This is the true spirit of viola, brought out thanks to Britten and your magnificient interpretation ! You handle the bow like a brush in the hands of a master painter.
Fabulous viola playing. Thank you so much for preparing and posting this marvelous piece of music! I will now purchase and learn this piece, that I have been exposed to it.
A biography I am reading by Dabid Matthews states Britten wrote this the day he returned home after completing studies at the Royal College of Music to which he received a scholarship - calling the "modernist" piece "unrelentingly atonal" and speculating "what private thoughts the prodigious 16-year-old had while playing to himself". Genius, indeed. I got hooked as a young person after hearing A Ceremony of Carols on the classical radio station long ago. Excellent performance here!
You have amazing tone. I think a lot of people play the viola like it should sound like a violin when it should probably sound more like a cello. Bravo!
I like when the viola sound like a viola! Mr. Power is a very good example of how the viola can have its own personality, full of unique colors that neither the violin or the cello can produce.
No, they are Quad ESL 57 electrostatic loudspeakers given to the composer by the late Peter Walker OBE, founder of QUAD Electroacoustics, Huntingdon, Cambs.
The majority of people (who like to comment in _that_ way) doesn't seem to realize, that the concept of *boredom* refers to their own *perception* of that given entity at stake - not to the entity itself (regardless of whether it exists in reality or not - that is a philosophical discussion for another day…). If someone feels entitled to share his/her opinion on this particular performance or the music of Benjamin Britten and calls it 'boring', it reflects only their ineptitude to sense the high-level complexity and structuring interrelations of Britten's music - and maybe of nearly everything they are surrounded by…
This is the true spirit of viola, brought out thanks to Britten and your magnificient interpretation ! You handle the bow like a brush in the hands of a master painter.
Wow!!!!!!!!! Fantastic! I’ve melted into viola heaven.
Amazing performance! Loved it
Fabulous viola playing. Thank you so much for preparing and posting this marvelous piece of music! I will now purchase and learn this piece, that I have been exposed to it.
this deserves so much more attention
impresionado por la viola, Britten y Lawrence... (Qué complejo mundo interior).
A biography I am reading by Dabid Matthews states Britten wrote this the day he returned home after completing studies at the Royal College of Music to which he received a scholarship - calling the "modernist" piece "unrelentingly atonal" and speculating "what private thoughts the prodigious 16-year-old had while playing to himself". Genius, indeed. I got hooked as a young person after hearing A Ceremony of Carols on the classical radio station long ago.
Excellent performance here!
Superb playing, inspirational!
Beautiful playing
musique pas toujours facile pour l'auditeur non formé, mais quelle sérénité et une ambiance visuelle sans formalisme...
I love your sound!!
You have amazing tone. I think a lot of people play the viola like it should sound like a violin when it should probably sound more like a cello. Bravo!
I like when the viola sound like a viola! Mr. Power is a very good example of how the viola can have its own personality, full of unique colors that neither the violin or the cello can produce.
Wonderful 🎵📹
Excellent
Magnifique (...)
Life of influence!
very moving performance.
Wow
Gorgeous playing and recording. Do you happen to know what mic Brett Cox used? Sound lovely - spacious and detailed.
That is so lovely Thank you! X
Grato.
i love your sound! what strings do you use?
Those are evah golds (by the black and yellow winding)
Nice! May I ask what viola you play?
He has two Antonio Brensi violas!
One from 1610 and the other one from 1590. I think this is the 1590 one, but I'm not sure.
Why this /bizarre/ tremolo?
Vibrato
It’s not tremolo it’s really rich, intense vibrato
Are those things up in the cornerd bass traps?
No, they are Quad ESL 57 electrostatic loudspeakers given to the composer by the late Peter Walker OBE, founder of QUAD Electroacoustics, Huntingdon, Cambs.
boring
Go and look up Ke$ha and Billie Eilish instead then. Have fun on *that* side ...!
The majority of people (who like to comment in _that_ way) doesn't seem to realize, that the concept of *boredom* refers to their own *perception* of that given entity at stake - not to the entity itself (regardless of whether it exists in reality or not - that is a philosophical discussion for another day…). If someone feels entitled to share his/her opinion on this particular performance or the music of Benjamin Britten and calls it 'boring', it reflects only their ineptitude to sense the high-level complexity and structuring interrelations of Britten's music - and maybe of nearly everything they are surrounded by…
@@d.s.5103 Exactly.
Life is a mirror. You must be indeed, boring.