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In the interests of preserving peace and harmony. . .

Posted by Chris from Lafayette (A) on March 21, 2011 at 09:44:11

In Reply to: RE: My favorite HIP recording of all time posted by Travis on March 20, 2011 at 19:04:26:

. . . I'll refrain from saying anything more about Ms. Kirkby. :-)

"Does one use no vibrato as an expressive device or does one use vibrato as an expressive device? Or, is it vibrato all or most of the time? Unconfuse me."
Listen to the recording I recommended above and see for yourself - there is something fundamentally different about the quality of sound in that recording which, to me, differs from subsequent HIP recordings, even though, as you say, the performers on those later recordings might deign to use just a touch of vibrato every now and then. Sure, it's an expressive device, but as we've discussed before, no one uses it all the time - it's impossible!

"Must we have heart-on-sleeve all the time or can we have different styles to fit different music?"
Even though I like your rhetoric, I think you know very well that the use of vibrato does not automatically make a performance heart-on-sleeve, and that vibrato is not the sole differentiator of style within a musical performance. My question remains, what changed in HIP orthodoxy from the time of the release of the Collegium Terpsichore DG Archiv disc and the release of recordings from subsequent HIP ensembles? The gist of my post was that here is a HIP disc that I actually like - and the reason I like it is because it has a fundamentally different quality of sound to it, despite the use of period instruments or reproductions thereof. I highly recommend this recording to you and others - that was the reason for my post.

"As a piano player with no vibrato, how do you feel about that?"
I do admit there's a cognitive dissonance here! :-) Interestingly enough, there are works, such as the Balakirev Piano Sonata, where the composer marks, "Vibrato" in the score. So you see, even as pianists, we WISH we could have vibrato! :-)

"Clarinet players must drive you crazy."
Well, sometimes, they can get to be pretty piercing! :-) Even so, I've certainly heard clarinets played with vibrato. I think some of the Czech Philharmonic recordings from the 50's featured clarinet solos with a quite noticeable vibrato.

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