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To: PJ-Comix

Not a fan of all that vibrato. Find it quite maudlin. Stern, Perlman and their ilk are pretty much unlistenable for me.

Much prefer baroque violin—in the hands of a Baroque master like Rachel Podger:

https://youtu.be/H3jIX45bQDk

If I must listen to that sort of over-the-top, vaudevillian, degraded violin, I’ll take Stephane Grapelli:

https://youtu.be/JaGobcJLjqQ

Sorry. JMHO. You asked :-)


4 posted on 01/06/2018 12:33:08 PM PST by GCFADG (Pardon me.)
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To: GCFADG

Vibrato is part of the zeitgeist, considered a necessity in Kreisler’s day. OTOH, Baroque performance required ornamentation that seems like so much squiggly wallpaper to contemporary ears. Oddly enough, the one place we find melismatic ornamentation in music today is R&B singing since at least Whitney Houston.


16 posted on 01/06/2018 12:43:50 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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