Sarasate plays Sarasate - Caprice Basque

[Dagonini]

lo mejor del mundo

[Dagonini]

@Dagonini

[arrkhal]

This particular recording probably wasn't really how it was "meant" to be played. Technology back then forced recordings to be around 3 minutes tops (like this one). Anything longer would have to be split over both sides (or even multiple discs). If you look at the meter of the sheet music of Sarasate's Caprice Basque, it really seems like he was playing this as fast as he possibly could, to squeeze it all onto one side of a record. A live performance would probably have been a little slower.

[omoshiroidayo]

im very glad to live in the 21 century...

[franmaci987420453]

Esta si, es la auténtica, Capricho Vasco. Fantástico, fabuloso, extraordinario.

[metalheadlass]

wow! his interpretation is matchless!

[metalheadlass]

when does one know when one should shift on the strings G,D & A? can anyone help please?

[masael255]

@metalheadlass Do you mean in general or in this piece? One shifts to, say, a D on the G string in order to produce a different timbre of sound. Depending on the sound you, as the artist, are intending to draw out depends on how you wish to play the piece. Also, sometimes it is out of ease if, for example, you need to be in 5th position on the E and can easily shift up to 5th on the A string prior to that passage. There are many reasons. Do you have a specific clarification you need?

[metalheadlass]

@masael255 no i meant it generally. i know that fingering is a personal choice, but there are so many people that use the exact same fingering as soloists, kinda like they were following a set rule.

anyways, thank you for the response =D

[corvonuno]

NUNO FLORES IN GOOGLE

[Amatherasu1789]

The Basque Paganini...

[pepys1633]

A real Basque from Navarre, he never forgot his origins and his ancestry.

Born in Irunea 1844

Died in Miarritze 1908

Buried in Pamplona/Irunea

[brother234]

original great that can't be outdone by anyone no matter what. wow.

[themusicdr]

so lyical playful and pure joy and played by the man himself :-)

[themusicdr]

someone tell me, pls. has there ever been any digital remastering of sarasates recordings and are the yon a disc

[sobie99]

yes, all his recordings are available through minor labels (at least a couple). Just search the net and you will find them. I advise though to first check the remastering before buying. I've seen/heard horrible things done to historical recordings before, like adding reverb (what the..) and chopping off the high frequencies to avoid the surface noise, something people were very picky about around the time CDs started spreading. Enjoy!

[sobie99]

oh yeah, and I forgot : A new fashion seems to be spreading on remastering, where they would adjust the speed to match the A = 440, rather than leave the record at it's original speed, and therefor having it a little or more out of tune. The standard A=440 was only introduced later, as people keep pointing out.

[themusicdr]

thanks will try and find and watch out for what you say

[ilpreterosso76]

Thanks a lot ! All your documents about Sarasate as performer are priceless.

What a musician !

[mistap90]

@sobie99: do you maybe have the first part of the piece too?

[sobie99]

ahhh, no, the intro was never recorded.

[richygm16]

What a career this man had! More than forty works written for him by (amongst others) Saint-Saens, Bruch, Dvorak, Wieniawski, Joachim, Sauret, and Lalo (just look at those names!), and streets named after him in Paris, Pamplona, Biarritz, and Madrid.

[Mnacuspia004]

hehehehehe... this man is crazy.

Thanks again!!!!

[ocramizz]

I read that while he was recording all these pieces,in a same time,he didn't pay much attention to the future importance of this event (most of his contemporaries too didn't realize the real importance of the very new technique of recording,as they could listen live!), and he was involved in a long concerts tour, so he played in these recordings almost bored and without paying much attention (there wasn't a live public listening!). Even so these performances are extraordinary!! A true gift!!

[abacab1239]

Thank you.

[joeocho88]

This is as close to perfect an interpretation as you are liable to get because this is the guy who wrote it.

Even if the technology is limited on this old 78, he knows how to get the sound out of the violin!

thank G*d that this recording exists!

It shows us how this is supposed to be played and what it is supposed to sound like.

[AlicanYilmaz1991]

So beautiful. I love this peace and Sarasate too.

[lauramedina90]

Sarasate é um grande violinista do Séc. XIX! Eu sinto arrepios quando ouço algumamúsica delel, ainda mais sendo tocada por ele mesmo em gravações hitóricas!!!

[lauramedina90]

Sarasate é um grande violinista do Séc. XIX! Eu sinto arrepios quando ouço algumamúsica delel, ainda mais sendo tocada por ele mesmo em gravações hitóricas!!!

[melomansarasatiste]

there is much sound in this and more simplicity than other recordings, this is more simple and more rythmic, there is no need to imagine anyhting because the piece is too simple, and I dunno why other violonists play it with different ways.

[bountyhanz]

I reckon that u do not noe music alot,if nt so.

[melomansarasatiste]

thank you

[ina9]

thank you too

[DavidTorrez]

ohhhhhh YES!!! at last the recording I wanted... I play this piece and I know we should have our own interpretation, but if this piece was composed by this great genius I intend to respect what he composed and play the same style he did... he is the composer =)

[melomansarasatiste]

I must also say that I also play this pieace, and I can say that it's an amazing melodic piece that makes me play it everytime with a different way, and I also must say that this is the piece I love to play the most because it's a logic one and also beautiful

[melomansarasatiste]

thanks very much for posting this