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In Reply to: RE: Finally! posted by Ivan303 on June 02, 2016 at 15:54:59
Amazingly, the vibrato is fine! (I was worried at first, but I needn't have bothered.)
However, Dave Billinge, who sometimes posts here, just gave this release a kind of thumbs down review on Music Web International (link below). I must say that I was surprised by the review, because I've been very happy with the album - not least because it was the first (and, so far, only) download in multi-channel that I've gotten from the eClassical site - and I thought the recorded sound was spectacular! I've had too many other activities to get some of the more recent multi-channel downloads that have come out in the meantime on eClassical, but I hope to remedy that in a couple of weeks, after all my work dies down.*
*Off-topic footnote: Lots of high-school seniors in this area give "senior recitals" at this time of year - I just played the Franck Sonata last Sunday - couple of places where I unfortunately crashed and burned slightly in the second movement, and parts of the other movements weren't so great either - grr! And I had the Brahms D-minor Sonata on another recital the week before that. This Saturday, it'll be the Walton Viola Concerto, which I've never played before, followed by another recital (the same day) featuring music of Wieniawski, Sarasate, and (yes) Shostakovitch. In many of these cases, whether I play well or not, the performances are put up on YouTube - I'm cringing at the thought of my Franck Sonata performance being put up there in a couple of days, especially since the violinist herself played so well! But what am I going to do? ;-)
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How about a link to one of your finer performances.
My "finest" performance on uTube is an audio-only one in which, because of the contractual obligations of the other pianist, we're not allowed to be named. (I'm playing Piano 2.) I posted a link to this a few years ago, but here it is again (at the bottom of this post). It's with a local orchestra (which no longer exists), and it's not too bad - except for the very last note!! Amazingly, there have been over 50,000 hits on this video (we still have a way to go before we get to Taylor Swift territory - LOL!), and it's amusing to read some of the comments. ;-)
For an example of the more normal "teacher's recital" playing I most often do, I'll provide a link to a performance from a few years ago of the Rachmaninoff Vocalise, recorded under far from ideal conditions (the piano and the room acoustic especially - and the video recorder may have had its dynamic range limiter turned on, which makes the violinist's part sound much worse than I thought it really was). Christine was a wonderful girl in every respect and I can't say enough good things about her. We also recorded the Saint-Saens Third Concerto (under much better conditions), but there doesn't seem to be a posting of that video. I think she's now at the University of Oregon.
Rachmaninoff
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