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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSo I gave BEETHOVEN a chance. If this doesn't unleash wrath on me nothing will.
From the internet know-it-alls/gourmet/connoisseurs, yadda yadda "the LATE quartets" the "GROSSE FUGUE" yeah right. Ptooie.
If I've said it once I've said it a million times: Melody MELODY *MELODY*!1 So I DELETED those ahead-their-time things.
The Civilized will be glad to know I am listening to the TUNEFUL things right now, the violin sonata/concerto, the piano Emperor. That's what I'm talking about, soon back to my lateR Romantics (you know what I'm talking about, Pyotr).
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 4, 2016, 10:31 AM - Edit history (1)
What "caving and going with the crowd" meant was abandoning the arcanely sophisticated Late works in favor of the "popular" stuff. *Stuff*!1 Did I call Ludwig's oeuvre *STUFF* like so much crayon-on-the-frig?!1
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,733 posts)and the last piano sonatas, Ops. 109, 110 and 111. And Fidelio.
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)Can it handle it?!1 Looks like we have a YES!1
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)I play the easier piano sonatas. Easy is a relative term. I don't think they are easy, and I will never play them as fast as a professional does. But they are satisfying. Plus the Pathetique Sonata. My first love in piano composition is the Chopin Waltzes. I worked on them as a 12-year-old and I know several of them very well. My second love is Mendelssohn (songs without words, Volume 6.)
kentauros
(29,414 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)It looks like it's a groin injury, Pete! That's what happens when the basses get too close together.
malthaussen
(17,204 posts)Always fun to watch somebody lose it.
-- Mal
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Either way, it's dangerous.
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)Bless him.
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)that OF COURSE I am familiar and amazed with the predictable popular MASSIVE parts I know, but I've been AWAY and out of touch for decades - nay, SCORES. My final pronouncement is not "slowness" but rather: Stateliness, more than I've been accustomed to in the interim.
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UTUSN
(70,708 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)Tomita
Wendy Carlos
Taking the 5th
Portsmouth Sinfonia
Walter Murphy
UTUSN
(70,708 posts)(or tongue/somewhere)
malthaussen
(17,204 posts)... the faster tempi really make a difference. They seem to emphasize the point that Ludwig was a revolutionary composer, overturning long-established practice.
-- Mal
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Now that would unleash wrath on you!