HI Michael, Thanks for the greeting. I'm a low-intermediate classical guitar player and am working my way through the basic repertoire of easier Bach pieces...
Stone, Dan
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Mar 6, 2000 8:38 pm
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Gret Dan. If you ever feel like discussing aspects relating to the music or classical guitar technique, fire away. Cheers. Michael Stitt ... ...
michael stitt
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Mar 7, 2000 2:42 am
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I lost the post that brought up this subject, and so cannot cite it. Recent scholarship has developed a question about the exact purpose of the notation in the...
William D. Tallman
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Mar 13, 2000 7:14 am
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Dear William, The issue of playing rests appears not have been consistently addressed if you consider the many recordings undertaken by guitarist and lutenist ...
michael stitt
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Mar 13, 2000 8:01 am
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Dear Tim, Thank you very much for writing this. The motivation for asking this question was on the basis of how one might treat the Prelude to the Suonata....
michael stitt
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Mar 13, 2000 7:07 pm
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Tim, When will you put you paper on the net? Please advise all ASAP. I will indeed check the London MS for Weiss's had written directions directions as...
michael stitt
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Mar 13, 2000 7:47 pm
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Dear Bach lovers, I have recently updated Bach Plucked! J.S.Bach on the lute & guitar web site: to include some of major plucker innovators and fine...
michael stitt
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Mar 19, 2000 12:36 am
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I have recently updated the recordings page of the Bach Plucked! web site. Please enjoy. http://bachplucked.com Any comments or suggestions welcome. ===== ...
michael stitt
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Mar 21, 2000 9:21 am
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I have just finished listening to the new recording of the first three Bach cello suites by Pascal Montheilhet on a theorbo. He has made his own arrangements...
Kirk McElhearn
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Mar 21, 2000 8:36 pm
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Dear Kirk, I have only heard good reports of the Pascal Montheilhet recording, and waiting to acquire review copy of the Hopkinson Smith Sonatas and partitas....
michael stitt
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Mar 21, 2000 9:25 pm
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Dear all, I recently bought the new Paul Galbraith Lute Suites as played on his 8-string guitar (released late February). Overall, the disk is excellent, with...
Maryann Schuchman
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Mar 22, 2000 12:40 am
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Happy 315th Birthday Bach. All lute (& guitar) Bach birthday today!!! PLAY PLAY PLAY.... ===== Michael Stitt Australischer Lautenspieler ...
michael stitt
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Mar 22, 2000 1:23 am
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Geez.......I guess I should check my email more often My name is Daniel. I'm 32 and I started playing the guitar at 12 years old. I'm from Texas and have lived...
Daniel Aaron
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Mar 22, 2000 6:49 pm
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Hello all: This sound fine, Kirk, please, can you give us the reference of this CD? Best regards. Juan Carlos Ayala Ruiz Málaga. España. Mi página web...
Juan Carlos Ayala Ruiz
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Mar 22, 2000 8:27 pm
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... This is the ultimate moment of reaching a kind of spiritual enlightenment, and indeed, an enormously enriching part of life. Many thanks for your...
michael stitt
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Mar 22, 2000 10:25 pm
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BP! has agreed on a mutual linkage with HopkinsonSmith.com: http://bachplucked.com/blinks.htm If you are not familar with Hopkinson Smith's name, you are...
michael stitt
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Mar 23, 2000 3:28 am
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On 21/03/00 23:02, Juan Carlos Ayala Ruiz jcayala@... is reported ... It's on Virgin. Kirk vice | versa Translations from French to English, English to...
Kirk McElhearn
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Mar 23, 2000 8:29 am
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... My name is Bruno Droux, from France. I'm 38 and I started the piano at 4 1/2 (I don't play piano anymore), the guitar at nine (I still play guitar), but ...
Bruno Droux
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Mar 28, 2000 11:31 pm
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... This is a most perceptive comment and one which I wrote extensively on the bach_plucked mailing list last year. Just HOW do we lutenists and guitarists ...
michael stitt
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Apr 2, 2000 9:12 am
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... May I assume that Galbraith's treatment of BWV1001/6 is a matter of some discussion in these regards? I play these on guitar straight from the violin...
William D. Tallman
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Apr 2, 2000 10:54 am
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I must chime in here to point out Manuel Barrueco's transcriptions of BWV 1004 on his 1st Bach disc, & the more recent disc of Bach sonatas, as I believe he's...
D-KDay@...
Apr 2, 2000 2:18 pm
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Dear William, Actually, for some reason, I find Paul's recording quite satisfying. As you may be aware, he has transcribed the 2nd Partita from d moll to e...
michael stitt
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Apr 3, 2000 3:57 am
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... Somehow that transcription feels like desecration, but.... and his tempo is excruciatingly slow..... argh! The presentation of the entire solo violin...
William D. Tallman
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Apr 3, 2000 4:57 am
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Dear William, Interesting how tastes vary with issues of interpetations of music. I actually like the tempi that Paul interprets the 2nd Partita, in...
michael stitt
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Apr 3, 2000 6:33 am
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Stanley Yate's long awaited Bach cello works on classical guitar CD Vol.1 has just arrived today. I have had one session listening to it and loved it ...
michael stitt
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Apr 3, 2000 8:10 am
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... This is a good question: what is the dance tempo of a chaconne? It started out, apparently, in Latin America. First noted there at the end of the 16th...
William D. Tallman
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Apr 3, 2000 8:24 am
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... I like his slow tempo in Chaconne as well. It is one of my favorite Chaconne playing on any instruments. I think slow tempo and rich lower base notes in ...
Shuzo Yoshihara
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Apr 11, 2000 1:19 am
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Dear Shuzo, Many thanks for this. Yes I must confess I now prefer the more stately tempi of the Chaconne, but also appreciate the freedom to increase the pace...
michael stitt
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Apr 11, 2000 4:38 am
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... Can you say a little bit more about the last sentence (virtuosity at the cost of the musical expression)? I think playing some of those 32nd notes phrases...
Shuzo Yoshihara
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Apr 12, 2000 5:23 am
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... Having had my say on all this, I'll limit myself to brief comments. The last run on the Chaconne is one of those characteristic legato phrases that the...
