Word: legato
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...work during his lifetime except his magnum opus, the ferociously demanding 24 Caprices for solo violin. It seems just, then, that the guitar virtuoso ELIOT FISK has recorded his own transcriptions of the pieces (MusicMasters Classics). What amazes throughout is Fisk's ingenuity in finding the equivalents of, say, legato and ricocheted bowing on his plucked instrument, and his dexterity in executing them with such panache. This recording will dazzle violinists and daunt guitarists...
...musical imagination that can make the instrument sound as if it were born to play jazz. Unlike a guitar, a banjo cannot sustain a note for very long. ("Pop, ping, and then it's gone," Fleck says.) Yet on his ballad Sunset Road, Fleck creates an illusion of satiny, legato plangency. If you want one word for the album, call it mellow. Says Tony Trischka, his former teacher: "Bela Fleck is making the banjo safe for mass consumption...
...London Symphony fiddlers know happy and sad too, and they get really sad when they are subjected to boring lectures. Thomas' approach, therefore, will be straightforward. "I'll just say, 'Let the phrase fall gently downward, legato -- smoothly.' The violinists will know that the left hand must be the most intense and the right hand must be the lightest, exactly at the right moment. As they do it again and again, it will work into their own reflexes and their own minds and will become more natural, more beautiful. That's when it gets exciting -- when I suddenly hear them...
...greatest cellist by filling out the disk with three short works associated with Casals: the Siloti transcription of the second movement from Bach's organ Toccata, Adagio and Fugue, and Casals' own arrangement of the ever-lovely Faure song "Apres un reve," both of which demonstrate Moye's marvelous legato bowing; and the dashing encore piece Requiebros that was written for and dedicated to Casals by his one-time student Gasparo Cassado...
...years ago. She agreed to do the role, but withdrew last fall. To what degree the challenge of writing for Sills may have deflected Argento's usually stable dramatic sense cannot be known, but he has produced a harsh onslaught of ornamental coloratura writing without sufficient melody or legato line to sustain...