She is my favorite. No one plays ornaments like her. No one. We lost this wonder woman way too soon. I love her Ravel and Scarlatti, but most of all her Couperin, which was removed from yt about 3 years ago.
la clarté, la lumière, l'équilibre naturel, l'esprit, la grâce française du 18ème siècle, voilà Rameau! Watteau est là pour un embarquement pour Cythère... Cette fraîcheur est traduite de manière simple et remarquable par Marcelle Meyer. (une référence!!)
Not sure how to describe it, but there is a unique something that sets Mm Meyer's playing apart from other period pianists playing harpsichord music, e.g., Rosalyn Turek; even Landowska herself would have had difficulty matching the sheer beauty of Meyer's playing.
Marcelle Meyer was and will remain an utterly unique voice in pianisme. There is a reason she was never as popular as any of those "grandi virtuosi" of yore. What she had is untranslatable, elusive and impossible to capture in words. Her name is unsallied by academic ranking nor by rabid fans adoration. She never sold out because there is no question was posed. She by her nature stood way above all that nonsense, like fame and its toxic byproducts. Serene and pure is her style. Light is her touch. Airy is her sensuality. Rigorous is her musicality. How can that be popular with masses? I can only be grateful for that. Those who recognize her voice will never stray.
People are so amazing ; they cannot appreciate beauty for what it is. They always have to put ahead some vain issue like national status and so on. Aren't we human first? Suffering human with so many limitations we put to ourselves.
00:00 Menuet en rondeau 03:14 Allemande 04:59 Courante 06:32 Gigue en rondeau I et II 08:52 Le rappel des oiseaux 11:50 Le tambourin 12:57 La villageoise
Eussé-je entendu Marcelle Meyer jouer cette suite en mi mineur de Rameau alors que, âgé de 17 ans, je l'ânonais sur mon piano tout neuf....! L' eussé- je entendue alors. !!..
That makes a lot of people, don't you think so? But tell me, in a forest, witch tree is the most important? The biggest one? Did you ever considered that the most powerful musician might have come from a puny little shrub? Why do people always need to compare?
From his wiki: "Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of French-Polish parentage." That's what I meant, you're not counting him because he's half french.
Some of his concerti and chamber music are nice but he's a dwarf compared to Debussy, who opened up new worlds of possibility in Western music. Saint-Saens is a minor academic composer next to Debussy
I prefer Machaut, Josquin, Lully, Dufault, Louis Couperin, François Couperin, Rameau, Mondonville, and others. So we can't really say there's "no doubt"; it's not so simple as that.
She is my favorite. No one plays ornaments like her. No one. We lost this wonder woman way too soon. I love her Ravel and Scarlatti, but most of all her Couperin, which was removed from yt about 3 years ago.
The Couperin is here: czcams.com/video/lMObAaCaqD4/video.htmlsi=9tscIZ-MCkdQh3Nr
It's still here. I'm going to play it now.
Lovely and hauntingly beautiful ❤❤
la clarté, la lumière, l'équilibre naturel, l'esprit, la grâce française du 18ème siècle, voilà Rameau! Watteau est là pour un embarquement pour Cythère... Cette fraîcheur est traduite de manière simple et remarquable par Marcelle Meyer. (une référence!!)
Not sure how to describe it, but there is a unique something that sets Mm Meyer's playing apart from other period pianists playing harpsichord music, e.g., Rosalyn Turek; even Landowska herself would have had difficulty matching the sheer beauty of Meyer's playing.
Marcelle Meyer was and will remain an utterly unique voice in pianisme. There is a reason she was never as popular as any of those "grandi virtuosi" of yore. What she had is untranslatable, elusive and impossible to capture in words. Her name is unsallied by academic ranking nor by rabid fans adoration. She never sold out because there is no question was posed. She by her nature stood way above all that nonsense, like fame and its toxic byproducts. Serene and pure is her style. Light is her touch. Airy is her sensuality. Rigorous is her musicality. How can that be popular with masses? I can only be grateful for that. Those who recognize her voice will never stray.
Thank you for this great piece of appreciation. There are so many artists who share her experience of unfair lack of recognition.
I can think of one other who played this serenely. The late wonderful Lilian Kallir.
You captured her essence, difficult to put into words! Chapeau!
素晴らしい👍
サイコーです❤❤❤❤❤
People are so amazing ; they cannot appreciate beauty for what it is. They always have to put ahead some vain issue like national status and so on. Aren't we human first? Suffering human with so many limitations we put to ourselves.
00:00 Menuet en rondeau
03:14 Allemande
04:59 Courante
06:32 Gigue en rondeau I et II
08:52 Le rappel des oiseaux
11:50 Le tambourin
12:57 La villageoise
Excellent performance! Brava!
Simply gorgeous! Her playing gives such pleasure!
Simple style very helpful in my own learning.
Aw man Ive been looking for harpsichord pieces to learn which sound good on piano.
The gigue and rondeau (1) here sounds so sweet
Great interpretacion !
Eussé-je entendu Marcelle Meyer jouer cette suite en mi mineur de Rameau alors que, âgé de 17 ans, je l'ânonais sur mon piano tout neuf....! L' eussé- je entendue alors. !!..
Realmente uma fase muito rica de transição!
Thank you^^
That makes a lot of people, don't you think so? But tell me, in a forest, witch tree is the most important? The biggest one? Did you ever considered that the most powerful musician might have come from a puny little shrub? Why do people always need to compare?
Une norvégienne...
Why does this recording sound like a keyboard instead of a piano?
Here are correct timestamps xD
From his wiki: "Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of French-Polish parentage." That's what I meant, you're not counting him because he's half french.
Not counting Chopin I suppose? ;)
There is no doubt that Saint-Saens was the greatest French composer
Some of his concerti and chamber music are nice but he's a dwarf compared to Debussy, who opened up new worlds of possibility in Western music. Saint-Saens is a minor academic composer next to Debussy
True but don't forget Ravel (and others !) @@punkpoetry
I prefer Machaut, Josquin, Lully, Dufault, Louis Couperin, François Couperin, Rameau, Mondonville, and others. So we can't really say there's "no doubt"; it's not so simple as that.
I like Saint-Saens more than most, but LMFAO come on.