Varvara | Baroque on the Piano: from Purcell to Handel

Varvara | Baroque on the Piano: from Purcell to Handel · MarchVivo

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Purcell's most important collection of keyboard music appeared posthumously in 1696, and contains his eight suites for keyboard. In 1720 Handel published his Suites de pièces, a representative corpus of a genre composed between Hamburg and London. The performance of this harpsichord repertoire on the piano offers a new insight into the greatness of this music. This concert was held during the period of severe restrictions on audiences in concert halls by COVID 19.
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Suite in G Minor Z 661
00:00 Prelude
02:08 Almand
06:55 Corant
08:43 Saraband
Henry Purcell
12:00 Chaconne in G Minor ZT 680
Henry Purcell
Suite in C Major Z 666
14:50 Prelude
16:03 Almand
19:45 Corant
21:01 Saraband
Henry Purcell
23:57 Ground in C Minor ZD 221 [attributed to William Croft in other sources]
Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
26:38 Chaconne in G Major HWV 435
Georg Frideric Handel
Suite No. 5 in E Major HWV 430
35:33 Preludio
37:49 Allemande
42:17 Courante
43:56 Aria with variations “The Harmonious Blacksmith”
Georg Frideric Handel
Suite in G Minor HWV 432
48:35 Ouverture. Largo-Presto-Largo
55:09 Andante
59:07 Allegro
1:01:08 Sarabande
1:04:55 Gigue
1:06:12 Passacaille
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
1:09:46 Aria “Schafe konnen sicher weiden” from Cantata BWV 208 (arrangement for piano by Egon Petri)
Varvara, piano
Concerto "Baroque on the piano" from the cycle "From Purcell to Händel, a century in the English Chamber"
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20 March 2021
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@paultah1 12 күн бұрын

Varvara Nepomnyashchaya was born in Moscow in 1983. After studying for eleven years with Prof. Lidija Grigorieva at the Russian Gnessins Academy of Music, Born in Moscow, Varvara studied at the Gnessin State Musical College and continued her studies at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Mikhail Voskressensky and later with Evgeni Koroliov in Hamburg. In 2006 she was awarded at the Leipzig Bach Competition and in 2012 she was launched onto the international scene after winning the first Prize of the Concours Géza Anda in Zürich. Varvara is curious about every form of art and her wide repertoire includes all different periods. She has her own website.

@marchvivo 12 күн бұрын

Those that love her performance (as we do at the Fundación March) will be happy to know that there is abogue video of her on this channel performing Russian music

@staffanolofsson8201 8 күн бұрын

Good to know!

@christinayfong2294 6 күн бұрын

Delightful music and excellent performance! Thank you!

@staffanolofsson8201 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful and meditative baroque music on a modern grand piano, wonderfully played by Varvara. I find nothing wrong in playing this on a modern instrument. 'Let a thousand flowers bloom'.

@victorlloyd5271 8 күн бұрын

The only times I object to the use of a piano rather than a fortepiano or harpsichord is when the music calls for several instruments playing together. The piano is a beautiful instrument, but it tends to take over the stage in music before the Romantic period. The first time I heard the Haydn Trios using a Fortepiano, violin, cello combination, I was astounded how much fuller the Fortepiano version of the Trios sounded. The violin and cello lines came through so beautifully and nicely.

@staffanolofsson8201 4 ай бұрын

This is wonderful music for all of us who try to focus on the importance of a good life and try to neclect all the things that hinder us from this, as stress, lack of confidence, lack of concentration, and the sometimes annoying daily life we all know. The art of listening carefully. I try my best. With Varvara as my guide in this exploration of old music I feel full of confidence. So thank you Varvara and all this music of Purcell, Händel and Bach for making me feel free. You are a wonderful pianist.

@fleongoogle2429 4 ай бұрын

For me, Händel, my friends and family make all the difference. Without friends and family, Händel would do the job single-handed.

@staffanolofsson8201 4 ай бұрын

@@fleongoogle2429 Yes Händel is great, and his work for cembalo is great, and I also think Varvaras interperetations on piano of his music is great. We are all living in this world, and as you say, without friends and family and music, this would be a much duller place.

@staffanolofsson8201 3 ай бұрын

I first thought I was wrong to write this. And english isn´t my first language. But thank you all, I am evidently not the only one to feel this way. This music is comforting and has a lot of knowledge in it. Musical knowledge. And human knowledge.

@JuliaPikalova 3 ай бұрын

Well said!

@5gx673 3 ай бұрын

Wonderful comment

@samueltiosam8673 4 ай бұрын

Música que cabe bem em qualquer instrumento, moderno ou antigo. É MÚSICA, afinal de contas. E da melhor estirpe. Parabéns, Varvara!

@xqatrez 4 ай бұрын

beautifully sensitive and melodious. An artist with a noble soul.

@warrensicherman4391 4 ай бұрын

Her skill at playing trills is overwhelming!

@staffanolofsson8201 4 ай бұрын

Yes, and the Purcell pieces on piano were new to me. Varvara is really a great artist in playing baroque music on a modern piano.

@JamesMorgan-zp1ue 4 ай бұрын

Lovely & sensitive playing - beautiful shape to the line; well articulated. SO glad there's at least KZfaq to share this more broadly! WELL PLAYED!!! BRAVA!!!!

@TomCloyd 3 ай бұрын

I am utterly delighted to have discovered this treasure of a recital. The music is simply wonderful, and the playing is passionate, skilled, and utterly convincing. Kudos also to the choice of piano and the recording. This is beautiful in all regards, and rarely have I felt so compelled to listen to every note, phase, and individual piece in a recital as I feel in this one. I am downloading scores from IMSLP as quickly as I can. Varvara, thank you for sharing your art with us! As for playing this on a piano, I would urge listeners to consider simply that the richness of tone and the dynamic expressivity of a modern piano allows the music to sing in a way that it never can on a harpsichord, much as I love the sound of both instruments. Music is about expression of human emotion, as well as the delight our minds experience from the notes themselves and their horizontal and vertical arrangements. Consider that the same piece played on each instrument is not the same piece, in total. Is that not acceptable? Each allows us to hear different things in the music, just as we see different things when walking around a single mountain. Personally, I think that is marvelous!

@staffanolofsson8201 3 ай бұрын

Thank you Tom! I completely agree.

@frankfroitzheim1095 2 ай бұрын

Wundervoll, da schmelze ich dahin; göttlich was uns gegeben ist, diese Harmonie ❤😍

@goldenlionness7317 12 күн бұрын

Wonderful, refreshing take on Baroque piano pieces!! Inspires me to practice.... Baroque instrumental, MY FAVE!!!

@8kenjacob 3 ай бұрын

Pure, elegant, and expressive.

@hoppechr 3 ай бұрын

Absolutely amazing. Thanks for streaming.

@frankfroitzheim1095 2 ай бұрын

"Brutal", welch eine Hingabe und Leidenschaft im Spiel, Vollkommenheit mit der Musik und welch eine Einheit mit der Harmonie; den seinen gibt's der Herr im Schlaf 🤗

@wolkowy1 3 ай бұрын

Excellent and beautiful performance - from all musical aspects. Brava!!! Every phrase was clearly heard and well expressed. The trills were wonderfully executed, as if they were played on a harpsichord and not on a piano - I suppose due to the fact that there was almost no use of the pedals, but a very good and sensitive fingers' touch. Thank you Varvara for giving us 1:16:20 pure enjoyment. I consider you to be one of the best Baroque performers ever.

@staffanolofsson8201 3 ай бұрын

Yes, I am very happy listening to this, thank you!

@TheOrdener 4 ай бұрын

Wonderful performance! It was a shame that the audience was so small in person. Thank goodness for KZfaq so that the work can get the appreciation it deserves. .

@marchvivo 4 ай бұрын

This concert was held in March 2021, when in Europe there were still many audience restrictions in auditoriums. This concert could only be attended by a very limited group of people, but it was broadcast via streaming and radio. Fortunately, we recorded it and now we can enjoy it.

@staffanolofsson8201 4 ай бұрын

I dont see it a shame that the audience was small. March 2021 was Covid time. And Im very happy this consert now can bee seen by millions od people.

@user-eb1el9th3t 3 ай бұрын

@@marchvivoㅈ

@user-eb1el9th3t 3 ай бұрын

@JuliaPikalova 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful! Insightful and pacifying the tired mind. Thank you for sharing!🌹

@staffanolofsson8201 3 ай бұрын

Agreed.

@user-or6ji5bz8b 4 ай бұрын

Мастерство и музыкальность бесподобны❤

@user-or6ji5bz8b 4 ай бұрын

❤очаровательное исполнение Пёрселла очень впечатляющее

@fleongoogle2429 4 ай бұрын

Splendido Varvara: Favorite GFH Suite G Minor HWV 432

@dominikahirschler5704 4 ай бұрын

Love it! „Musikantisch“ in the best sense. Bravaaaa!

@Bogenvibrato 3 ай бұрын

I couldn’t stop listening to- that’s a good sign, for sure 👍 Beautiful and with noblesse🌹

@renaldtremblay8333 2 ай бұрын

Magnifique!

@TheRdgrdg 2 ай бұрын

Fantastic, refreshing, purity! Thank you madame V.

@carloschess2010 4 ай бұрын

Simplemente, maravilloso!!!!!!!

@vitoroliveirajorge368 3 ай бұрын

beautiful. Very well done!

@andrewjohnson8232 4 ай бұрын

Wonderful concert!

@user-or6ji5bz8b 4 ай бұрын

,.., Варвара браво❤

@jameswoolwine1716 4 ай бұрын

Wonderful performance! Very impressive playing

@williamsu5552 4 ай бұрын

bravo! so few pianists play good Handel! good music is sadly often appreciated by a few. thank you, maestro Varvara!

@staffanolofsson8201 4 ай бұрын

I myself have no experience of Händel played on a piano. But I trust your words.

@williamsu5552 4 ай бұрын

the best one is here from Richter: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/frR6g6eGrbG4nJc.html@@staffanolofsson8201

@Alix777. 4 ай бұрын

The sad man from Leipzig is overplayed, this has to change

@eduardosanchez9716 3 ай бұрын

Great!

@lawrencetaylor4101 2 ай бұрын

Merci.

@iamruslan-zf7up4zz3o 2 ай бұрын

Браво, ВарварА! 😇

@MsMsmak 4 ай бұрын

Wonderful.

@MrAllan2806 Ай бұрын

Liebe Pianistin, mir hat ihre Interpretation sehr gut gefallen. Ich analysiere nicht, sondern hore diese stücke, welche einfach sehr gut auf mich wirken.Man kann damit träumen, in sich gehen, mit der Musik mitkommen, es spielt doch wirklich keine große und entscheidene Rolle, auf welchem Instrument und auf Echtheit prüfen ist absolut nicht nötig.Für mich wirkt diese Darbietung sehr gut durchdacht und ausgewählt. Ich danke dafür von ganzen Herzen.Habe es zwei Tage einige Male gehört. Liebe Grüße Elena aus wuppertal

@staffanolofsson8201 8 күн бұрын

Well said!

@FernandoBravoDonoso 2 ай бұрын

BRAVO!!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!!!

@paulkatz 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful playing and love those facial expressions!

@alejandroherreradelaparra3977 3 ай бұрын

Great works. Great pianist. Thumbs up. Hats off. Greetings from Mexico City.

@user-uy7ce9co3w 3 ай бұрын

beautiful

@prentissphillips7353 2 ай бұрын

Pace, breath and intonation are aligned and balanced with sensitivity and creative spirit. Multo obrigado dos Acores. Please come to Ireland in April :) I will go anywhere to hear you 'live' ~

@AngelaMaria-xs1lm Ай бұрын

¡Dios mío! Esa pianista es una musa bajada del Parnaso!

@erwinredl6454 4 ай бұрын

Such beautiful phrasing! Marvelous!

@staffanolofsson8201 4 ай бұрын

Yes, her phrasing in Purcell, which I never heard before, is amazing. And also in all her other music.

@aleksandarzivkovic1792 3 ай бұрын

Thanks

@francoisallouin1865 19 күн бұрын

One of the best on youtube

@marchvivo 19 күн бұрын

That’s very encouraging. We’ll keep feeding this channel with the finest videos of live concerts from the Fundación March. Thanks for your words.

@constantinepapadakis1155 2 ай бұрын

Brava!

@JaquesCioran 3 ай бұрын

Out of this world! Baroque is so much better on modern piano! Passionate interpretation!

@staffanolofsson8201 3 ай бұрын

Still, I think it also can be good on a chembalo. But with this interpretation I am totally enchanted.

@MegaCirse 4 ай бұрын

Chants parfaits pour lire les formes subjectives des nuages et suivre d'un œil attendri les rainures des tiges des arbres; apprécier l'écriture complexe des branches imbriquées, goûter les couleurs de la décomposition de la lumière en gouttelettes d'eau dans un jardin, ressentir fortement le sol humide de la forêt ancestrale pour percevoir les traces des animaux du passé profond 🍍

@AlfredoFiguerasMusic Ай бұрын

Muy cute cute bonito

@erasistratosoytis6946 4 ай бұрын

BRAVA!!

@AnthonyOzimic 2 ай бұрын

As an Englishman, I endorse this broadcast 😉

@llaoll 3 ай бұрын

The great thing about these piano pieces from Purcell and Handel is how they make me appreciate Bach even more

@TomCloyd 3 ай бұрын

My friend, one does not listen to Purcell for the same things one listens for in JS Bach. That a rose is a glory takes nothing from violets, violas, or buttercups. Seriously.

@fabrisoto Ай бұрын

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@quicosanchez3119 3 ай бұрын

1:09:46 Aria “Schafe konnen sicher weiden” from Cantata BWV 208 (arrangement for piano by Egon Petri) remarcable

@paulwilson4738 2 ай бұрын

So sad that this musical artist had such a restricted audience at the beginning of the pandemic. She is just a great performer!

@marchvivo 2 ай бұрын

That’s why we invited her the following season to perform Russian music. It was another extraordinary concert which will be published here soon. Stay tuned!

@staffanolofsson8201 2 ай бұрын

@@marchvivo Yes, I will!

@literaturadambrisi2163 4 ай бұрын

Gracias x aportar otros compositores barrocos y no siempre a Juan Sebastián que amamos pero no es el único

@benjaminficus9738 3 ай бұрын

Wonderfully sensitive playing. Gosh, it says in the notes that JS Bach lived from (16856-1750). I had no idea! (smiley face here).

@marchvivo 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for noting this: Bach is like God, so he might well be immortal ;-) Yet the little mistake has now been corrected.

@8kenjacob 3 ай бұрын

Would have been nice to have a listing of the pieces and the time they were played

@marchvivo 3 ай бұрын

Have you tried to click on “more” below the video? The full track list with timings is waiting for you there. Have fun!

@klausroth1857 3 ай бұрын

Such a fantastic pianist! I'm excited. She should play in the large concert hall of a famous house and not to sparse applause in front of a small audience in a hall with poor acoustics without a microphone and sound technology.

@staffanolofsson8201 3 ай бұрын

Hallo! The acoustics and the microphone technics in this are marvelous. I wonder about what equipement you are listening at?

@MarcKowalczykOfficiel 2 ай бұрын

Great video. I invite you to listen to my composition Rêveries baroques. Thank you for listening to music ☘🎹😍

@WennAde 3 ай бұрын

Händel's suite in g minor is not of this world.

@ichirofakename 3 ай бұрын

"No pedal!" - GG

@user-os7wp2ov2b 4 ай бұрын

Это для клавесина....(((

@agaphonus 4 ай бұрын

Stumbles in the current of opposing voices. Accents jump out in the wrong place. From here there is no free flow of the musical river. There is still a lot to learn - from the surface inwards

@staffanolofsson8201 4 ай бұрын

I my opinion this music is well articulated. I have tried to listen to stubling, never heard it. So our opinins differ. But I respect your opinion.

@staffanolofsson8201 4 ай бұрын

Sorry, I will spell it better: "stumbling" and "opinions". Says a swede.

@martienbrands8224 Ай бұрын

Listen more and judge less….

@AlecsanderLobjnski-bj8jr Ай бұрын

Игра терминами. Специалист.

@TreasureX7 2 ай бұрын

Всё было красиво, а потом зазвучал Бах и всё осветилось и осмыслилось..

@snowsick1 2 ай бұрын

A lot of technical imperfections and mistakes, unfortunately....

@isaiasramosgarcia9771 3 ай бұрын

mejor al clave

@marchvivo 3 ай бұрын

For those that prefer Handel on harpsichord, this video may be interesting. Benjamin Alard performs "Scarlatti meets Handel, Rameau and Bach": kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r7GZhtWdsp2cZKc.html

@AlecsanderLobjnski-bj8jr 2 ай бұрын

Каждый ньюанс продуман. Каждый звук совершенен. Бедный клавесин!

@themandoline1 3 ай бұрын

She sits in the posture of Glenn Gould.😊

@fleongoogle2429 4 ай бұрын

Please do something about the ergonomics here. Musicians need to take better care. This posture, leaning in this way, will cause problems at least later on.

@jsc5492 4 ай бұрын

Nothing "Baroque" about this interpretation ! The Piano has been giving so much insight to Baroque composers for a couple of centuries... so much that you seem to be blinded by it :( Your floating tempi are indeed expressive, but Baroque dancers would find them hard to follow!

@desarrollodehabilidadeslab2923 2 ай бұрын

¡La música al piano es una blasfemia! ¡No, por favor! ¡Es una deformación del sonido! ¡Ah, hermoso clavecín. Cómo te han traicionado!

@marchvivo 2 ай бұрын

Estimado amigo: no queremos que nadie sufra en este canal. También aquí somos muy fans del clave. Aquí un ejemplo reciente: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r7GZhtWdsp2cZKc.html

@desarrollodehabilidadeslab2923 2 ай бұрын

Gracias. Por cierto, quise decir 'música barroca', no música en general

@vonMohl 4 ай бұрын

very displeasing at times.

@graziacavasino8884 3 ай бұрын

The sole idea of playing Baroque on the piano is absolutely absurd. There were no pianos in those times.

@graziacavasino8884 3 ай бұрын

@@JuliaPikalova so?

@5gx673 3 ай бұрын

I like it 😊

@doelman 3 ай бұрын

Luckily there were no KZfaq comments either back then.

@doelman 3 ай бұрын

And there were also no recordings in those times so why are you listening to them anyway nowadays?

@staffanolofsson8201 3 ай бұрын

Still there is almost a whole mankind trying to play Baroque on piano. Many of them are very famous in their playing. Can they all be wrong? No, I dont think so. Every time has its expression, we all love the cembalo and the spinette and the forte piano and then the grand piano. As I know it is not forbidden to play old music on a new instrument. Anyone can like what they like. Freedom for all.