ensemble360 (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ensemble360) wrote,@ 2008-02-21 20:29:00 |
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pre concert nerves
It is the day before our very first performance of 3 master pieces of the string quartet repertoire. Tomorrow we are playing Haydn Op76/3, Bartok 4 and Beethoven 59/2 in Barnsley, and the same programme at the crucible on Saturday. Preparing works like this is quite a mountain to clime I feel, and I keep thinking we need a lot more time and probably more wisdom and experience to be able to do them justice. But I guess every piece must have its first performance and you can't wait forever! And anyway I feel like this every time I go to perform a big piece for the first time. I should be used to it! I have to say there is nerves but there is also a huge amount of excitment. I know it will be tough,it demands deep concentration (a lot of counting in bartok!!!) and some phrases have to be played just right to have the desired effect. This little articulation, that small crescendo, feeling free enough for a little rubato but not too much or it will distort the tempo... and finding the right tempo...AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Well, so much for trying to stay calm...
Also it is a very physically demanding programme and because it is our first performance of it, we will probably be even more tense. But the music is so unbelievably amazing, every second of every movement of the three pieces is so perfectly written and has so much meaning... I feel very lucky and honored to be aloud to perform this music. And I am sure I will enjoy it, and I hope you will too! see you there...
xxx
Marie
It is the day before our very first performance of 3 master pieces of the string quartet repertoire. Tomorrow we are playing Haydn Op76/3, Bartok 4 and Beethoven 59/2 in Barnsley, and the same programme at the crucible on Saturday. Preparing works like this is quite a mountain to clime I feel, and I keep thinking we need a lot more time and probably more wisdom and experience to be able to do them justice. But I guess every piece must have its first performance and you can't wait forever! And anyway I feel like this every time I go to perform a big piece for the first time. I should be used to it! I have to say there is nerves but there is also a huge amount of excitment. I know it will be tough,it demands deep concentration (a lot of counting in bartok!!!) and some phrases have to be played just right to have the desired effect. This little articulation, that small crescendo, feeling free enough for a little rubato but not too much or it will distort the tempo... and finding the right tempo...AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Well, so much for trying to stay calm...
Also it is a very physically demanding programme and because it is our first performance of it, we will probably be even more tense. But the music is so unbelievably amazing, every second of every movement of the three pieces is so perfectly written and has so much meaning... I feel very lucky and honored to be aloud to perform this music. And I am sure I will enjoy it, and I hope you will too! see you there...
xxx
Marie
