Tasmin Little
She’s one of the great violinists of our time, up there with Nigel Kennedy but not a prat, and her new album is available for download here for free. Not, as with Radiohead’s In Rainbows, via an honesty box. No, this one is absolutely free. Read here in the Guardian and here in the Times why. Basically it’s because, as she says, “Classical music, for some reason or another, has this reputation that you need a certain kind of education to listen to it, you need to be a certain colour or live in a certain place and I’m a bit fed up with that. I wanted to take away any possible barrier and see if it makes a difference.”
The album is great stuff – pieces for solo violin by Bach, Ysaye and Patterson, with Little’s spoken introductions to each one. All she asks in return is that you undertake what she calls the Tasmin three-step challenge: “First, download the recording. Secondly, write to me at my website, saying what you didn’t like about my chosen music or playing. Thirdly, tell me what barriers still remain that prevent you from entering a concert hall. In other words, what is your problem?”
posted by Stephen Stratford at 10:21 PM
1 Comments:
After reading this post, I wheeled out our dusty collection of classical cds.
Why not go to concerts? I think it gets boring with nothing to look at. I asked Mr Smith - (he loves concerts), he said watching the orchestra is fascinating. So - there you go. I don't suppose that's any help to Ms Little.
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