Word: rubato
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...playing Carter can be just staying together. In String Quartet No. 2, the instruments are given music of a dramatically contrasting character: the first violin spins fantastic note flourishes, for example, while the viola sobs a lot. In Quartet No. 3, the first violin and cello are allowed expressive rubato; the second violin and viola are not. Says Michael Rudiakov, cellist of the marvelously together Composers String Quartet: "When you play this music, you jump and hope the parachute opens...
...translate your perfect breathing control into my own phrasing, and I feel certain that Chopin had exactly that on his mind when he required rubato in his works." The technical musical discussion only infuriated the diva...
...Lincoln Center, the Juilliard Quartet paired off into duos and engaged in a 20-minute adventure in the attraction of opposites. While Duo II (violin and viola) was playing six movements in the strictest of tempos, Duo I (violin and cello) was playing four movements in a very free rubato style. Happily, the two duos not only began but end ed together, proving that being at sixes and fours is not at all like being at sixes and sevens...
...long-line concept (climaxing in Wagnerian "endless melody") simply did not exist for the Baroque performer. Overall, his playing is clearly articulated, with careful attention to dynamic inflection, colorful ornamentation, and intimate shaping of each individual phrase. For some listeners, his approach may seem to personal--too free in rubato, too extreme in the use of swell and vibrato. But, here it is necessary to keep in mind that there is substantial historical evidence in support of all that Brueggen does, and that the degree of freedom in regulated in accordance with the style of composition. 'Thus, while the unaccompanied...
...Leonhardt, was guest lecturer in the Music Department, and lived in Lowell House. There, for the first time, he heard the music of the Beatles. His comment: "But, they have no sense of rhythm"--their beat was too squarely regular. And while he himself employs considerably more expressive rubato, it is most frequently of the "borrowed" type. In this way, while selected beats or bars are altered, the overall sense of motion is never lost...