Elia Bastida was very inspiring yesterday. I really love her pedagogy around the bouncing bow, beautifully visualized in her scores with the attack–bouncing signs. On one hand, it offers a different way to use the bow rhythmically and with clear counting — very similar to continuous bowing. On the other hand, it connects beautifully to the attacks we already practise with the first finger to create those counter-accents. This also appears in classical music — the attacks, the “talking bow,” in the Mozart orchestra Camerata where I played in the past — and of course in our opera orchestra, as well as in contemporary music, where attaques and releases are naturally always part of the interpretation. In Baroque repertoire, the bow is released after the initial attack. The approaches differ, but the points of connection are unmistakable. And the specific, intentional use of that attack–spring–bounce to imitate horn players is brilliant. In the end, we arrive at the same conclusion: when you listen and imitate intensely — here, the horn players — you naturally fall into the right stylistic language, and then it’s up to us to translate that into the appropriate violin technique. And this technique once again sheds new light on how we can approach and achieve an authentic jazz sound. Thanks for your contribution, Elia! And thanks to Eva for organizing everything 🌞

Hi Eva, interesting, but for me it really depends on which style you want to hear:authentic baroque on gut strings, the old masters with a more romantic approach, or modern violinists on contemporary instruments but with strong baroque awareness. I made a list in 3 categories and my favorite players :-) 1) Baroque / Historically Informed (HIP) (gut strings, baroque violin and baroque bow) Sigiswald Kuijken — our Belgian pioneer (here tuning A=392)https://youtu.be/dbydqLxnCdE?si=1dKxkyrHM7biaPEQ Amandine Beyer — I think you will really love her playing ( here tuning A=415)https://youtu.be/E7YzaW0PiRE?si=wKgeEBAeraJl-Cm0 Théotime Langlois de Swarte — a violinist who grooves in baroque, I love his playing, something you will enjoy a lot as well I think (A=415)https://youtu.be/8kFB6VsdvhA?si=by_fSFbpETVtCT-z Shunske Sato — also very beautiful baroque style (here tuning A=392)https://youtu.be/44Wz92zQe04?si=6smWH9FvrpgDcEnj 2) The "Old Masters" (romantic technique — not my personal favourites for Bach, but absolutely perfect in their way) Nathan Milsteinhttps://youtu.be/7SwF2gLZPkQ?si=gcMZwvytd6wPJzPN Jascha Heifetzhttps://youtu.be/vhOaS_Cy8_8?si=gJXdnXFoIGX3z6bO Henryk Szerynghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFjpvZefMpA&list=PLpT0iJjEyPDUdYIgK2hqLtbAkFllkWKkL Itzhak Perlmanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtyTaE7LvVs

@Evan Price @Evan Price Wow, very beautiful — bravo! I performed the Ciaccona with violin and marimba about 12 years ago in concert; I’ll have to look for that recording, if I still have that. I also made a comparison between Bach and Jazz for my final exam in Histoire du Jazz. It’s so inspiring to start from Bach and move into Jazz and other styles — Bach, the father of composition. 😊

yeahhh :-)

Wow, quel travail, super bien fait !