In Reply to: RE: Modern string players are WAY closer posted by learsfool on February 24, 2015 at 21:14:53:
I don't care whether it's in the opera pit, accompanying a soloist, or playing a symphonic work - there's a level of vibrato that they (the strings in a modern orchestra) use that's instantly recognizable as qualitatively and quantitatively different from that of a HIP orchestra. And, yes, the amount the modern orchestra uses is more like the amount that singers with modest vibratos use (Elly Ameling, Edith Mathis, Ruth Ziesak, Margaret Marshall (short career), Barbara Bonney (early and mid career), Barbara Hendricks (early and mid career), et al). You can't seriously be arguing that just because the modern orchestra doesn't use as wide a vibrato as SOME singers that modern orchestras and HIP orchestras are equivalent in their use of vibrato, can you? I'm not getting your point otherwise.
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- 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)