Private music lessons. Kenneth Gilbert, harpsichord and organ / La Sept Arte, Radio France, Com'unimage ; Michel Follin, director.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Follin, Michel, director.

Gilbert, Kenneth, instrumentalist, teacher.

Baumont, Olivier, instrumentalist.

Sept/Arte (Firm), production company.

Radio-France, production company.

Com'unimage (Firm), production company.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Harpsichord--Instruction and study.

Harpsichord.

Harpsichord music.

Suites (Harpsichord)--Excerpts.

Suites (Harpsichord).

Genre:

Internet videos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (56 min., 19 sec.)) : sound, color

Other Title:

Kenneth Gilbert, harpsichord and organ

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : La Sept Arte : Radio France : Com'unimage, [1990]

Language Note:

Dialogue in French.

System Details:

digital

video file

Summary:

In this masterclass, Kenneth Gilbert renews acquaintance with a former student who has since become an established performer, Olivier Baumont. There follows a fascinating dialogue focusing on both the harpsichord and the organ, two instruments which the Canadian artist plays with the same skill. Two men, Kenneth Gilbert, in his prime, slow of speech and sure of himself, and Olivier Baumont, a younger artist, tousled and profound, are sitting at a period harpsichord discussing Couperin, Bach, and Froberger. The master gives his point of view in a soft, steady voice. It is in his character to say things from an objective distance: his approach is at once encyclopaedic and practical. He is as familiar with the nuances of language as with those of music. And so a large part of this "lesson" focuses on a remarkable notion, difficult to pin down: good taste, the bon goût repeatedly mentioned in the commentaries of Couperin. How should we interpret something that already eluded his contemporaries? How can we, with our knowledge of today, however exhaustive it may be, find that golden mean which the most refined composers of the "Grand siècle", men like Couperin, Marais, D'Anglebert, fixed as their ultimate goal? The answer lies in the subtle details of interpretation: the speed of a trill, the turn of a phrase, a particular ornament. The beauty of this film is to make us sense the relativity of things. Wisely, its subject implies that we must be prudent in taking what history had bequeathed us. Modestly, je acknowledges: "There is no Kenneth Gilbert School ... But maybe there is an attitude that consists in seeking a personal interaction with the works, of course within the bounds of style, of good taste." What a contrast with the rigid image that has too often been associated with the pioneers of the Baroque revival of the 1980s! Private music lessons: twelve hugely influential programmes broadcast by French television between 1987 and 1991. The guiding principle for Olivier Bernager and François Manceaux was to capture the art of the leading performers of our time, live in concert but also and above all in a teaching environment.

Contents:

Italian concerto in F major, BWV 971 / Johann Sebastian Bach

Partita no. 4 in D major, BWV 828 / Johann Sebastian Bach

La visionnaire / François Couperin

Les ombres errantes / François Couperin

Passacaglia / François Couperin

Fantaisie / Johann Jakob Froberger.

Participant:

Kenneth Gilbert, harpsichord, organ, teacher ; Olivier Baumont, harpsichord, organ, student.

Notes:

Recorded Eglise de Chavagnes en Paillers, Chavagnes en Paillers, France.

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Contains:

Container of: Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Italienisches Konzert. Selections

Container of: Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Partitas, harpsichord, BWV 828, D major. Selections

Container of: Couperin, François, 1668-1733. Pièces de clavecin, 4e livre. No 25. Visionaire

Container of: Couperin, François, 1668-1733. Pièces de clavecin, 4e livre. No 25. Ombres errantes

Container of: Couperin, François, 1668-1733. Pièces de clavecin, 2e livre. No 8. Passacaille

Container of: Froberger, Johann Jacob, 1616-1667. Libro di toccate, fantasie, canzone, allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue et altre partite. Fantasia, no. 2

OCLC:

956370223

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