Subject: | |
From: | |
Date: | Mon, 4 Oct 1999 21:33:17 +0100 |
Content-Type: | text/plain |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
Wes Crone wrote:
>David, there is a lot more to a period performance than the material used
>in the strings. Let me list a few things about HIP performances (I hate
>the acronym too, I have always said "period" performance) which differ
>from their modern counterparts:
Excellent, Wes, bravo. That's all I was saying. I know most of the
other differences that you outlined, though you provided some interesting
details. I also love "period" performance, though I think it has its
limits. This year I heard a performance of piano trios with the excellent
musicians Barry Sargent (a neighbor here in Mallorca) and his wife Rumiko
and I forget the cellist, anyway, the cellist played an instrument with the
original setup: gut strings, shortened fingerboard and no endpin. No
endpin. Silliest thing I ever saw. Thing is, they played a BRAHMS trio
like this! Now I would call this HUP..historically uninformed!
Dave Runnion
www.serafinotrio.com
|
|
|