Author: Julian ibiza
Date: 2023-10-22 14:10
Hi Fuzzy,
I appreciate the maverick angle of Nigel Kennedy to playing and perceiving classical music. Both in his image, his advocating of interpretation and intention of presenting classical to a broader section of society by changing set ideas about it. He defines " Classical music" as any music that endures the tests of time....Hence he says the Beatles are classical. Vivaldi's Four Seaonsn he described as " An animal work", and performs it in that spirit, saying he likes it because it gives him space for interpretation and energizes an orchestra ( See videos on YouTube).
I think that above all he's tried to break the idea that Classical music is somehow for culturally refined intellectuals only.
I'm not a big listener of Classical myself and I think it's the conservative element in a lot of performances that leaves me cold , yet when I hear a performance where the initiative of interpretation has been seized by the horns, then I'm deeply moved and enchanted .
As for Bach, I think that his work is nothing without masterful interpretation.
It's as if to play Back you have to be both the player and the dancer....or maybe a cinematographer.
Written music is like DNA ...it is of itself a dead thing. It's one thing to give it its form , but another to give it the spark of vitality . Something which can only come from the living in that moment.
Julian Griffiths
Tel. 34 696 798 853
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