Very melodic, very beautiful. The slow tempo is certainly harder to play in lock step with the other musicians than a faster song. But the payoff is what every great composer of the past (classical music and jazz alike) hoped for with their slower second movements that have endured the test of time within the great literature; play fast and furious in the beginning and ending movements, but bring out the goose bumps in the slow movement. The middle movement of Mozart's 3rd violin concerto is my own favorite of this treatment, along with most of Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, where the slow tempo is held in check by Miles, pianist Bill Evans and the others (engendering amazing power over our emotions). All these things are what I feel while listening to this wonderful John Opferkuch composition, played brilliantly by four great musicians!
Very melodic, very beautiful. The slow tempo is certainly harder to play in lock step with the other musicians than a faster song. But the payoff is what every great composer of the past (classical music and jazz alike) hoped for with their slower second movements that have endured the test of time within the great literature; play fast and furious in the beginning and ending movements, but bring out the goose bumps in the slow movement.
The middle movement of Mozart's 3rd violin concerto is my own favorite of this treatment, along with most of Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, where the slow tempo is held in check by Miles, pianist Bill Evans and the others (engendering amazing power over our emotions). All these things are what I feel while listening to this wonderful John Opferkuch composition, played brilliantly by four great musicians!