Some of these embellishments reverse the bowing direction of Corelli's unadorned melody, but my feeling is that I'd rather play embellishments with the same bowing as the melody.
What are your thoughts about that?
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If you look at his Art of Playing the Violin, he gives bowing exercises starting everything up bow.
That being said, bow direction is not the same as a slur-gesture; if you interpret slurs strictly as bowings you'll get stuck. (Remember Barthold Kuijken's "The Notation is not the Music".)
But I have yet to encounter a bow articulation that could not be done equally well up bow or down bow with some practice.
Same applies to bow dynamics.
I've recorded myself playing the same piece, starting up bow and then starting down bow and if I shuffle the playback I cannot tell which is which.
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