A 'listening through the Bartok SQs' thread would be pretty cool because those pieces are just so packed full of incidents.
― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, February 12, 2013 11:09 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i don't think i'd have much to contribute but i would definitely listen along
― manti 乒乓 (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
The best part about a Bartok SQs is that there are so few low points, if any, plus 6:iv is the jam, best six minutes of your life and mine
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
*a Bartok SQs thread, implying that listening to it all in sequence ends beautifully; sorry, I'm a little harried
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
My father is admonishing me for my "Beethoven couldn't write fugues" comment, points out the first mvt of no. 14 in c#, fourth mvt of "Hammerklavier" sonata, but goes on to say with dryness that "the gross fugue is aptly titled"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
i will say my fascination with the gross fuge is akin to me staring at a lengthy math equation & marveling at the way it travels aesthetically
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
dry like sauternes
― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
It's 2pm and he's retired, he's allowed.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
flamboyant goon tie I don't know if I know you personally or not but either way you are cracking me up here
― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
Grosse Fuge is amazing. So much tense, twisted beauty.
― Arty, Noisy, Weird, Funky, Punky Pope (crüt), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
(He also told me that Shostakovich was for teenagers and he was right about that also.)
haha, i love this detail
― Z S, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
omg @ the final allegro of the 12th - Beethoven virtually invents Blue Cheer or Killdozer or whoever for 10 seconds (twice)
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 17 January 2015 07:29 (nine years ago) link
'cavatina' from the 13th really bringing me to my knees this morning -- such an intense gut-punch of longing. it feels like it could have been written recently and still would be every bit as moving and fresh
― k3vin k., Saturday, 16 June 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
timely revive - i've been listening to the 13th (and The Große Fuge) a lot the last few days. Cavatina was the final song on the voyager record, too. can't really top that, imo.
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Saturday, 16 June 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link