Very beautiful. I think your interpretation is more like Bach himself would have played the piece. Rather than strive for some sort of artificial rhythmic precision in the ornamentation, I think he would have been more attuned to the European folk traditions of the day. Oddly enough, I think you are taking us back to the roots of much of the music. -Michael Weeks youtube/watch?v=1NdZTNk2MMw Great version Mark. You are updating, revising and reaching a new audience on every level. Here is an old recording on Baroque violin by Lucy van Dael that may be a more appropriate comparison. youtu.be/H_1CDmGAY-g -Paul Lindenauer Paul, that is simply amazing in the uncanny similarity. I promise, I did not listen to this or any baroque performance of the Allemande! I simply came up with my rendition from scratch. There are things in the tempo and accelerations as well as pacing and articulation that are nearly identical... wow... I am stunned... I did not study baroque music... I simply went by the notes of Bach with no bowings as I left his out because I treated them as phrase markings and I didnt need phrase markings to create my bowings, just the notes on the page. I did it as a composer-violinist. I am kind of blown away right now... MOC This reminds me of another point: why are we violinists not experimenting enough with tuning? Guitarists do it...the violin sounds so good tuned down for Bach! -John Maida Good point John. One of the biggest reasons is that we play for bigger audiences today. I can almost guarantee you that my rendition that I played on the video would be about twice as loud in a concert hall than Lucys version, approach and equipment. I am not saying that loud is better, but for live classical music, it seems to have gone that way... Trombones are twice as loud... Timpani is twice as loud etc etc from Beethovens day. -MOC
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:45:30 +0000
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