It's time for another round of Classical Music Snark!
Another suggestion for your Halloween plans: László Lajtha's String Quartet No 10, Op 58 "Suite Transylvaine".
* * *"Beethoven's piano playing was overwhelming -- powerful, surging, driven, raw, elemental and confident. He played with the entire arm from the shoulder, instead of from the wrist with the arms by his sides. Many of ( Read more... )
* * *"Beethoven's piano playing was overwhelming -- powerful, surging, driven, raw, elemental and confident. He played with the entire arm from the shoulder, instead of from the wrist with the arms by his sides. Many of ( Read more... )
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Am loving "Ludwig van Beethoven: The thrash rocker of 1790s Vienna." The image is just made of awesome.
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It was a track title on the album, is all I know. If I recall correctly, it had a vaguely Middle Eastern sound to it.
Am loving "Ludwig van Beethoven: The thrash rocker of 1790s Vienna."
At the same time, Mozart was doing his piano playing the "old way": Delicately, from the wrist. That's why nobody built pianos strong enough: If anyone played a piano that vigorously, it would have been a variety show in "the tavern where they play bagpipes." Strictly low-brow stuff that not even the participants left a record of.
Beethoven wrote, and played, music that was just as intricately crafted as Mozart, but a lot more forceful in its expression. And he did so in such a way that the musical scene followed his lead. As a result, he pretty much single-handedly dragged European music from the Classical to Romantic style.
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