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I found this on the interwebs today and found it interesting. Who knows maybe we are listening to the Devil's own... I wish I knew enough about violin to accurately judge the difficulty of the song.
The story behind "Devil's Trill" starts with a dream. Tartini allegedly told the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande that he dreamed that The Devil appeared to him and asked to be his servant. At the end of their lessons Tartini handed the devil his violin to test his skill—the devil immediately began to play with such virtuosity that Tartini felt his breath taken away. When the composer awoke he immediately jotted down the sonata, desperately trying to recapture what he had heard in the dream. It was successful with his
audience; however, Tartini lamented that the piece was still far from what he had heard in his dream. What he had written was in his own words "so inferior to what [he] had heard, that if [he] could have subsisted on other means, [he] would have broken [his] violin and abandoned music forever."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_Trill_Sonata
Here's a link to Esther Kim kim playing it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2162198482751500757
Because Youtube is awesome:
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEKi9c5NAOc&feature=related
Part2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ03UEAU52Y&feature=related
The story behind "Devil's Trill" starts with a dream. Tartini allegedly told the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande that he dreamed that The Devil appeared to him and asked to be his servant. At the end of their lessons Tartini handed the devil his violin to test his skill—the devil immediately began to play with such virtuosity that Tartini felt his breath taken away. When the composer awoke he immediately jotted down the sonata, desperately trying to recapture what he had heard in the dream. It was successful with his
audience; however, Tartini lamented that the piece was still far from what he had heard in his dream. What he had written was in his own words "so inferior to what [he] had heard, that if [he] could have subsisted on other means, [he] would have broken [his] violin and abandoned music forever."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_Trill_Sonata
Here's a link to Esther Kim kim playing it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2162198482751500757
Because Youtube is awesome:
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEKi9c5NAOc&feature=related
Part2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ03UEAU52Y&feature=related
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