You have amazing tone. I think a lot of people play the viola like it should sound like a violin when it should probably sound more like a cello. Bravo!
I like when the viola sound like a viola! Mr. Power is a very good example of how the viola can have its own personality, full of unique colors that neither the violin or the cello can produce.
No, they are Quad ESL 57 electrostatic loudspeakers given to the composer by the late Peter Walker OBE, founder of QUAD Electroacoustics, Huntingdon, Cambs.
A biography I am reading by Dabid Matthews states Britten wrote this the day he returned home after completing studies at the Royal College of Music to which he received a scholarship - calling the "modernist" piece "unrelentingly atonal" and speculating "what private thoughts the prodigious 16-year-old had while playing to himself". Genius, indeed. I got hooked as a young person after hearing A Ceremony of Carols on the classical radio station long ago. Excellent performance here!
Wonderful class, as always. (I hope future editors get the idea that audience view filming is perfect, no need to have multiple cameras and zooming in, which disturbs our attention. Sure, it might be useful for editing, but please avoid)
Personally I think this is a superb demonstration of confident artistry by courageous humans working their socks off to continue to be active and expressive musicians and people rather than sit around complaining during a difficult and vulnerable period of recent world history. I love it - thank you, brave colleagues!
Captivating Performance of Britten. Compliments! Viola Forever | To discover | Pas de Deux Theme for Piano & Viola | ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9ffdK_N8FWQ.html
This is what Juice have done to our music. We’ve gone from Wagner and Brahms to this pretentious trash. Maybe western civilization doesn’t deserve to survive if this is what we now pawn off as music.
Yes, this was... um... I just can't listen to it as a musician myself. I actually made a parody of these lockdown commissions if you care to take a look at it on my channel. It's utter bollocks and I just made it up on the spot to point out how ridiculous the whole idea is. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f63fuM-3rmA.html
Add Webern, Bartok, Messiaen and Penderecki to the list. If you don't like it, fine. Then it's not your style. Wouldn't call it a call to end mankind. Chill, daddy-o.
This is the true spirit of viola, brought out thanks to Britten and your magnificient interpretation ! You handle the bow like a brush in the hands of a master painter.
Fabulous viola playing. Thank you so much for preparing and posting this marvelous piece of music! I will now purchase and learn this piece, that I have been exposed to it.
Marvellous performance ！ I'm managed to survive third wave of Covid - １９attacked Tokyo while listening to masterpieces and reading various literatures of the world ,
