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| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @frogman Thank you for that article on interpreting composers. I have a box set of Stravinsky conducting his three ballets. I have heard other interpretations that I like better. Being a great composer does not make one a great conductor which h... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @mahgister I happen to agree with you that great musicians can find expression in compositions that the composer was not aware of. But I thought I'd throw out Debussy's interpretation as a baseline. I enjoyed Furtwangler's interpretation of Sch... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @mahgister @simonmoon @stuartk What I am hearing you say, @mahgister, is that you like a kind of soul wrenching depth in performances. If that is true, and I'm not saying it is, my response would be that I like Dostoevsky but I also like to read... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @mahgister @stuartk Fascinating! Moravec wins in my opinion. But I will post Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli who is mentioned as the best Debussy interpreter on almost every forum I have looked at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsdIkUSjXv8 And... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @stuartk I've been listening to Bavouzet play Debussy. I like him a lot. I had not heard of him when I was in my Debussy collecting days. He's as good as anyone else I've heard. I'm posting Bartoks's Piano Concerto #3. There were a lot of choi... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @stuartk I will look for Bavouzet on Qobuz. I didn't think that you were espousing anything. It is almost impossible for me to explain what I now see. In the book @mahgister told me about, the author talks about perspectives which he sees throug... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @mahgister I will continue to listen to more Monteverdi. What book of his madrigals do you like the best? | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @stuartk I have that disk of Uchida playing Debussy’s Etudes, and so far I haven’t been able to get into them. They have no lyrical quality I can hang onto. Perhaps they’re too complex for me. I love all other piano music by him that I’ve heard,... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @stuartk If you get a chance, you might listen to Uchida playing Scuberts Impromptus, 899 is the most beautiful, but they're both beautiful. Uchida goes for nuance over power. I listened to Brendel playing them this morning because he died last ... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @mahgister I think we’ve gone far astray of music. If you lived close by I’d love to meet you in a coffee shop or whatever and discuss all of this. I feel bad, however, dominating this thread on music with philosophy. And I blame myself. I must ... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @larsman To me the Bible is about everything that went wrong after the suppression of women. I've read a lot of history outside the Bible, which is not strictly history, to come to that conclusion. On the music front, It sounds like you're not... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @mahgister I too am talking about balance. And my point, which I have been researching for many years, is that we live in imbalance. Patriarchy. It cannot be denied. And so, yes, we must find balance. Some people have found balance even in our i... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @mahgister I must admit that spirituality in music is difficult to talk about. Especially from my point of view because I see religions as something that get in the way. But first, of course, the composer must have a depth of feeling and spiritu... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @larsman My wife grew up in Oakland and attended Berkeley, too, only four years behind me. We wouldn't have gotten on then. I was a motorcycle-riding screw-off. I literarly dropped out of my junior year just before finals without telling anyone.... | |
| Let's talk music, no genre boundaries @larsman I went to a number of John Fahey concerts in Berkeley. He must have settled there for a while. They were engrossing, and I still have my beat-up John Fahey album from the sixties. In terms of one guitar engrossing an audience, perhaps c... |