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These comments are super helpful. I find that with Bach it is so easy to get lost in his ideas as he explores them on the page and hearing them come to life on your own instrument is the most marvellous thing so much so that we or at least I, forget that the piece has a purpose and an overall structure where for the period, the pulse is just so important and so I must force myself to adjust the idea to the pulse and not the pulse to the idea. Truely wonderful stuff, thank you do much for sharing this video.
This is very good advice! When it comes to this piece, it's the phrasing that really is the challenging part (once you've got the technical part - which the student clearly has). Good job to the student and Chloe!
Thank you very much indeed to Lake District Summer Music for this wonderful video. Miss Yegee Lee, what you have done is simply amazingly performed! Such a talent you have, you are one of a kind! Play Sibelius Violin Concerto is like from other planet!
I agree. I could personally never do master classes. Also they are very time restricted cause the teachers get paid so they feel they need to give you as much knowledge as possible
15:17 IMO, the student really does pay close attention to Chloë here with immediate change and good results. Maybe Chloë could have affirmed the student more?!
09:50 Chloë: "Really enjoy ... it's not a question of taking time, but really enjoy[ing] the way the notes are going". 👍 Bingo! Will the student (ever) succeed at this? Crucial, IMO.
07:25: What Chloë is actually thinking [frustration starting to show], "You ignored my instruction at the start to play it slower, and as a result you've not managed to incorporate anything I've said so far, so PLEASE play it slower and try out what I'm suggesting. I'm playing you increasingly longer excerpts to make it clear that I've got something good to offer you with this piece, and you are simply repeating what you already had when we started. Do whatever you want after this masterclass but, for now at least, please be my student! 😬". 🙂
It's *so* weird to see Chloe Hanslip give a masterclass ... after seeing her being GIVEN a masterclass by Maxim Vengerov when she was a teenager... when she played Sarasate's "Caprice Basque" very well. Not super wonderfully, but very well. It's weird to me haha. She is without a doubt a great violinist! I wish we could see more of her! I have one of her CDs which only has showpieces and etudes by Bazzini and such. I would love a recording of the Sibelius, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky concerti by her!!!
I love Colin Carr's playing! However, there is some misinformation in this masterclass... The student is correct; this sonata was written in 1934 while Shostakovich was separated from his wife Nina who had discovered Shostakovich's affair with a young interpreter. Lady Macbeth was first performed in 1934, but wasn't denounced until 1936. There isn't really any evidence I've found (up to this point!) to suggest Shostakovich at this time was against the very vague instructions of what Socialist Realist music should be (the concept had only just been introduced in 1932), and this sonata survived the censure of many of his other works, and was able to continue being performed when many of his other works couldn't. This might potentially influence a player's interpretation of the work. Or it might not...! Anyway, I enjoyed the video!
This is fantastic advice. Everything he says is completely on point. So rare to get something one thing genuinely useful in a MasterClass, let alone 10
Robert Cohen is such a wonderful teacher,and I also remember his recording of Dvorak concerto and Rococo Variation, absolutely one of the best! A great artist.
Thank you so much for posting this!! I'm reworking on this piece as well and now I'm going to apply this to what I'm working on. Also motion on string crossings for me needs to be more motion in the wrist and not so much in the shoulder....so many technical challenges with this piece people don't realize
