Harpsichord Solo: Le Tic-Toc-Choc ou les Maillotins 

You're welcome!!

So true!!

Well, it is the speciality of baroque French composers to clarify everything. Their music is always chrystal clear....not exactly like the Germans who tend to wander too much.....

But there is nothing against both, or all three!

Thanks! Glad you like it!!

Scarlatti is mine too! But I also love Francois Couperin who gave us this wonderful 2-keyboard piece. I appreciate your comment a lot!!

@@ElaineComparone You're right about Couperin, although I'm not as familiar with his keyboard works as I am with Scarlatti's.

I consider it a high compliment. Thank you!

Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoy it!!

I'm so glad you like it! Thanks for commenting!

I'm glad!

Thank you

Lovely comment! Thanks!!

are u alive?

@blue sky , toda la razón , es una obra barroca de Couperin , compuesta para clavicémbalo .

@blue sky Not awfully in my opinion, but definitely doesn't sound as charming and beautiful.

Thank you so much!!

@@ElaineComparone Thank you for making this series of films. I genuinely love the sound!

@@youfrancis You're welcome! I'm grateful that you enjoy it!

Thanks for your positive comments! Nobody worth my consideration has questioned my abilities, and it they have, I know to what I should ascribe the comments. I very much appreciate your "commendations". Thank you!!

So do I! I haven't heard from you in a while! How's the music going?

Elaine Comparone Not too bad. I haven't learned anything new for a while, but I'm still playing my old pieces. Thanks for asking! ^.^

Just so you keep playing. That's the important thing. You'll get around to learning some new pieces, I'm sure.

Couperin wrote himself that his ”pièces croisée”s may be played on an instrument with only one keyboard, by moving the accompaniment an octave higher. It’s undeniably true that that piece was composed with a harpsichord with two keyboards in mind. However, according to the composer’s instructions, there are several ways of performing it on a more “limited” instrument.

Lé tïk täk shäk ü lés Mælotïns

First, thank you!! Second, it shouldn't be hard to find since there are so many harpsichordists around these days, and posting on RU-vid as well!! One would think they'd be eager to play and post this piece. And it's so much fun to play!!!

@@ElaineComparone Yea, I've been browsing it on Spotify and it's infested with piano versions. Which isn't too bad, but the harpsichord is way better ;) Do you have a video of yourself performing "Les Vieleux et les Gueux" btw? I think it'd sound fantastic on your instrument.

Thanks for your appreciation!!!

Amo questo brano e amo soprattutto questo strumento. Ho studiato pianoforte in conservatorio a Bologna ma al clavicembalo ho lasciato un pezzo del mio cuore. Quando ero una studentessa e andavo in conservatorio molto presto di mattina per ripassare i brani prima della lezione, andavo sempre "nell'aula dei clavicembali" e suonavo su questo meraviglioso strumento Scarlatti e altri clavicembalisti ( e non solo)!!!! A distanza di tanti anni ho da sempre il rimpianto di non essermi dedicata anche al clavicembalo!! La prossima vita lo faró sicuramente.............

Thanks to Couperin!! And to you, too!

Many thanks!!

@@caesarsneezer6992 One can't say that about too many places. Thanks for your comment!

My covid burned out three hundred years ago when I was a wee lad listening on those old 78s to Baroque music, even before electricity!!

@@caesarsneezer6992 Would be hard to listen to 78s without electricity! Unless you had a crank!

Muchas gracias!

Maillotins, Little hammers

WOW! that is some compliment!

Thanks!!

Yes, I'm standing. I had a tall stand constructed that would enable me to play standing, just as the string and wind players in my ensemble do. It looks better if the whole group stands. and it's a lot more fun for me!. I enjoy solo playing the most, and sometimes I stand for a solo recital as well.

@@ElaineComparone I understand, I play salsa piano standing up, too. It's allows to feel the music inside the whole body..I should add : without mooving the head and the trunk exaggeratedly, as I see in some videos in RU-vid! This give to you a beautiful attitude, Elaine...

@@GGibert Thank you!! I'm glad you understand!!

I would love to talk with you about it! You can reach me at: elaine@harpsichord.org

Sorry to take so long to reply! The harpsichord was built in 1972 by one of the foremost Boston harpsichord makers of the time----Frank Hubbard. It's a copy of a French-Flemish harpsichord of the 18th century. It has three sets of strings, two keyboards and a buff/lute stop. It has a transposing keyboard (which means I can play at A440 pitch as well as one half tone below) , installed after an accident where the instrument fell off the stand The tone is very sweet, as you can hear. The instrument is delicate and requires extra moisture in the air during the winter months. I tune it frequently. It is a good friend!

@@ElaineComparone It was tuned very well indeed for this performance. I have never heard a harpsichord so much in tune. And your performance was delightful and impressive. Thank you for presenting it.

@@soaringvulture You're welcome! And thank you for the generous comment about my tuning.

Rallentando and rubato are, of course, important tools. I would never deny that. But the musical context should be the deciding factor.

Elaine Comparone Thanks !