J.S. Bach-Partita in a Minor

Played by Harvey Chang, Dec. 24 2006, Naional Recital Hall, Taipei, Taiwan

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bach
• flute
• partita

[principalflutist]

Wonderful intreptation of Bach's Paritia. Love the beautiful intonation, sonority and techniques, as performed by Harvey Chang.

Played with passion and lovely tone.

Regards, principal flutist.

P.S. --- I always like to know what make/model of flute any performer plays on.

Feedback? Thanks

[flutehawchang]

Thanks for your kind complement, I really don't mind those who strongly defend the so called "traditional Bach style" or "Baroque style" people, because, I was like them when I was at that level. I took everything my teachers told me like a "rule", but only after I became a teacher myself, I started to think about what music is really for, then I started to play music that pleased my own ears.

[flutehawchang]

@flutehawchang

Please don't tell my students. :-)

[flutehawchang]

@principalflutist

It was a YAMAHA 874W Wooden Flute.

[Charm874]

Music is a two-way conversation between the musician and the composer. You should be listening to what the composer is trying to say through the score, as well as having your say. Currently you seem to be dominating the conversation solely with your own thoughts. :-)

[leandrusi]

@flutehawchang If you play modern flute to modern people, it would be interesting to hear you play modern music.

[iorixs]

it's good to experiment, you never know where it will lead

[bmarcum2011]

to much phrasing, it is a beautiful piece but it sounds like you have to breath every 4 measures when i played it, it was about every 8 to 12 measures. calm down. lol, but other than that i love this piece. beautiful

[Bashkii]

@Totma11

Tell me which one of those well known flutists remotely resembles this charade by flutehawchang. My opinion has nothing to do with "academicism" but with common sense, which unfortunately it's the least common of all senses.Ornamentation has nothing to do with "swinging" capriciously to the point of distorting the literature. Oh, and truly I believe you are so disoriented that it may take you centuries or even several life times to sort this out.

[Bashkii]

@Totma11

"The score is not the music"? so what is it ...a treasury map?? "Vague hints of pitch" is what " contemporary graphic scores" are all about. In the baroque, first and foremost, pitch was written with definitive assertion because of the recent and new "tempered" tuning system.You need to listen the interpretations of Maxence Larrieu, Alain Marion, JP Rampal, Julius Baker and Sharon Bezaly, all of them available in iTunes.

[Totma11]

@Bashkii You are so confused that it may takes decades to sort out.

The score is not the music. The score carries no music... just vague hints of pitch. The multi-dimensional experience has to be constructed entirely... which according to baroque ideas is to follow invention, fancy, and taste... not the score. If you want to think like an academic... at least go do your historic research first.

[Totma11]

@Charm874 Music isn't a 'two way conversation between the musician and the composer'. After being chosen to be a brief conduit for this rhetoric by God, the composer is now dead & gone. We, however, are here... and so is this musician, as well as the luthier who made this instrument, & the printers who printed this music... not to mention the people who built the concert hall... and whatever ghosts wish to attend. Minus the 1 element you included, it is now at least a 7-way conversation.

[Totma11]

@flutehawchang Not only are you right to be authentic, but as it is ridiculous to try and play these pieces 'as Bach would have'. Also the fact that nobody rightly knows or remembers how anybody played 300 years ago... you are triplye right. Further, I find your playing much closer to what Baroque music is... than those who try to imagine what it should be through the veil of 20th century academicism and 'objectivism' And even if all that fails... You have good taste... the eternal winner.

[gaboflute]

With all due respect: I dont understand what you mean by writing "I play a modern flute for modern people who are nt coming from the 18th century". If on a modern wood flute or on a old wood flute the music of Bach is not going to change in the logic,structure, phrasing,etc.A free way to interpretation doesnt mean to do whatever we want because we just feel it that way! I like your sound but to me your language is far away from what Bach intended with this Allemande.

[Bashkii]

He changes the note values!! He does not respect the literature!! i suspect it's because he couldn't breathe correctly if he was to play it as it is written. The final effect is one of "distortion" of the actual music after so much "swinging"!!