Is music towards the end of the Common Practice Period objectively better than everything in the earlier stage? Fuck look at those complex harmonies and layers.
Any preferred recordings of I Puritani? I'm leaning towards something with Gedda because I heard his high F in Credeasi and I think it's probably the best going.
Tyler Perry
Depends what you want really. There's Gardiner, Suzuki and Harnoncourt for HIP stuff. Then there's Butt for OVPP HIP. And then there's Klemperer for a roaring good time
Thomas Peterson
Let's get some activity in here.
What are some arrangements that have either enhanced or ruined a piece that you love?
Jose Allen
Milstein did a violin version of a Chopin nocturne that I prefer over solo piano.
I think Trump has some good political ideas but he does not understand high culture. He probably does genuinely enjoy Steve Reich but Reich isn't really anything too complex or esoteric where Classical is involved. Reich is also an easily recognizable name to Plebs.
David Phillips
newfag here, I like the four seasons. What other baroque (no opera) would you reccomend
Owen Thompson
Zelenka is /ourguy/
James Hill
tfw i thought zelenka was still relatively obscure
what's /classical/ general thoughts on Stravinsky?
Samuel Nguyen
based
Caleb Mitchell
man is definitely one of the great musical talents of all time
William Peterson
In Stravinsky, the desire of the adolescent is ever stubbornly at work; it is the struggle of the youth to become a valid, proven classicist - not a mere modernist - whose substance is consumed in the controversy of artistic part lines; and who is soon forgotten. It would be impossible to overlook the naive aspect present in such a manner of reaction and the impotence of hopes associated with it for no artist can exercise an influence upon that which survives in the aesthetic realm.
Ryder Brooks
guys i have an audition for a school in like two days
what the fuck do i do im so fucking nervous i wont make it, its my second time trying
Grayson Harris
Stravinsky the Russian is amazing
Stravinsky the trend follower is complete shite
Jace Moore
Are you a prepubescent boy?
Brayden Wood
What is your instrument and what do you think we're going to be able to tell you that will be of any use?
Jordan Cox
>tfw at last I understood the rite of spring How could I be so deaf.
Josiah Perez
No, I am a 22 year old baritone. I was a prepubescent boy once though.
Jaxon Stewart
How is the church and did being there felt special knowing its history?
Mason Brooks
Is "what are some good organ works" the most asked question by newcomers? Also what are some good organ works?
Jack White
Yeah it was quite special. Leipzig seemed like a great place from what I saw of it, but the area around the Thomaskirche is particularly nice.
As far as churches go it's not the most ornate (because Lutheran) but the ceiling is quite spectacular. And being able to see Bach's grave was quite something too.
The organs are both from a while after Bach though (the older one was deemed to "Romantic" for Bach's music so they built another one which was more suited) which is a bit of a shame.
And the Easter Oratorio is exceptional too, the final chorus with baroque orchestra was incredible.
I'm still a newfag to classical, but what's wrong with Glass? I remember listening to Koyaanisqatsi and liking it a lot.
Matthew Rivera
It's like Reich except not even rhythmically interesting.
Landon Wood
>Piano Very
Daniel Phillips
I've listened extensively to Walcha's and Leonhardt's performances and I didn't like them as much as the Gould's one. Why is my opinion is wrong to you guys?
Mozart bores me to death unless I'm playing it on piano.
Brayden Bennett
gould is bad because he hums. piano is bad because its not organ and can't sustain long pedal notes. Musica Antiqua Koln is the definitive recording, good mixture of instrumentation, solo keyboard, duo keyboard, strings for sustain. Excellent and inspired interpretation.
Luke Fisher
piano
i dont fucking know man its just fucking nerve wrecking
William Wood
>definitive recording >chamber performance of a keyboard work >Gould's humming a bigger problem than his performing Fuck off poly.
Jose Scott
>a keyboard work
Dominic Williams
New to classical music. I enjoy Philip Glass's "Pruit Igoe" immensely. Is there a composition that's similar to this?
Bentley Allen
>Public performance radically changes the way music is heard and, indeed, the way it is played. We can see how works can become misunderstood through the conviction that all music is public by the idiotic program notes that now inevitably accompany almost any performance of Bach’s Art of Fugue, as a whole or in part, and perpetuate the early twentieth- century legend that this work is abstract thought, written for no specified instruments. This is non-sense, as it was intended like another educational work, the Well- Tempered Klavier, for two hands at a keyboard (this was well understood throughout the nineteenth century)— what keyboard was, indeed, not spelled out for either collection because they are works intended to be played at home on whatever keyboard you owned— clavichord, harpsichord, small portable organ or early pianoforte (in his last years Bach was a supporter of silbermann’s manufacture of pianos, and even helped to sell them). Bach had the four- part counterpoint of the Art of the Fugue printed on four staves as that made it easier to study— and even to perform at that time for any competent keyboard player, as most could then read proficiently from score. The manuscript, however, was written on two staves and looks no different from The Well- Tempered Klavier (in proper english, The Well- Tempered Keyboard) or, indeed, any later piano piece.
Zachary Lewis
Ok whatever you fucking autist, I don't listen to anything other than Mozart anyway.
>recommends someone who likes the fruitiness and energy of Vivaldi heavy, muddy German music Did you take the wrong turn, child?
Bentley Barnes
what is muddy music?
Ian Adams
>gould is bad because he hums.
Not a dealbreaker to me.
>piano is bad because its not organ and can't sustain long pedal notes
Yeah, but does Gould's music ever suffer from this technical limitation? Would you say that his contrapunctus XIV is ruined cause of this?
>Musica Antiqua Koln is the definitive recording
I've listened to it multiple times and I feel that in most string quartet pieces lots of music and structure just gets lost. It seems to me that I'm able to follow it only cause I've memorized the score.
