Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2022-01-28 05:14
Why are there bad days? - days when coordination and muscle memory is impaired, or energy won't focus, or your practical imagination bogs down? And then some days are just the opposite, when you play better than ever, better than you realized you could, and practice goes on and on past scheduled finish. I can't predict either bad days or great ones by how I feel beforehand, or how much sleep I got the night before, or how stressful the day has been. Bad or good, it's nearly always a surprise. (When I used to exercise hard, the same was true of weightlifting or running.)
Gorokholinsky's Paganini video is awesome, and I'm always blown away to hear it. It's one of my bookmarked favorites. Two points, though, for purism's sake - caveats that I don't see as detracting from the performance in any significant way . . .
First, at the beginning and end the high ends of the arpeggios are played down an octave from what is printed. That's pretty obvious when the music is shown as the video proceeds.
Second, rapid passages that go higher than about G5 are slurred (or slowed down.) Most multi-tongue practitioners I've listened to do the same, for example Adam Viduvier (in the same piece) and Martin Frost in various performances. Not a multi-tongue player myself, I'm curious as to why.
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