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In Reply to: RE: Why do you care? Every Baroque Group un the Bay Area is HIP, incl posted by oldmkvi on April 13, 2021 at 12:10:12
Long ago, I had to review several Philharmonia Baroque concerts over the course of years for the Oakland Tribune. It was very traumatic for me. ;-)(I do realize that the power of my opinions is so strong and influential, that HIP groups the world over cower in fear at my wrath and just want to be left "in Peace". As Rodney King once asked, "Can't we all just get along?" Indeed, it would be a much kinder and gentler world if only nobody would criticize anything - and I know that many dream of a world like this!)
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Did you see Reinhard Goebel was quoted as saying the original instrument movement has run it's course or some such similar words. He was conducting a modern instrument outfit in something. I forget the details.
Andrew Manze left the fold, Victoria Mullova dabbles in both -- why be stuck in one "school of thinking"? Christopher Hogwood did a great series of Martinu violin works with the Czech PO. But, HIP will always be around, I think. Can't do anything Viola da Gamba otherwise!
Actually, I'm a fan of HIP. I can't imagine ever again listening to Bach or Handel, for instance, on modern instruments. It's would be a bad joke.
. . . that's up to you - and I'll defend to the death your right to like it.
(Well, not really, but that would be a very fine sentiment anyway! ;-)
I'd rather listen to Bach played by Angela Hewitt rather than by somebody on a harpsichord.Here's another example. I believe this group plays on historic instruments but the piano is modern. The best of both worlds. This series of discs is great.
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You don't like Angela Hewitt either? Me thinks you're a bit of a snob. No offense.
It adds character to a world otherwise filled with REAL snobs. The last "live" concert I attended before the pandemic was Angela Hewitt performing the Goldberg Variations. Most amazing performance of anything I've ever seen live. The piano was her pre-wrecked Fazioli (it was destroyed later by movers). A modern grand piano with distinctive aural qualities can be a nice bridge between HIP and contemporary tastes.
Hewitt is working on Beethoven's Hammerklavier to complete her cycle on Hyperion, and I am looking forward to it.
The editing must be taking a LONG time!
I'd like to hear Angela Hewitt perform the Shostakovich Piano Concerto #1 accompanied by John Eliot Gardiner and his Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique band and have Chris write a review! One catch: he would actually have to listen to it before he writes the review.
Aye! There's the rub! ;-)
to love it. : )
Humans are funny that way.
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. . . I actually heard violas da gamba played expressively. (Whether the playing was "infinitely more expressive" I tend to doubt, but. . . it was expressive nevertheless, and at least the players seemed to employ vibrato without fear of the HIP Inquisition coming down on them.) I think the Collegium Aureum had gambists who played like that. Alas - it's but a distant memory!
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And if you want to learn me, I'm willing! ;-)
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Why just be a gatekeeper and a bouncer when you can serve the drinks and hire/fire the band. If you are going to hang at the speakeasy, acknowledge the lawlessness, I say!:-)
Anyone remember the old game "Clue" and its format for offering up the answer to the clues? Here's mine: Lola playing the Viola Da Gamba without shoes.
'Lola playing the Viola Da Gamba without shoes'
please tell me it was in the rectory
unless rent is being paid!
without paying rent aren't you just a squatter?
IME women that are cavalier about 'any location' are both rare & trouble
and usually European ... butt still rare
moving right along .....
regards,
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