Hahah no da potency iz lyk da amount ov Buttah n da length iz da amount ov bread
An opera try to zpread 30 minz worth ov butta ova 2 or 3 hrz ov bread
Da pop zong argument iz only zemi valid becuz a pop zong iz uzually a couple 20-30 zec melodiez on rpt. Zo dat iz lyk 1 min ov butta on 3-4 minz ov bread.
I vil agree dat it doez vary n zum operaz are mo cuntziztent den othaz
but da onez dat da PIMP wrote parazheeyatz from, he zenzibly took da hilitez n didnt tranz da full opera lyk he did fo da full zymphz.
Dey juz aint on da zame level ov butta-bread ratio
Used to dislike Schubert and most Faure. Now that Iām an old lady cry into my knitting with some of that stuff. Some Chopin and Brahms Iāve just heard too much for anything other than extraordinary perfs break through.
This bread and butter argument is not really making sense to me after 4 pints, but I will mull it over and come back to it tomorrow, or pozz never.
I think you think these things simply because you donāt know opera. For example, my favourite opera tranny is the Liszt Norma, but it absolutely pales in comparison to the original! Itās not even close. Man, when you hear Callas sing the ending with that continuous vocal tear, you just get super mad at Liszt for taking the theme out of context and making it agitato!
Iāve warmed to some of the more modern and dissonant composers, especially Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Stravinsky. Iām not in the mood to listen to them all the time but at least I can appreciate them more than when I was younger.
As a kid I was kind of obsessed with Gershwin, not so much anymore. Other than that I really havenāt cooled down from any composers, although Iāve cooled down from a lot of pieces (mainly all the hackneyed stuff like Fantasie Impromptu and so on).
I started as a Mahler fan, quickly became a Brucknerite and have never looked back. I think itās a substance over style thing. Mahler is flashier, but he doesnāt come close to Brucknerās depth.
True - Niobe. The Aria itās based on is actually pretty sheeyat. The ideas in it are good and characterful, but they strike me as coming from a composer who isnāt very good at ācomposingā. Despite just being a party piece Lisztās treatment of the same material is much more intelligent and creative, and indeed you can even see it as a parody of the original. What he normally does is to write an introduction and then clearly presents the first subject, but here he chops it up, fools around with it and keeps aborting it in a pretty hilarious way, and you donāt actually get the full theme until halfway through the piece. Itās not that same respectful treatment his paraphrases usually have. The mid section is also so over the top that Iād really like to know whether he played it seriously or theatrically himself (but given the time it could very well have been seriously meant).
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lovedeath, itās not a match for the original. Seeing that live is quite unforgettable.
rec!
The ideas in it are good and characterful, but they strike me as coming from a composer who isnāt very good at ācomposingā. Despite just being a party piece Lisztās treatment of the same material is much more intelligent and creative, and indeed you can even see it as a parody of the original. What he normally does is to write an introduction and then clearly presents the first subject, but here he chops it up, fools around with it and keeps aborting it in a pretty hilarious way, and you donāt actually get the full theme until halfway through the piece. Itās not that same respectful treatment his paraphrases usually have. The mid section is also so over the top that Iād really like to know whether he played it seriously or theatrically himself (but given the time it could very well have been seriously meant).
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