My exciting week of doing stuff!

[deinonychus_1]

*collapses into tired heap* Phew! Well, that was a busy week. Here's why I've been largely absent from lj for the last several days, and why I haven't responded to any comments since about Tuesday. I'm not deliberately ignoring you all, honest!

Comments

[reggietate]

Woot! Sounds like you've had a spiffing time! :-)

I love Russian classical music, so I am envious of your concert experience. I like Borodin, who I think I knew about before the mighty Tchai, and Stravinsky I think I may have heard when I was at junior school, along with Rimsky-Korsakov :-)

I'm with you on korma, too. Never been a great one for spicy food, and I only just got into korma in the last year or so, and making my own mushroom rice after our local Sainsbury's stopped selling the little pots of pre-made stuff I used to buy to eat with their chicken korma.

[deinonychus_1]

I'd certainly heard of Borodin, and I'm sure I've heard some of his works before, but I'd have been hard pressed to name any of them if you'd asked me before Friday.

I do seem to like quite a lot of the Russian composers, although to be honest I tend to go for individual pieces that I like listening to rather than going by the composer (as is proven by the fact that I wasn't a fan of Tchaikovsky's thing with the huge piano solo).

My taste seems to be for the more powerful sounding pieces, like 1812, Mars - The Bringer of War, The William Tell Overture, Night on Bare Mountain, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, that kind of thing. It just happens that things like that often tend to be by Russian composers!

[reggietate]

I think the Russian composers tend to be very emotional and colourful compared to some of the German ones, and they're not as heavy-going. And they're also more modern.

I really need to dig out my classical CDs more often. I listened to a lot of fairly obscure stuff when I was really 'into' it (blame Morse, though he was always a Mozart fan!). I found myself liking things like modern minimalism and British composers on the one hand, and stuff like Mahler on the other :-O

I love piano sonatas a lot, though, so solos don't bother me.

[deinonychus_1]

I went through a phase of finding some really good classical compilation CDs in charity shops a while back, so I ended up trying several composers that I'd never even heard of before because they appeared on these CDs. I probably wouldn't have bought them full price without knowing whether I was going to like them or not, but since they were cheap I decided it was worth taking a chance.

Like you, I must dig them back out and have another listen. That's if I can prise the Primeval soundtrack out of my CD player for a few hours!

[clea2011]

Gosh, I feel exhausted on your behalf just thinking about it!
Sounds like you had a great week.

[deinonychus_1]

It was a great week, but I'm now planning to spend the rest of the weekend relaxing and sleeping!

[cordeliadelayne]

Sounds like an excellent time! I'd funnily enough just been reading some really positive reviews of that concert as the Halle orchestra were part of the musical I saw yesterday.

[deinonychus_1]

they were really good, although I'm tempted to say they weren't *quite* as good as the last classical concert I went to, which was the Moscow Philharmonic orchestra. It was definitely worth it for the 1812, though.

[fififolle]

Oh, that sounds fabulous!! I remember you saying you had tickets, I'm so glad it was good, apart from the piano solo, LOL, I'm with you on that one *veg*
I must have missed you horribly, because I was on the verge of mailing to see how you were doing, which I should do anyway, but. *hug*
I expect lots of romantic m/m now, hee! What would you say was the one main thing you did learn? I'm interested!

[deinonychus_1]

The 1812 was absolutely brilliant, I'm so glad I went. Although I was slightly distressed this morning to discover that out of all my classical music CDs, I don't actually appear to have the 1812 on any of them! I sense an Amazon spending spree coming on

[fififolle]

Hmmm, interesting. I think I get a bit too tangled up in internal vs external conflict in my fics, so that's interesting. And rather helpful. Thanks! Woah, lots of notes, cool!

Enjoy your Sunday. xx

[nietie]

Wow! No wonder you're tired.
Awesome you had the opportunity to see the performance of your favourite piece of classical music.

[deinonychus_1]

I've booked tomorrow off work, so at least I'll feel like I've had a proper rest after all that. It was fantastic, though, and I'm so glad I got tickets for the performance.