Benjamin Britten - Elegy for Solo Viola
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Filmed at The Red House, Aldeburgh by Jessie Rodger.
Sound: Brett Cox
"During these last months, and especially now as I’m planning my little festival in West Wycombe next month, I find myself even more beguiled and dazzled by Benjamin Britten’s brilliance and vision.
I was fortunate to be in Aldeburgh recently and as always one can’t help but fall in love again with this most special corner of Suffolk. The town and its surroundings were Britten’s creative epicentre, a constant source of inspiration through his life.
Today I feel Britten is the best possible example we have of how a strong creative vision within the community can make a profound impact for years to come. In 1948 Britten was one of the most important 20th century composers with the world at his feet yet he still chose to put strong musical roots down in the community that he held so close to his heart. Roots that continue to flourish 72 years later with the world famous Aldeburgh Festival and the equally important educational elements to that vision.
The last five months have been challenging for everyone but maybe now is the time as musicians to recognise and embrace the importance of connecting more with our surroundings and community. Let’s carefully balance the natural excitement of travelling to perform with a delight in watching musical roots develop closer to home. I look forward to presenting my annual Chamber Music Festival which will be taking place online for the first time, next month. More news on that to follow but in the meantime, thank you Mr Britten, you are a constant inspiration to me."
Wonderful 🎵📹
This is the true spirit of viola, brought out thanks to Britten and your magnificient interpretation ! You handle the bow like a brush in the hands of a master painter.
Wow!!!!!!!!! Fantastic! I’ve melted into viola heaven.
Fabulous viola playing. Thank you so much for preparing and posting this marvelous piece of music! I will now purchase and learn this piece, that I have been exposed to it.
Amazing performance! Loved it
musique pas toujours facile pour l'auditeur non formé, mais quelle sérénité et une ambiance visuelle sans formalisme...
Gorgeous playing and recording. Do you happen to know what mic Brett Cox used? Sound lovely - spacious and detailed.
impresionado por la viola, Britten y Lawrence... (Qué complejo mundo interior).
this deserves so much more attention
Wow
A biography I am reading by Dabid Matthews states Britten wrote this the day he returned home after completing studies at the Royal College of Music to which he received a scholarship - calling the "modernist" piece "unrelentingly atonal" and speculating "what private thoughts the prodigious 16-year-old had while playing to himself". Genius, indeed. I got hooked as a young person after hearing A Ceremony of Carols on the classical radio station long ago.
Excellent performance here!
Beautiful playing
Superb playing, inspirational!
i love your sound! what strings do you use?
Those are evah golds (by the black and yellow winding)
You have amazing tone. I think a lot of people play the viola like it should sound like a violin when it should probably sound more like a cello. Bravo!
I like when the viola sound like a viola! Mr. Power is a very good example of how the viola can have its own personality, full of unique colors that neither the violin or the cello can produce.
I love your sound!!
Nice! May I ask what viola you play?
He has two Antonio Brensi violas!
One from 1610 and the other one from 1590. I think this is the 1590 one, but I'm not sure.
very moving performance.
Excellent
Life of influence!
Magnifique (...)
Grato.
Why this /bizarre/ tremolo?
Vibrato
It’s not tremolo it’s really rich, intense vibrato
That is so lovely Thank you! X
Are those things up in the cornerd bass traps?
No, they are Quad ESL 57 electrostatic loudspeakers given to the composer by the late Peter Walker OBE, founder of QUAD Electroacoustics, Huntingdon, Cambs.
boring
Go and look up Ke$ha and Billie Eilish instead then. Have fun on *that* side ...!
The majority of people (who like to comment in _that_ way) doesn't seem to realize, that the concept of *boredom* refers to their own *perception* of that given entity at stake - not to the entity itself (regardless of whether it exists in reality or not - that is a philosophical discussion for another day…). If someone feels entitled to share his/her opinion on this particular performance or the music of Benjamin Britten and calls it 'boring', it reflects only their ineptitude to sense the high-level complexity and structuring interrelations of Britten's music - and maybe of nearly everything they are surrounded by…
@@d.s.5103 Exactly.
Life is a mirror. You must be indeed, boring.