Author: vboboe
Date: 2006-04-02 21:58
... haven't got sheet music, only have one recording Albinoni Op 9 #2 by the late Anthony Camden, can only comment on limited exposure to this one alone, so my imagination thinks Renaissance Italy and the silk attire of the rich nobility (including Albinoni himself), entertained in villa by this kind of music
... (2) the Adagio caught my attention right away when i first got this recording, with its long gradual crescendo, and i fell in love with this particular adagio right away, it is totally exquisite in the minor, but as you both say, it sounds most demanding on superb breath control to play it well, as well as those beautiful high notes. I imagine the Adagio as an intermission or rest break between the courtly dance of (1) and the performance dance of (3)
... i imagine (2) as reflectively refreshing, like a cold drink sipped gradually and gratefully to cool oneself down (in all those fancy clothes!) after (1) while standing outdoors savoring the deepening night's cool breezes.
Perhaps there is some melancholia there, perhaps some passing pseudo-humanitarian sorrow over the plight of poverty-stricken peasant-town residents when the night breezes waft in certain very unpleasant odors? Or perhaps the melancholia might be that Juliette can't have her Romeo because they're only Renaissance 1700's not Enlightened 2000's?!
... as for (1) the whole concerto raises images of courtly dances with long silk skirts twirling about, so my thoughts on tempo are that it must be at a courtly dance pace, and in that pace, milady's skirt has to have time to return on itself almost (but not quite) to a standstill after each pirouette before gliding gracefully on, so it seems pace needs to be more like allegro "ma" non presto
... and for (3) it raises images of energetic and lithe performance dancer/s doing some sprightly turns and fancy footwork, something of a hornpipe perhaps, to entertain the audience still busily fanning their dampened brows from (1) :-)
... does anybody else do imaging to set the pace of their internal metronome?
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