Anagola 2000

Posts Tagged ‘violin’

it was terrible on hardwood from day one, shoots dirt and dust all over (so make sure to wear shoes when using it if for some reason you want dirt spread all over rather than picked up). it worked great on carpet for a few months and then nothing. can’t figure out why, motor still runs, belts are fine (and I’ve replaced the bag frequently and have extra belts if needed), but everything just stays in the hose, if it picks it up at all. very frustrating. what a waste…now I’m stuck with belts and bags for a vacuum I certainly don’t want to repurchase as more than half my home is hard floors so I want one that will actually work on all my floors.
Suzuki Violin School Vol

Outstanding vacuum for the price!! I have a $400 vacuum that is no use against all this pet hair. Well this vacuum, some how, picks it up. The only negatives I can mention…its loud, and the bag fills up kinda quick. So buy extra during checkout. Other than that how can you beat this!?!
Cherrywood Violin Bow 3

Music Basics Electric Violin

Nice scale but sometimes I get a weight of 4lbs and then some error code. Can’t find the manual so not sure what it means. Gets a little annoying to have to wait for it to reset before stepping on again. Other than that I really like it. Seems well made and the screen is large and easy to read. Lights up blue which I think is cool.
JOSEF BREMEN VIOLIN OUTFIT

Menuhin plays like an angel. He invites you to communicate with him heart and soul the whole time he plays. Here, or in fact anytime at all, he played the Mozart Concerto somewhat like Hassid: not just every note talks like a human, they’re cries and weeps and moans from the deepest of one’s soul.

The way Menuhin played his Beethoven is probaby the most difficult one, especially the cadenza. It’s more than 3 dimensional: so full of colours and emotions, even more condensed than Thibaud. Few violinists would even dare to try it this way. So it’s a different orientation altogether. The standard of demonic, with respect, is the least applicable to Menuhin. To Menuhin, most Russian ways of playing simply lacked a whole dimension. Menuhun’s Bruch is most wonderful too, in a way it is even more marvelous than his Mozart.

We have three concertos here and Menuhin was supported by different orchestras in each piece. In the first concerto, it was an orchestra from London, the second one from Paris and the third one from Germany. It’s interesting to compare these orchestras from different part of Europe. Probably the standard in these countries are not much different now. The first one, the London Symphony was conducted by Sir Colin Davis, who was so young then and his gestures are enormous yet the collaboration was very good indeed. How come a clarinetist could make a good conductor? Amazaing. The second one was conducted by Menuhin himself and the third one by Fricsay. All of them are miles better than the conductor we see from Szeryng’s 2003 DVD.

All were filmed in the 60’s, all are in B/W. The photogragphy is, as usual of most BBC productions, very good. We can see exactly how he played almost throughout: his fingering, his vibrato, bowing everything. The sound is very good too. Those who are baffled by other DVDs which tell only his stories with little violin playing won’t be disappointed this time. The running time is only 108 minutes though.
Beethoven Violin Concerto Bruch