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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Re: Read "An Equal Music" anyone? posted by mricca on June 11, 2002 at 10:14:00:
The sonatas are good, and I'm not the biggest Vivaldi fan in the world. They're for violin and continuo(harpsichord, archlute, theorbo, and guitar on the discs I have). The third movement(largo) of the 1st sonata was the piece in the book--the scene in the Venice church. IMO, the scene in "An Equal Music" is better than the largo itself or maybe just better than the performance of the largo that I have. Or maybe the book raised my expectations too high. Andrew Manze, who I generally like, is the violinist and fails to move me with the largo. He tends to be better in the allegros and prestos. The slower the tempo the worse he seems to be, but there are other slow movements in these sonatas that I still like better than the largo of "Equal Music." I got the disc with the "Equal Music" sonata on it first and liked the music well enough to buy the other disc to complete the set.I think I'll re-read "Equal Music", too. I also recommend "Stormy Applause" by Dubinsky if you haven't read that one. It's nonfiction written by the founder of the Borodin Quartet and tells of their struggles.
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- Re: Read "An Equal Music" anyone? - Ears 01:43:15 06/12/02 (2)
- Re: Read "An Equal Music" anyone? - mricca 13:40:52 06/12/02 (1)
- Re: Read "An Equal Music" anyone? - Ears 15:20:47 06/12/02 (0)
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