Oh no! Not more ruddy piano

[Guest]

Heard this morning on R3......... " and we are now half way through the Piano season"..................

Groan.....I wondered why my R3 listening hours had plummeted to new depths. Last week it was about 45 minutes. The Thursday evening Jupiter was rather fine, I thought.

No more..please. I thought the Schubert In-Fest-ation was bad enough.

Ah well....at least there is some Wagner to look forward to this afternoon.

[MrGongGong]

Ah well....at least there is some Wagner to look forward to this afternoon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iksOAXC5yqw

or even better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY8mdNZPigo

[Dave2002]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iksOAXC5yqw

or even better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY8mdNZPigo

What the heck was that? Very strange instrument. I think I prefer the Hindemith string quartet version of the Flying Dutchman!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrV1DiQznHk

Or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kok-dZbOqUg

Then again, some people may prefer a famous piece by John Cage.

[MrGongGong]

What the heck was that? Very strange instrument.

Then again, some people may prefer a famous piece by John Cage.

Margaret Leng Tan is the goddess of the toy piano
and the Cage suite is brilliant as well

http://www.margaretlengtan.com/

has any of this features in the Piano season ?
if not why not

(I once went to a whole evening of toy piano music in Budapest , when the concert was over we searched frantically for a drum and bass or reggae club to reacquaint ourselves with the idea of BASS )

more here

http://www.toypiano.org/

[JimD]

I have been reduced to listening to Classic FM occasionally, to avoid the dreaded plink plonk. But then the adverts come on...or The Lark Ascending (again). Roll on the 6th of November.

[VodkaDilc]

I have been reduced to listening to Classic FM occasionally, to avoid the dreaded plink plonk. But then the adverts come on...or The Lark Ascending (again). Roll on the 6th of November.

I'm OK listening to Classic FM until it comes to the bowel cancer adverts. Then the off switch is conveniently to hand.

[Nick Armstrong]

Personally, I'm loving the piano season. Saves having to listen to too many singers.

As long as one avoids the Liszt, that is (happily I was out of the country when he was CotW)

[amateur51]

Personally, I'm loving the piano season. Saves having to listen to too many singers.

As long as one avoids the Liszt, that is (happily I was out of the country when he was CotW)

Your diary secretary is worth his weight in nibbed cashews, I'd say Caliban

[Thropplenoggin]

As long as one avoids the Liszt, that is (happily I was out of the country when he was CotW)

What's your issue with Liszt?

I have yet to really warm to him, though one or two pieces have almost grabbed me ('Au Lac du Wallenstad', 'Pensées des Morts')...it just seems so batty, and that he uses the same dynamic tricks a lot.

[vinteuil]

... I'm loving [it] ...

... do we take it our Calibber has taken to frequenting Macdonald's?

May we remind him that the verb "to love" has as its present tense "I love".

[amateur51]

... do we take it our Calibber has taken to frequenting Macdonald's?

May we remind him that the verb "to love" has as its present tense "I love".

Methinks Lady Vints was a tad parsimonious with the Auntie Bessie's this luncheontide

[Nick Armstrong]

... do we take it our Calibber has taken to frequenting Macdonald's?

May we remind him that the verb "to love" has as its present tense "I love".

Yes, I think the blood sugar must have dipped dangerously - I think you're talking through your pedantic chapeau, monsieur...

Fine - I love the piano. But in the middle of a current and continuing event (the piano season): I am loving it (the ongoing event), seems to me a perfectly legitimate thing to say.

[Anna]

I cannot say that I am loving it but it's better than continuous Schubert lieder which seemed to be the vogue a couple of months ago. Thought the Wagner this afternoon made a very nice change, a bit of oomph rather than plinky-plonk. I don't think these mini-Fests or marathons are a good thing, as someone remarked here during the BachFest "Oh No, not another bluddy cantata"

[JimD]

Much as I fail to share Caliban's musical sentiments, isn't the existence of more than one present tense well-acknowledged in English? And, anyway, languages change.

[Nick Armstrong]

Much as I fail to share Caliban's musical sentiments, isn't the existence of more than one present tense well-acknowledged in English?

They are essential to convey different meanings. If someone in the interval of an opera comes up to you and says "Are you enjoying it?", replying "yes I'm loving it" is a more precise answer than "yes I love it" which would convey a more general appreciation of attending operas (including the one which is the subject of the question).