Gidon Kremer playing excerpts from Bach on vinyl.
Best wishes,
Don
Best wishes,
Don
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Almost exactly 10 years ago (on 31st July and 1 August 2015) Alina Ibragimova gave 2 solo recitals of Bach sonatas and partitas at the Proms. Performing such music live broadcast around the world in front of a discerning audience of 9,000 people at the Albert Hall is not for the faint-hearted. Although she was fairly well known at the time, this really put her on the map.
Early one evening during lockdown in 2020 we were at a local restaurant and Alina was playing this Chaconne, warming up for a recital. Within minutes there were 150 people at the window in rapt attention. The police came and broke up what was an illegal gathering. You couldn’t make it up.
Early one evening during lockdown in 2020 we were at a local restaurant and Alina was playing this Chaconne, warming up for a recital. Within minutes there were 150 people at the window in rapt attention. The police came and broke up what was an illegal gathering. You couldn’t make it up.
Does Violincello videos count???
Vincent Belanger on Violincello - vinyl
Best wishes,
Don
Vincent Belanger on Violincello - vinyl
Best wishes,
Don
I've been really enjoying listening to some of my Vincent Belanger vinyl recordings.
Here is another excerpt that you may enjoy. I love the tone he gets out of his instrument. I love the dynamics and the nice balance of detail and hall acoustics.
Best wishes,
Don
Here is another excerpt that you may enjoy. I love the tone he gets out of his instrument. I love the dynamics and the nice balance of detail and hall acoustics.
Best wishes,
Don
Beethoven Violin Concerto - Arthur Grumiaux, Colin Davis, Phillips
Hello friends. I am embarrassed by me being so technically challenged....
Is the video in my post #124 showing for the public now?
Thanks much,
Don
Is the video in my post #124 showing for the public now?
Thanks much,
Don
It’s a good one. I’ve been listening to this recording for years.
Here's another excerpt from Vincent Belanger playing Bach on vinyl. This is on the same LP as the video above on post #124.
This video is even better than the one I posted above.... 'cause my favorite listening buddy (my golden retriever) is enjoying it with me. He even knows to lay in the sweet spot
Hope you enjoy!
Best wishes,
Don
This video is even better than the one I posted above.... 'cause my favorite listening buddy (my golden retriever) is enjoying it with me. He even knows to lay in the sweet spot
Hope you enjoy!
Best wishes,
Don
Fabulous. This system presents the soul of the music. Really excellent.
Music Not For You
... maybe
Béla Bartók Les Six Quators
Valois CMB 23 Box Set
1972
Quatuor Végh
This is part of the Moderato (1st) movement. It is somewhat conversational, talking with itself back and forth, over and over.
As is Bartók's style, don't expect it to go anywhere. His music does not meet Western expectations for melody, completion and release. Rather the composer emphasizes motoric irregulat rhythms, counterpoint, accents and sresses with lots of dynamic contrast. These operate inside dissonant nucleic themes that offer little sense of journey, destination or narrative.
Bartók was also an enthnomusicalogical researcher who sought out and recorded folk music from his home country (Hungary) and Eastern Europe generally. He also ventured into North Africa to examine Arabic folk music and found it totally different from Eastern Europe. His compositions reflect what he took from his research. Tommorrow I'll post some of the 2nd movement -- the dance movement -- which gets kinda flamboyent.
This 2nd Quartet was written during World War I with all its attendant horrors.
Béla Bartók Les Six Quators
Valois CMB 23 Box Set
1972
Quatuor Végh
This is part of the Moderato (1st) movement. It is somewhat conversational, talking with itself back and forth, over and over.
As is Bartók's style, don't expect it to go anywhere. His music does not meet Western expectations for melody, completion and release. Rather the composer emphasizes motoric irregulat rhythms, counterpoint, accents and sresses with lots of dynamic contrast. These operate inside dissonant nucleic themes that offer little sense of journey, destination or narrative.
Bartók was also an enthnomusicalogical researcher who sought out and recorded folk music from his home country (Hungary) and Eastern Europe generally. He also ventured into North Africa to examine Arabic folk music and found it totally different from Eastern Europe. His compositions reflect what he took from his research. Tommorrow I'll post some of the 2nd movement -- the dance movement -- which gets kinda flamboyent.
This 2nd Quartet was written during World War I with all its attendant horrors.
More Music Not For You
Here is the promised 2nd movement of Béla Bartók's 2nd String Quartet from Quatuor Végh. Aren't these guys good -- I mean really good.
This middle movement is considered a rondo by musicologists. A rondo expresses the notion of music returning to a central theme, for example ABACABA is a 7 part roundo, where A is the central theme around which other episodes play out and then return to A. Rondo is also a dance, sometimes a simple circle of joined hands, sometime choreography with the same idea of a central theme surrounded by satellite movements.
This 2nd movement is high energy, I daresay it borders on the percussive -- Bartók loved percussion instruments and here in spots the strings are almost beating on one another. Bartók invented a type of pizzacato called the "snap pizzacato" where the performer pulls the string up rather than sideways which causes it to bounce off the fingerboard, yielding a percussive sound. I read that this movement was inspired by his to trip to Algeria.
The music is propulsive, dynamic and joyful and contrasts with the more contemplative 1st movement and the near tragic 3rd. The beginning of the 20th Century saw a 'weakening' of tonality coming out of the romantic slant of the late 19th. The composer did not need melody and completion to express himself.
I find it truly amazing that someone (Bartók) could write these string quartets and find it equally amazing to experience the talent of the performance.
Béla Bartók Les Six Quators
Quatuor Végh
Valois CMB 23 Box Set
1972
Some may see the background lighting jitter, mea culpa, which 'enhances' the general nervous character of the music. This is from an LED light on the other side of the room. Not on the same circuit as the stereo.
Here is the promised 2nd movement of Béla Bartók's 2nd String Quartet from Quatuor Végh. Aren't these guys good -- I mean really good.
This middle movement is considered a rondo by musicologists. A rondo expresses the notion of music returning to a central theme, for example ABACABA is a 7 part roundo, where A is the central theme around which other episodes play out and then return to A. Rondo is also a dance, sometimes a simple circle of joined hands, sometime choreography with the same idea of a central theme surrounded by satellite movements.
This 2nd movement is high energy, I daresay it borders on the percussive -- Bartók loved percussion instruments and here in spots the strings are almost beating on one another. Bartók invented a type of pizzacato called the "snap pizzacato" where the performer pulls the string up rather than sideways which causes it to bounce off the fingerboard, yielding a percussive sound. I read that this movement was inspired by his to trip to Algeria.
The music is propulsive, dynamic and joyful and contrasts with the more contemplative 1st movement and the near tragic 3rd. The beginning of the 20th Century saw a 'weakening' of tonality coming out of the romantic slant of the late 19th. The composer did not need melody and completion to express himself.
I find it truly amazing that someone (Bartók) could write these string quartets and find it equally amazing to experience the talent of the performance.
Béla Bartók Les Six Quators
Quatuor Végh
Valois CMB 23 Box Set
1972
Some may see the background lighting jitter, mea culpa, which 'enhances' the general nervous character of the music. This is from an LED light on the other side of the room. Not on the same circuit as the stereo.
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