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If you never heard about real flute tone don’t comment OMG! Most of them covered the whole over half ! The tone was so closed and deathly, almost no dynamic at all !
In my opinion at least, his movements should be just a little less exaggerated and his feet should stay on the floor. Still, this guy is a great conductor overall, good job!
Re his pulse comments, I heard him at a masterclass at SF State in which he pointed out that the last return of the opening theme in Chopin's Gm ballade contains a heartbeat in it - each downbeat is followed by a low D left hand "lubdub" two notes on the 2nd and 3rd beats" - I really like that comment - a heartbeat in the return theme.
It’s more respectful to hear the introduction to introduce a pianist as a pianist someone not as my pianist she or he is pianist someone not my pianist as he or she is not only play piano for one individual singers. This is my opinion.
In my opinion they should have the lid shut when accompanying singers. It should only be up during solo pieces, or perhaps with huge Wagnerian size voices
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In masterclasses they dont tell you: oh, that is out of tune, that is out of tune, oh,again, this is just out of tune…when he knows exactly that it is out of tune. Ask him why.
@@leonardoiglesias2394 I do perfectly hear it 🤣. And I'm very interested in knowing who was your teacher... I had a teacher who almost never told me that it was out of tune; he did know that I heard it and that I was perfectly capable of correcting and working it. I guess you didn't get very very high quality teachers cause almost all of them don't care
@@lc-b352 I dont know. Great violinists give masterclasses and they dont want to „bore“ the audience with such „ pedestrian“ matters… Same with many other things. My most uswful teachers were actually records. listening to the masters and trying to imitate how they sound. If you are talented and disciplined and have an ANALYTICAL mind, you can learn very much. And if you get to sound like them, or close to them, that means that you are doing something right. It would take hours to write about everything which CAN be imitated. Vibrato, vibrato distribution( where not to vibrate is important, also) trills, spiccato, phrasing, articulation. But one has to be very analytical about how they play and very CRITICAL with oneself. Many people say: Zukerman is great, or Szeryng is a genius, but if you ask them WHY, they say, well, they play beautifully, I like them, and thats it. Thats not enough. You have to learn how they REALLY do it, and not even how they SAY they do it. Many times ypu will hear from such people: oh, thats easy if you do this like this, and that like that….and mostly thats a lie. Everything you can do better will take many months, and many mny hours of practice( what they always do obsessively)
I had the great fortune to study with Mr. Lowenthal for my doctorate. This video brings back so many memories. What an extraordinary teacher he is. My lessons were very similar to this experience. He’s also a master at giving master classes because he realizes it isn’t for the student as much as for the audience. I love how he steps forward and talks to them directly, and yet the student gathers great information. This is not usually the case in classes and I’ve attended some by other “masters” where I got virtually nothing out of it. Bravo!
Breathing has no direct influence in violin playing. Breath like Pavarotti, useless when you play the violin. Hand bodybuilding is what you need. These teachers KEEP NOT DOING THEIR JOBS! They ALWAYS talk about secondary matters. Never about THE REAL WORK. BUILDING YOUR BRAIN and HANDS for the SPECIFIC WORK they need to do to play the violin. No tennis teacher would start talking about breathing…..first, they would try to explain to you HOW the play goes and how you should TRAIN. What to do with your feet, legs, arms.
I am transfixed with the sheer beauty, playfulness, heart, and life that Mr. Denk brings to the great baroque masters. This lightness and fun seemed to beckon the kistener off the side bench to join him in the dance. Also, I found myself incredibly moved by the "Alcott" movement from the Ives Sonata. It reminded me of a memory of thngs past and the character of each musical quotation Ive's invokes was met with a sense of melancholy and nostalgia in the intervening passages. The impressionistic qualities were very apparent and the overall effect was truly sublime--the compiser's unique musical palette, style, and emotion depth were never more beautifully expressed. Thank you for posting this amazing artist and performance.
