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In Reply to: RE: Jeez - Zukerman's had a career for 50 years - we should all be so lucky! ;-) posted by Chris from Lafayette on January 26, 2017 at 14:51:00
such is his mis-placed anger.
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His baroque repertoire consists almost entirely of 18th century "high baroque" Bach and Vivaldi. Their music is particularly amenable to modernization. Bach's dense counterpoint responds well to equal temperament, which was invented in the 1720s but didn't really take hold until after the baroque era. Scholars believe the Well Tempered Clavier was written for a tuning system attributed to Andreas Werckmeister that is a predecessor of equal temperament, but I think Bach would have been delighted with equal temperament and modern keyboard instruments. Heck, his music even sounds good with a Moog synthesizer.
Vivaldi wrote endless variations on his grand, elaborate concerto grosso, that work well with larger ensembles and louder instruments as well as equal temperament.
The baroque music we consider the best or most important today doesn't entirely correspond to what was most celebrated at the time, and I think a major factor is how well the music adapts to modern instruments, tuning and performance practices. Early baroque and renaissance music is very seldom heard today except from the HIPsters, also I think because it is least adaptable to modern performance.
At the moment, though, I like HIP (certain performers) applied to the high baroque as well, mainly because of the heightened sense of dance elements, and the extra "colors" and "textures" that the instruments afford.
If you'll indulge me, listen to #3, Allegro, from La Primavera, (Vivaldi's Four Seasons) below. Wonderful! Lilting! (And if people like Tasmin Little's recent Four Seasons with montovani- oops, modern strings, that's wonderful too!)
Thanks, jdaniel. I liked to the Seiler/Academie fur Alte Musik Berlin samples for Spring and Winter. They appeal to me. Another to go on the list.
Lots of other recordings appeal to me as well: Tognetti/Australian Chamber Orchestra, Fabio Bionde/Europa Galante, Kremer/ECO, the Julia Fischer/ASMF recording from YouTube, the ancient Loveday/ASMF and Virtuosi di Roma recordings.
I'm open to all sorts of recordings, Hip or not.
Zuckerman? I listening to him in a Vivaldi concerto right now and enjoying it. An album with various violin and orchestra pieces by Beethoven, Dvorak and Schubert has been a favorite for a couple of decades.
Zuckerman's opinion of Hip? Hip musicians and their recordings exist in spite of his rants.
Chris's periodic rants: He needs a new speech. We've all heard this one.
my blog: http://carsmusicandnature.blogspot.com/
Hey man, this isn't MY speech in this thread, it's Zukerman's. I'm only the poor, benighted messenger! ;-)EDIT: p.s., you're right that this subject has probably run its course here, so I'll get back to the subjects which renew one's interest in life and art, such as babe pianists and babe violinists, forthwith. ;-)
Edits: 01/27/17
But only referring to them by their first names, of course. ;-)
Very nice. And let's not forget there's great French and English baroque music too. Without the HIPsters, you wouldn't hear very much of it.
Edits: 01/27/17
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