I rather agree with Valéry. In not quite so many words.
RT
From: "Sauvage Valéry" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 10:51 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Quality vs Quantity
Perhaps the question is why people are posting music on YT (and other).
You
are waiting only for top quality , like CD (oh I also know some bad
CDs...)
or is YT a place were people can express themselves, what ever is their
level or abilities ? It is the same for all instruments, not just lute and
early gutiars, look for videos of amateur pianist or classical guitarist,
mandolin and so... Some people play for their friend and family, for their
own pleasure, for making themselves friends, for their ego (principal
reason
I guess). Where is the problem ? Should it be a "censure" ? Should only
graduate people from the best school be authorized to post ? Or is it a
free
place ? And you can choose to listen, like, favorite some and not others.
In
fact for my sake I'm quite happy many people take the lute, because then
more people heard about, come to the concerts, buy the CDs, buy a lute,
take
lessons. And from time to time I find a new lutenist playing so well that
I'm inspired by (last one for me was Philippe Cuny and I'm very glad he
start posting).
Ok there is good and bad, lets take the good and ignore the bad.
;-)
Val (I'm afraid many would send me on the bad side, but in fact, I don't
care...)
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Envoyé : dimanche 25 mars 2012 16:16
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Objet : [LUTE] Quality vs Quantity
It's already a few years I watch videos on youtube of lutenists (and
early guitarists).
I must say the number of recordings tripled in just a few years but
to
be honest and not wanting to hurt anybody, some of the recordings
are
very wrong if not moronic at all...
In between there are the "real" recordings which doesn't has a
subtitle
like: "I was first reading the piece..." or "I just started to play
the
lute a few minutes ago and I thought to record it..." or "I was
tired
and the lute was miraculously out of tune..." or my favorite: "I
tried
a different interpretation..."
What do you think, is it helpful to fill the YT with this things or:
lesser is better?
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