So many as children find learning the violin a chore, few survive the rigours ... In the end only a handful, like Sharon, master its special language of rapture and flight for the benefit of all.
She’s no doubt a very talented and able musician, but stylistically it’s a long way off Irish style (whatever region you go by). Compare with this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uOaBP-mxXVc.html
I'm very late to the conversation but just wanted to thank both of you for the recommendations, I enjoyed both versions :) If I might repay the favour - I recommend this version as one I've particularly enjoyed - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-58ZlD4Psx5c.html
I think there’s some confusion. Sharon is not a “fiddler” in the traditional Celtic or bluegrass sense. She is a classically trained violinist. These are modern arrangements of traditional folk music played in a much more “polished” or slicker manner.
It's has to be a repeatably marketable arrangement within the style. A LOT of these faster pieces it's very easy run out of Bow length like Trout In The Bath - One slip too far and it's all over, you have not much bow left. However she is just a ferocious player.
@@CarolineViolinMusic yes good points. She is applying her talents to a song. A pop song. Or she is playing traditional Irish music (folk). Her training and sensibilities shape what she plays within those genres.
it's the bowing which is simple. she's playing all the notes, but each note gets an individual bow stroke. a common bowing technique for reels is - slur 1st 3 eighth notes in a down bow, slur the next 3 eighth notes in an up bow, and play the remaining 2 eighth notes with 1 down bow and 1 up bow. adjust as necessary for quarter notes. and she doesn't use ornaments such as cuts, rolls or triplets
That's right. She's playing just fine and it sounds nice, but if you listen to this bloke here playing in his loungeroom to a backing track he recorded himself (also in his loungeroom) she's got nothing in comparison. This fella's version is a million times better, more lively, and full of ornamentation and swing, which she doesn't have any of at all. >ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UNokOSPkrs8.html
Awful... Never heard an Irish reel played in such an uninspiring way... No ornamentation, a steady, robot-like rhythm that turns one of the best trad. Irish reels into a soulless dull and boring tune
I met Sharon corr on her solo tour in southern California, usa. she liked my redhair. but a married woman with 2 kids. I said we will met again. she laughs.
I never get sick of this song I rock out to it. I have a friend that I absolutely adore that can play this song on violyn and that's where I heared it.
Suzuki trained violinist attempting to play an Irish reel with absolutely no background in traditional music -- no traditional slurring, all single stroke bows, no embellishments/ornaments, and her vibrato creeps in. her Suzuki training isn’t even that good: she moves at the shoulder instead of at the elbow. cute though.
il semble que de nombreux amateurs de musique traditionnelle trouvent cette interprétation médiocre !! je me range à l'avis des experts, manque de vitalité, de panache, de virtuosité !!! elle a du peps en magasin, donc on regarde plus que l'on écoute !! elle a de bonnes qualités de second violon mais pas pour être soliste, les limites sont claires !!
