On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Omer Katzir<[email protected]> wrote: > One, it's a technical issue, but there are too many "clicks" and "ticks"
Could be the gut strings you're hearing, they tend to 'speak'. Listen to e.g. Jacob Herringman (also on Magnatune) or Toyohiko Satoh. Or to me. ;-) It can also be a choice in the editing, to deliberately leave them in. An honest choice. But it does distract listeners used to the clean, edited, dare I say it, sanitised standard set by today's digital recording and equipment. POD in the latest LSA Quarterly had something to say about this subject, too. We are no longer used to the sound of a real person playing live, with all the clicks and occasional grunting. I like Glenn Gould humming along in Bach, but can be annoyed by the first violinist in certain Beethoven string quartets recordings I have. Fingers on gut strings come with lute with gut strings. I don't mind. > again. It doesn't make any sense to repeat something you shouldn't. 1) Who says you shouldn't? Milan? 2) Why doesn't it make sense, because one shouldn't? > Also, A fantasy should tell a story, and with every note sound the same as > the previous one, it sound more like a dry dance then a fantasy. Taste and personal preference. Fair enough. Every player will choose his own points of interest in an interpretation. I like to hear, and emphasise in playing, as much polyphony as possible. Ed choose points that didn't interest you. Pity, but nothing more. > Finally, you play too many Arpeggios You have a point there, as the aptly titled book about interpunction in the English language says, but again, I'd say personal preference. You're entitled to it, as is Ed. > it sounds like > something by sting. Now that's grossly unfair, and not to the point, as Sting's lute playing is full of clicks and ticks. He's a player that seriously overplays his instrument. Expressive ... perhaps. I haven't listened to his arpeggios, but I wouldn't be surprised, nor offended, if it had the odd unwritten repeat. And as to the story Sting is telling in his lute playing, that's a matter of personal taste again, there are people who like it (and more people that buy his CDs than all the CDs of all the recording lutenists on this lists put together ...). > like mine. Every review has something to say, sometimes about the music, sometimes about the player, most times about the reviewer. A personal observation that goes beyond the subject of this mail. Not everyone on this list has English as his or her first language. That includes me and probably you. Also, there are some noticeable cultural differences on this lists in how people treat each other. Perhaps some people on the list, other than Ed, were offended by the tone of your email. Maybe they shouldn't be. If everything you said was written with British, understated politeness or American, all-smiles friendliness, people might responded differently. David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
