well, because one thing leads to another
OMG why do we not walk down the street like this?!
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I cannot like the Sugar Hill Gang, because I know the history of Rappers Delight.
Just as if you posted _Planet Roc_k, I wouldn’t be able to like that either; because I now know about Afrika Bambatta’s predatory antics.
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Sometimes the body moves to things and we don’t know why. I wish we didn’t know why.
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Sounds like you could be into Schoenberg also.
“Maybe I’m just like my mother; she’s never satisfied…”
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If you look upstream here a bit, you’ll find a two-piano arrangement (by Webern) of Vergangenes (from the Five Orchestral Pieces) and a video of Verklärte Nacht as well, both of which I put up, so, yeah, it’s a pretty safe bet. Schoenberg was, when well-played, so frequently brilliant.
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Mitsuko Uchida is a great (IMHO best) bet for well-played Schoenberg.
We’ve watched S’s Pierrot Lunaire DVD more than a few times; always fresh and revealing. Chamber music with (then revolutionary) spoken words!
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Uchida is indeed good, but for the Piano Concerto, my go-to pianist was Brendel: the (now very old) version with Rafael Kubelik conducting the Bavarian Radio Orchestra. He caught the Viennese in Schoenberg’s music very well.
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I’ll definitely look for that.
I learned about Schoenberg via Gould, but his treatment is a touch analytical. (I go to Gould for Bach, though.)
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Gould’s best composer, in my experience, was Hindemith. He played Schoenberg too dryly - you have to spring the rhythms a bit to make AS flow properly. His Hindemith was by comparison very lively.
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Example of Gould’s Hindemith:
Unfortunately, his TV performances are pretty much all you find of Gould on YouTube. His recordings were done for Columbia/CBS, and that catalogue is now owned by Sony. (Chances are good that, if I can’t watch a video on an official channel because it’s blocked in my country, Canadians being such notorious pirates, it will be a Sony video.) His recordings of the Hindemith sonatas were superb.
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I’ll have to check out his Hindemith on YT!
Now, I have the Gould DVDs which include Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Scriabin, etc., the Goldberg Variations (from 1981; incredible technique), and all including his always interesting, yet odd and overly pedantic, opinions and observations. I love hearing musicians discuss music.
Last night I found on Amazon the Deutsche Grammophon pressing of Brendel with the BRO . Along with Schoenberg it includes Berg’s Violin Concerto. I had to refer to my Grammophon Good CD Guide to make sure that this pressing sourced the original VOX (1959 or thereabouts); it apparently does. At least one other label covers this, that being Universal Classics. I have no idea how the sound compares between the two; unless you know, I’ll google about for reviews to nail down a label.
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