>From my "premium priced seat" 3 rows from the back, I saw his right thumb in action 3 times during the 2 hr concert and on those occasions it was out (but playing lower courses at the time).
>Thanks for the report, Daniel, this indeed is fascinating news. Did he >play thumb-in or-out? > >Regards, > >Stephan > >Daniel Shoskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 17.01.05 06:43:41: > >I was there. 3 Bach suites and 1 Weiss (c minor with the famous >prelude/fugue fantasia stuck on at the beginning). Solid performance, >although I would have preferred less Bach and more Weiss (or other >composers who actually wrote for the instrument). Maybe it's just years >of familiarity, but it's hard for me to get excited about yet another >violin partita or cello suite transcribed for a plucked instrument when >there is so much music out there that is only played on the lute. He >anounced that he was playing the Bach more as a true dance suite in the >French style, but while there were some unique ornamental flourishes, I >am hard pressed to say that the interpretation was significantly >different from other performances/recordings I have heard. > >I thought he had great tone and solid technique, although it was a >unique experience to be at an O'Dette concert where a few notes were >actually flubbed! There was also a very strict Basel like damping of >every bass note to the millisecond of the notation, while I prefer a bit >more freedom there, but I think it's a matter of personal taste. One >encore that I am embarresed to say I can't place exactly but sounded >like a transcription of a Bach slow movement. > >Played on a Rutherford 13 course lute (Bass rider variety). Nice tone >and projection, although lines of site in the church were really >terrible and both the sound and visual esthetic would have been improved >by having him on an elevated platform. Probably 30% of the audience >could see no more than his beard and shoulder strap during the playing. > >Still, quite a milestone in the annals of lute performance and I >certainly thought it was worth flying 1000 miles to see! > >>Paul O'Dette played Bach and Weiss (sic!) today in NYC. I couldn't be >>there. >>Were any lutenetters attending? >>RT >>______________ >>Roman M. Turovsky >>http://polyhymnion.org/swv >> >> >> >> >>To get on or off this list see list information at >>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > >______________________________________________________________ >Verschicken Sie romantische, coole und witzige Bilder per SMS! >Jetzt bei WEB.DE FreeMail: http://f.web.de/?mc=021193 >
