On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:02:17 +0000, Thomas Dent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>On BBC Radio 3 Seedy Revue, er, CD Review, website from Matthew Halls
>(Ruckers/Hemsch copy) and A Staier (Hass Monster copy). I was at
>university with M. Halls and he seems to do a decent job on a very
>beautiful sounding instrument, although the Aria was rather formal and
>comme-il-faut as we have heard it hundreds of times before. A bonus
>here is BWV 990, which although hardly JS Bachian as a composition
>(more like a manic Buxtehude) does have a gigue-finale remarkably like
>the Goldberg Ninth canon.
>
>Now why does EVERYONE play var. 18 one one 8' with the lute stop
>(Lautenzug) on? Never mind that it is a dull stereotype, it makes no
>musical sense to me as in 99 percent of cases it kills the suspensions
>and trivializes the piece. Have people no imagination?
Seedy revue - or not...
Fine, that Matthew Halls (also) has recorded them - I congratulate him on the great
achievement and shall look forward to hear his rendition of this magnificent and utterly
challenging work!!
The use buff stop in Var. 18 would be very strange indeed, as this Canon alla 6a is surely
bound to want something flashier than that... Think of the 'fireworks' preceding it!
But, surely, you must have misprinted here - and actually mean Var. 19, don't you..?
Here I can (!) understand why people (- even, with imagination) would want this change of
'Klangkulisse' - though, I agree with you in that it will stump off the beautiful suspensions,
for the fall-off of the tone is so rapid. If it trivializes the piece, though, depends more on how
- and not so much with what - our esteemed colleagues play it, in my opinion.
However, the reason, why I don't engage the buff anywhere in my own rendition of the
Veränderungen, is not only due to the fact that my Skowroneck 'German' harpsichord
...doesn't have one....!
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