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1. 
   RN

   Contrast with Perlman, who thought he played every note:

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   May 12, 2011 2:44 pm
2. 
   MarK

   Very good, but the bowing is of course greatly simplified.
   This one – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHPdXZjF460&feature=fvst – uses original bowing.
   The tempo may be a bit too fast but i prefer to think that it is our ears that are too slow.

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   May 12, 2011 3:26 pm
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     tmangan

     Is the bowing in the Perlman or the Milstein simplified, MarK? And if so, why, exactly? And does it change how the piece sounds?

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     May 12, 2011 3:35 pm
3. 
   MarK

   Both Nathan and Itzhak (if he plays it the way he showed in the above video) play simple spiccato or sautille – one note per bow. Original bowing uses ricochet stroke in both directions. It starts: 3+1+3+1+4+4 – and then continues with different but similar combinations of that same pattern. This may be a little bit less tiring for the right arm but playing that way makes it much harder to maintain anything remotely resembling evenness of rhythm and volume for every note. What Ruggiero Ricci could do while using that bowing is practically superhuman.

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   May 12, 2011 3:54 pm
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     tmangan

     I was just listening to Ricci’s 1950 recording of the Caprices the other day. Amazing and astonishing and superb and anything else you can think of.

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     May 12, 2011 5:05 pm
4. 
   RN

   I remember fondly Master Classes Mr. Ricci gave several years ago under the auspices of the Heifetz Society. At one event in Whittier College, he played the Wieniawski Scherzo-Tarantelle backwards. He sais that decades ago, he got the motor on a record player to go in reverse and learned it that way.

   Lindsay Deutsch, one of the pupils at the Whittier class is making a good name as a soloist.

   Good times, good times…

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   May 12, 2011 6:08 pm

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