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kellbellwon (July 8, 2008 at 4:29 am)
i wonder if anything is hard for her. cuz she makes everything look so easy. i wonder if she actually has to practice intensly anymore, or if she just plays something for a few weeks until she has it memorized and then performs it for five thousand people in france.
jghamm (July 6, 2008 at 9:48 am)
i like her right hand soooo much!!!
utuddlegaM (July 4, 2008 at 5:49 pm)
I like your comment here badstringer about how your could interpret ysaye with a more strict timing, ect.. It is still you, thus your interpritation. What seems to stick out with her playing is that she doesn't deviate with time that much in general, not just with ysaye, but with everyting. If she went up there again and played it, it would have sounded exactly the same! She is a machine! That's why I like her though, and what other musicians wish they had. That consistancy.
utuddlegaM (July 4, 2008 at 5:37 pm)
She is by all means an exceptional violinist. But man, she REALLY neeeds to loosen up a bit when it comes to playing things as free and romantic as this.
evoandy (July 3, 2008 at 4:21 am)
I almost totally agree. Go through this piece and actually examine it. she's not at all faithful to the text. There is almost no attention to the special markings ysaye used in the text to specify pacing and articulation.
muslit (July 1, 2008 at 1:31 pm)
no temperment
aftermiles (June 25, 2008 at 6:16 am)
Who can say there is no feeling? Every single note has a a character derived from the phrase leading it. There is such dynamic precision and sensitivity in every note. It's such a wonderful thing to see someone so in touch with such a beast of a piece.
mamekun84 (June 23, 2008 at 11:43 pm)
sorry, but i disagree: what then would you make of Ysaye's recording of the Mendelssohn concerto, full of brio, dash, and even occasional changes of rhythm; or Enesco's recordings, for example of his 3rd sonata, which although heavily "notated, reads "between" them, rendering it so flexible and natural?
Mortimer123 (June 23, 2008 at 11:34 pm)
mamekun84 - one actually does have some notion of how Ysaye played. There are recordings. Like others who were born deep in the 19th century, his discipline, rhythmic strictness, total avoidance of overt emotionalism, "unromantic" approach, are downright stunning. The same is true for Sarasate or Joachim (or, if you look beyond the violin, Moritz Rosenthal, Nellie Melba, Josef Lhevinne, etc. etc.). Each of these artists would have sharply criticized Vengerov for lack of control and proportion.
4444matthew4444 (June 15, 2008 at 3:58 pm)
I have heard this sonata hundreds of time and I have never felt such passion and at this point I am crying. |
