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Re: Are people playing louder?

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2020-09-20 04:04

Bennett wrote:

> Isn't it also a question of how loud the orchestra is? If the
> orchestra is loud - whatever that means - the soloist must
> play out.

I'm not sure if you're thinking of soloists as concerto performers or as principal players playing solo passages. If the orchestra is loud, it's because the players in it, including necessarily the principals, are playing loud, largely because that's what the conductor demands.

I suppose a visiting soloist is to some extent at the orchestra's mercy, but good orchestras and orchestral players are perfectly capable of playing softly when they need to. And in my experience the sentences most often spoken by conductors when working with a soloist are "It needs to be softer. We're covering the soloist."

Karl

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