Very nice, Chris. I don't know these pieces, so thanks for recording them. Your hand didn't seem so close to the bridge to me, not that it means much when synthetic strings are used anyway. Of far greater importance is your interpretation, which is beautiful.
Rob MacKillop www.robmackillop.net On 21 Oct 2011, at 12:56, Christopher Wilke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I've put up four new videos of pieces in A minor by Mademoiselle Bocquet. > Good stuff. Her music is wonderfully idiosyncratic and filled with > character. Be warned, though: everything is wrong in the videos - wrong > instrument (13-course), wrong strings (synthetic), wrong miking (very close), > wrong reverb (zero), and wrong hand position (close to bridge) ;-) Actually, > I'm deliberately going after a concept of tone quite different from what > seems to be the norm nowadays. Comments welcome. > > Prelude: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQLCMNIljOA > > Sarabande: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLWt9EjqFeA > > La Polonoise, an allemande gay > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX5aURi_pd8 > > Allemande, an allemande grave > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lWon1JBXIc > > Enjoy! > > Chris > > Christopher Wilke > Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer > www.christopherwilke.com > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
