Jazz for aficionados
Very pretty song, “Lazy Afternoon”. Thanks, O-10. Song from the very interesting (yes, there are some) Broadway musical “The Golden Apple”. A lazy “Lazy Afternoon”: https://youtu.be/8tXfHBd5_xI An even lazier “Lazy Afternoon”: https://youtu.be/Cix2tz1EgWc |
frogman, Not Primary , I just meant that Schubert wrote for that instrument in that piece and that is what is best played for that piece .Which is not to say everything he wrote should be . I write sloppy these days. Example , I have a Beaux Arts Trio of Op 100 and I hear the beauty of that great ensemble .When these 3 play I hear the voice of Schubert .May be just me, but there are books in German where his friends wrote the way he spoke, which was quite unusual . |
Couldn’t agree more. Interesting, my interpretation and response to your original comment was, in a way, the opposite of what you meant. Sorry about that. Also interesting because my example, Brahms “Clarinet Sonata” No. 1 serves as a perfect example of what you meant. Brahms dedicated his two clarinet sonatas to the great clarinetist Richard Muhlfeld who Brahms had heard and been so impressed by that he had previously written his Clarinet Trio for him. Brahms was said to have “discovered the beauty of sound of the clarinet”. When he composed those pieces Brahms expressed his voice with the sound of the clarinet in mind. As you say, what he had to say (his voice) would not have been expressed as well on any other instrument. Perfect example: I suppose in part because relatively few major works have been composed for the viola, Brahms himself later transcribed the two sonatas with the clarinet part adapted for viola. Still beautiful music; but, I don’t hear as much of his voice when performed that way. https://youtu.be/Vi8q54R7ObA |
Amem ,my brother from another mother. I think I’ve read about al there is about Brahms in English . X years ago when I was bi- lingual German / English I read the Muhlfeld Brahms arising in his own words . My hand was shaking . I believe that for sheer intellect Brahms has no better . From a take’s one to know one outlook , I am am positive that he simply had severe PTSD from his father sending him into cafes, aka whore houses, in the worlds largest port with a thousand of same , at barely 13 . Clara Schumann would second it . P.S . IMO bi-lingual is when you dream in both languages and the story remains the same . P.PS .Exactly in the middle of the wall between my speakers hangs a LOVELY Nonsense cover of Brahms Viola Sonatas with Michael Tree viola and the Great Richard Goode piano . I would not sell it for a thousand bucks . |
