There is actually a joke response piece to this video called "Lockdown Composition 47" on TH-cam! Lawrence Power is an amazing performer. We, the listeners are so lucky to hear that Brenzi viola in his hands. Mr Power, all violists I know here in Perth Australia absolutely love your playing and aspire to become as technically brilliant and consistently musically vibrant as yourself [although we concede we may never match your level in our lifetime]!
Laurence is utterly amazing. I was lucky enough to sing. Brahms Op 101 with him at the Wigmore Hall. It was one of the happiest times I have spent on stage and he is certainly the ideal violist for those songs. Martyn has written a piece for Laurence that exhibits his great musicianship, depth of character and the quality of the instrument and his ability to maximize that. I like the variety of range; from puckish (irritable?) to mournful, and I’m very glad that it took place in the Coliseum, London albeit under the very sad circumstances of Lockdown.
@@SarahConnolly63 Do you mean Brahms Op 91? The two songs? Whatever piece it was, Brahms is an amazing composer and Lawrence is a brilliant and important violist, so yes I can see how that would've made you very happy! I prefer baroque, classical and romantic works on viola. If it's newer compositions I prefer neo-classical and neo-romantic.... that sort of genre, things that are a little more logical, lyrical, with consonant harmonies. That is just what I like to hear. With visual art I like to see paintings of real scenes, for example: a person sitting at a cafe drinking coffee dressed in formal attire with a sunset and buildings behind them in great detail and painted very realistically , rather than: a modern piece of "art" which is: a 20" x 20" blank canvas with a quarter-inch-diameter dot of green paint in one corner and half a ripped postage stamp stuck onto the opposite corner...
Lawrence, you are awsome!
That deserves much more views!
There is actually a joke response piece to this video called "Lockdown Composition 47" on TH-cam!
Lawrence Power is an amazing performer. We, the listeners are so lucky to hear that Brenzi viola in his hands. Mr Power, all violists I know here in Perth Australia absolutely love your playing and aspire to become as technically brilliant and consistently musically vibrant as yourself [although we concede we may never match your level in our lifetime]!
Laurence is utterly amazing. I was lucky enough to sing. Brahms Op 101 with him at the Wigmore Hall. It was one of the happiest times I have spent on stage and he is certainly the ideal violist for those songs.
Martyn has written a piece for Laurence that exhibits his great musicianship, depth of character and the quality of the instrument and his ability to maximize that. I like the variety of range; from puckish (irritable?) to mournful, and I’m very glad that it took place in the Coliseum, London albeit under the very sad circumstances of Lockdown.
@@SarahConnolly63 Do you mean Brahms Op 91? The two songs? Whatever piece it was, Brahms is an amazing composer and Lawrence is a brilliant and important violist, so yes I can see how that would've made you very happy!
I prefer baroque, classical and romantic works on viola. If it's newer compositions I prefer neo-classical and neo-romantic.... that sort of genre, things that are a little more logical, lyrical, with consonant harmonies. That is just what I like to hear. With visual art I like to see paintings of real scenes, for example: a person sitting at a cafe drinking coffee dressed in formal attire with a sunset and buildings behind them in great detail and painted very realistically , rather than: a modern piece of "art" which is: a 20" x 20" blank canvas with a quarter-inch-diameter dot of green paint in one corner and half a ripped postage stamp stuck onto the opposite corner...
Brilliant composition and wonderful playing!
I agree about the wonderful playing