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Monday, April 17, 2023
Classical corner
The second movement of Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D Major.
There are these 2 goofy Aussie (Chinese) violinists who became popular doing comedy antics, and in this video they got Hilary Hahn to play Mozart while hula-hooping:
https://youtu.be/xwsnIoFXrt0
and she still sounds great.
I'd heard that the Beethoven concerto was hard because B wrote for piano (some say it was a piano concerto first). These 2 violinists explained that it's all scales and arpeggios which you have to make sound musical and not sound just like practicing.
It's great to see the girlish side of Hilary Hahn who's usually very reserved and shy.
There are these 2 goofy Aussie (Chinese) violinists who became popular doing comedy antics, and in this video they got Hilary Hahn to play Mozart while hula-hooping:
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/xwsnIoFXrt0
and she still sounds great.
I'd heard that the Beethoven concerto was hard because B wrote for piano (some say it was a piano concerto first). These 2 violinists explained that it's all scales and arpeggios which you have to make sound musical and not sound just like practicing.
It's great to see the girlish side of Hilary Hahn who's usually very reserved and shy.
Fabulous! Thanks, Bruce.
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