Post by Fugue February 18, 2012 (11 of 18)
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rammiepie said:
And for all those posters who'd gladly pay $20~$40 for a stereo download, I procured this wonderful mch disc from Amazon US for $16 delivered.......brand new.
I paid $11.24 ($14.22 delivered) for a brand new copy from an Amazon seller!
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Post by rammiepie February 19, 2012 (12 of 18)
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Fugue said:
I paid $11.24 ($14.22 delivered) for a brand new copy from an Amazon seller!
Do you want to split the difference?
But my copy includes an 8x10" glossy photograph of Lara blowing a kiss.
Guess I have a new "bow."
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Post by Fugue February 19, 2012 (13 of 18)
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rammiepie said:
Do you want to split the difference?
But my copy includes an 8x10" glossy photograph of Lara blowing a kiss.
Guess I have a new "bow."
Well, I can't compete with that! :-) (Not that I was trying to in the first place...)
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Post by rammiepie February 19, 2012 (14 of 18)
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Fugue said:
Well, I can't compete with that! :-) (Not that I was trying to in the first place...)
Zing went the strings of my heart!
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Post by Beagle February 19, 2012 (15 of 18)
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canonical said: Ahh to be the cat amongst the pigeons...
If you are still clinging canonically to keyboards, I suspect that you are the pigeon among the cats ;-)
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Post by Fugue February 25, 2012 (16 of 18)
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Hmm...the more I listen to this disc, I hear some intonation issues, especially in the Presto of BWV 1030. I heard one or two small "squeaks," too, which I know are hard to avoid, but on repeated listening both issues might be bothersome.
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Post by Beagle March 9, 2012 (17 of 18)
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Fugue said: I hear some intonation issues...
Since this disc arrived a week ago, I have been listening to it with great pleasure -- but also with my ears wide open for 'intonation issues'. Yes, I do hear something outside of the standard violin sound.
From a musician at St John's level, I fully expect any intonations et cetera to be deliberate aesthetic choices. Everything about this disc bears witness to finely weighed choices: repertoire, instrumentation, scholarly notes, corp of sound engineers... and disc art which rivals Caro Mitis.
The booklet notes begin, "Bach performances have changed considerably in the last 100 years, musicological research has clarified many of the questions regarding the performance practice of earlier music. This research has helped musicians understand what early 18th-century music might have sounded like, lightening the heavy style of early 20th-century Bach performance.". Lara St John plays a 1779 Guadagnini violin, her bowing suggests a shorter baroque bow and the vibrato is not unrelenting.
Finally this evening the thought came: the violin on this disc sounds as it does on Ignaz Biber SACDs, baroque.
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Post by pbarach April 19, 2012 (18 of 18)
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The playing is fine, but any sort of rhythmic edge is lopped off by the substitution of a harp for a keyboard instrument. It turns these sonatas into Muzak.
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