I was the other vote for verstummen
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 14 May 2020 02:44 (three years ago) link
*tacit high five, which soon becomes a meticulously choreographed mystical hand dance*
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 May 2020 02:46 (three years ago) link
Ah! I tried to start some desperate last-hours listening in last night, but got a) impatient by how everything I tried seemed to start with soft, slow openings, taking too much time to get going*, and b) soon distracted by other matter that came up, so that I forgot to vote after all. The combination of which means you might possibly consider there to be a phantom "1" after Ustvolskaya's 6th sonata.
*) not really too much time obv, just too much compared to what time I felt I had
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 14 May 2020 06:26 (three years ago) link
I was the only schnittke voter, his popularity & reputation has dropped massively in the last few decades it seems, shame imo
― What's (Left), Thursday, 14 May 2020 12:49 (three years ago) link
what's wrong with being insipid?
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Thursday, 14 May 2020 12:54 (three years ago) link
Schnittke remains top-tier imo. I considered voting for the 4th SQ, one of his most under-appreciated works. The final movement in particular is a spectrogram of pure pain and it still guts me every time, even though I've heard it enough times to know that it provides solace in extremis only to steal it away from the listener.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 May 2020 12:55 (three years ago) link