Guilty secrets - the bits you miss out

[Barbirollians]

There is no accounting for taste ! Janet Baker makes Sea Pictures worth listening to IMO.

[visualnickmos]

I can only think of pot-boiler/money-spinner 'Wellington's Victory', the irony being the public loved it.

The public love The Sun, but it doesn't mean it's any b****y good!

[Thropplenoggin]

The public love The Sun, but it doesn't mean it's any b****y good!

If you follow the thread backwards, you'll see I was putting this forward as Beethoven's most banal work.

[Barbirollians]

I like Wellington's Victory - well in the Dorati recording - great trumpets !

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker - it stinks (that is purely my own very humble opinion and definitely NOT a definitive statement !). How could the same man who composed such marvellous symphonies and concertos et al end up writing this ???

I adore Tchaikovsky's music, including his ballets. Most of the Nutcracker, especially Act I - the bits not in the Suite - is superb. However, the Miniature Overture is definitely the bit I like to skip.

[cloughie]

There is no accounting for taste ! Janet Baker makes Sea Pictures worth listening to IMO.

Yvonne Minton even more so!

[MrGongGong]

Yvonne Minton even more so!

Phil Minton would be even better

[Roehre]

Here's how I generally listen to recorded music.

If I'm intending to listen to a multi-movement work all through, that's what I'll do, in one of two ways. Either I'll just listen in an abstract way, letting the music unfold naturally, or I'll use a score (I have about 3,000 scores here). If I use a score, the experience is different from the 'abstract', and I'll listen very analytically for the structure and the composer's success (or otherwise) in achieving what it seems to me was intended, or simply in negotiating the awkward bits. In both cases, there's no question of leaving out sections.

But most listening is done ad hoc (I'm doing so right now), usually by choosing something to fit the particular mood I'm in. ......

Sounds very, very familiar to me

[Serial_Apologist]

Phil Minton would be even better

[Barbirollians]

Anything written by Harrison Birtwhistle - pretentious noise.

[cloughie]

Phil Minton would be even better

Who?

[Pabmusic]

Sounds very, very familiar to me

Somehow, Roehre, that doesn't surprise me at all!

[MrGongGong]

Who?

I guess you don't have the same kind of internet as me then ?


(you know the one that lets you find out about things you don't know anything about as well as things you do ! Personally speaking i'd take your internet back to the shop and try to exchange it for one that works !)

Anything written by Harrison Birtwhistle - pretentious noise.

Can a sound be "pretentious" ?

(discuss with reference to Paul Hegarty)

[verismissimo]

(discuss with reference to Paul Hegarty)

Ah, the former captain of Dundee, I presume, GG?

[MrGongGong]

Ah, the former captain of Dundee, I presume, GG?

I meant this one

http://www.continuumbooks.com/authors/details.aspx?AuthorId=145098&BookId=124122