tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post239230501342811204..comments2023-12-15T02:38:55.020+10:30Comments on Still Life With Cat: This is not a reviewKerryn Goldsworthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-68619690742221333322009-05-30T09:07:14.316+09:302009-05-30T09:07:14.316+09:30Whoa.Whoa.Helenhttp://castironbalcony.media2.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-15978580524251157782009-05-30T02:13:07.142+09:302009-05-30T02:13:07.142+09:30Isn't that the amazing thing about Bach?
Th...Isn't that the amazing thing about Bach? <br /><br />There's all that intellectual rigour about the craft of making music, and the fact that he got to the guts of explicating the formal rules.<br /><br />But it's not music that makes you feel good just because it was done right. Bach also understood how to impart great emotional power to sound. I know that I can be in the midst of enjoying the contrapuntal complexities of a piece when a slight change of pitch, or a brief oblique reference to an earlier theme, can somehow be so poignant or so joyous that the experience is almost overwhelming. <br /><br />Is Roger W doing the Shostakovich Preludes & Fugues Op 87? The set of pieces he wrote for Tatiana Nikolayeva after hearing her play Bach's WTC? Its an intriguing contrast. Unlike the Bach, the Shostakovich is quirky and idiosyncratic. He seems to have set out to show that one could flaunt the formal rules and still attain similar emotional ends. <br />TFAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-40135781115252014182009-05-29T19:54:17.391+09:302009-05-29T19:54:17.391+09:30"But the music was an extraordinary thing to be in..."But the music was an extraordinary thing to be in the same room as"<br /><br />That's also good: Yiddish? (I'm thinking of the 'what's not to like' construction)Anthonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-58098349899065852722009-05-29T17:14:57.389+09:302009-05-29T17:14:57.389+09:30oh my GOD that description was mesmerising!
The l...oh my GOD that description was mesmerising!<br /><br />The logic of Bach meant that it was the only music I could ever really cope with, yet under my humble fingers I transformed it into very abstract shapes. Tempo Rubato...<br /><br />but I was Very Enthusiastic.fifihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06946945635726214503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-22029047493865345072009-05-29T16:06:52.890+09:302009-05-29T16:06:52.890+09:30Hmm. Would you believe I'm listening to his St Mat...Hmm. Would you believe I'm listening to his St Matthew Passion as I read this? <br /><br />That's a lovely description, and especially true of works for keyboard: great for listening to when writing, I find, as it gives the illusion, at least, of encouraging both clarity and fluency.<br /><br />WV: palitaph, what you get when you scratch out an epitaph and carve something else onto the headstone?This old world is a new worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7459693255389523642.post-2712915019687162009-05-29T15:51:09.120+09:302009-05-29T15:51:09.120+09:30Bach really nailed the 'rules' I think. After Bach...Bach really nailed the 'rules' I think. After Bach, the challenge was to apply them with sophistication, then, in time, to break and bend them. But he perfected the welding of those relationships... <br /><br />Also, like the Beatles with pop, by writing Air on a G String, an absolutely perfect piece of music, he left everyone after with the challenge of coming up with that bit of extra. IMHO.Armagnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05430006925445661524noreply@blogger.com