Mostly chamber music, I'd say. Symphonies are also interesting, but it feels like he's struggling with Beethoven's influence there too much.
Solid friendship or tense (but real) love?
Mostly chamber music, I'd say. Symphonies are also interesting, but it feels like he's struggling with Beethoven's influence there too much.
Solid friendship or tense (but real) love?
The right answerOriginally Posted by Lykren
(although of course chamber music also wasn't that easy for him - what with over ten burned mature string quartets)
Solid friendship.
Raw or well done fillet steak?
Raw.
The Wire or Breaking Bad?
Cool I passed! haha. I play clarinet and of course his sonatas for Clarinet (or Viola, fine) are standard rep. I've never gotten them under my fingers enough to perform them. I play my parts alone though, and they are really rich. Brahms is one of the most downright quirky composers. I mean there's always something going on, some strange passing tone, (he was trying hard to go one further than Beethoven I guess is the conclusion?) but for me, his long term plans/compositional ideals are not always clear.
I have Gould's Brahms, the Intermezzi/Ballades/Rhapsodies one, and I love it. Aren't I not supposed to care for Gould's Romantic interpretations though? Oh well.
Medium? Is that cheating? Raw if it is.
Magic Flute or Don Giovanni? continuing with classical music.
EDIT: Oops, not again! I haven't seen either, so next person can answer that one or my opera question.
Don Giovanni
The Wire or Breaking Bad.
I have only seen The Wire, and that almost twice From what I know of Br(omine) Ba(rium), I'd definitely vote for The Wire after seeing it, though. The Wire is one of the greatest things ever on screen in my opinion.
I have Gould Brahms too, and although I'm far from a Gould fan in general -actually I don't care for any of his other recordings, that disc is wonderful.
Flute, but I must confess that I don't know either one as well as I should (I'm saving for the Jacobs recordings...) Love Nozze, though.
Godfather I or II?
Godfather II...not even close
William Faulkner or Henry James?
P.s. You have to see Breaking Bad; it's unabashedly brilliant.
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What! Gould's Bach is wonderful! So tactile it's like scratching an itch.
Haven't read enough of either so I'll pass that off to the next person.
Godfather II...not even close.
William Faulkner or Henry James?
Sorry, haven't read enough of them either.
Alright.
I just tend to prefer harpsichord in the repertoire, especially in GV.
Mmmmm I've never even heard a harpsichord GV... or much harpsichord in general. Where to start, friend?
Still waiting for someone with an opinion on both Faulkner and James to move this thing along. Anyone?
A literature Forum where people haven't read Faulkner or James, two of the greatest American and Modernist novelists? Unreal. The English departments in some universities these days.
Anyway, William Faulkner or Henry James?...someone who went to a school with a good English dept. will come along.
Haha I will say Faulkner.
I don't remember where I got it -- I think it was from inheriting a computer. . . but I once had a HUGE collection of Bach, played on harpsichord. . . truly wonderful. . . It's one case where you can have good music with a midi -- without some of the depth of other music, but as far as a ton of beautiful music, it's a nice way to go.
Listening to those while doing all kinds of things was really wonderful.
Ukilele or Mandolin (to own and play, not sit there and be looked at ;-)
Nice tact. No worries, we are a very forgiving lot, in general I would say.
Why thank you. And who exactly are "we'? I see thousands of people registered on this forum. So, "we" sounds like something out of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. That's one of my favorite films, so we're (oops) cool...
P.s. Lykren, by the way, had the "tact" to actually call me "disingenuous" on another thread, but I forgave him. I'm the forgiving type as well.
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