Kyoko Takezawa is a wonderful violinist. This is one of my very favourite clips. Marvellous when 2 or 3 of the strings are in unison, better still when they're in harmony. The first 2 movements are very nice. The 3rd and 4th are simply stunning.
While the recording may have its faults, I like the performance very much. Music is very subjective, and what may not appeal to one, there are those that see the beauty in a rendition of a particular work. I would describe this performance as Faure at its best thank you -
Not sure I agree with Mr. Lu's comment on Takezawa. At all the places I would expect the violin to play delicately, she's very delicate. The dolces are very dolce. Some of it is the sound reproduction -- the violin sounds a little too cutting at times but I don't think it's her playing. I do think the best movement of this superb quartet is the Adagio -- Faure does the quiet moments so sublimely. But there's a tremendous amount of passion in this quartet. I don't think it's right to characterize Faure as sensitive and elegant only -- there's a lot of Faure that is hot-blood and very rebellious. You have to remember that he was considered a musical revolutionary in late 19th century Paris. The 4th movement certainly reflects that -- very interesting harmonies and such intensity.
Classical music lovers, you folks of all people should pay a little more attention to the technical aspect of sound reproduction. Even with today's technology, most of the time the music playback you hear is still very different from the real sound. It's a bit sad to see the violin or the room acoustics being blamed before anyone notice, for example, that this clip is a very low-bit rate MP3.
Engaging performance, but the'recorded sound is not very listenable, maybe the room acoustics are at fault? The piano is distant and muddy. But bravos to Brey and Neubauer: real chamber music masters.
Kyoko Takezawa might be a good soloist performing concert but she played faure so sharp to neglect the sensitivity and elegancy of Gabriel Faure. I like Paul Neubauer much more.
Kyoko Takezawa is a wonderful violinist. This is one of my very favourite clips. Marvellous when 2 or 3 of the strings are in unison, better still when they're in harmony. The first 2 movements are very nice. The 3rd and 4th are simply stunning.
Beautiful, Paul.
While the recording may have its faults, I like the performance very much. Music is very subjective, and what may not appeal to one, there are those that see the beauty in a rendition of a particular work. I would describe this performance as Faure at its best thank you -
Good Job Carter
Not sure I agree with Mr. Lu's comment on Takezawa. At all the places I would expect the violin to play delicately, she's very delicate. The dolces are very dolce. Some of it is the sound reproduction -- the violin sounds a little too cutting at times but I don't think it's her playing.
I do think the best movement of this superb quartet is the Adagio -- Faure does the quiet moments so sublimely. But there's a tremendous amount of passion in this quartet. I don't think it's right to characterize Faure as sensitive and elegant only -- there's a lot of Faure that is hot-blood and very rebellious. You have to remember that he was considered a musical revolutionary in late 19th century Paris. The 4th movement certainly reflects that -- very interesting harmonies and such intensity.
hard to believe that the violin that kyoko is playing is worth over 3.5million....
Classical music lovers, you folks of all people should pay a little more attention to the technical aspect of sound reproduction. Even with today's technology, most of the time the music playback you hear is still very different from the real sound. It's a bit sad to see the violin or the room acoustics being blamed before anyone notice, for example, that this clip is a very low-bit rate MP3.
Engaging performance, but the'recorded sound is not very listenable, maybe the room acoustics are at fault? The piano is distant and muddy. But bravos to Brey and Neubauer: real chamber music masters.
Kyoko Takezawa might be a good soloist performing concert but she played faure so sharp to neglect the sensitivity and elegancy of Gabriel Faure. I like Paul Neubauer much more.