{"id":521,"date":"2009-02-27T17:19:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T09:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=521"},"modified":"2009-02-27T17:19:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T09:19:26","slug":"comparison-of-3-interpretations-of-bachs-cello-suite-no-1-prelude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Comparison of 3 interpretations of Bach&#8217;s Cello Suite No 1: Prelude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found 3 recordings (I&#8217;m sure there are more) on BWV1007 &#8211; which have been bothering me since it was truncated for the Taiwan tourism advertisement screening around S&#8217;pore because I can&#8217;t memorize it yet.<\/p>\n<p>Which one do you like best?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mischa Maisky<\/strong><br \/>\n[kml_flashembed movie=&#8221;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/S6yuR8efotI&#8221; height=&#8221;355&#8243; width=&#8221;425&#8243; \/]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yo-Yo Ma<\/strong><br \/>\n[kml_flashembed movie=&#8221;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dZn_VBgkPNY&#8221; height=&#8221;355&#8243; width=&#8221;425&#8243; \/]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mstislav Rostropovich<\/strong><br \/>\n[kml_flashembed movie=&#8221;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LU_QR_FTt3E&#8221; height=&#8221;355&#8243; width=&#8221;425&#8243; \/]<\/p>\n<p>The impulses in these solo passages bothers me. The repeating figure requires somewhat a clear impulse to be pleasant, but longer phrases would bring especially the middle parts to live better. Mischa Maisky&#8217;s style is is to press and hold the impulse &#8211; something I tend to do when I play it on a trombone because I have to stop and breath, thus revealing the break. Yo Yo Ma perhaps played it more loosely in this recording (I&#8217;ve heard a different recording elsewhere) but to me it gives a better flavor, and less stress of the impulse. On the other hand, Rostropovich gave a huge phrase to the music, diminishing the bar by bar figures in favor of a longer phrase and more consistent semiquavers, but to the untrained ear it might seem like he&#8217;s practicing an etude. So the big question for me is for solo passages like that, whether there&#8217;s a need to hold the bass note longer to &#8220;fill up the room&#8221;, and hopping from bass note to bass note? People certainly don&#8217;t do that kind of thing on, say, the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Johann_Sebastian_Bach_-_The_Well-tempered_Clavier_-_Book_1_-_02Epre_cmaj.ogg\" target=\"_blank\">C-major prelude<\/a> from Well Temper Clavier.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting aside:- all the &#8220;G-major&#8221; pitch is different&#8230; !?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found 3 recordings (I&#8217;m sure there are more) on BWV1007 &#8211; which have been bothering me since it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","content-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}