Classical Music for Aficionados
I hear you jcazador . If you listened to my post that young Frenchwomen playing German music on a Dutch organ sure didn’t miss anything .I had some of that Westminster stuff and was quite fond of it as well . I am a religious person and that aspect is more important to me than the technical side , not that it isn’t important .As I’m not a musician I don’t understand much of it in any event . Keep up the good word and spread the news ! |
On tuning, read this: " Research in my teens into historic organ tuning, and thence a decade of experiment and research instigated by contemplating Chopin's 2nd Sonata in Bb minor brought a realisation that it's the modern tuning that has robbed us of the differences between the keys, and that it wasn't my ears at all. It seemed as though Chopin was deliberately intending the effect of the key of Bb minor to express the cold wind whistling over the graves and I knew from historic organs that that is what the tuning would do. The colour has been robbed from us and the true meaning of "Chromatic" is so lost to us now that Colour isn't mentioned in the relevant Wikipedia article. The consequence of this is that our classical music has been reduced in the number of dimensions in which it communicates and that this has led to increasingly mere mechanical performances that don't engage so well emotionally, leading to a degradation in musical appreciation and of its value as emotional communication and literature. " a lot more here: https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=65531.0 |
I can see the meaning of this (I think) but rock and roll is what has destroyed classical music . Bad taste rules and makes fools . There are many modern composers who take emotion to the max , try the great Leos Janacek for starters . Concertino for piano and seven instruments , Sinfonietta,, Taras Bulba DG 476 2196 |
