Noo Blog
Well, if VMP3 is now being updated each day, I may as well keep this blog up to date. I'm going to keep it reasonably tight and music focused from now on, as I don't want to share my innermost thoughts with you on here. No offence, it's just I've seen it happen, and it's not pretty! Also, it's impossible to know exactly who is reading the site. Strictly journalistic, this column, then.
Having said that, I'm going to make sure there's a proper messageboard on the site by September, so that ViolinMP3.com really becomes a community where we can exchange ideas between all of you and all of the Hesse Ensemble performers, and have all those long philosophical conversations that you never knew you wanted.
Anyways... I've just downloaded (i.e. paid 79p for) Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of Paganini Caprice No.24 from iTunes, and am beginning to wish I hadn't. It's the theme tune for one of the major arts TV programmes over here, and the last 20 seconds of it (as used on TV) are very compelling. Unfortunately, there are another 3 minutes that aren't. Mind you, I'm got cheap scandanavian pop music on in the background and am really quite enjoying it, so what do you know.
Tomorrow is the first of two days recording a John Taverner choral piece for Naxos. Many long (beautiful) notes repeated over and over for a very long time at a very low volume. Ooh, talk about bow control. I've been doing some calculations on radio play royalties, and I think Taverner must be the most note-efficient composer around, if you see what I mean. No I DIDN'T mutter copy and paste. I won't be cynical though, as his cadencing is to die for. Yep, cadence has finally become a verb.
Having said that, I'm going to make sure there's a proper messageboard on the site by September, so that ViolinMP3.com really becomes a community where we can exchange ideas between all of you and all of the Hesse Ensemble performers, and have all those long philosophical conversations that you never knew you wanted.
Anyways... I've just downloaded (i.e. paid 79p for) Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of Paganini Caprice No.24 from iTunes, and am beginning to wish I hadn't. It's the theme tune for one of the major arts TV programmes over here, and the last 20 seconds of it (as used on TV) are very compelling. Unfortunately, there are another 3 minutes that aren't. Mind you, I'm got cheap scandanavian pop music on in the background and am really quite enjoying it, so what do you know.
Tomorrow is the first of two days recording a John Taverner choral piece for Naxos. Many long (beautiful) notes repeated over and over for a very long time at a very low volume. Ooh, talk about bow control. I've been doing some calculations on radio play royalties, and I think Taverner must be the most note-efficient composer around, if you see what I mean. No I DIDN'T mutter copy and paste. I won't be cynical though, as his cadencing is to die for. Yep, cadence has finally become a verb.
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