Summary
THERE was a telling moment at the end of Friday's Fiddle 2011 concert. Duncan Chisholm was so surprised to receive a second encore that he left his fiddle backstage and had to retrieve it for a final set of tunes. This wasn't so surprising in a way because Chisholm had spent the previous hour or so playing with such a sense of "oneness" between bow, fingers and strings that there almost appeared to be no instrument there at all. It was as if he was simply singing this music clearly and directly to
For any aspiring players present - and there would have been many, as this annual weekend festival does a fantastic job of fostering interest and direct participation in fiddle music - the Beauly-based Chisholm's performance must have been an inspiration. It was certainly a glorious demonstration of the poetry in Highland music and Chisholm's command of a simultaneously persuasive and steely tone and the deft subtlety of his phrasing.See the full content of this document
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Duncan Chisolm, Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
Chisholm doesn't deal in pyrotechni...
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