Jean Rondeau plays Sweelinck: Fantasia cromatica

Melancholy Grace by Jean Rondeau presents two sides of melancholy in Baroque music. The expression through chromaticism is here illustrated in Dutch composer Sweelinck's Fantasia cromatica. Discover the album: w.lnk.to/jrmLY
The French harpsichordist has conceived the album as a somber but eloquent dialogue between two contrasting voices: melancholy conveyed through chromaticism and melancholy conveyed through the musical expression of tears and weeping. Among the eight ‘chromatic’ composers are Frescobaldi, Luigi Rossi, Luzzaschi, and Sweelinck, while the ‘weeping’ composers are Dowland, Bull, Gibbons, Valente, and Scheidemann (who has an anonymous piece attributed to him).
For the chromatic pieces of the program, including this piece by Frescobaldi, he records on an Italian-style harpsichord made by Philippe Humeau in 2007 after an anonymous early-18th-century model.
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[@andrewsappel]

Rondeau does not let a phrase pass without enriching it with affect and direction. All the issues of style and technique take back seat, as they must, and all work to communicate something basic, natural, important...

[@bifeldman]

A compliment from an artist of the caliber of Andrew Appel is a considerable compliment.

[@jameslouder]

I have listened to three generations of harpsichordists grapple with Sweelinck--and only now at last do I hear in full the composer of genius who drew talented students from far and wide, and sent them back out into the world to change it forever.

[@gretchenweiss1925]

Wie schafft er es nur so zu spielen, als würde die Musik gerade entstehen? Jeder Ton ein singendes lebendes Wesen- ist ein absoluter Ausnahmekünstler.

[@Freotheric]

Hearing Jean Rondeau's performance, I feel that as a listener I can begin to understand Sweelinck's fantasia for the first time. I felt this way when I heard the the organ works of Max Reger in the lucid and powerful recordings by Alf Linder -- works that might be said to originate in the great experiments around the turn of the seventeenth century which Jean Rondeau here reveals to us. Reger too is a profoundly melancholy composer. And now I must listen again.

[@jacquestilouine5054]

You're so right. I have known this piece since decades but I have the same feeling: I begin to understand it for the first time thanks to Rondeau's interpretation.

[@shawardara]

Hearing it played in an historic temperament brings its own unique joy. What a performer and what a work. ❤

[@silvioevan11]

Well done. 👏👏 From 00:31 and on: striking resemblance with superb 2nd movement from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. Sweelinck: 1562-1621. Beethoven: 1770-1827. How's that expression? "Giants on other giants' shoulders."

[@oriraykai3610]

"If I have seen further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of Giants." - Isaac Newton

[@embenadorfinearts]

Jean Rondeau adds a new parameter of celestial diameter which reach values and amplitudes unaccustomed until then in this magnificent music by Sweelinck. thanks to Warner classics for this great video!

[@sravanaastrid3749]

Envoûtant ! Le grand art de la fugue, complètement habité, un clavecin presque legato et c'est très rare. Merveilleux cet artiste

[@sravanaastrid3749]

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@nathaliego5876]

Absolument merveilleux 🙏💥♥️

[@SoggySandwich80]

This is exactly what I needed to get me up this morning

[@jean-francoismasson6436]

c'est un génie !ce musicien a tout compris ! il est dans l'essence même de la musique ! et cet instrument et enregistrement !! quel joie profonde que d'écouter cela ! un des rares moments où l'on peur croire en l'homme

[@waynesmith6784]

Wonderful to have this performance of Sweelinck and to have Rondeau make available more interesting music which isn’t often heard.

[@michaelfuria4257]

love the non-equal tuning...great playing....

[@ChiffCharang]

The tuning is VERY meantone and I love it

[@ENIGMAXII2112]

@@ChiffCharang We ALL Love it, that is why we have gathered here, Lovley..!

[@thethikboy]

This already moving piece is rendered even more moving by its being played on a harpsichord and again even more so by the sensitive and passionate articulations of Monsieur Rondeau.

[@chrisrose6200]

A beautiful sounding instrument and a master playing with sensitivity +. Thanks

[@abeni999]

Expresa el verdadero espíritu de esta obra,cuanta sensibilidad, bravo

[@Carim700]

Maravilloso. Para mí, Jean Rondeau es el mejor clavecinista en la actualidad. Escucharlo y poder ver sus manos cuando toca es un verdadero privilegio. Muchas gracias por compartir esta bella músico con una virtuosa interpretación.

[@barriesimcock4520]

Most beautiful playing of this complex contrapuntal work… sounds amazingly fresh inviting and modern

[@ENIGMAXII2112]

This IS Great, and Mr. Rondeau is best at what he does. To bring Lovely intricate peices like this back to life..

[@catherinebeduer3838]

Magnifique et émouvant ❣❣ mon regard fixé continuellement sur vos mains... 🤩❤🎶🎹🎶❤👌😯🤗 Félicitations et merci infiniment, Mr. Rondeau et Warner Classics.💕💕🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹😊🌹❤😍

[@prime_time_youtube]

🤩❤🎶🎹🎶❤👌😯🤗

[@RobHaccou]

Happy to discover Sweelinck. This is beautiful!

[@thegildedpagestudio6485]

Exquisite - bon lavoro, il mio caro Signoro Jean! Mille d'abbraci ♥️♥️♥️

[@davideschiavone9827]

Questo musicista ha la sensibilità musicale il misticismo musicale che la storia attribuisce a Girolamo Frescobaldi.

[@renaldtremblay8333]

Un Sweelinck rondement exécuté avec âme et grâce par monsieur Rondeau. Merci.

[@sylviedescharne8486]

Quel bonheur de réécouter encore après le concert de La Chaux-de-Fonds🙏

[@forestiercharlotte3172]

Merci pour ce délicieux moment

[@LKemp-lr1ky]

B R A V O ! ! !

[@QoraxAudio]

This quality piece from the Netherlands played by Rondeau sounds great! 👍

[@IvanHernandez-gx4rt]

You are a genius maestro Rondeau!!!🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@sowo7136]

absolutely magnificent

[@noel13116]

Merci Jean, c’est toujours aussi somptueux !

[@cleumagoulart5914]

Sou CLEUMA GOULART. Há tempos que não ouvia um cravista. Cravo me remete a Bach, ouvia qdo mais jovem em vinil. Muito lindo! Gratidão!!!! (Mai/RJ/BR/2021) Sou CLEUMA GOULART.

[@TachanMabolo]

スヴェーリンクらしい曲ですね。こういう音楽大好きです。ハープシコードの音色が私はいちばんしっくり来ます🎵

[@MarcusMausan10]

Great! 👏👏👏👏

[@ekaterina7023]

Yes, very beautiful

[@thedukeofholland3926]

Even when played by a French men, it is the most Dutch sounding piece of classical music ever.

[@jamesvanderhoorn1117]

How is it Dutch?

[@thedukeofholland3926]

@@jamesvanderhoorn1117 In the same way Debussy sounds French. I cant really put my finger on it.

[@jamesvanderhoorn1117]

@@thedukeofholland3926 Ok, I'm with you. I can't put my finger on it either. That's why I asked you.

[@ohiorizzler1434]

And also on an Italian harpsichord

[@GabrielVelasco]

Beautiful!

[@alleluiamichel]

Merci

[@aquaesulensis7332]

Un jeu envoûtant que jean Rondeau nous fait partager sur ce beau clavecin italien. Merci pour le partage

[@emmanuelsales149]

Très belle interprétation ! Merci

[@mysticmouse7261]

If chromatic were a posture you can learn it from Jean who bends and bows with the music. Oh and it is graceful.

[@eliakim912]

Que de beauté!

[@DianaKazimiera-]

Przepiękne 🎼🎵🎶🎹

[@alcom3101]

Que du bonheur🎧🎬💪🚀🌌🙏

[@notasinglef1604]

so many epic music-related comments...nothing to add there, just wanna say his nose hairs are trimmed to perfection...keep it up

[@aldebaran.carrasco.martinez]

Brillante.

[@danielgoncalves9756]

Magnífico

[@starmiew]

Merci ⚪🔱⚪

[@simsimson436]

I can't believe this video only has 33k views, and half of those are mine....

[@AudioLemon]

Beautiful ❤️😻❤️

[@jamesvanderhoorn1117]

Such a marvel!

[@SandroMassarani]

Wonderful.

[@tmnvanderberg]

Amazing, 100 years before Bach

[@QoraxAudio]

Yep, and 100 times better.

[@elisabethmariamalecki]

My concentration ist thanks your music better then any time before.

[@jacquestilouine5054]

Excellente remarque. même chose pour moi!

[@grenouille128]

en général; je n'aime pas les expressions corporelles mais ici il y a une forme géniale de la nécessité de dire !!!

[@jacquesdurivage709]

Vivre sa partition, habité par elle...

[@ultramarin_ok]

🌹По тайным струнам души...🕊👏🏻

[@melusine9496]

attention, la structure. Pas l'affect a tout prix!!!

[@dbadagna]

Beautiful! Is the harpsichord tuned in meantone temperament?

[@bifeldman]

He looks very uncomfortable but the legato is gorgeous

[@gmtoomey]

Turning into Glenn Gould.

[@shnootch]

@@gmtoomey no doubt many have found that route

[@GuntherDebymusique]

Né à Deventer dans une famille de musiciens, son père Pieter Sywertszoon est organiste. Sa mère, Elsgen Sweling, est la fille du chirurgien de la ville Johan Zwelick : les trois enfants du couple adopteront tous le nom de leur mère comme patronyme. En 1564, Pieter Sywertszoon est nommé organiste titulaire à la Oude Kerk (la « vieille église ») d'Amsterdam. Cette charge, le jeune Jan Pieterszoon y accède à la mort de son père en 1577, et la conserve durant le reste sa vie jusqu'à son décès en 1621. Il sera d'ailleurs inhumé dans cette église. Son fils Dirk Janszoon Sweelinck prendra alors, à son tour, la relève comme organiste titulaire. Sweelinck aurait acquis son expérience après avoir étudié auprès de Jan Willemszoon Lossy et de Gioseffo Zarlino, le fameux théoricien (et compositeur), maître de chapelle à la basilique Saint-Marc de Venise - mais ce point reste hypothétique et controversé.

[@litoboy5]

cool

[@lorenzonicotra3592]

no ads pleese!!!!!!!!!!

[@gagaimnaishvili7298]

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@TheRealTricky]

I feel a bit of shame. I'm Dutch myself and I grew up with seeing a picture of Sweelinck on the 25 guilder bill (until it was replaced by a newer 25 guilder bill, so he was already gone of the money note years before the Euro was introduced), and I knew he was a composer, but it's the first time I actually actively listen to a performance of his work, and this does not sound like an easy piece to play.

[@austossen]

i would love to have a conversation about the sound. this is nothing like a bach masterpiece. it builds. it's long. and yet it has a french flair that is very unlike the french unmeasured masterpieces but i don't think it's unmeasured. it's structured the whole way through like a bach piece. it breaks open in beauty so unlike a french or bach piece. i'm not sure what the ingredient is. but i would love to hear wild ideas about it. it's too structured to ignore. rondeau plays it better than anyone else. he knows climax so much better than anyone else i've heard on youtube

[@circles79]

does anybody know the tuning used here? It's so lovely.

[@tiphainecrenn4937]

How to thank you, Jean?

[@margaviolin]

Soberbio 😍👌

[@ducdeblangis3006]

Magnifique, dommage qu'on entende si peu et le compositeur, et l’interprète, à Paris

[@nathaliego5876]

C'est un discret 🙂

[@DadoSimicStudiostriver]

He`s makings faces like he needs to go to the bathroom asap. Anyway wonderful playing. I enjoyed very much.

[@melzlink4100]

@Robert Lee, Countertenor Who turned?

[@elliotmadethis]

@Robert Lee, Countertenor euh

[@thomaswenas-bobbiefet5805]

hollands trots

[@davidklein5007]

A possible inspiration for W.F. Bach's F minor fugue.

[@23takeketa]

音粒が四角いような空間で，神々のように遊んでいるように聞こえる．

[@norifakiramele]

Fazil Say would crush that piano, such passion he has where soul dominates body, by the way who would buy second hand piano from him :)

[@WinrichNaujoks]

He's really feeling those first few notes, isn't he. Apart from that, he uses the same bad quality pirated scan that I do.

[@KINGBOBDOLEIV]

Not sure if i can behind this interpretation... too emotional and personal, almost Italian. It distorts the natural sense of the tactus and the grandeur of the counterpoint.

[@manuelgonzales6483]

First❤🔥❤

[@guntherdeby535]

Un brin de biographie avec Wikipedia. Né à Deventer dans une famille de musiciens, son père Pieter Sywertszoon est organiste. Sa mère, Elsgen Sweling, est la fille du chirurgien de la ville Johan Zwelick : les trois enfants du couple adopteront tous le nom de leur mère comme patronyme. En 1564, Pieter Sywertszoon est nommé organiste titulaire à la Oude Kerk (la « vieille église ») d'Amsterdam. Cette charge, le jeune Jan Pieterszoon y accède à la mort de son père en 1577, et la conserve durant le reste sa vie jusqu'à son décès en 1621. Il sera d'ailleurs inhumé dans cette église. Son fils Dirk Janszoon Sweelinck prendra alors, à son tour, la relève comme organiste titulaire. Sweelinck aurait acquis son expérience après avoir étudié auprès de Jan Willemszoon Lossy et de Gioseffo Zarlino, le fameux compositeur et théoricien, maître de chapelle à la basilique Saint-Marc de Venise - mais ce point reste hypothétique et controversé.