William Primrose plays Handel/Casadesus Concerto (mvmnt 3)

Just a still frame, no video. I've had quite a few requests for this so I decided not to be lazy and to upload it. I haven't heard any other recordings of this highly under rated piece so as far as i'm concerned, this is a definitive interpretation. This is the third movement, the other first and second movements can be listened to at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMReZ2HQgAI
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1fJHxwKn3w

By the way, in case some of you guys didn't know, this piece was not actually written by Handel. It was written by french violist/ violist d'amore Henri Casadesus in the style of Handel. He forged the piece under Handel's name and then later admitted to having written it in a court dispute.

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• Handel
• Henri
• Casadesus
• William
• Primrose
• viola
• concerto
• minor
• Heifetz
• Oistrakh
• Milstein
• Menuhin

[oOmadpintoOo]

i can try

[mjwynne01]

I am learning this movement. With practice I know it can sound this good.

[101dwdude]

finally finished this song :D it was pretty hard...but definitely worth all the practice it took

[nimrod793]

@killed10x i was saying that it creates pressure because then you feel like you have to live up to the standards of how primrose plays it

[musicachicax3]

There is someone out there as great as Primrose- Carpenter!

[RibalMolaeb]

we need a live great soloist , like primrose

[AbsoluteZ3R0]

No violist today has made it to the level of Primrose, but there are many violinists/cellists today whose technique are formidably comparable to those of the past. Hilary Hahn's technique is second only to Heifetz, Yo-Yo Ma might have the greatest technique of any cellist ever recorded, etc.

[2ndviolinist]

Don't feel badly if you don't make it to this level. Almost none of the "greats" have in the last 50+ years including violinists, pianists, cellists and singers. But please try and especially listen to the tone. Throw away your shoulder rest, don't clamp with your neck, let the bow work, don't press, and, as my friend (a violist who has been compared as an equal to Primrose by a contemporary), says, "when playing something difficult, relax, when things are impossible, relax completely."

[nimrod793]

omg i have to play this in my lesson, and my teacher was a student of this man, pressure muchhh?!

[HBanana55]

I'm playing this piece for my juries today thanks for bring the one person to have a recording I could find last minute!

[lilly763]

i remember playing this concerto a couple of years ago... It's a better piece than I had thought. Thanks for uploading!

[jackpoint188]

Actually I remember that he played the viola doing these concertos. I have the album somewhere.