I absolutely love the tempos on all of your recording. They are risky and provoking to modern day flute players. I again love how much extreme time is taken throughout the piece allowing all the phrases to speak.
Sorry, but this tempo is inauthentic to - and perhaps in violation of -Bach's music; and a bit pretentious to boot. Tempo is not a matter of personal choice. If it was, then we should not worry about respecting the composer's original intention and the essence of the piece and just play whatever we feel. Um, no.
Fantastic .. I love the tempo very much! This suite is mainly played by the guitar. So, I guess many stupid comments in here are by those stupid guitarists who love the kind of shitty musician like Segovia. Just ignore them.
On the guitar, this tempo is used by Paul Galbraith. Other guitarists play like shit, especially the Segovia kind of worshipers. I also play this with this tempo anyway!
i am amazed at some of these responses...this is solid playing...well phrased...and we all know that tempo is a matter of personal choice. Bach himself altered his tempi to suite his moods.
very nice, but I would play it a little faster, listen to Bowflute interpretation here on Youtube, please take this as a construtive critism, i used to be a flutist and believe me I took all kind of advises
this is the deep democracy of the music! If you read my past reply can see my different idea; now I prefer an execution slower " I would play in different way,slower,more breathed." But I change in time...!
This piece is wonderful, but also quite difficult to perform with the recorder. I have performed this piece at my solo recital in 2005 in Seoul, Korea.
Dear Klara,I tink it is rally difficult not for the notes but for the "intepretaion",for the difficulty to give it a direction,a meaning.Bach is so rich,so deep,a continuous whirl in the harmony and in the melody:when the line of the melody seems to be arrive, often isn't so,that is the start of a new whirl...oh it is so surprising,so beauty, so exciting,so rich of opportunity of interpretation.about this mine performance of two years ago,now I would play in different way,slower,more breathed.
Much too slow!!
jsnauwaert 11 months ago
I absolutely love the tempos on all of your recording. They are risky and provoking to modern day flute players. I again love how much extreme time is taken throughout the piece allowing all the phrases to speak.
juilliard12 2 years ago
Sorry, but this tempo is inauthentic to - and perhaps in violation of -Bach's music; and a bit pretentious to boot. Tempo is not a matter of personal choice. If it was, then we should not worry about respecting the composer's original intention and the essence of the piece and just play whatever we feel. Um, no.
ShiffronLandren 2 years ago
Fantastic .. I love the tempo very much! This suite is mainly played by the guitar. So, I guess many stupid comments in here are by those stupid guitarists who love the kind of shitty musician like Segovia. Just ignore them.
On the guitar, this tempo is used by Paul Galbraith. Other guitarists play like shit, especially the Segovia kind of worshipers. I also play this with this tempo anyway!
filsuf 2 years ago
i am amazed at some of these responses...this is solid playing...well phrased...and we all know that tempo is a matter of personal choice. Bach himself altered his tempi to suite his moods.
13orthanc13 2 years ago
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resmusicae 2 years ago
I don't think this great piece was intended to be performed like a funeral music...
muurtalo 3 years ago
It is a preludium...after this first movement there is a fuga in 6/8...
romeoamkj 3 years ago
Also..there are rather a lot of mistakes!
louwhatling 3 years ago
THE TEMPO IS FOOLISH
jackeddemon 3 years ago
Ignore question..
I now know.
Thanks
mavis93 3 years ago
Personally i like the slow version...
More personal and effective (:
Is this professional playing?
Thanks
mavis93 3 years ago
As I understand it's not the alto recorder, but the voice flute. ;)
traversoflute 3 years ago
No it is not a voice flute, it is an alto recorder at 392 Hz of pitch
romeoamkj 3 years ago
wonderful!
nero93747 4 years ago
too slow, boring
rolandquin 4 years ago
Its a bit slow yes but i don't find it boring.
Elguitar 3 years ago
very nice, but I would play it a little faster, listen to Bowflute interpretation here on Youtube, please take this as a construtive critism, i used to be a flutist and believe me I took all kind of advises
kaitarojas 4 years ago
this is the deep democracy of the music! If you read my past reply can see my different idea; now I prefer an execution slower " I would play in different way,slower,more breathed." But I change in time...!
romeoamkj 4 years ago
ok, if you said so
kaitarojas 4 years ago
Great!(The continuo part is fantastic!)
alexegeviz 4 years ago
Thanks, my friend Pietro is a big on the harpsichord!
romeoamkj 4 years ago
This piece is wonderful, but also quite difficult to perform with the recorder. I have performed this piece at my solo recital in 2005 in Seoul, Korea.
klarasong 4 years ago
Dear Klara,I tink it is rally difficult not for the notes but for the "intepretaion",for the difficulty to give it a direction,a meaning.Bach is so rich,so deep,a continuous whirl in the harmony and in the melody:when the line of the melody seems to be arrive, often isn't so,that is the start of a new whirl...oh it is so surprising,so beauty, so exciting,so rich of opportunity of interpretation.about this mine performance of two years ago,now I would play in different way,slower,more breathed.
romeoamkj 4 years ago