On Feb 9, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Gernot Hilger wrote:
> My reference interpretation, a beloved compagnion for more than
> thirty years is Hoppy's 1978 rendition on the 1755 Widhalm lute,
> Reflexe edition, not the later recording on his van Lennep lute. I
> find this particular piece overflowing with e
30 years of listening! Hah! I certainly would like to. But implicitely my point
was that too many lute recordings are on the brink of being too bland for my
humble taste. Now even Robert Barto falls prey to this. This I did not expect.
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On 10.02.2010, at 00:12, howard posner wrote:
> On Feb 9
Another possibility- performers, (like their listeners) are human;
therefore fallible- they are not going to bat everything out of the
park every time up to bat- and listeners are also human (therefore
fallible) and will have different subjective responses. For that
matter, the recording proces
There's no question, empirically, that going to concerts is good for
your playing and listening to CDs is bad for your playing.
Everyone has to make that choice--whether they are a listener or a player.
Another way to look at it is that no one in the renaissance or
baroque ever listened to CDs, i
Hello Gernot:
We just listened to our old LP version of the Tombeau by Inspector
Smith, and heard a young man with a real sense of poetry, still
discovering the music and not afraid of taking risks, inspired by the
virtues and vagaries of an historical instrument, and loads of traffi
Another thing we do now is to narrow our field mostly to other plucked
string instruments and interpretations. The lute players who created
the music we are talking about heard lots of bowed strings, wind
instruments, keyboards etc. and it must have influenced their
repertoire and ho
Nancy Carlin schrieb:
One more point - the interpretations of Dowland by Hoppy and Paul
O'Dette are very, very different, but you can enjoy listening to both
of them. Listening is a different thing than picking aspects of the
performances that you can borrow for your own performances
>>>Thomas Schall schrieb:
>>>That's one of the most fantastic and beatiful things in lute world - the
>>>interpretations are not as >>>"fixed" as - for instance - in the violin or
>>>piano world.
>>>A real treasure!
>>>
>>>Thomas
Thomas,
I honestly do not believe that this is the case. There is
Dear All,
For some reason, this reminds me of a director's first impression of
the actor Gary Cooper. On the first day of filming, the director is
saying to himself, "What is he doing? He's not acting at all, he's just
reading the lines without any emotion." But that evening, when
