For me it was interesting, melodically, I think adventurous is a good word to use but not necessarily inventive, I loved the different styles of phrasing often very vocal- like. Harmonically I would use the term robust - thick ,full, deep - I don"t hear anything to experimental or inventive hamonicly but it is deep and rich, a very mature full kind of sound, the kind of sound I seem to like best when I hear a violin sonata. Somehow I want to say I hear more of a Strauss kind of sound than a Brahms kind of sound, not golden rays of sunshine but more like a mysterious stranger lurking behind the mist, the mystery that is life and of love. Do you ever take a break? :)
+scottbos68 That's a very good description, couldn't have done it better myself :) I think your comments are a good addition to videos like this, you obviously know a lot more than me about violin compositions and their respective players/styles.
My responses are nothing more than opinions that I don't really think are important or useful, it's more like thinking out loud more or less. I'm not really sure about knowing more or less I just know how I feel when I hear something and what my reaction is to what is happening. When I listen to music I see colors and shapes and sounds have a certain flavor, all I do is try to say what is inside when I hear something. Above all I think everyone needs to pay attention to what their thoughts are about a piece of music or an interpretation, just because everyone says something is great and deep down you don't like it - that's what it's all about, ignore everything else and pay attention to what your instincts and subconscious is telling you. I think it is our responsibility as performers to express that inner voice is saying to you even if everyone says you're playing that wrong or that was horrible. You know Van Gogh didn't start painting until like 27 or something like that and was not at all successful in his lifetime? Or Sibelius who didn't even start playing violin until around age 15? I will say violin is my obsession and what happened is I started to get sick of hearing the same things over and over so I started to explore the piano repertoire and I think you have a lot more background with that then I do. An opinion is never a fact but at the same time I do feel strongly about things like why listen to Stern or Elman when you can listen to Kogan or Szeryng but again remember opinion is not a fact. If someone likes Michael Jackson that's great and I may not say anything but it doesn't mean I'm going to buy the cd or even go home and listen to it. My background is more of a improvisational nature with a strong jazz influence, I know I'll never be a classical musician and have spent many years writing and playing by ear and reading music and a 20 some year study of harmony and chord formulas and voicing so slot of times when I hear something I can physically see the chord shape without looking at the notes and knowing instinctively what scale family or lack thereof is involved. I continue to struggle to find my own voice and am starting to doubt if I ever will find it. Another silly rambling sorry for that.
An interesting and original composition played beautifully!
For me it was interesting, melodically, I think adventurous is a good word to use but not necessarily inventive, I loved the different styles of phrasing often very vocal- like. Harmonically I would use the term robust - thick ,full, deep - I don"t hear anything to experimental or inventive hamonicly but it is deep and rich, a very mature full kind of sound, the kind of sound I seem to like best when I hear a violin sonata. Somehow I want to say I hear more of a Strauss kind of sound than a Brahms kind of sound, not golden rays of sunshine but more like a mysterious stranger lurking behind the mist, the mystery that is life and of love. Do you ever take a break? :)
+scottbos68 That's a very good description, couldn't have done it better myself :) I think your comments are a good addition to videos like this, you obviously know a lot more than me about violin compositions and their respective players/styles.
My responses are nothing more than opinions that I don't really think are important or useful, it's more like thinking out loud more or less. I'm not really sure about knowing more or less I just know how I feel when I hear something and what my reaction is to what is happening. When I listen to music I see colors and shapes and sounds have a certain flavor, all I do is try to say what is inside when I hear something. Above all I think everyone needs to pay attention to what their thoughts are about a piece of music or an interpretation, just because everyone says something is great and deep down you don't like it - that's what it's all about, ignore everything else and pay attention to what your instincts and subconscious is telling you. I think it is our responsibility as performers to express that inner voice is saying to you even if everyone says you're playing that wrong or that was horrible. You know Van Gogh didn't start painting until like 27 or something like that and was not at all successful in his lifetime? Or Sibelius who didn't even start playing violin until around age 15? I will say violin is my obsession and what happened is I started to get sick of hearing the same things over and over so I started to explore the piano repertoire and I think you have a lot more background with that then I do. An opinion is never a fact but at the same time I do feel strongly about things like why listen to Stern or Elman when you can listen to Kogan or Szeryng but again remember opinion is not a fact. If someone likes Michael Jackson that's great and I may not say anything but it doesn't mean I'm going to buy the cd or even go home and listen to it. My background is more of a improvisational nature with a strong jazz influence, I know I'll never be a classical musician and have spent many years writing and playing by ear and reading music and a 20 some year study of harmony and chord formulas and voicing so slot of times when I hear something I can physically see the chord shape without looking at the notes and knowing instinctively what scale family or lack thereof is involved. I continue to struggle to find my own voice and am starting to doubt if I ever will find it. Another silly rambling sorry for that.