Uccellini - Sonatas / Romanesca - Manze · North · Toll

Uccellini - Sonatas / Romanesca - Manze · North · Toll

Uccellini - Sonatas / Romanesca - Manze · North · Toll
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1999-05-11
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Soundtracks:
  1. Sonata over Toccata V, op. IV (Marco Uccellini)
  2. Sonata IX, Op. V
  3. Sonata II, Op. IV
  4. Sonata XII, Op. V
  5. Corrente IX, Op. IV
  6. Area III, Op. IV
  7. Sonata IV, Op. V
  8. Sonata III, Op. V
  9. Corrente IV, Op. IV
  10. Area IX, Op. IV
  11. Sonata I, Op. VII
  12. Aria II, Op. IV
  13. Corrente XX, Op. IV
  14. Sonata IX, Op. VII
  15. Sonata III, Op. VII
  16. Sonata I, Op. IX

Music reviews of Uccellini - Sonatas / Romanesca - Manze · North · Toll

Music Review: Academic Performance
Rating: 1 Stars

Marco Uccellini is one of several obscure Italian composers who were primarily away from their native country composing for foreign courts and patrons during the early to mid-17th Century: Pandolfi and Matteis are some of the others. Andrew Manze is also one of the leading musicians in exploring previously unknown composers from the Early Baroque period. Although Uccellini is a very innovative composer with beautiful solo violin works, as I expected, Manze's shortcomings as an actual performer made the compositions themselves on this album mediocre in terms of their final execution compared to those of Nicholas McGegan and the Arcadian Group.

Manze is at it again as with every piece he performs for the Italian style that has absolutely no passion of any sort in his intepretations. They are lifeless robotic excercises and nothing more! Manze is principally an academic performer instead of a professional one and his performances sound like scale and technique lessons instead of the passionate interpretations they are supposed to be. I can't stand them as it really only appeals to violinists who need to practice the techniques that are painfully overemphasized ad nauseam in recordings such as this one! This sluggish screeching resulting from his over-methodical applications of technique sounds like a set of nails scratching the chalkboard every time. It's self-defeating really as such over-methodical performances make him sound like nothing more than an amateur compared to McGegan who essentially uses the same techniques and type of instrument but who evokes a jovialty and warmth from them that Menze struggles to reach at best. Manze's performaces are uniformly tedious beyond belief making me want to eject instantly every time I hear one! In terms of professional performance cirlces Manze is really but an amateur as these problems have surfaced before and not just with McGegan. Compare Manze/Romanesca and Goebels/Musica Antiqua Koln for Biber's 'Mystery Sonatas' where Manze's deficiencies are again shamefully exposed. Although both he and Goebels use traditional intruments and techniques as here with McGegan, Goebels' fluid and emotive interpretation again leaves Manze sounding stuck in the mud of his own confused renditions. There's so much emphasis on historical technique with Manze it's no longer a Baroque interpretation but a literally prehistoric one instead! To listeners who care about their ears, I tell you, avoid Manze like the plague whenever possible! Run! He knows great techniques but simply doesn't know how to properly apply them for public performance and that's a fact. In short, he simply stinks as a public performer and, despite all his technical knowledge, he is ironically one of the worst solo violinists you can get for virtually anything you might want to buy!

Uccellini is one of the more creative Italian composers from the Early Baroque and McGegan's performance is a much better example of his charm and Italian warmth than this musical mausoleum of an album. I have great respect for Manze as an innovative musicologist-violinist exploring these obscure Baroque works and the difficult techniques they demand but he is simply pathetic as a performer and that's the simple truth! He focuses so much on techniques that he limits his ability to express the lyricism they are intended to evoke in the first place. Avoid this album and get McGegan's performance as it's immesurably better than Manze's. Avoid Manze whenever possible as he's more an academic than a public performer and, unless you want excellent violin lessons for practice, he's not really worth a dime as a performer. I wish to add that that is only my opinion of Manze and not the other fine performers of Romanesca who are very talented and unfortunately somewhat reduced by their lead.
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