Janice Martin Performs on a Clara Schumann Piece

The first-ever online streaming release of former Stradivari Society recipient Janice Martin's recording of Clara Schumann's "Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 22, No. 1" was recently released and it has such a warm and emotionally driven backbone to it that has such an intense Beauty and gracefulness in its performance that it all comes through with a certain kind of power that lets you paint vivid pictures or scenarios in your mind as you listen.
Janice's performance on the violin is elegant and really just impressive from beginning to end as her vibrato speaks volumes and her approach feels like it's just an extension of herself like she's speaking through the instrument and, with bowed instruments like cello or violin a lot of times this can happen with the right players.
This is a beautifully constructed classical piece of work from Clara Schumann originally as mentioned earlier and the fact that Janice is an outstanding and impressive virtuoso on the instrument is not surprising when you look into the kind of talents and orchestras that she's played with before.
On this piece, we also have pianist Rachel Franklin who also has a rich history in music in several ways and on this piece of work she does such a beautiful job performance-wise with Incredible dynamic balance and a flow that feels natural and forward moving along with Janice's performance as well.
The thing about this piece is that it goes through different sets of emotions and a short period and you can kind of soak in those emotions if you listen carefully and you can also understand how these pieces of work could easily be seen as theatrical or cinematic in today's times.
The beauty of pieces of music like this is that it lets your mind go wherever it wants to go. It's like reading a chapter in a good book where you get certain kinds of detail and you get emotion but there's also lots of space to let your mind sort of float where it will float and that also is extremely alluring to me simply because it's the emotion in from the music that really starts painting the picture in your head but you do the rest.
This is not something that you get often, and especially with standard rock or pop songs in general of course so hearing a beautifully arranged and performed piece of classical music like this was not only refreshing but it was eye-opening and even rejuvenating strangely.
This piece wraps itself around you and keeps you right where it wants to. It lets you get engulfed in the performance of it all and the emotion of it all.
Both Janice and Rachel have such immense talent and natural instinct for their instruments that it really pulls you away from your surroundings and puts you in a different place altogether. This track was recorded and engineered by Carnegie Hall Studio manager Leszek Wojcik at the Spencerville Seventh Day Adventist Church in Silver Spring, MD, in 1998 and as I mentioned earlier, was just released this year for the very first time on a streaming platform of any kind.
When I look at the real opportunities from streaming platforms like band camp or Spotify, this is not what I would have thought of but it is in actuality one of the strongest advantages that they have.
This puts pieces of music that would otherwise be less heard on a major platform with everything else and although sometimes that doesn't mean a lot for a band, for a piece of music recorded in 1998 and written long before that, being on Spotify is an amazing thing.
This could introduce pieces of music like this one to an audience that would have otherwise never heard it before.
I think this is brilliant and we need to continue taking advantage of these kinds of avenues when it comes to streaming platforms in general.
Introducing the old to the new.
This piece of work is an unbelievable amount of talent and there's more raw emotion involved with it than a lot of pieces of music I've heard before so this for me was beautifully and colorfully intense but also slightly haunting strangely.
I loved every second of it.
You might too so go have yourself a listen.
