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Did you watch the video of excerpts from the masterclasses as well? Brilliant - these kids, looking very grown-up in the performance videos, get really "kiddy" with excitement as they choose their baroque instruments, and discover what they can do for the Music with them.
Did you watch the video of excerpts from the masterclasses as well? Brilliant - these kids, looking very grown-up in the performance videos, get really "kiddy" with excitement as they choose their baroque instruments, and discover what they can do for the Music with them.
Shunske Sato performing in Haarlem's Light Factory (the old Gas & Electricity factory works - like Tate Modern, now used for concerts and performances):
Variations are placed explicitly in the foreground in Partita no. 1, performed here by Shunske Sato for All of Bach. It is the only partita in which each dan...
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I can't wait (well I will have to) to see what Shunske Sato does with the fugue from the 3rd Sonata BWV1005, as it seems to expose the grip and technique and emotionality and ego of the player more than any other. In my view it combines the happiness of the fugue in the first sonata, with the struggle of the fugue in this one (2nd sonata), in a paradox which only the best violinists can navigate convincingly, and Sato is one of the best.
I can't wait (well I will have to) to see what Shunske Sato does with the fugue from the 3rd Sonata BWV1005, as it seems to expose the grip and technique and emotionality and ego of the player more than any other. In my view it combines the happiness of the fugue in the first sonata, with the struggle of the fugue in this one (2nd sonata), in a paradox which only the best violinists can navigate convincingly, and Sato is one of the best.
Your wait will be over tomorrow.
I've already had the e mail but haven't listened to the performance yet.
I'll leave it to ferney to post the links on Friday if that's ok
“Music is the best means we have of digesting time." — Igor Stravinsky
(Don't know why they waited a week to publish this ... but so worth waiting for. New videos seem to be appearing on Thursdays now - but I think keeping the pleasures until Friday on the Forum is a marvellous way of starting the weekend,)
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Concluding Shunske Sato's traversal of the complete works for solo violin - with the ordering nicely arranged so that the great Chaconne concludes the project. Tremendissimo!
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