Musical confessions

[Nick Armstrong]

Hope this doesn't turn into another "I don't like" thread ("I don't like this piece/that composer/the other musician")... there are a few other threads for that sort of thing.

I have in mind something different. For example, the confession that prompts the thread....

Apart from No 3, I can't tell Schumann's three other symphonies apart. I love them all, and have listened to them countless times - love seeing what different conductors and orchestras make of them. There was a very good performance this afternoon, tuned in just after the start. I had no idea whether it was No 1, No 2 or No 4....

Turns out it was No 2 (played by the Zurich Tonhalle under Markus Stenz).

Anyone else got any shameful (musical) secrets?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Anyone else got any shameful (musical) secrets?

I do, but I'm too ashamed to tell anyone.

[Barbirollians]

Unless they are very radical like Klemperer's butchery of Bruckner 8 I tend to miss when cuts have been made .

[Serial_Apologist]

I've been playing the piano for 65 years, ever since my mother tried to teach me at the age of 6, and I'm still utterly useless at it!

[teamsaint]

Hope this doesn't turn into another "I don't like" thread ("I don't like this piece/that composer/the other musician")... there are a few other threads for that sort of thing.

I have in mind something different. For example, the confession that prompts the thread....

Apart from No 3, I can't tell Schumann's three other symphonies apart. I love them all, and have listened to them countless times - love seeing what different conductors and orchestras make of them. There was a very good performance this afternoon, tuned in just after the start. I had no idea whether it was No 1, No 2 or No 4....

Turns out it was No 2 (played by the Zurich Tonhalle under Markus Stenz).

Anyone else got any shameful (musical) secrets?

I think you mentioned that you have never heard any of them performed live? Might explain this inexplicable thing.....
(I wouldn't pretend, in general, to be immune from the syndrome that you describe, but I am really surprised at inability to distinguish Schumann 1 from the others, if I can put it that way. Which I have . But then the Spring is somehow rather special for me.....)

[Barbirollians]

That's true of me too - know the Spring best of all and the Rhenish is the one I like and listen to least as it seems to go on for ever .I think it would be the one I would be most likely to fns myself thinking what is this is if coming across it on the radio .

[Beef Oven!]

Here’s my initial list:

I like Boney M

I like Abba

I don’t know a rising fifth from a rissole

I have tuned into Classic FM

I don’t recognise cuts in Bruckner and I’m often blissfully unaware of what edition is being used

I attended a Gary Glitter concert while at university and thoroughly enjoyed it

[pastoralguy]

I looked up the original Gramophone review of the Krainev Prokofiev Third piano Concerto, (later version with Kitaenko). The reviewer spoke of a couple of mis-read chords in a fast passage which I really couldn't hear despite comparing them with other versions.

Perhaps it's because I get swept up in the performance and am less inclined to pick nits.

[pastoralguy]

Here’s my initial list:

I like Boney M

I like Abba

I don’t know a rising fifth from a rissole

I have tuned into Classic FM

I don’t recognise cuts in Bruckner and I’m often blissfully unaware of what edition is being used

I attended a Gary Glitter concert while at university and thoroughly enjoyed it

I saw ABBA in Sydney in 1977 and it still ranks as one of the great concerts of my life. (I did get to meet them after, mind!)

[Beef Oven!]

I saw ABBA in Sydney in 1977 and it still ranks as one of the great concerts of my life. (I did get to meet them after, mind!)

I could never make up my mind which one I liked most, the blond one or the other one. The two women were nice, too.

[pastoralguy]

I saw ABBA in Sydney in 1977 and it still ranks as one of the great concerts of my life. (I did get to meet them after, mind!)

For YEARS after, my father teased me that when asked which one one of the girls I'd choose I replied 'Both of them!'

[teamsaint]

I have a special regard for the Lambrettas, a rather ordinary mod revival group from the early 80's.
I went to see them, because there wasn't much else on that Saturday night.
The paltry attendance contained a group of skinheads, who were determined to wreck the evening by attacking people.through sporadic fighting, indifference, and police intervention, the band ploughed manfully on, and performed a very respectable set, in the circumstances, determined to try to give folk a decent night out.
I respect them a lot for how they played that night, despite their obvious limitations.

Not sure if that is a confession, really......but nevermind.

[Beef Oven!]

For YEARS after, my father teased me that when asked which one one of the girls I'd choose I replied 'Both of them!'

Following the height of punk, Ian McCulloch of Echo & The Bunnymen admitted that he was an Abba fan. After that, millions of us were liberated and could come out of the closet!

[teamsaint]

Following the height of punk, Ian McCulloch of Echo & The Bunnymen admitted that he was an Abba fan. After that, millions of us were liberated and could come out of the closet!

I didn't need him to tell me that " The day before you came" is one of the greatest songs I know.

But he should know,he wrote some classics himself, TBF.

[Nick Armstrong]

Unless they are very radical like Klemperer's butchery of Bruckner 8 I tend to miss when cuts have been made .

Yes that's one of mine too. Except for the godawful abbreviation of Rachmaninov's second symphony which once made me spill my vodka - that, I spotted!

And I have an almost complete inability to chart (or, to be honest, care much) which Bruckner version I'm hearing, as long as it's a good performance.


Ah....

I don’t recognise cuts in Bruckner and I’m often blissfully unaware of what edition is being used