Shlomo Mintz is a very underrated violinist, a great violinist almost forgoten. His sonatas and partitas are amazing. He and Isaac Stern have one of the best interpretations on this concert.
Actually everybody could playing this piece. But how quality like this one? It could be easy too much hot or corny. But for this performance so restrained, nevertheless warm and essential... Many thanks for the nice performance and congrats!
Haha. I know nothing about classical music except that I love most of it. But having heard this played by quite few players I noticed this was slower than the others. If this is how its supposed to be played then I take your word for it. But isn't it true that since Bach didn't give huge details about how his pieces were to be played in his scores that assuming (he wanted) pieces were to be played how they were played back in his day, what is "correct" is by and large guesswork, hence the variety of interpretations?
Did anyone a slightly Baroque feeling from this? I mean know A is at (roughly) 441 Hertz and they’re using vibrato and they have shoulder rests, but the beginning especially seemed more... something.
I have a feeling that Shlomo's violin is of a much higher quality than Donghwan's violin. (I'm talking about the instruments themselves now, not the playing ability of the guys.) But would that be fair? Would that be right? For a performance like this they should have violins of equal quality, right?
It’s pretty evident that it’s the approach of bowing. You can see that Mintz plays with a much slower bow speed, heavier pressure, and playing near the bridge… etc. All that gives him that big romantic tone. On the other hand, Donghwan has less bow pressure, faster bow speed and plays more to the fingerboard… etc. That gives him that clarity in his playing. It’s not that one or the other has a lower quality instrument.
