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Last night at the San Antonio symphony concert we heard the Barber violin concerto played by Eric Gratz. In a pre concert interview he mentioned that in the end of the last movement he is playing 12 notes per second. The tempo is set for 192 bits per second. If you have not heard this piece and our a fan of virtuoso violin playing give it a liston
Alan
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxmcJYBKFmM
Yes, she's playing 192 beats/minute at the end. Her whole performance of this piece is one of the best I've heard--all three movements are easily located on YouTube.
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Sorry. This digital stuff has me disoriented
Alan
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One of the most beautiful, wistful utterances of the 20th C.
I wasn't doing a review of the concerto. Just the virtuosity in the 3rd movement. I agree with you. The slow movement is really beautiful
Alan
No problem, didn't want to hijack thread. Do you know Barber's Piano Concerto? The 3rd mov'ts a pretty wild ride too.
And another gorgeous slow mov't to boot!
I have not heard it. Will give it a listen
Alan
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Elmar and Arturo Delmoni can duke it out for, Most Under-rated American-Born Violinist.
Whereas, John Marks deserves his obscurity, and richly; but, he loves this movement--perhaps the greatest of all vln cto slow movements???
OK, LvB's Lutheran-Chorale slow mvt is a real grabber, too.
ATB,
John
I once heard a fantastic performance by Jaime Laredo with the Chicago Symphony. A hugely underrated violinist, imho.
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"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
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These days I have Stern/Bernstein on Columbia Lp.
Not bad.
And, with all due respect, you have to take the MM markings with a grain of salt.
Barber accepted a commission from a rich industrialist to write a concerto for his protege, and they thought the first two movements were too lyrical and not virtuoso enough, and so Barber apparently passive-aggressively for the third movement gave them what they said they wanted, and then they cried foul, and money might have been at stake.
So Barber grabbed a Curtis student at random and two days (or some short interval; I first heard this story nearly 40 years ago and it is in print in many places) later the random kid could play the third movement.
But at the end of the day, I myself (and we all know that I sleep under a bridge and keep warm by sucking Sterno® from a sock), think that it is more important to make the concerto hang together as a whole, than to obey a MM indication that might have been little more than a "Fuck you and your money."
jm
Like the CD pictured above, have no idea if it's that fast or not?
Fellow 'Curtis-ite' Hilary Hahn's version is a favorite of mine as well.
Saw him in concert. Really a great artist
Alan
I like a bit of the above in my violin playing. =:-0
Not TOO much, but a bit of that Eastern European emotional content; or Israeli 'soul' if you will. I can listen to Perlman play ANYTHING for HOURS on end, music I might no otherwise care about and still enjoy it.
Even my most favorite violinist of all time, David Oistrakh, had just a touch of it in his playing while Heifetz, as good as he was had not a drop. :-(
I also like quite a lot Vadim Repin
Alan
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