without any regrets, except a gentle regret that it is about to end. I find it especially moving that Couprin writes "Vivant" as an instruction to the player.

[@hansdehond3166]

absolute perfectie : tempo, frasering , échte Couperin interpretatie en natuurlijk gespeeld op een prachtig instrument

[@tehDalahast]

I downloaded the sheet music to this a couple days ago and am having great fun learning it. I just need to learn the 'troisième couplet' (the third 'verse' sort of section before the theme plays for the last time) and I'll have it down, more or less. It's even more fun to play than to listen to, hehe.

[@snapper842002]

this really is the best version on youtube

[@Reghardtdietier]

Thanks for posting it again. I agree, this is also my favorite interpretation of it. He really captured the essence of this piece!

[@josevictorsanchezavina1483]

Excelent! I love it !

[@benhoughton8]

great playing!

[@wj98983]

comment after the post by Bolognalegs TWO YEARS AGO. Yes. That was a very good sentence and a very sensible one. Wish I had written it - have been an "early musician" all of my professional life and that one sentence takes all the weight off my shoulders.

[@nonoctave]

This is a nice interpretation which does not run roughshod over the piece like so many of the awful "baroque clockwork" nazis that post their junk.

[@CarlBowlby]

You are so right when you say “baroque clockwork” nazis that post their junk....so true, so true! I can’t really add to your comment, but I’ll try...they all play, like you say, the same hyper-speed tempos, losing all melody and emotion and missing the mystery that so many of these pieces possess. I play alot of Baroque music and I vary the tempo throughout the piece to let it actually “breathe” without rushing headlong into the ending.

[@Unidente02]

Fantastic. This is the first time I've heard it in the harpsichord version. I have heard (and love very much) the version for classical guitar.

[@elibennett3034]

it was written for Harpsichord. All the others are versions.

[@SCALEANDRE]

Dear friend, I am with You, here in Brasil Bahia. Thanks, Best regards.

[@shellyspiano]

Verging on PERFECT!!

[@shellyspiano]

Best I've heard, on piano or harpsichord!

[@Surycat123]

So you can see in this piece a reference to a game (that would fit in nicely with the pastoral context) or a metaphor of the hazards of life, or just lean back, close your eyes, and enjoy. Here's to Scott, the greatest of harpsichordists.

[@jean-marcrieu9966]

Tellement triste mais tellement beau !

[@ClariceAust]

Cela ressemble à un jogging dans la vie quand, de temps en temps, à l'improviste, votre cœur se brise. Pourtant, il guérit en quelque sorte malgré la douleur et beaucoup plus tard, quelque chose de beau se pose.

[@puddypuss]

this version is close to the one I had years ago on a box set, but I remember it being in 3 parts and getting faster and more insistent , which no version on you tube seems to have

[@Johdesmamba]

Thanks For Sharing

[@Surycat123]

Another explanation of the title - by far the best I know of - is in Wikipedia, The mysterious barricades (impossible to get the link through). It's rather obvious that the piece is all about movement: picking up speed, slowing down, stopping, starting again. The movement seems to be perfectly adapted to the pace of a person running, the elegance of the music, perhaps, suggesting a lady rather than a man.

[@Eleasis]

Thanks for the info. I reuploaded to another site. As for purchasing, I wish I knew.

[@Cruddybluds]

This is baroque music, this particular piece was composed over 100 years before the start of the Victorian era.

[@blassman777]

Perfección!

[@archcorenth]

Thank you :-)

[@barricadasmisteriosas]

Preciosa interpretación

[@333bobbin]

Adore it. Its revealing to hear it without stereo,,,,, the left hand simply sets the tempo

[@Bolognalegs]

There's no indication in the score to slow down or speed up, so really, we don't know if that was the intended 'feel' of the piece. Also, it doesn't sound very lady-like to me, it's written entirely in the base clef and kind of hefty with thick harmonies. When I play this, I don't ever stop, I try to make it feel like it's rolling along, speeding up and slowing down but not ever jolting to a stop. That said, this is a nice performance.

[@noahvale939]

Igor Kipnis' version was lovely too. There are some nice ones on guitar as well.

[@RedEyeHill]

I can't get enough of this rendition! The download link doesn't work, unfortunately, and it seems it is rather difficult to get a copy of Scott Ross' CD. Any way to purchase a recording of this piece anywhere? Suggestions?!?

[@pondwatcher]

@daniel15671 Scott Ross was an amazing harpsichordist. I don't believe there is another performer that rivals his interpretation of this piece.

[@gerardarker1]

♥

[@emperialAnthems]

Hi, you can find the explanation of the meaning of the "Barricades Mystérieuses" there: watch?v=cDv0SkP4tVY Anyway, this rendition from Scott Ross is by far the greatest I've ever heard...Everything is perfect...You have to see the video where he learns this piece to a student in the "Villa Medicis" in Roma (Italy), it's wonderful... Cheers from France.

[@jelt110]

Beautiful tone on the strings/wires (?), not so crazy about the tempo, but it has a definite beauty

[@laspilly]

I've always hated comments like "X-factor brought me here" or "this or that videogame brought me here"... but now I want to say it: Marie Antoinette brought me here LOL

[@Adragente]

please does someone know where can i find this verson? quelqu'un peut il me renseigner pour pouvoir se procurer cette version des barricades jouée par scott ross? Je cherche comme un dingue et je désespère de ne rien trouver, à l'aide!

[@labananiere]

Mais quelle belle musique en-chanteuse et reposante! voilà ce que l'on jouait à L'Hôtel Lambert, actuellement entre les mains de massacreurs, c'est triste, pauvre France

[@Bolognalegs]

Just a suggestion, but I think if you listen to more Baroque music you'll find that it's not inferior to more modern music. Music isn't getting better over time, it's just changing.

[@andreichuu]

this is victorian music? is beautiful

[@CarlBowlby]

Ok. Lots to be said about just this one piece of Couperin’s. First off, the tempo marking as indicated by the composer himself, which is “Vivement.” According to J.J. Rousseau in his ‘Dictionaire de Musique” he defines “Vivement” as ‘lively’ or simply ‘vif’ a French word for fast, to put it succinctly. So, what was a Frenchman’s idea in the early 18th century of “fast”? There were no high-speed trains, subways, buses, cars or the power of the internet. So, in my own, personal opinion, a Frenchman (or woman) in the early 1700’s perhaps, and most probably so, had a different idea of speed. What was “vivement” to them? I suggest that it was much slower than we interpret it today in the 21st century of America. When I play this piece I interpret vivement simply as to give the piece a “lively” meaning “alive” quality to the music. Not fast. But certainly not “gravement”. I love on a modern piano using the sustain pedal to bring out the absolutely lovely melodious chord-work of this piece. It rings like a bell, and I have to think that Couperin was perfectly aware of the tolling bells of Le Notre Dame cathedral. This piece exudes such a tolling of bells, and I choose to interpret the piece in this way. Thank you and enjoy the popcorn!

[@badfishNiki]

Well that escalated quickly... I've read that it's referring to a woman's eyelashes. I can't see it having anything to do with a girl's hymen. Just my opinion though.

[@lorenzo22li]

Eleasis, you could buy the complete Couperin by Scott Ross for 500 €, or I can give you by mail...

[@bebefreed]

Ross made the best recordings of Couperin. He played Couperin very well. I don't love this harpsichord, though. He had better instruments. Don't know why he chose this one.

[@hippotropikas5374]

Why are the black keys white and the white keys black on some old keyboards ?

[@geraldbrennan]

Looks cool. No practical reason.

[@hh3productions759]

One time I had to perform the Marcello oboe concerto as the keyboardist (on a harpsichord with black keys) with an orchestra. I had rehearsed it on my piano all week and I was used to looking at my fingers once in a while. They turned the lights out during the performance and I was basically playing blindfolded. I pulled it off was a great performance - but I always think about that event when people ask why the keys changed from black to white. As performance was modernized into the 1800s, at some point, most keyboard makers began to realize I think that dim lights equal an inability to look at your hands in order to make sure you're spot on the notes. And yes, I am aware that you don't have to look at your hands. I'm not looking at my hands while typing. But I was young back then.

[@geraldbrennan]

Excellent point. Thanks.

[@hh3productions759]

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[@EdgarChowKarim]

The most straightforward explanation is that ivory is more expensive than ebony (black wood). Using ivory on fewer keys yields the greatest cost advantage.

[@GallusInsuber]

Wonderful interpretation, the best I personally know. Scott Ross - What a great and unlucky musician.