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rmc001 - no one knows the truth huh, about that Schumann story?

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That’s a worthy theory, rmc001. I started violin about 11 and even now I notice if I put it down for more than a week or so I need to spend quite a lot more time warming up those fingers again, and abolishing the tendency to grip the violin neck. Especially the bow hand. It’s quite hard to control the bounce of the bow with stiff fingers. Gardening doesn’t help. My piano teacher friend once demonstrated a note from the Rach 3 piano concerto where his finger quivered to deliver semiquavers so fast I couldn’t believe it, and still can’t quite.
Wasn’t it Beethoven who wrote his violin concerto as an extended scale exercise for his students?

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Aug 15, 2020 20:06:18 GMT 12 colinf said:

That’s a worthy theory, rmc001. I started violin about 11 and even now I notice if I put it down for more than a week or so I need to spend quite a lot more time warming up those fingers again, and abolishing the tendency to grip the violin neck. Especially the bow hand. It’s quite hard to control the bounce of the bow with stiff fingers. Gardening doesn’t help. My piano teacher friend once demonstrated a note from the Rach 3 piano concerto where his finger quivered to deliver semiquavers so fast I couldn’t believe it, and still can’t quite.
Wasn’t it Beethoven who wrote his violin concerto as an extended scale exercise for his students?

Yes I can see what you mean there. You mean the fingers in the right hand!

Been trying to find reasonably priced Schubert and Bartok string quartets on lp recently, without success. Complete sets of Bartok’s are very hard to find. May have to be satisfied with cd?
Did buy a nice mint Schubert quartet 14 with a filler, on DGG Privilege label by Amadeus Quartet. It must be a budget dgg label, as despite album being mint the string tone was unbearable. At least Qt 14 seems to readily available.

Thanks rmc001, just watched the Rach 3, pretty cool.
(Translation: So extreme, extravagant, preposterous the 3rd, it blows me away every time I see it played. That’s an astounding number of notes to commit to memory, let alone the technique needed to promulgate them on an imperfect interface. I love the bit about 12mins in where the accompanist almost gives up altogether and slumps back in his chair (an ordinary chair no less, reserved for accompanists only. Only Jorge gets the proper piano stool) and lets the genius of the 3 to wash over him. Also love the piano music stand bouncing up and down with the forte notes. The poor microphone and automatic volume control..it was struggling to contain the sheer dynamic range of 2 Yamaha grand pianos played to within an inch of their lives in an acoustically live room. Lucky the lids weren’t open as well! I laughed heartily at the end when the magnificent final note was drilled into the keyboard and rapturous applause would only be a second away. Instead there was total silence, and the relieved Jorge gets up, allows the cramped playing position to dissipate and utters almost inaudibly, ‘Yep.’ 😀 )
Now for the Mussorgsky...

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Sorry I'll put the links back in. That's a great synopsis. 😊
Rachmaninoff:

Mussourgsky:

Thanks rmc001, I wondered what happened to them.
Of course all this talk about Schubert sting quartets, I just had to go and play Death and the Maiden (No.14) with the Jade String Quartet. They are an Auckland group who came to Nelson’s School of Music and played it. It was great so I bought the autographed CD, their first. 😀 
My favourite Schubert SQ is the Rosamunde (No.13).

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Okay.

I was 12 when this album was released, and my dads friend, old Ron Edge, was an audiophile. 

When we went to visit, I talked to Ron about my interest in hifi and music, and he set me up with the headphones and this album.
Rest of the system I cant recall, but it was a Linn Sondek and he had been to Japan and came back with some NS1000's...

I loved the album as much as I loved the sound.

Every time I visited he would wink, and set me up with another album.

But this, ah - you know how it is...



HiFi's first kiss.

I am a non-recovering audioholic, and Ivor is my higher power.