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[Mozart]

#1

Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: New Releases

Last post by Florestan - Today at 10:24:34 AM

Nothing quite says young and foolish like calming setting at a desk and composing a long, complex classical work!

Mozart and CPE Bach young, alright.

M and CPEB foolish, hardly.

Damn and fuck marketing tricks!

[Beethoven]

#2

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Que - Today at 10:21:09 AM

Beethoven - Keyboard Sonatas - finishing my selective perusal of my collection w/ the two below today (own 4 sets total, Annie Fischer & Wilhelm Kempff, stereo, the others) - probably will not make any changes; need one PI performance and feel that Brautigam is the best available, as attested by the reviews attached for those interested (BUT if not at least look at the fun comments by Bob Greenberg, the Great Courses music guru).  Dave

It's interesting to read how some reviewers struggle with their prejudices towards fortepianos. Is Brautigam successful despite playing a fortepiano or because of it? Does the instrument matter at all? Who knows? 

[the canard that Rachmaninoff's compositions are made up of pianistic pyrotechnics]

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General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Florestan - Today at 10:17:30 AM

I'm continuing to wander through this set, now listening to the Moments musicaux, in Ruth Laredo's recording.



The music belies the canard that Rachmaninoff's compositions are made up of pianistic pyrotechnics. In particular, No 3 in b minor contains achingly beautiful, poignantly dissonant harmonies.

Whoever claimed that was an irredeemable idiot.

[Beethoven]

#4

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by DavidW - Today at 10:14:47 AM

Beethoven - Keyboard Sonatas - finishing my selective perusal of my collection w/ the two below today (own 4 sets total, Annie Fischer & Wilhelm Kempff, stereo, the others) - probably will not make any changes; need one PI performance and feel that Brautigam is the best available, as attested by the reviews attached for those interested (BUT if not at least look at the fun comments by Bob Greenberg, the Great Courses music guru).  Dave

 

Can't go wrong with Gulda!

[Henry James]

#5

The Diner / Re: Cato's Grammar Grumble

Last post by Cato - Today at 10:14:31 AM

I must say, I read those rather differently .. 'Supercivilised', to me implies over civilised, rather than 'very', and in that sense seems an elegant way of expressing it. And 'well' aloof is surely just another way of saying well above, i.e. a short version of 'well aloof from'. Very different from 'well boring' which is so punchy just because it's such a grammatical gear crash. All imho of course.

One treads carefully, when one is tempted to quibble with Henry James about the choice of words!


I suspect you are correct about the intent behind both examples.

Yes, I thought of well above, or well out of it, afterwards.

Supercivilised still sounds odd to me in the mouth of an Edwardian gentleman. But a brief internet search reveals it goes back to 1824!

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/supercivilized

That is a surprise!

An ad for a retirement advisory service warns of "ebs and flows."

Well, at least they had the "w" for flows!

Because here is Eb...




...and here are some Flo's:


 

The only known use of the verb elavate is in the late 1500s. OED's only evidence for elavate is from 1599, in a translation by A. M.

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/elavate_v?tl=true

I don't pay the subscription so I don't actually know what elavate means.

Concerning the misspelling for elevate...

In Latin, very few sources show elavo (to wash away, wash out of).  Possibly the reference from the 1500's is an attempt to add the word into English as another way to say "wash away"...


...in an elevated way!      

#6

Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: New Releases

Last post by DavidW - Today at 10:06:12 AM

CPE Bach - Symphony in D, Wq 183 No 1
CPE Bach - Concerto for Harpsichord and Fortepiano
Mozart - Divertimento in F, K 138
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 17, K 453

(Mozart was 28 when he wrote that last piece, so I'm not sure why it's on there...but Melnikov takes solo duties)

Nothing quite says young and foolish like calming setting at a desk and composing a long, complex classical work!

[Beethoven]

#7

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by SonicMan46 - Today at 10:05:44 AM

Beethoven - Keyboard Sonatas - finishing my selective perusal of my collection w/ the two below today (own 4 sets total, Annie Fischer & Wilhelm Kempff, stereo, the others) - probably will not make any changes; need one PI performance and feel that Brautigam is the best available, as attested by the reviews attached for those interested (BUT if not at least look at the fun comments by Bob Greenberg, the Great Courses music guru).  Dave

 

#8

Great Recordings and Reviews / Re: New Releases

Last post by Madiel - Today at 09:59:23 AM

I don't think whether or not 28 is young depends on the age at which you died.

#9

General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...

Last post by Todd - Today at 09:44:10 AM

Sweet Suite No 2.

#10

Composer Discussion / Re: Sir Arnold Bax

Last post by Pohjolas Daughter - Today at 09:31:59 AM

Enjoyed listening to his Sonata for Cello and Piano today (posted a youtube video of it on the WAYLTN thread).

Whilst poking around in my CD collection I found that I have a bit more Bax than I had remembered including a Lyrita one of "Boult Conducts Bax" and two Chandos' ones (some duplications) which include Northern Ballad No. 3, Cortège, Mediterranean, and Overture to a Picaresque Commedy, and his Cello Concerto (with Wallfisch).  The other Chandos one has the Violin Concerto, the Cello (again with Wallfisch, etc.) and Morning Song.

More exploring for me ahead.  By the way, what do others here think of his cello concerto?

PD