On Wed, December 19, 2012 10:01 am, Chris Cannam wrote: > On 18 December 2012 00:37, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> I know less about Mozart, but his music sounds insincere to me, like >> things done by Malcolm McLaren. > > I think that's an interesting point of view, and one I can understand. > It might help to think of Mozart as an ingenious and emotive composer > writing in a language that has since come to seem commonplace -- a bit > like English readers might sometimes think of Dickens, especially > after seeing half a dozen overwrought stage performances of A > Christmas Carol. He can't be blamed for our context. > Some of the more attentive might have noticed several refrains in that piece that have made it into popular film scores. Jaws is there and a few more very famous movies have taken chunks out of that Symphony. Makes sense too. The piece is well known so it saves on expensive learning/rehearsal time in expensive studios and the producers don't have to pay any copyright fees either. > Try some more intimate or historically-informed performances of e.g. > his piano concertos. Mozart didn't have the grand dynamic thrusts we > got used to from the romantic period, and performances that emphasise > the big sweeping stuff just sound a bit formulaic, while those that > work through detail and local (tonal) colour I find a lot more > communicative. > > I'm sure it's quite normal to have composers that make absolutely no > sense to you though. Mine is Händel. I don't get him and I'm afraid I > never will. > I'm still trying to get my head around Michael Jackson's works. Some people still consider him the King of Pop... Such a large range of emotions. > (When I was at school, my music teacher -- of whom I was fond -- > thought Brahms' 4th symphony was the pinnacle of mankind's creative > achievement. Or thereabouts. To this day I can't understand the piece. > Nowadays, mostly because of his songs and chamber works, Brahms is one > of my favourite composers but it's taken me over 20 years and I'm > still not getting that 4th symphony.) > listening now... -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
