Thank you, Mister Chapdelaine, for playing this wonderful piece of music with so much love and soul, you are bringing the beauty of heaven to earth and in my soul. And your guitar sound is amazing...
This makes me wish I had stuck with the three months of classical guitar lessons I took in high school. The phrasing and articulation of Mr. Chapdelaine's interpretation are unparalleled. This weekend I will be dusting off my old guitar after hearing this.
By far the single best guitar interpretation of the piece present Michael. So so so many talented musicians incomprehensibly play this piece at a speed which disrespects the beauty of the dynamics of the composition - which you have carved out so well I cannot criticise it. Played any faster than you’re doing here is a desecration of it. Thank you for actually understanding that music is made to convey and engender emotion, Michael.
What an inspired rendition of a wonderfully charming song. I'm a fairly third rate musician (on a good day - piano) but I hear more of you in this than any other version I've heard, and that's the highest compliment I could ever give. Muchísimas gracias.
It's exceptional the fact that throughout the entire piece, not once he looked at the fret board to check his positioning. He played entirely with his eyes shut. How remarcable is that, and to think it's a rather difficult piece to play.
Michael, such a long journey from your masterclass with Segovia. I enjoy this steeel string version a lot. I can tell you reach for the spiritualty and emotions of this amazing baroque piece.... closed eyes, the trills. Thank you for letting us hear such wonderful guitar music!
Astonishing, great work. Have you explored other pieces by Couperin? I arrange them for baroque lute. I've arranged the Barricades in 7 different keys in d minor tuning. In that tuning I like C and D the best....so far
Fantastic playing of this Baroque piece. Bravo Michael. Even though it was originally written for harpsichord, I would have much preferred the sound of nylon strings.
What guitar are you playing..? Is it a double top or a three ply top or what..? The top looks really thick for sure. I only learned about double top guitars just recently and listened to some comparisons on U-tube. It's hard to tell the difference through spkrs but I guess in real acoustics they sound much more defined and resonant if I am to believe what people are saying. You played this piece beautifully. I was watching a Howard Goodall documentary about the Beatles and then some of his classical music presentations in his series and this music just played in the background on a harpsichord and my ears pricked up immediately but I knew not of the piece. I left a message if anyone knew this piece and set a timestamp and a month later someone told me the name so I could go and seek it out. It's one of those pieces that just made my heart melt instantly so since then I have been seeking out as many beautiful classical pieces as I possibly can. I have found quite a few like Mozart Serenade No 10 for Winds 'Gran Partita', III. Ravel 'Pavan For A Dead Princess' Bach 'Prelude C Major' Jules Massenet 'Meditation' from Thais Opera, Satie Gymnopédie, Debussy Arabesque No1for instance. If you know of any others that are beautiful short pieces then pleases let me know because there is such a vast body of work in classical music It would take a lifetime to seek it all out. As for popular music I admire and love The Beatles and The Beach Boys the most along with ABBA and some early Queen for their beautiful ballads the most. I believe The Beatles and BBs were the most talented melody writers that have ever been for popular realms and they still remain unsurpassed and it shows even without dedicated musical training that great works of music can still arise from out of nowhere in certain gifted people.
Hi Michael, beautiful performance! I've shown this to some of my students as a great reference. I was just wondering about the tuning. In order to tune it a whole step lower and make it sound stable do you need thicker gauge strings?
Eyelashes is a good idea. The one I heard, the one I like, is a bit more "mysterious". They are the various barricades women erect to ward off the various approaches by various men! Eyelashes are certainly one example I can think of! Your mileage may vary.
? It sounds great. That's all I know. It's hard to play "Come Together" on cause I have to remember to tap my thumb into a hole. (1st world problems :-)
I do not thing that a guitar with metallic strings is the most appropriate instrument for this composition. Of course metallic sound looks like an harpsichord..but...something is missing = the mechanical, bright and rigid tempo when this composition is played on an harpsichord or a piano. Guitar is too fluid. Imagine a song of ACDC played on an harpsichord....i think that an instrument should be played for a specific kind of music it is fitted. If not why in this case one should not play a Mozart concerto with an ocarina ? It is possible. But not nice. Thank you for your interpretation.
I respectfully disagree. The composition has proven itself to be bigger than the instrument. Also, I believe but don't know that this guitar with its double soundboard is an evolutionary form of the classical guitar which was "traditionally" strung with gut strings before we had nylon. I think it sounds perfectly wonderful.
