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RichardTarleton
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« Reply #15 on: 21:29:21, 24-08-2008 »
Went to spine-tingling duo recital by Perlman and Zuckerman in RFH in 1973. They played an encore by Leclair, can't remember what. Did they ever make a record together? Probably not PC these days, too much vibrato. Sad
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« Reply #16 on: 22:02:05, 24-08-2008 »
Leclair's sonatas for two violins are very attractive I think. So are his violin concertos (like Vivaldi with a French accent and less primary-coloured).  I'm not sure I'd want to hear Messrs Zuckerman and Perlman play them though. It's not so much the vibrato as the whole instrument (and the bow) that seriously compromises the delicacy of music like that.

Errr... there's no Leclair in this concert is there? Shame.
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« Reply #17 on: 00:22:49, 25-08-2008 »
Quote from: richard barrett on 22:02:05, 24-08-2008
Errr... there's no Leclair in this concert is there? Shame.

According to the BBC website there's no Leclair. But the group, Les Talens Lyriques, claim on their website, to be playing him. Who to believe?

 Cheesy
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« Reply #18 on: 00:33:28, 25-08-2008 »
From the Police file on Leclair's murder (October 22nd, 1764):

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He was lying on his back on the floor of the vestibule in front of the staircase, with his bare head resting against the door leading to the cellar. He was dressed in ordinary street attire - gray jacket, a vest, two shirts (one heavy and decorated and the other of mousseline), trousers, black woolen stockings, and shoes with copper buckles. His shirts and camisole were stained with blood; he had been stabbed three times by a pointed instrument - above the left nipple, in the lower stomach on the right side, and in the middle of his chest.

Albert Borowitz - Finale Marked Presto: The Killing Of Leclair [Legal Studies Forum Volume 29, Number 2 (2005)]

No one knows why Leclair, a wealthy man by that stage, left his wife and went to live, apparently alone, in a poor area of Paris. The murderer was never caught. If any film-makers read this: get your act together and make the film. You could even use the "Jean-Marie Leclair" Stradivarius (currently on loan to Guido Rimonda) in the sound track.
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« Reply #19 on: 00:43:00, 26-08-2008 »
(early heads-up for a chamber music concert 12 Dec in Norf Lunnon that will open with one of Leclair's violin duos)

Books 3 and 4 of Leclair's solo violin sonatas are very difficult and very beautiful (maybe a tad repetitious if you do all the repeats).  They come as quite a shock after books 1 and 2, which focus more on French style than on violin technique and can be played on flute instead.

I wish I had more opportunities to play French baroque music.  The best of it is ravishing.

(But I do like Vivaldi too...)
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« Reply #20 on: 08:59:08, 26-08-2008 »
Strina, where in Norf Lunnun is it?
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« Reply #21 on: 10:46:54, 26-08-2008 »
I'll post more details closer to the date (don't want to emulate Selfridges in preparing for things December while it's still - nominally - summer), but it'll be just down the road from you in Lauderdale House.
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« Reply #22 on: 10:49:41, 26-08-2008 »
Great!  Should just about make it if I  go and wait for the 143 now then Grin
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« Reply #23 on: 10:51:35, 26-08-2008 »
Crosses out 'Norf Lunnon' in Diary and inserts 'Lauderdale House' Cheesy.

Just googled it. Gosh! I've never been there. I hope there's a tradesman's entrance or something. I get a bit nervous crunching up gravel drives to porticos like that.

[On further investigation: Maybe it's not as alarming as it first looks. Anything that can put on 'Hiccup the Hippopotamus' one day and Leclair the next is my kinda venue.]
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« Reply #24 on: 11:51:04, 26-08-2008 »
For anyone new to Leclair, here he is, plus an extract from his Violin Concerto Op7 No 2 in E Major (Adagio-Allegro). His concertos tend to be very Italianate, while the first two books of violin/flute sonatas are more mixed.




http://www.brightcecilia.com/Music/leclair/op7no2-1a.mp3
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« Reply #25 on: 12:05:22, 26-08-2008 »
Thanks for the introduction, Philidor. I like. I like very much!
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« Reply #26 on: 15:30:07, 26-08-2008 »
This discussion has prompted me to re-listen to Leclair's only opera, Scylla et Glaucus. Despite my enthusiasm for the French Baroque, Leclair is a composer I've spent very little time with. Scylla is the only work that I actually own a recording of Sad. I'm always amazed by the variety in this music. Many parts could be straight out of the air de cour repertoire, while other sections sound more typically like post-Lully French opera. I put this opera right up there with Marais' Alcyone in terms of 'weirdness of listening experience'.
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« Reply #27 on: 15:59:22, 26-08-2008 »
Quote from: Philidor on 11:51:04, 26-08-2008

Ah! It is he we blame for our having come to Lekeu so late, after confusing their names and thinking the latter the former.
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« Reply #28 on: 19:01:04, 26-08-2008 »
Quote from: Robert Dahm on 15:30:07, 26-08-2008
I put this opera right up there with Marais' Alcyone in terms of 'weirdness of listening experience'.

Leclair is weird. Maybe that's why someone bumped him off (a further reason why his murder could make a good film - the high baroque detective would have trouble on motive). Single violin sonatas swing from French drooping and chirruping, to Vivaldi-type pyrotechnics, to highly complex Bach harmonies and sailing continuo lines.
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