| Well, the Bozza Caprice hardly qualifies as a "contemporary" piece anymore as Bozza is long since dead and the piece belongs in the middle of the last century during the Second World war!
At any rate, I know what you mean. Bozza requires a light touch, a quicker-than-usual (for Americans) vibrato, and a high degree of energy. It's like ballet music and you must display an ease about you when you play it. As far as moods, you must be fiery one moment and then be able to summon up the style of Edith Piaf the next. If you don't know who she is, get a compilation of her stuff or watch that scene in "Saving Private Ryan" where the soldiers are awaiting the German tank as the phonograph plays. It is she who is singing, I believe.
ML |