Happy Easter, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 04/12/2020 at 14:12 • Filed to: happy easter

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What better way to celebrate Easter than with the music of JS Bach? Here is a fantastic performance of his Easter Oratorio, Kommt, eilet und laufet ( BWV 249),  by the Netherlands Bach Society.

The group is playing period instruments, which means they are either actual 300 year old instruments, or they are playing reproductions of those instruments. The trumpets are natural trumpets, meaning they have no valves like a modern trumpet. If you want to know more about them, click !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .

Happy Easter, everybody.

ClassicDatsunDebate > ttyymmnn 04/12/2020 at 14:28

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Happy Easter!

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > ttyymmnn 04/12/2020 at 14:54

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bach in d mino r :D

Nom De Plume > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 04/12/2020 at 15:29

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You should hear what orchestras are doing to pop and underground music these days.  

Nom De Plume > ttyymmnn 04/12/2020 at 15:34

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HIP Bach, yep I knew you posted that one without scrolling back up.

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > ttyymmnn 04/12/2020 at 17:33

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I always wondered - are trills on a natural trumpet as hard as one would think?

ttyymmnn > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 04/12/2020 at 18:27

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Not necessarily. While the instrument is very long (about 8 feet total), it is played in a very high register, where the partials, or notes, are very close together. So switching between them is not terribly difficult, though you have to  work very hard to listen and play the correct pitch. Like any skill, it becomes easier with practice. Lip trills are still very much part of the idiom on modern instruments, but more often found in jazz. 

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > ttyymmnn 04/12/2020 at 20:52

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Kinda what I thougth, but I’ve never been able to make a sound on a brass instrument at all.  I’ll just stick to violin, I’m sure you’d find it equally confounding.

ttyymmnn > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 04/12/2020 at 21:08

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If I had gotten an education degree instead three performance degrees, I would have had to take classes and become minimally proficient on all the instruments. As it is, I taught two semesters of a brass methods class, so I had to become minimally proficient on trumpet, horn, trombone, and tuba, but that’s the extend of my excursions outside my own instrument. I have a lot of respect for good string players, particularly the ones who know how to put their fingers in the right place on the fingerboard.