Score analysis #4 - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck / Mein junges Leben hat ein End 

I often feel like a child sitting in on the adults conversation with how little I know of music theory. But I love hearing new pieces and these are always performed wonderfully

YESS MORE SWEELINCK

So intelligently explained and so sensitively performed and recorded. Thank you so much for promoting so well the music of the unique and great Orpheus of Amsterdam.

I loved this piece from the first time i heard it about 45 years ago on organ. Still simply wonderful and touching timeless music.

Surprisingly complex and full of surprises little piece! It's very bitter-sweet and rather fit for the subject... It still has some traces of hope hidden here and there, like the triplets section... As always, the performance at the harpsichord is superb... Thank you for this great video!

This series is finally official now, yay :D Sweelinck's always nice to listen to. Will you do videos on his Fantasia Chromatica, Fantasia in G Dorian, his Toccatas and more? Keep up the good work and content :)

One of my favourite Sweelinck pieces.

James Joyce mentions the piece in one of his writings. A Year ago Polish Radio made a radio dramma based on his poetry and I composed and improvised the music for it on my cello. I also included the vague arrangment of the last variation for cello solo pizzicato in my "soundtrack"

Perfect music. Played it for my first ever piano recital. So many sweet memories. Thank you very much for the video!

Cool stuff, makes a well known piece shine in a new light, bravo!

Wonderful!!!!! Thanks for letting us discover this piece!!😍😍😍

A font of invention, wasn't he? I've listened to the previous Sweelinck episodes several times and this one will be no exception. The repeat at the end works for me. Kind of like "And miles to go before I sleep / And miles to go before I sleep", maybe?

As always, a fun, informative and musically satisfying episode. If you ever want a suggestion for future episodes, I would love for you to talk about instrumentation and improvisation when realizing early music scores in modern practice and organ registration and its relationship to scores like the Sweelinck here. In any case, love your channel and this episode.

You are very didactical. Congratulations! I would like only to add another theme that was not exclusively worked by Sweelinck (at least Buxtehude has also one exemplar): More palatino. Greetings from Brazil!

Sweelinck is just amazing :)

Another excellent video!! Thank you for this excellent analysis: so informative, educational & fun!!🌺

Bravo Maestro, once again very interesting, pedagogical, funny, and ... you treat us with your instrument ! Eternal youth to you !

It is always amazing how much things can expand from very little materials. It has such hypnotising effects on the listener. It is always a discovery to listen to the musical language of the ancient times. Thank you for the amazing research and bravo to the wonderful rendition!

The intro - outro variations are super! *

Bravo!!! Bravo 👏 Bellissimo! Grazie!

Oh my gods you did a video about one of my favourite songs. I am so happy right now! ❤ Also I'd like to thank you again for recommending me the book so I could find the source that you show in this video. Can't wait to learn it!

It’s a very beautiful song!

Thank you for sharing this! Sweelinck was an absolute master. The more I hear of him the more I love him

beautiful recording!

An absolutely perfect performance, what a joy to listen to!

4:20 This particular figuration is interestingly used widely by early baroque recorder player Jacob van Eyck in his solo variation works "Der Fluyten Lust Hof".

Grazie mille per questa meravigliosa incursione nel mondo di Sweelinck! Veramente un capolavoro

Bravissimo Elam, interpretazione che lascia a bocca aperta.

Encore une fois, un éclairage passionnant de cette belle pièce (et une magnifique interprétation ! ). J'essaie de la jouer souvent et j'y découvre toujours des subtilités, mais après cette analyse , tout est plus clair...merci !

A RU-vid masterpiece!

Outstanding performance and explanations ! :D It's always a great pleasure learning about ancient music with your channel.

I adore this channel! It is so inspiring and educating! Elam, you’re an unique composer

This piece has been one of my favorites, but I have only just today learned that it has lyrics in six verses. Translated from the German: My young life has an end, my joy and also my sorrow, My poor soul shall part trembling from my body. My life can no longer stand, It is very weak, it must pass, My joy is drifting away. A long way goes The soul, with great sorrow, The sad body one lays in the grave, Like ashes it atomizes, As if it had never been, Nor would it ever come again, From my mother's sorrow. I'm parting, poor world, from you, I have to leave you! I have no joy here, I must part from you: I have no rest here, Then they close my eyes: I must complain to you about that. I don't complain that I should part from you, you despicable world, but my heart is full of sadness, that my sin overtakes me, that I've celebrated my day, that helps me from life, and brings my body to life dig. O Jesus Christ, Thou Most High God! What have I done! All my sins and iniquities complain me violently: Nevertheless I do not want to despair before your divine face, I call on you for mercy. Oh Lord God! My creutz und need I endure with patience, And pray you, Lord Jesus Christ! Do you want to forgive me my guilt, help me to get hold of you, oh, take care of me and never let it go.

Incredible playing. And it comes with an amazing explanation. Thank you.

Excellent performance and explanation! I really like how you emphasized the transitions and supplementa by slowing down a bit.

Fantastic! Your channel is of the charts! Thanks for sharing!

My introduction to this piece was E. Power Biggs' 1954 _The Art of the Organ_ , on which he played it on Sweelinck's own Oude Kerk organ in Amsterdam. (I am probably the only person in the world who associates it with the 96th St station on the 7th Avenue IRT in New York City, whose trackwork I learned at the same time (in the 60's)). I suppose the composition was not specific as to what _kind_ of keyboard...Great analysis!

Beautiful playing Elam!

Fantastic as always! Great interpretation and explanation, thanks for sharing!

Thank you. Beautiful video

This is perfect. Perfetto! Grazie mille ☺️❤️👍

My man. At least in this direction. Well done as usual. Look me up if you're ever in Vienna. Cheers, Scott

Superb job on this piece! Exquisitely performed with great emotional levity.

Fantastic!!!

Thank you Elam

Thanks for this. A beautiful, well-paced performance too, with an elegant rubato organic to the piece, very well done. Octave placements: might we call these octave echoes?

thank you you for the great performance... learnt many things again

Great performance, thanks!

Great recording! I have played this one, and some of his variations on secular melodies like "Est-ce Mars?" and "More Palatino". Would love to see a video on these!

Thank you for have introduced us to this gem. It's melancholically beautiful

Just an astonishing level of compositional creativity. Thank you for sharing this gem with us.

beautiful

Phantastic!

There is nothing E.R. cannot do. One of the finest musical minds of our age.

Truly Iispiring !

Delightful video.

Liebe

Many thanks for this - I enjoyed it, as well as all your other videos. Two things: 1. Can you please say why you have a kiwi on your harpsichord? (asking from New Zealand!) 2. On the link in the description to the original manuscript, you're missing the "h" - https, and you have just "ttps". Cheers and thanks again

Finally! One of my absolutely crucial musical inspirations. Elam would you consider this Late Renaissance or Early Baroque? And do we have any solid connection between Sweenlinck and Bach? Thanks greatly for elucidating this majestic piece.

Remarkable to see on what level of virtuosity keyboard music could be at that early time. Anyone who tries to play the parallel thirds in right AND left hand will know what I mean.

Wow, Sweelinck is awesome! Where can I listen to more of his music?

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This piece is mentioned in James Joyce's Ulysses.

Maravilha.

SWEELINK! SWEELINK! SWEELINK!

Is it the first time Elam Rotem smiles in a video? It must mean something.

Great stuff, this. Truly! I wonder whether or not Sweelinck's idea was to symbolize a young life being cut off abruptly by not including a final B?

Who does your animations? I can imagine how much time it takes for making a video like this. Thank you 🙏🏻

A vídeo about Spem in Alium? 😊😊😊😇😇😇

Sounds kind of Tomkins-esque

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It's a great piece but very depressing.

the something especial is that it is annoying as hell, and he probably used to make it more interesting 🤔

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