Joshua, you just keep getting better and better and adding more new things to your repertoire. I was very impressed with the Haydn. What a lovely solo you have in the first movement, and your violin is so very special, it can be heard over all the string section. Don't know if there were mics out of sight, but the sound you get from that Strad is spectacular. What bow work! Ususally I am especially impressed with your fingering, but this time the bow just flew. You used no sheet music. I believe I read once that you were afraid you'd have to go to sheet music in the near future, that it is hard to pound new pieces into your 40-year-old brain, but apparently it's not impossible. The second movement is lovely, but you were so tired already that you were mouth-breathing, poor man. I also liked the third movement, fast but different from the first. Forgive me if I bowed out while you played for Angelika. Can't take those sopranos. But what a talent you have, Josh. Someday you'll make a fine conductor if you decide to pick up the baton. Right now, you're not doing badly with your violin in hand. Congrats. The reviews must have been very nice.
Haydn Violin Concerto in C
Joshua, you just keep getting better and better and adding more new things to your repertoire. I was very impressed with the Haydn. What a lovely solo you have in the first movement, and your violin is so very special, it can be heard over all the string section. Don't know if there were mics out of sight, but the sound you get from that Strad is spectacular. What bow work! Ususally I am especially impressed with your fingering, but this time the bow just flew. You used no sheet music. I believe I read once that you were afraid you'd have to go to sheet music in the near future, that it is hard to pound new pieces into your 40-year-old brain, but apparently it's not impossible. The second movement is lovely, but you were so tired already that you were mouth-breathing, poor man. I also liked the third movement, fast but different from the first. Forgive me if I bowed out while you played for Angelika. Can't take those sopranos. But what a talent you have, Josh. Someday you'll make a fine conductor if you decide to pick up the baton. Right now, you're not doing badly with your violin in hand. Congrats. The reviews must have been very nice.