{"id":71,"date":"2006-03-25T01:50:43","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T06:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=71"},"modified":"2018-08-23T16:20:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T20:20:34","slug":"edgar-meyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Edgar Meyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve always been a suck\u00ader for low-reg\u00adis\u00adter instru\u00adments. A cel\u00adlo or a vio\u00adla da gam\u00adba will move me much more eas\u00adily than any vio\u00adlin, and I get all dreamy if I hear a con\u00adtra\u00adbas\u00adsoon even tun\u00ading up. Edgar Mey\u00ader<\/a><\/span> is wide\u00adly regard\u00aded as the finest dou\u00adble-bassist alive. But I will con\u00adsider him here as a com\u00adposer. Now, many ter\u00adrific solo per\u00adform\u00aders have giv\u00aden forth embarass\u00ading turkeys when they turned to com\u00adpos\u00ading, but this is not the case with Mey\u00ader. His Dou\u00adble Con\u00adcerto for Cel\u00adlo and Dou\u00adble Bass<\/em>, which he per\u00adforms with the inim\u00aditable cel\u00adlist Yo-Yo Ma, has none of the surly chug\u00adging along you expect from the instru\u00adment. It\u2019s a spright\u00adly com\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion, with pleas\u00adant melodies, and some sar\u00adcas\u00adtic pas\u00adsages that Prokofiev would be proud of. <\/span>The Con\u00adcerto in D for Dou\u00adble Bass and Orches\u00adtra<\/em>, is down\u00adright weird. It starts with lit\u00adtle waft\u00aded frag\u00adments of melody, resolv\u00ading them every now and then into an orches\u00adtral tut\u00adti<\/em>, and plays lit\u00adtle games of syn\u00adco\u00adpa\u00adtion and call-and-answer. The sec\u00adond you think you know where the piece is head\u00aded, it twists out of it like a wrestler break\u00ading a Boston crab grapevine leg lock. It even\u00adtu\u00adally drifts into a slight\u00adly sin\u00adis\u00adter and puz\u00adzling end\u00ading. The over\u00adall effect is sur\u00adpris\u00adingly pleasing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mey\u00ader is a long-time friend of folk ban\u00adjo vir\u00adtu\u00adoso B\u00e9la Fleck, and they\u2019ve put out an album togeth\u00ader that I\u2019m most eager to hear. If any\u00adone out there has heard it, send me a review. The two con\u00adcerti are togeth\u00ader on the CD<\/span> Mey\u00ader and Bottesi\u00adni Con\u00adcer\u00adtos<\/em>, along with two works by the 19th cen\u00adtury Lom\u00adbard com\u00adposer, Gio\u00advanni Bottesi\u00adni, whose music I\u2019ll dis\u00adcuss next.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve always been a suck\u00ader for low-reg\u00adis\u00adter instru\u00adments. A cel\u00adlo or a vio\u00adla da gam\u00adba will move me much more eas\u00adily than any vio\u00adlin, and I get all dreamy if I hear a con\u00adtra\u00adbas\u00adsoon even tun\u00ading up. Edgar Mey\u00ader is \u2026<\/p>\n

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