In Reply to: Modern string players are WAY closer posted by Chris from Lafayette on February 23, 2015 at 23:50:33:
Hmm. I think perhaps I should clarify that I am referring to the amount of vibrato a modern string section will use either in the opera pit, or when accompanying a singer onstage. In this instance, they will use nowhere near the amount of vibrato the soloist does, or that they would use if they were the soloists themselves, or even if playing a symphonic work where a wider vibrato was called for, say Russian romantic symphony of Tchaikovsky or Rachmaninov, for instance. They would certainly never copy the width of the singer's vibrato while accompanying, in any case. That would indeed sound absurd....
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- RE: Modern string players are WAY closer - learsfool 21:14:53 02/24/15 (4)
- A modern orchestra sounds fundamentally different - Chris from Lafayette 00:18:01 02/25/15 (3)
- RE: A modern orchestra sounds fundamentally different - learsfool 22:59:56 02/25/15 (2)
- I'm speaking in generalities with regard to strings - Chris from Lafayette 17:32:09 02/26/15 (1)
- RE: I'm speaking in generalities with regard to strings - learsfool 21:08:01 02/26/15 (0)