{"id":1186,"date":"2020-10-07T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2020-10-07T07:39:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T13:39:58","slug":"chamber-music-of-secrets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/2020\/10\/07\/chamber-music-of-secrets-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamber Music of Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>\u201cChamber Music\u2014 a conversation between friends.\u201d \u2013Catherine Drinker Bowen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_6746-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_6746-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_6746.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption>I love my String Quartet<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the advantages to being a professional violinist is its variety! I love to learn new material, explore multiple genres, and uncover old gems from centuries past. I enjoy playing in a variety of capacities, whether as a soloist or as a member of small ensembles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have especially enjoyed immersing myself in the world of chamber music. It&#8217;s such a fun medium, as it provides an intimate setting in which performers can engage in \u201cmusical conversations.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few years ago, I had the chance to perform a chamber concert with a colleague of mine that featured several violin and cello duets. We performed music by the lesser-known Russian composer Reinhold Gli\u00e8re (1874-1956). In his work <em>Huit Morceaux pour violon et violoncelle<\/em>, Op. 39, the first movement reflects the provocative harmonies of the turn of the twentieth century. The cello sings the doleful melody while the violin plays an accompanimental role. However, the second movement stands in sharp contrast to the first, as this \u201cGavotte\u201d sounds much more Baroque in style. The third movement, \u201cBerceuse\u201d is a sweet lullaby, evoking a soft quality by the instrumentalists\u2019 use of mutes. The \u201cCanzonetta\u201d picks up the tempo, with the violin carrying the melody over the cellist\u2019s broken arpeggios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gli\u00e8re Chamber Music \ud83c\udfb5 - Violin &amp; Cello Duets\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FAC8dejdfK0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked my colleagues what were some of their favorite chamber works. They mentioned <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iA8_SIe9hjE\" target=\"_blank\">Brahm\u2019s Horn Trio in Eb Major, Op. 40 (1865)<\/a>, a fun work for violin, piano, and natural horn, as well as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tby5aMrMu6Q&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">Shostakovich\u2019s famous String Quartet No. 8 (1960)<\/a>, which secretly depicted his struggle against the Communist Party. Shubert\u2019s famous quartet <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8fXYjSmR6Bw&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">Death and the Maiden (1824)<\/a> shows the composer&#8217;s struggle against death. I&#8217;ve performed many of these over the course of my musical career, and I wholeheartedly agree. I love that composers  use chamber music to communicate their own life struggles and experiences with the performers. We, in turn, have the privilege of helping keep their legacies alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Stay tuned<\/em> for more chamber music featuring Beethoven for his 250th birthday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChamber Music\u2014 a conversation between friends.\u201d \u2013Catherine Drinker Bowen<\/p>\n<p>I love to learn new material, explore multiple genres, and uncover old gems from centuries past. I enjoy playing in a variety of capacities, whether as a soloist or as a member of small ensembles.<\/p>\n<p>I have especially enjoyed immersing myself in the world of chamber music. It&#8217;s such a fun medium, as it provides an intimate setting in which performers can engage in \u201cmusical conversations.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[127,27],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-history","tag-chamber-music","tag-composers"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"de","enabled_languages":["en","es","fr","de","it","br"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"de":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"it":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"br":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rescotcreative.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}