Got mine today. Listened to the first Sonata and Partita so far. May not have time for the other Sonata today. Loving it, and like you, been waiting a long time for this recording.
Listened to it this morning while out for a walk and was really impressed. I'm sure it will get better everytime I revisit it.
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Just listened to a bit of Lichtenberg and Avitel to keep my balance. Great, great stuff. And so is this. Really can't wait for the concert in October now. Great sound work on the recording as well by Meyer. Digging the liner note fountain photo too.
An official welcome to another new world for Thile and his Annabelle Lee. I should probably go see he and Daves play in the Blue Ridge Mountains on the Saturday before the Tuesday Bach concert in Evanston. That would make for a total mind blow.
(The Café has this elsewhere, but ....)
I saw Homer & Jethro once. This mandolin therapy isn't helping me get over it.
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Got it! (and the signed artwork!!)
Can't wait to see this live in the fall.
Collings MF
Okay.....track 8....double:presto.....my brain just melted.
Collings MF
Out of curiosity - just how many of you would have bought a Bach Sonatas + Partitas album if Mr Thile had not been involved?
Or even, how many would have bought a Bach Sonatas + Partitas album if it was not played on mandolin?
Actually I originally purchased the violin version of all 6 suites by Hungarian violinist Andre Kiss to help learn them
recently I purchased Sonatas and Partitas on solo mandolin by Shmuel Elbaz- and found I wasn't that far off on the ones I had been studying ( mostly Sonata #4)
was originally inspired by Mike Marshall's solo interpretations of various sonatas from various recordings
so YES
I haven't got a hold of Thile's recording - I think he is doing a solo performance at the college of St Rose in Albany in fall- might check that out.
I don't own any Bach violin or mandolin except for this. I did however get a musical education in a respected university School of Music that included a fair amount of baroque sans any mention of mandolin. Thank God for Bill Monroe and Jethro. I'm thinking this cuts both ways and a few more classical "long hairs' will be tempted to broaden their horizons as well.
I saw Homer & Jethro once. This mandolin therapy isn't helping me get over it.
'04 Andersen A (for keeps)
Amateur Gibson F copy (for travel)
Santa Rosa student model A (for the neighbor kids)
"The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations, and often lose themselves in error and darkness!"
--Leslie Daniel, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."
Some tunes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa1...SV2qtug/videos
I already own 4 or 5 different versions of the Sonatas and Partitas, so this is just one more, albeit with a bit more excitement than usual.
I'm with you on the Beethoven. It's some of my all time favorite music, but I honestly don't know that even if you could, that it would work on a group of mandolin family instruments. I'd love to be proved wrong one day, if someone is crazy enough to try it!
I already own a fiddle version too. I wouldn't buy any of the other mandolin versions because I really don't enjoy the tone of the mandolinists on any of them. I mean, they play wonderfully, but sound like they're picking a Big Muddy or something, it's crazy (Nothing against Big Muddy mandolins here, I just mean it doesn't seem appropriate for the level and style of the performance to my poor ears). But Chris sounds great, so I will be forking over the cash for this.
I probably would not have purchased the sonatas and partitas although I did purchase the Cello Suites by Yo Yo Ma after I saw Master and Commander.
I also probably would have never bought a mandolin had I not heard "Can't Stop Now" while I was on hold with a guitar shop. I heard Sam Bush bought the New Grass Revival hits CD and that put me on the path I'm on now.
I have purchased more than one recording of these pieces on violin. Heard a few movements here and there on other instruments as well. But I'm a Bach lover, especially of his chamber music.
Also, Beethoven's sonatina for mandolin is an insult to our instrument in my opinion (might be exaggerating a bit...but still, quite lame).
Interesting questions. I listened to the 1970 Jascha Heifetz recording of Bach's unaccompanied Chaconne from the Partita No. 2 in D minor, from my dad's record collection and much, much later, I purchased a double-CD of Bach sonatas and partitas on the violin. I never got the nerve to try Bach on my violin.
I am going to look for Thile's recording. When I first started my mandolin lessons, I showed a book of classical music to my teacher, and she directed me to YouTube to hear how these should/could sound. The first one I found was Chris Thile at the Grey Fox in 2011, playing Gigue from Bach's D minor Partita, and my jaw dropped. I want to hear more Bach... And, I'm finally trying it on my mandolin. Slowly... very slowly.
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Just for fun......anyone know for certain which Feb. 18th Loar Thile played on this Bach recording?
My guess is the "new" one #75318 (which he acquired from Mandolin Brothers late Sept./early October of 2012 after winning the "genius grant") Again, that's my guess based on two things....one, the fact that he was probably very inspired by his recent purchase. (He bought it in the fall and his Bach S&P vol. 1 was recorded in January 2013....giving him enough time for it to be worked on and set-up to his liking. And two: his "first" Loar #75316 definitely has a silver tailpiece cover and inside the new Bach album liner notes there is the "fountain" picture and it appears the "new" Loar could have a gold tailpiece...not quite sure though as it could just be the light hitting it.
Collings MF
OK, just searched and found the original Mandolin Brothers ad for Loar #75318 and at least in those photos it had a silver tailpiece cover.....so it must have just been the way the light was reflected in the fountain photo.
Collings MF
I think the offer stated that the first 500 (or some such number) would be signed. So, both you and me stand at 501 and beyond, methinks.Can someone explain where the signature is?
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