Ton Koopman - J.S. Bach/from: Frenche Suites - Sarabande video free download


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Duration: 03:34
Uploaded: 2010/04/08

Ton Koopman was born in Zwolle in 1944. After a classical education he studied organ, harpsichord and musicology in Amsterdam and was awarded the Prix d'Excellence for both instruments. Almost from the beginning of his musical studies he was fascinated with authentic instruments and a performance style based on sound scholarship.

Even before completing his studies he laid the foundations for a career as a conductor of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music and this fascination with the Baroque era led him in 1969, at age 25, to establish his first Baroque orchestra and, in 1979, to found The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra followed in 1993 by the Amsterdam Baroque Choir.

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8 years ago

Gregory Hamilton

When he ornaments and varies the melody, you sense it is coming directly from the Bach tradition. It's like a channeling of an era and the Bach Family.

8 years ago

Chris Benton

Mooi! Niemand speelt ornamented zoals Ton! Fantstisch zoals altijd! 

9 years ago

michsturge

Mr. Koopman has been my favorite interpreter of Bach on harpsichord of all time. I'm still bewildered how so many can prefer Gould and Tureck to the correct approach to this music. His performance of the Bach Violin Sonatas with Monica Huggett is peerless and not to be missed.

9 years ago

Nicola Sfredda

L'arte dell'ornamentazione al massimo livello di espressività

9 years ago

天坊庸子

以前、モーツァルトの喜遊曲をトン コープマンがチェンバロを弾きつつ指揮しているのをカセットテープで、何度も聞きすぎて駄目にしてしまった。素敵だったなあ！！今、彼のフランス組曲を見つけて、わくわくしている。この典雅な響き、時の雫が味わいながら懐に落ちてくるような。いつまでも聴いていたいようなサラバンド！

10 years ago

pobinr

Very expressive. But dear cameramen. We want to see the hands more than anything else please!

10 years ago

Sternstunde

Beautiful. He plays with such inner joy that blooms outward from the instrument.

10 years ago

tom zep

Willem is the best Harpsichordbuilder!! He is a very nice person. I like his instruments.....

11 years ago

Sir Juandabicho

Muchísimas gracias por compartirlo.

11 years ago

Giancarlo Paganetti

Bravo !!!

11 years ago

Ars Ballet

Fantastic experience of joy from 1722 direct, Thank you Mr.Koopman, actually I was watching the journalists too and his reaction was as expected fully relaxed

11 years ago

leoncioviolin

excelente

11 years ago

Giovanna Caruso

Graaaaaaande Koopman, grande!

12 years ago

Bachlives2

Ton Basically dismissed Leonhardt's techniques, he kept fingering, but that is not really Leonhardt's idea.

12 years ago

Thomas Wynn

Harpsichords like this remind me of how infinitely mine sucks...

12 years ago

Sebastián Núñez

Harpsichord made by Willem Kroesbergen in 1978

12 years ago

Timon van der berg

@Totma11 How is Ton Koopman not part of the Leonhardt school? Leonhardt was his teacher.

12 years ago

Malloyism

@Totma11 Adjectives galore. Bravo but theres a few you missed. Learn proper English my friend.

12 years ago

RyanPlow

this makes me want to dance around in a fancy hat and drink wine

13 years ago

Totma11

The instrument possessed of a nicely parched fundamental with an overtone series that in possessing braces flattened exclusively to excess of the intervals it it supposed to sing doesn't quite succeed in being luminescent. The player gives a lovely shaded performance that is remarkably fresh & full of surprise when compared to the school of Leonhardt- which always gives a 3 hour advance notice before playing a note so lofty and fatigued upon arrival that it seems like a frozen carcass. Bravo!

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