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Author: willineo
Date: 2015-05-10 20:22
Hi all!
I made a Weber Quintet recording a few days from a recital that I would like to share with all of you. Hope you enjoy the recording and please excuse any mistakes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TemtlT8dpHw (II movement)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoZt03W6V84 (IV movement)
Post Edited (2015-05-10 21:51)
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2015-05-10 22:48
REALLY good. Your tone and technique are perfect, and you understand the music.
At your highly professional level, I will pick a few nits. Your clarion high C6 is slightly sharp, as is the clarion from G5 on up.
Stay engaged in the music during rests. You let your concentration drop.
Don't move so much. Let your phrase shaping put the music over.
Weber needs to be emotional and operatic. It's not a race -- it's having fun. Watch Richie Hawley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfN9FVkMWdg. An arched eyebrow is just as important as a 1,000 horsepower engine.
At age 22, you're a remarkable player, on your way up. Keep at it.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-05-12 13:21
Gosh I'm sorry I took so long to listen to this........very VERY good!!!
Actually you have a very transparent sound. I like how much detail I can hear in your playing. I also don't really have a problem with the intonation.
Quite honestly, I like your rendition better than Mr. Hawley's (a little to staid for my taste). Although I do like how much Mr. Hawley engages everyone in the ensemble visually. You can never have too much communication going on in an ensemble.
...........Paul Aviles
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-05-12 19:29
Another apology. I was writing and listening to the last movement for the above comment. The Adagio is amazing in your breadth of dynamic and pacing nuances AND you are watching the others in your group a lot.
Richey Hawley might be calling soon to find out what your hourly rate for lessons is.
.............Paul Aviles
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Author: nellsonic
Date: 2015-05-12 23:08
I love the vitality in your fine performance. If we could meld it with Hawley's rhythmic precision - wow! (I've only had a chance to listen to your last movement).
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Author: rmk54
Date: 2015-05-13 00:27
Although I generally do not comment on student performances (other than my own students!) you seem to be a talented and serious player player, so I do have two suggestions which are somewhat related:
You often tend to clip the ends of phrases.
None of your phrases appear (to me, anyway) to last for more than two measures.
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Author: JKL
Date: 2015-05-13 01:50
I would suggest to work with different sources and to study the available sources. Like in the concertos, Carl Baermann made - more than 50 years after Weber had composed it - some questionable "corrections" and overloaded it with embellishments - appoggiaturas, trills etc. For example in the last movement, bar 239 - 241 Baermann decided that it has to play ff and "con tutt'anima" and, moreover, with additional ornamentations, whereas Weber wrote "p dolce"!
There are, at least, two editions which claim to follow the autograph or the engraver´s model: the Schott "historio-critical edition" and the Breitkopf & Härtel edition.
JKL
Post Edited (2015-05-13 02:21)
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