All You Need to Know about Wim Winters and the Whole Beat Revolution in Classical Music

Wim Winters is the clavichord player behind the YouTube-channel Authentic Sound and a proponent of a revolutionizing way of reading the metronome that would radically change the performance practice of music by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart and other composers from the Classical period.

▶️ Watch the full interview with Wim Winters at Cave of Apelles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWITKRfXHRs

00:10 Difference between Single beat and Whole beat
01:52 Beethoven's broken metronome
02:34 Wim Winters' critics
03:34 Thomas Kuhn and "Paradigm shift"
04:18 Lorenz Gadient and the Aha-moment
05:38 How Single beat destroys performers
07:42 What can Whole beat mean?

Video by Bork Nerdrum with the main source material from Cave of Apelles and Authentic Sound.

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MUSIC in this video:

W.A.Mozart :: Rondo Alla Turca KV 331 :: Wim Winters, Clavichord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OWOqkUTjbE

Beethoven Symphony No. 9 conducted by Maximianno Cobra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irWsBKY4_k0

Beethoven Symphony No. 9 conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJH9b9EQtHM

Beethoven Piano Sonata No.1 performed by Jill Crossland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGCX0wf7bkM

Beethoven Piano Sonata No.1 performed by Wim Winters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md41nD87W84

Fantasie - Impromptu by Chopin performed by Bartosz Bieganowski:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Bvsc1_pvw

Symphony No.5 by Beethoven performed on piano by Wim Winters and Alberto Sanna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf9e0HRIq_M&t

Adagio from Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven performed by Wim Winters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7srk51hibs4

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MOVIES featured in this video:
Shine (1996) directed by Scott Hicks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vCfNI84gac

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Wim Winters' critics featured in this video:
Daniel Waitzman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMY9sJqkcgI&t
Vlad Vexler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEmNZnpk65w
Gerard van Reenen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcF0CXqtC-Y
Simon Danell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40yFVGs2QAI&t
Patrick Hemmerlé:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq20NJGhZ38
Dr. Cory Hall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xssHFP09g-k
Bradley Scarff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dvMoFRNXFg
David Arditti:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGlod-hxwmE
Bernhard Ruchti:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX79mu9gGxw

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