Re: Bouree in e minor, easy or not really?

Date: 10 Jul 2003 11:11:45 -0700
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical.guitar
Size: 1,498 bytes

Ray Kelly wrote:
> There are instruments that aren't wonderfully expressive? Expression is
> in the player not the instrument. If a player doesn't have the chops to
> be expressive at a fast tempo, then by all means slow the music down.
> But let's not use the idea of being more expressive as a cop out for not
> working on the chops perform a piece expressively at the intended tempo.
Fingerstyle guitarist David Surette made some good points about this
in his introduction to "Down the Brae" (Mel Bay): ...I've also tried to keep the dance pulse alive in the dance tunes. Most of the pieces (with the possible exception of fast reels) should be playable at dance tempo, or in the company of other musicians at a dance or session. This is something that I would like to take the opportunity to encourage guitarists to do, for guitarists coming to Celtic music often seem to have listened more to other guitarists than to anything else....
As a classical musician who also plays guitar, I'd like to take this
opportunity to encourage guitarists to listen to Bach as performed by
other classical musicians on the original instruments.
For example, I heard Jascha Heifetz's recording of the prelude to
BWV 1006 on WGBH a couple of weeks ago. I didn't have my stopwatch
with me, but I do believe he played it as fast as Parkening, if not
as fast as Vidovic.
It's wonderful to have newsgroups like this so we can share our
delight in classical music.
:)
Will