Pick your Cello Sonata

[val]

My choice: Beethoven opus 69.

[orbital]

Could not decide between Brahms E minor and Chopin G minor. But I listen to Chopin's more, so I guess that had to be it.

[springrite]

George Crumb


(Followed by Debussy)

[greg]

Prokofiev...... although i like Shostakovich's, just not familiar enough to give a comparison.

[Mark]

It was almost the Debussy ... but my heart belongs to the Rachmaninov. 0:)

[Guido]

Crumb wrote a cello and piano Sonata? I know the solo sonata very well (a marvellous piece), but I guessed that these were ruled out as none were listed in the original list.

[Joe Barron]

My favorite, Elliott Carter's Sonata of 1948, is not on the list. Of those one the list, the Beethoven op. 69 and the Brahms, and the Schubert.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

No Martinu on the list. But all three of his cello sonatas are wonderful.

Britten's is what I chose, however. If only because it's the last I'd heard.

[Wanderer]

Well, if there's Beethoven and Brahms on the list, the others aren't given much of a chance.

I voted for Beethoven's op.69, although my absolute favourite is op.5/1 (which is not on the list).

I feel Alkan's op.47 Sonate de concert should be on the list, too; it's too good a piece to pass.  0:)

[DFO]

Don't forget:
Novak
Enescu
Magnard
Josef Wieniawski
Oistein Sommerfeldt
Ropartz
Bridge
Bax
Delius
Dohnanyi
Lalo
Vierne
Godard
Boëllmann
.......

[greg]

Every time I see this topic, i image the word "nose" instead of "Cello Sonata".

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Every time I see this topic, i image the word "nose" instead of "Cello Sonata".

So to you the thread title looks like Pick Your Nose?

[Brian]

So to you the thread title looks like Pick Your Nose?

He's lookin' for an excuse 

[lukeottevanger]

Actually, he's searching for some precedent for his latest opus, a Sonata for Nose and Piano

FWIW I may have one if he wants it, in the Symphonia germanica for singing pianist by Schulhoff, whose individual parts are distrbuted between the head, the various limbs and the aforementioned olfactory organ. If asked to 'pick my nose Sonata', that's the one that gets my vote.

[greg]

He's lookin' for an excuse 

uhhhhhh yeah, i guess so. But I'm to lazy to get some toilet paper and....... leaving buggers on the computer monitor makes it dirty after awhile. The predicaments can be endless.......

Actually, he's searching for some precedent for his latest opus, a Sonata for Nose and Piano

FWIW I may have one if he wants it, in the Symphonia germanica for singing pianist by Schulhoff, whose individual parts are distrbuted between the head, the various limbs and the aforementioned olfactory organ. If asked to 'pick my nose Sonata', that's the one that gets my vote.

Is that really a real piece or did you just make that up? How could you make that much noise with your head besides singing? Don't tell me the pianist bangs her head on the piano until her brains leak out and she dies or something. Listening to something like that would be so unpatriotic.

[lukeottevanger]

Is that really a real piece or did you just make that up? How could you make that much noise with your head besides singing? Don't tell me the pianist bangs her head on the piano until her brains leak out and she dies or something. Listening to something like that would be so unpatriotic.

It's a real piece; I have it on a Supraphon CD, a dada-ist setting of the German national anthem with somewhat less respectful words. Has to be heard to be believed. It's supposed to be performed by a single pianist/vocalist, but that's not actually possible, so on the CD it's shared between two performers. Its companion work on the CD is just as......memorable, shall we say: the Sonata erotica (for 'Solo-Müttertrompete'), which is for unaccompanied female voice faking orgasm. I assume faking, anyway.

Ah, here it is, the last volume in Supraphon's survey of Schulhoff's chamber music. I have them all, and this one is really just filled with curiosity. And yet, for some reason (I wonder what that could be!) it's the one that gets most discussion!:

[greg]

It's a real piece; I have it on a Supraphon CD, a dada-ist setting of the German national anthem with somewhat less respectful words. Has to be heard to be believed. It's supposed to be performed by a single pianist/vocalist, but that's not actually possible, so on the CD it's shared between two performers. Its companion work on the CD is just as......memorable, shall we say: the Sonata erotica (for 'Solo-Müttertrompete'), which is for unaccompanied female voice faking orgasm. I assume faking, anyway.

Ah, here it is, the last volume in Supraphon's survey of Schulhoff's chamber music. I have them all, and this one is really just filled with curiosity. And yet, for some reason (I wonder what that could be!) it's the one that gets most discussion!:

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ok, i'm (and i'm sure everyone else reading this) are just going to have to hear the last two on that disc.
if you could post them right here, pretty please?....... 

[lukeottevanger]

I need to see proof of age first, Greg. 

[greg]

I'm 20........ does that pass?

[lukeottevanger]

Well it's hardly proof, is it?

but

I'll take it on trust.