So i was getting bored in the middle of the night, well if it was lester, he would say 'the night's still young XD'. Lol. but ok that's not the point.
Was browsing through youtube and listening to La Gazza Ladra Overture, Rossini's too, and it came to me... I have never listen to the full overture of Barber of Seville...only know the famous part~ played by the strings.
Which resulted in me coming across 2 videos. One is a live performance, but sadly not video of the musicians, just the music and some posters or something pasted up by the dude who uploaded the video. I think the other was a live performance too, since it looks like they were performing in an orchestral pit. which looks really small and crampy. ok point proven, it's a live performance too.
Here's video 1
And here's video 2
Video 1 is played by.. i don't know who so i can't give any credit huh. 2nd video's by Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart under the direction of Gabriele Ferro(seems pretty young). Basically we have an unknown orchestra vs a German orchestra.
What got my attention was when i first listened to Stuttgart's video(listened to it first actually!), the playing was very fine , very precise. Very neat,melody sound from the winds but somewhat something was lacking, and so i thought could it be... volume or something? i couldn't really find the word. It just sounds like something's missing, so i decided to get another video to compare~ and tadah i got us the unknown orchestra.
So the unknown orchestra, i like the playing more i guess? at least from the winds. The ensemble sound of the orchestra seems to be fuller as compared to the German orchestra, but ok, it could be due to that orchestra is bigger in size than the Stuttgart one, but i will give credit to Stuttgart that they are really neat and fluent. (both are in fact).
But here comes the question: Which would you prefer? A very neat sounding wind section but somewhat the intensity(ah ha, i found the word!) isn't there or rather not enough, while another wind section is that it's very intensified(more than the other one) but it sounds somewhat not as tidy.. perhaps more players or intonation wasn't as brilliant. So neat but not enough or enough but not too neat?
Which one's more desired?
Ps. For those who don't know, Rossini is an Italian composer who lived in the Romantic Period(1820+ - before 20th century), i can't remember the exact date -.- and i call myself a music student. lol. yeah so, he's very famous for this piece and la gazza ladra and williamtell overture. in case people are wondering about william tell overture, it's the piece they always associate with horse race, horse galloping etc. , so there. you got it. don't say you never listen to classical music in your whole life.
LIM CHEN HUNG CLEMENT
11th September 1990
Flute,Piccolo,Piano Riverside Concert Band
Sembawang Symphonic Winds
Sembawang Wind Orchestra Nanyang Junior College Symphonic Band
NAFA Diploma in Music Performance
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