Flute, Classical: Rhonda Larson performing Marais

www.RhondaLarson.com Grammy Winner Rhonda Larson performs live in Italy, Marin Marais "Les Folies d'Espagne"

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• Rhonda
• Larson
• Grammy
• Instrumentalist
• Marais
• Italy
• classical

[jazzflutist]

Beautiful. Might need the mic a little closer next time, and try reduce the echo somehow.

[leejde]

@jazzflutist Thanks fro the comments. The echo is the natural acoustics of this 16th century church, you'd really have to be there to enjoy its full effect.

[leejde]

@jazzflutist Thanks for the comments. The echo is the natural acoustics of this 16th century church, you'd really have to be there to enjoy its full effect.

[sibmajorpresto]

je trouve cette interprétation "aérienne" , à moins que je puisse me permettre de la qualifier d"aquatique"!! .. semble appartenir à un autre monde. J'ai des frissons! J'adore! Tout à fait "planant". Je ne connaissais pas cette flûtiste, mais je vais m'employer à l'entendre en concert. Ce doit être littéralement impressionnan="marquant" !!!

[faum08]

SHES DOING THIS WITH EASE! IM SO JEALOUS DX! i wanna play like that!

[musicta2689]

@principalflutist The piece has 25 variations...the reason the performances all sound different is because the performers are choosing different variations to perform- I've never heard anyone play all of them in one concert/recital. If you just buy the sheet music for "Les Folies d'Espagne" by Marais for flute, you'll get all of the variations (written exactly as she and others play them) and you can choose the ones you want to play.

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Nice performance, btw!!

[flutefocus]

amazing playing...

[katiekitkatpryde]

i love this piece



[rockinstrawberries]

Such pretty music!!

[principalflutist]

After watching the Rhonda's version of the Marais, I still want to know why, everytime I hear it played by (any other flutist) --- there's always a different version, from what I heard Rhonda play on this video clip? What? Marais composed that many different versions? I don't get it. I want to buy the sheet music that Rhonda played on this video clip. Help.

[JoshJNYC]

@principalflutist Every version sounds different because in this style of music, improvised ornamentation is paramount to the performance, so no two people will EVER play it the same way, unless you copy note for note everything she is doing. Much of what you are hearing is not on the page...

[proflautist1]

@principal - in my edition there are 25 variations. I've not been able to perform this piece myself but my teacher in college strongly advised choosing my favs and creating my own abridged version. Each variation has different aspects of flute technique that can be 'shown off' depending on your comfort level with the performance.

[principalflutist]

I've heard other fluttists play a "variation" of the Marais, as in Irena Grafenhauer, and others. None sound the same? Confused? Did Marais write that many different variations ---- or are these just the "artist's" interpretations. In short, if I went to buy this sheet music --- WHICH interpretation would I be buying? |I want to play exactly what Rhonda played, in short.

[principalflutist]

Rhonda plays a Pearl flute.  Thanks to whomver told me that.