/classical/ Classical Music General

[Hudson Perry]

I don't have the OP text, I just want to talk about classical music.

[Jack Cox]

>I just want to talk about classical music
same

[Adam Phillips]

Daily reminder that Mozart is a fiercely underrated CoC (composer of color).

[Ayden Clark]

Wagner is a CoCK
Composer of Color Killer (geddit? because he's racist)

[Blake Davis]

Stockhausen looks so autistic in this picture.

[Michael Young]

Why did Bizet cram so many elaborate and completely pointless choral numbers into Carmen? Can someone please explain the meaning and purpose of 'avant la garde montante'?

[Jordan Williams]

Gershwin
youtube.com/watch?v=9sZaxEC1Vho

[Justin Morgan]

Why do pianists always put ritardando at the end of the last Allegro part in Scriabin's 5th Sonata?
Here's 2 examples:
youtu.be/51PMgeEfTqs
Horowitz, 1.28: he slows it down considerably, and when the arpeggio kicks in he plays it considerably faster, even if there is no such indication on the score. So far I've noticed that almost every pianist does so, and I genuinely don't understand why.
youtube.com/watch?v=emYTG80B2vU
Hamelin, 10.47. He does not change the tempo (Richter almost doesn't change it either, he still plays the second part of these phrases considerably faster), and as a result this exceprt sounds far more glorious and trascendental. Of course he "ruins" it (to the extent where Hamelin can ruin something) by playing the ostinato chords that come after far too slowly.

[Aiden Moore]

wagner is a cuck

[Angel Scott]

>what is phrasing