@tom@aerovons.com said:
Not really, if you are doing anything "in period".....listen to any of the old arrangements done on Sinatra recordings, or virtualy any film score from the 40s.....vibrato is heavy and omnipresent....
Tom
Sorry, you don't understand how violin technique works. You can't play everything with heavy vibrato. The sustained notes have it, but the hand has to stop moving in order to change the note. Actually, you can do a kind of vibrato on faster notes, but it can't be as wide, therefore the heavy vibrato notes can't be used on all notes. Just try it and you will find that it sounds like a bad LFO. The 40's recordings use a different sort of vibrato anyway, so there is not much point in comparing these with AV.
DG
I know a alcoholic violin player who will disagree with you about playing every note with heavy vibrato.... on the 2 till 5 session after a liquid lunch he plays everything
molto espressivo !!!!
Sorry - all joking aside, DG is right - you pick 'key' notes out of a passage, (normally longer notes or where the melody needs to soar) and employ this device there.