Bernhard Klapprott plays a Muselaar from Shakespeare's time 🔎🔍
🧐 · 12.07.2024 · 09:24:35 ··· Freitag ⭐ 61 🎬 1302
📺University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar
🧠 · 11.11.2024 · 15:05:58 ··· Montag
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00:00 - Start
00:19 - William Byrd (1543 -1623): Pavan and Galliard: Ph. Tregian
06:41 - Orlando Gibbons (1583 - 1625): Ground in a
09:02 - John Bull (1562 - 1628): Germain's Alman
10:20 - Orlando Gibbons (1583 - 1625): Fantasia in C
13:18 - Giles Farnaby (ca. 1560 - 1640): Alman for two Virginals
15:34 - Applaus / Credits
The world has never heard this before: for the first time, a lovingly and painstakingly recreated keyboard instrument from Shakespeare's time was heard in Weimar. No original examples of the so-called ‘Muselaar’ are playable or restorable. That is why Bernhard Klapprott, Professor of Historical Keyboard Instruments at the Department of Early Music at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar and multiple CD award winner, had an instrument built by masters of their craft – and presented these unique sound worlds on Friday, 5 May 2023 in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus of the Weimar Music University.
The concert programme, entitled ‘John come kiss me now’, featured music from the time of William Shakespeare. It included works from the 16th and 17th centuries from England and the Netherlands by William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Bull and Giles Farnaby. Farnaby's ‘Alman’ was interpreted by Prof. Klapprott and Yin-Li Lo on the double muselaar. The Muselaar is a replica of an original instrument by Joannes Ruckers (Antwerp) from 1623, built by Cornelis and Hubregt Bom and Hans Nieuwenhuijzen from Schoonhoven in the Netherlands.
Famous painters such as Jan Vermeer depicted it, and important composers such as Byrd, Bull and Sweelinck wrote numerous works for this instrument, which is extremely rare to hear today: the Muselaar. It is a rectangular keyboard instrument with horizontal strings, whose keyboard is positioned on the right, unlike the virginal. As with the harpsichord or spinet, the strings are plucked by so-called quills. It is characterised by a particularly intense, warm, somewhat bell-like sound.
The instrument presented in Weimar is a double muselaar, a so-called mother-child muselaar with a large mother instrument in ‘normal’ pitch and a small child instrument that sounds an octave higher. The ‘child’ lies in the ‘mother’ instrument, in the ‘mother's belly’, and can be removed so that both can be played individually. However, they can also be coupled, so that they sound together. What is inaudible in the original today was popular in Flanders and England between around 1550 and around 1650.
Bernhard Klapprott performs internationally as a harpsichordist, clavichord player, organist and conductor. Several of his CD recordings on historical keyboard instruments have been awarded the ‘Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik’ and the ‘ECHO Klassik’. His teaching activities have also taken him to masterclasses and guest lectures in Europe and the USA.
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Concert recording from 5 May 2023 in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus of the Weimar Music University.
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