<p>btw, benjamin schmitt(i think that's how it's spelt) is a wonderful bach player. Hilary hahn pales in comparison to him.</p>
<p>thanks jono for giving me some recs on cello* i'd be more than glad to do the same for violin, but u seem to know that too :) bizet's carmen is overdone, try the waxman or sarasate</p>
<p>but bizet wrote carmen!</p>
<p>of course... but it is not nearly as lavish as the waxman or the sarasate... it's a violin thing, you want to stray from the original... but get more complex!</p>
<p>i'm sure it's the same for cello, but yea, on the violin, it's def important to improvise, be expressive, and not just play the notes. when I hear some beginners, I reflect on how I must have sounded when I first starting, not just like a cat screeching, but boring as hell too. </p>
<p>btw, does anyone here play piano? I don't, but I have heard some chopin and listz(hope this is correct spelling) compositions for piano and I sure wish they had written some pieces for the violin! Berlioz's symphonie fantastique is a truly haunting piece, i think it's quite beautiful in that way. Does anyone else like it?</p>
<p>I play piano (I used to play it much more than I do now, but I try to practice, what's the saying, the road to hell is paved with good intentions?)</p>
<p>Liszt - definitely a piano composer
Chopin - wrote some cello pieces, the Cello Sonata in g minor, Op. 65, which I like a lot and the Introduction and Polonaise Brillante, op. 3, which is actually more often played than the sonata, with some virtuoso passages from the piano part brought into the cello part because of Feuermann's and Rose's edits. Honestly, the Sonata is a better piece. And pianists avoid accompanying them! He also wrote a trio for piano, violin, and cello.</p>
<p>On the subject of Waxman and Sarasate Carmen Fantasies: I hope I never hear them again. But not quite as much as I hope I never hear some other violin pieces again, such as the Bazzini La Ronde des Lutins, Op. 25. I've heard more than my desired share of violin nonsense.</p>
<p>OH MY GOD I want to play Chopin's Cello Sonata!! I've been listening to it just now. I'm giving a recital in three weeks with Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69, and Prokofiev Sonata in C Major, Op. 119. And I have a few competitions around then with those two and Dvorak concerto. Then I can learn all these other awesome pieces that I want to learn so badly.</p>
<p>What are you all going to do this summer? I have to get a job to pay for Columbia instead of going to music camp, so I'm gonna stick around and learn some new repertoire.
Brahms e minor, Op. 38, and F Major, Op. 99, cello sonatas
Franck Violin Sonata in A Major for cello
Saint-Saens Concerto, Elgar Concerto, Bloch Schelomo
Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata in g minor, Op. 19
Chopin Cello Sonata in g minor, Op. 65
Bach Cello Suite No. 5 in c minor
Damn, I also want to do Walton, Herbert, and Barber Concertos
and Barber Sonata. . . and Schumann Adagio and Allegro and Five Pieces in Folk Style. . . I need to discuss this all with my teacher and then have a good time with all this stuff. Not to mention quartets, which I do a lot of.</p>
<p>you are one ambitious kid. But what the heck, anyone with a genuine love of music probably wants to do the same. There's nothing eccentric about wanting to learn all that music. I know i have a lot of music i want to learn. One of them being Devil's trill, a certain paganini caprice and this piece my teacher is playing, can't remember the name or anything, just that the tune was captivating and intense too.</p>
<p>I'm going to summer school this summer so i can transcend my peers academically. I was going to go to a music camp, but in february, it was basically too late. I'm def going to audition for a few camps(prestigious hopefully) next year though. I want to apply to rsi too, but i recently learned that canada(I'm canadian) isn't a participating nation or rather we weren't invited. Understandable, but poignant. Do you play in any orchestras Jono?</p>
<p>I'm listening to the Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata now. The third movement just ended and I can't describe it. Well, I can, but I'm not going to this time. This piece!</p>
<p>I play in the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra, the one for juniors and seniors in high school.</p>
<p>I wanted to go back to Meadowmount which was awesome in my opinion!!! Except I always had to eat way more than they wanted me to eat! But Hansy is there and he is the best!!!</p>
<p>is the Julliard pre-college orchestra particularily selective?</p>
<p>Well, the Pre-College is selective, and everyone in the Pre-College who plays an orchestral instrument plays in one of the orchestras. I guess the orchestra is selective in that only kids at Juilliard can be in it.</p>
<p>if that's the case, how is it that high-school kids can be in them? Do they have to be of a super high caliber?</p>
<p>Well it's FOR high-school students, but yes. I think I need a love life right now. This sonata is making me feel empty. Or rather, very very full.</p>
<p>"His love for me feels like spilled water
running back to its vessel."</p>
<p>Li-Young Lee, from "The Hour and What is Dead"</p>
<p>i think I'm getting the wrong idea about the water and the veins...never mind</p>
<p>there's this poem,
can't remember the exact words, but it's by robert frost, and it's about death. It's a very enthralling, but chilling poem. It's about a man who walks into a forest and is enchanted by the cold, pale snow on the ground. He begins to think about peace, freedom, and most of all death. At the climax, the sound of a sleigh bell awakens him, jolting him back to reality. Quite an interesting poem.</p>
<p>away for just a day, lotsa of new posts... i'm goin to gov's school maybe* this week decisions come back... think i might add to my repertoire as well, maybe start the brahms? and perhaps the sibelius vc...</p>
<p>the sibelius is beautiful, anne sophie mutter does quite an interesting interpretation of it.</p>
<p>i do agree, i asked my teacher for the music, she said it would be taking a step back musically tho... :)???</p>
<p>ouch! I think it's a rockin' concerto. Maybe the last movement isn't that musical, but it is rockin'. And I think the first two movements are really musical. And I also think the very opening is really hard musically. But the Brahms is also a musical challenge, because that piece just has a really noble sound.</p>
<p>ya, the brahms is the crownpiece for a violinist... personally i don't think i'm ready for that, but my teacher seems to think so...</p>