A wonderful performance by some magnificent musicians. Curtis Institute presents truly great performances. The quality of performance is outstanding. The ridiculous comments about the ensemble tuning between movements are bizarre. It is very common for ensembles to tune between movements. This is a live performance, not a CD. Nothing should be edited out. When I attend concerts at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress tuning is a common activity between movements. It is good to keep in mind that some instruments that are used are 300 years old. Temperature changes and the tension put on the strings can cause an instrument to require re-tuning between movements. However, the focus here should be on these wonderful musicians. I am grateful that this performance has been shared here. I wish all of these young people great success and happiness.
Love hearing very talented YOUNG people playing this youthful work. There are many fine performances available here on RU-vid, but this one, despite a few glitches here and there, gives me the most pleasure--and vivid memories. Wind dynamics are terrific--Bravi tutti!
The main theme of the 1st movement is such a wonderful preview of the Beethoven to come, and this group performs it with energy and drive.. Really enjoyed the pacing throughout the Septet, especially in the 2nd movement. Good balance and blending. A treat! Thank you.
Bravo, Keith! My former band director at Ithaca College, Bassoonist Edward J. Gobrecht, Jr., himself a Curtis grad, would have been very pleased to hear this performance too. He worked with us for many hours on stylistic interpretation, the balances and phrasing relationships among instruments, intonation, etc. and we often heard stories in that regard about those matters from his own experiences studying under Oboist Marcel Tabuteau at Curtis. I'm guessing Tabuteau would have been very pleased with your performance too. What catches my own ear especially is the careful attention to matters of intonation, which always matters so much. Don Campfield, D.M.A.
Wonderful performance of this fantastic piece of music! I LOVE "The Septet" ... and Schubert's "Octet"; played them both many times in my youth (as a clarinet-player; more wonderful clarinet-parts than these two doesn't exist!). Will you - PLEASE - "do" "The Octet" too and upload it here on YT?? I would be gratefull! Thank you so much for this!!
one of the best way to connect people is to play together; it is similar to an artist drawing your portrait: he/she gets to know you deeply and in a way others cannot figure out; the same with playing together as you get to know the others -- and they you -- in a different and profound way that words or even time spent together cannot really match
Although Beethoven disliked this piece (burn the score, he is thought to have said), it was enormously popular even in Beethoven's time and made him a lot of money.
Magnifique Septuor Op. 20 très bien joué , malgré quelques bruit de fond ! mais à quoi bon chercher la perfection sans bruit ! Composé en 1799 -1800 !.
Hi, Keith, I am currently in my senior year of high school and I am applying/auditioning for Curtis on bassoon (I know, what are the odds, right?) this coming February. In fact, I only live about 25 minutes from the campus. I was wondering if you have any helpful tips and/or suggestions for auditions regarding pre-screening and live. Could you please give me some insight on what the audition process is like? Do I have to play just melodic minor, natural minor, harmonic minor, or all of them? Sorry for the questions... just a little anxious about it thats all. Thanks a bunch :)
It's very disturbing, though, that you're tuning between movement's; maybe nezcessary ... but couldn't you at least have cut it out before uploading? Little complaint, but ... well: stilll THANKS!
+visemanden This is just the normal presentation of a live recital or concert. If you prefer a dead event you can do your own editing or even pay for a disc or download rather than get free here. Those of us used to attending live events are less bothered by the tuning than by its cutting out anyway! (also the tuning gives opportunity for jokes about Is this the Messaien now? etc!)
