estebanana -> RE: Beethoven listeners (Mar. 14 2014 19:39:49)
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The last six months I've been listening to all the quartets in depth, there's a lot to hear on second-third and forth hearings. And still you can hear more if you keep going. I think my favorite piece is the A major cello sonata. But I don't hear flamenco to much in Beethoven either, just wondered if it was me. I do hear the drive, like old Jerez bulerias with palmas that can crack an ear drum. The piano works are the ones I know least about, but that is on the list to go over and over. I've been goign at the symphonies too, but I can't decide which I like most. Why decide? I do like that big nasty d minor chord in the ninth, that should always be a shocker and shaker. --------- Beethoven and Bach and Mozart- Bach I listen to to calm myself- he's amazing, but not treacherous ground mentally. His mystery is deceptive, it seems so much on the surface and easy to get, but it's locked into his craftsmanship. I agree he is friendly for the most part. Mozart, he's like going out on the town with fine company, good red wine, good conversation; elegance that has weight and substance. He cheers me up. Mozart was John Cages favorite composer. He preferred him over Beethoven. I can't underscore too much that Mozart is pleasurable, but still profound. But I don't have to dig into it to get the goods, he brings the goods to you. Beethoven is like climbing into the Earth to explore a cave of amazing geologic structures and beauty. I can do it everyday as long as my head lamp is working and Bach is waiting at the surface. You see the regular Beethoven challenges and beauties from the path with your light. But go off the path or wander into a narrow stretch and you have to think about how to turn around and get back out. In Beethoven you find the sky underground, he turns things inside out.
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