Hello friends, thank you very much for this performance. I'm also looking for my place in the world of music, maybe you'll hear my voice and want to listen to something on my channel.
The Glass Harmonica was invented by Benjamin Franklin. It was the lead in the old make of the instruments that caused the poisoning. Nowadays they do not use the lead, but a kind of glass that they now use in the glockenspiel.
Une musique aux confins les plus déchirants de l’expérience humaine, une radicalité, une sécheresse, une incarnation absolument sidérantes de Zehetmair, un cri qui fait le ciel s’embraser, une blessure ouverte saignant la désolation la plus écrasante, rarissime, si précieuse, qui donne foi en la vie
Oh my goodness. Masterful and sublime at its finest. Imaginative and inventive when the double stops were being played with so much ferocity. I have heard so many variations of the chaconne and what I look at is how long it takes to finish playing it. Anything beyond the 13mnt mark will let me know many segments will be draggy and literal. This violinist made the chaconne his own and must say, there is a lot of Heifetz[esque] notes [no pun intended] in his arrangement with a modern twist. Evidently, he put a lot of thought and originality- especially towards the end. That is virtuosity at its finest - to think outside the box- but keeping the integrity of the Chaconne [in this case] in tact. Brilliant arrangement of the Chaconne 🙂👍🏾!!!!
the glass harmonica is a series of tuned glasses spinning on an axle and played with wet fingers. in the 18th century people were warned of it's effect on sensitive temperaments. mesmer used it as part of his "animal magnetism" treatments. necromancers used it to summon the dead. some of the instrument's most popular players went mad, and by the 19th century the instrument had been banned. in fact, it was probably poisoning from the lead in the glass which toppled their reason, so it's perfectly safe to listen to.
Perfekte Musik, um die subjektiven Formen der Wolken zu lesen und mit zarten Augen den Furchen der Baumstämme zu folgen; Schätzen Sie die komplexe Schrift der ineinander verschlungenen Zweige, schmecken Sie die Farben der Zersetzung von Licht in Wassertropfen in einem Garten, spüren Sie die feuchte Erde des Urwaldes intensiv, um die Spuren von Tieren aus der tiefen Vergangenheit wahrzunehmen 🌴
Oh! how so unrestrained Bach Music it is. I would feel that's quite likely to neoromanticism style Bach, Yeah! incredible style, it's a far cry from traditional type of 20cent. Crescendo and Diminuendo and Crescendo and diminuendo. veryvery beautiful long tone with whole bow length. passionate, aggressive, undulating so much. (91yrs.Japanese) especially with special bowing articulation. I was moved so much.
Lovely music. Very frustrating to be interrupted twice in the middle of the music with ads. I am very impressed with the glass harmonica. Was this the originally intended instrument for this music?
When I first heard this piece, it was study excerpts from a course on The Great Courses, Mozart’s Chamber Music, featuring a glass harmonica that sounded in the octave as here. But when I looked for a complete recording, the glass harmonica sounded in an octave lower, at concert pitch. Do there exist both transposing and non-transposing glass harmonicas, or is it the player’s preference? Please simply answer my question; no need to explain your answer.
Completed by Mozart on May 23 1791 (K617) for the blind glass harmonica virtuoso Marianne Kirchgessner. First performed in Vienna Burgtheater on June 10 1791.
Very clever to have the glasses rotated mechanically instead of fingers skimming crystal glass rims. Would also like to hear original instrument with crystal wine glasses.
They sound a bit different from each other, and both are used sometimes in certain compositions. Glass harp is the one with wine glasses, glass harmonica (or armonica) is the nested bowls rotating.
Profound and high music. Underestimated avant-garde. It is not easy to play - so few people make it really expressive over typical artistic ego. Thanks Maestro Holliger!
Glass Harmonica invented by Benjamin Franklin a contemporary of Mozart two of the greatest genus ever. All the greats of that day almost composed for it unfortunately to many of it lost. A scare campaign about negative effects of the instrument on the mind got it near forgotten.
