SR V: To boldly go where no room has gone before

Ricochet wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Ricochet wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: I'm making the new quiz in advance, since Danny may be coming over tomorrow. It should be up either late tonight or tomorrow morning. w00t, new quiz is done. Should I wait until tomorrow morning? Hmm... I'm here. I would do it now; only I gave people until tomorrow to finish all of the quizzes 1-5. However, it's not really that big of a deal, as I could still give them until tomorrow to finish the others and still put up the new one today. It just depends on whether I feel like putting it up now or tomorrow morning, and what other people think. I only meant I am in the mood to play it, should you post it.

What do you think: am I making a deal out of something that doesn't really matter?

MovingPictures07 wrote: Ricochet wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Ricochet wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: I'm making the new quiz in advance, since Danny may be coming over tomorrow. It should be up either late tonight or tomorrow morning. w00t, new quiz is done. Should I wait until tomorrow morning? Hmm... I'm here. I would do it now; only I gave people until tomorrow to finish all of the quizzes 1-5. However, it's not really that big of a deal, as I could still give them until tomorrow to finish the others and still put up the new one today. It just depends on whether I feel like putting it up now or tomorrow morning, and what other people think. I only meant I am in the mood to play it, should you post it. What do you think: am I making a deal out of something that doesn't really matter?

...no.

Raff wrote: Pablo, don't let Micky hear you compare The Hazards of Love to The Snow Goose... He might decide never to speak with you ever again !

*runs to previous page and edits post*

Okay, new quiz is up. I was going to post it in about 16 hours anyway, but I prefer making Saturday the day of quizzes.

Ricochet wrote: TGM: Orb wrote: Ricochet wrote: TGM: Orb wrote: Liszt's piano concerto no. 1 is fantastic, in spite of my customary loathing of orchestras. Ave Rob! Who did you listen with? And stop loathing orchestras. Myself and I, mainly... recording was by Georges Cziffra and the Orchestre de Paris. I don't really loathe orchestras, I just don't always get what they're doing (Stravinsky would probably be my favourite orchestral arranger), and I don't like the best-known composers (by which I mean, Beethoven, Mozart and Tchaikovsky (though there's this one part of Swan Lake that is soooo pretty)) when they're working with orchestras as much as I do when they're writing for smaller groups. And piano trios are probably my favourite classical format. Because I love pianos far too much relative to my ability to play them. And the other three pieces on this one - Totentanz (paraphrase on the 'Dies Irae'), Piano Concerto no. 2 in A and Hungarian Fantasy (which I'd already heard a few times) were also gorgeous. Yeah, my classical knowledge is still tiny, but I'm only really just beginning to begin to understand how much people get out of these pieces emotionally. Rachmaninov in particular (this also rounds off the pretentious circle of progressive rock, jazz and classical) Was only asking which pianist and orchestra was playing, not if you were listening with someone or alone. Cziffra, nice! Don't really know what to say to that "don't know what [orchestras] are doing", but I pretty much guess you don't like music on epic scale as much as chamber and soloistic music. I'm love symphonies myself, especially the grueling complex ones, up to Mahler and the post-romantics, and I'd delve into more from the great orchestrators, plus the moderns.

Ah right , and yeah, Cziffra's playing was fantastic, but, of course, that's probably to be expected.
What I meant really was that I never grew up listening to orchestras - even now I'm pretty lousy at distinguishing instruments in the brass section, or working out what combination of instruments a sound is - and I consequently feel that maybe the orchestra is sometimes doing something that I'm just not noticing or discerning... and, yes, the epicness sometimes feels like bluster or bland ornamentation to me... I love a proper raw, stark and daring sound... not a fan of adding instruments unless they really add something to the piece. In relation to that last bit, there's a Peter Hammill officialised bootleg I desperately need to own, dammit.

Raff wrote: I'll go and try it immediately!

Good luck!

I'll probably study Liszt's First Concerto next, along with Beethoven's Fifth. There's a Bartok Contest next year, and you need one of Liszt's or Bartok's concertos there.

Morte Macabre's pretty good. Symphonic heavy at first, introducing some post-rock-like slow movements, with grave or acoustic nuances, afterwards. I quite enjoy it. 

Ricochet wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Ricochet wrote: Merriwheater....Post...Pavilion? I second this. No one should call you a dreamer.

I'm not sure anyone does!

Took the test... 7 out of 20, but then I'm anything but a post-rock expert!