Henryk Szeryng plays Corelli’s «La Folia» Sonata

Then he is a tomfool orjackanapes

My original point was that some 250 odd years after the work is published along comes a 20 Cent. fiddle player and throws in romantic schmaltz and calls it the Corelli La Folia.
Of all the arts only in music it seems is it fair game to pillage and alter to suit ones taste
and then pass it off in performance as representing the true work .Of all the research
given this work to do what this fiddler does is «non thinking » and stupid no matter
how celebrated a performer he may be to some people .

@leesm0821
If you have a few minutes to spare, read back through the discussion, starting with dziady1 calling Henryk Szeryng a „non thinking fiddle player» about 3 weeks ago. It’s not easy to follow, with a lot of multiple postings, but see what you think !

And so, as the gibbering, battered remains of DZIADY1 are scraped from the floor and transported back to his padded cell, where he can be heard blubbering incoherently about acolytes and mice, we are pleased to announce that, in recognition of his devotion to musical ignorance, boorish arrogance and inability to understand simple English, DZIADY1 has been voted winner of our coveted «GORMLESS IDIOT OF THE YEAR» award, 2012.

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… and I have not failed to notice that you still reply to me and are too cowardly to re-enter a musical discussion with zurich.geige. You haven’t even got the guts to put forward some sort of counter-argument.

Try telling him where he’s wrong about the Léonard arrangement, or about the Berlioz quotation (which you, not he, introduced). But give some musical arguments. He does – and it appears as easy to him as it is impossible for you.

Is seemingly being an idiot a studied pose with you ?
The Berlioz question was not answered ,it was danced around in a manner
that was thought as clever -but unfortunately not as clever as you might think . You are beyond understanding what someone may think
of you and your manny inane comments. No insults aimed at you , just observations .In reading the exchanges of geige,ulrich, tobach one cannot but notice how they reflect the superb story of the emperor and his new clothes .

Quite right. Editions based closely on the original (Rome c.1700) for violin & figured bass, continued to appear until the late 18th century. Léonard’s arrangement reflects a radical change of approach in the 19th century. Dolmetsch tries to give a practical edition, adding indications deemed „necessary» for interpretation as well as a continuo realisation suitable for piano. The Joachim/Chrysander is a scholarly text from which few 19th century musicians would actually be able to play.

Looking at the dates of those editions makes the «old» Joachim/Chrysander (almost exactly contemporary with the Dolmetsch) seem all the more remarkable.

It also makes dziady1’s simplistic view of musical history seem all the more grotesque.

contd. For most players of Léonard’s generation, 18th century editions would be largely unusable – precisely because you CAN’T play them „as written» : figured bass, few dynamics or phrase markings… So he prepared a score as Berlioz would have expected, with a fully written-out accompaniment (for piano), and extensive expression indications – all to be played „as written». In the event he went much further, making it (to use dziady1’s term) „his own».

Happy memories !

Pity the Szeryng/Corelli comments got bogged down with dziady’s habitual insults in place of discussion. What we hear goes far beyond dziady’s „dumb fiddler» routine. This is, of course, the 19th century arrangement (for violin & piano) by Hubert Léonard, a wonderful glimpse of how baroque music was seen 150 years ago, with its chromatic embellishments and cadenza… The score even proposes a „more effective» ending, which Szeryng & Dreyfus choose not to include ! contd.

Good try – but another failure.

Once again, I see you have abandoned any pretence at musical discussion (it never lasts long before you bring out the «ignorant» or «you are too stupid to understand»).

Zurich.geige certainly kept it simple ; but not simple enough for you. We’re still waiting for your answer to the Bach/Mozart question.

I know you’ll not answer. Perhaps you’ll spin some ludicrous story about your superior intelligence – but the truth is a plain as can be : you are incapable.

What’s all this talk about performance practice? – ornamentation, pitch, tuning… Does nobody care that dziady1 is having problems with mice? They distract him as he looks down from on high to poke fun at the ignorant.

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Of course, the only thing a true gentlemen can say to such a thing is HELL YEAH I LIKE IT!

me too, what should I rate it? I dunno wtf the ratings mean, lol.

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