Rameau: Les Tendres Plaintes – Interpretation and Performance. @johnmoraitis

Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:15 First performance
5:41 Rameau's Pièces de clavecin & Premier Livre
7:55 Dividing the leaps between both hands
11:25 Demonstration
14:12 Playing the refrain
15:03 An introduction to the tremblement lié
17:14 Difference from a regular trill
18:53 Principal note on or after the beat?
21:20 A crucial expressive difference
24:32 Second performance
27:59 Patreon information

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Tendres Plaintes (from Pièces de clavecin).
John Moraitis, harpsichord.
Harpsichord by Martine Argellies (Montpellier, 2012), after Dulcken.
Temperament: Rameau. A=415 Hz

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