Candid phone conversation with violinist, Andrew Manze who talks about his entry into playing Baroque music from studying the Classics. He also discusses techniques, influences and how musicians interpret their own or other's music.
Quite different from violinists I've heard interviews with over the years, Manze is very articulate and open to different styles of music without being full of himself. He mentions the great Stephane Grappelli of the legendary "Hot Club of France" with Django Reinhardt, well known, among others, for his improvisational techniques. Manze too, as the conversation reveals, likes to improvise select passages during his performances.
Unfortunately, the piece doesn't give the listener a taste of his playing style. An excerpt or two of music would have been great.
Wondering how early music performance changed from what I tend to describe as 'preserved in a bell jar' to lively and engaging? Some clues in this interview. Andrew Manze is an articulate proponent that the players may ornament early music just as jazz musicians improvise. There will be no doubt in any mind that hearing a Manze performance will be fun.
Andrew Manze is the English rock star Baroque violinist who's packing concert halls all over the world with his 1783 Joseph Gagliano violin. He's starting a US tour in late October/early November 2004 which is a news hook for this interview. Curiously it doesn't contain any music though the first track ends with a preview of a Vivaldi piece. A worthwhile introduction to the man who's been called "the wild child of the violin."
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Emon Hassan
Posted on May 01, 2005 at 11:01 AM | Permalink
Review of Andrew Manze, British Violinist Interviews
Candid phone conversation with violinist, Andrew Manze who talks about his entry into playing Baroque music from studying the Classics. He also discusses techniques, influences and how musicians interpret their own or other's music.
Quite different from violinists I've heard interviews with over the years, Manze is very articulate and open to different styles of music without being full of himself. He mentions the great Stephane Grappelli of the legendary "Hot Club of France" with Django Reinhardt, well known, among others, for his improvisational techniques. Manze too, as the conversation reveals, likes to improvise select passages during his performances.
Unfortunately, the piece doesn't give the listener a taste of his playing style. An excerpt or two of music would have been great.
Michael White
Posted on November 12, 2004 at 06:03 AM | Permalink
Review of Andrew Manze, British Violinist Interviews
Wondering how early music performance changed from what I tend to describe as 'preserved in a bell jar' to lively and engaging? Some clues in this interview. Andrew Manze is an articulate proponent that the players may ornament early music just as jazz musicians improvise. There will be no doubt in any mind that hearing a Manze performance will be fun.
Mary McGrath
Posted on October 27, 2004 at 10:04 AM | Permalink
Review of Andrew Manze, British Violinist Interviews
Andrew Manze is the English rock star Baroque violinist who's packing concert halls all over the world with his 1783 Joseph Gagliano violin. He's starting a US tour in late October/early November 2004 which is a news hook for this interview. Curiously it doesn't contain any music though the first track ends with a preview of a Vivaldi piece. A worthwhile introduction to the man who's been called "the wild child of the violin."