https://youtu.be/SfS14rpl0OI
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Roland van Gaalen
Amsterdam
https://youtu.be/SfS14rpl0OI
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Roland van Gaalen
Amsterdam
where in the violin they can be rather obscure since the
violin can't always play a three note chord & a melody at the same time)."
On Saturday, December 10, 2022 at 8:14:33 AM UTC+1, Notsure01 wrote:with musicality. Not just by getting 'a bigger boat'.
where in the violin they can be rather obscure since theOh dear. Why not go straight to a symphony orchestra and let them spell it out?
violin can't always play a three note chord & a melody at the same time)." >>
The Chaconne doesn't really do "melody" and accompaniment. The theme is supposed to be IN the chords. Not over the chords.
Few pieces of Bach's are as instrument-specific as the six violin partitas and sonatas, and the Chaconne is if you will the summit of this. The technical challenges (just four strings) are an integral part of the music. The idea is to overcome them
To me this whole thing smacks of 1900. Let's go and look if some granddad conductor mutilated this piece into a dramatic orchestral piece, for conductor showboating - sorry, 'educational purposes'.
Of course the Chaconne is part and climax of a five-piece partita, but I guess that would challenge the attention span too much.
But I'm not sure if you are against transcriptions in general - after
all, where would those piano folks be without the Busoni?
Of course the Chaconne is part and climax of a five-piece partita, but I guess that would challenge the attention span too much.
Of course the Chaconne is part and climax of a five-piece partita, but I guess that would challenge the attention span too much.
Herman wrote:
Of course the Chaconne is part and climax of a five-piece partita, but I guess that would challenge the attention span too much.Okay but life is short and my capacity to absorb information, let alone somehow comprehend it in some sense, is tiny.
From that perspective, it's a miracle that I like this performance and yes I am proud of that, in the sense of feeling privileged.
A famous art historian (no doubt a great scholar) wrote (I'm paraphrasing): we only have enough time to examine a just few fragments.
Just a few fragments. That's it.
No doubt his number of fragments is much larger than mine, or his fragments are much longer than mine, or both, and no doubt his understanding is much, much, much deeper than mine.
(Absolutely no false modesty on my part, even though on a logarithmic scale, the difference might not seem quite so huge, and after taking logarithms a few more times, we all end up in the same boat, as it were.)
That's my consolation. What is yours?
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Roland van Gaalen
Amsterdam
On Saturday, December 10, 2022 at 11:31:08 PM UTC, Roland van Gaalen wrote:
Herman wrote:
Of course the Chaconne is part and climax of a five-piece partita, but I guess that would challenge the attention span too much.Okay but life is short and my capacity to absorb information, let alone somehow comprehend it in some sense, is tiny.
From that perspective, it's a miracle that I like this performance and yes I am proud of that, in the sense of feeling privileged.
A famous art historian (no doubt a great scholar) wrote (I'm paraphrasing): we only have enough time to examine a just few fragments.
Just a few fragments. That's it.
No doubt his number of fragments is much larger than mine, or his fragments are much longer than mine, or both, and no doubt his understanding is much, much, much deeper than mine.
(Absolutely no false modesty on my part, even though on a logarithmic scale, the difference might not seem quite so huge, and after taking logarithms a few more times, we all end up in the same boat, as it were.)
That's my consolation. What is yours?Oh for fucks sake, the whole partita lasts about 20 minutes.
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Roland van Gaalen
Amsterdam
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