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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Thanks all, sounds like Otello is next try. No offense to Verdi, but listening to Aida *after* digesting posted by jdaniel@jps.net on January 19, 2016 at 19:48:12:
I know what you mean, and I also find Verdi to be rather conservative. But, we approach masterpieces for what they bring to us, rather than what we wish they were.
Yes, of course, after listening to Strauss any earlier composers will sound less extravagent. Particularly after Strauss. But, that's not a fair comparison. Strauss was of the generation that followed the mid-19th century Romantics such as Verdi. His generation was the one that ushered in the 20th century. Keep in mind that furthermore, Strauss was a considered to be a revolutionary in his time; a radical even. He paid the price by being hounded and ridiculed by critics for his radical harmonic procedures; the very ones for which we so enjoy Strauss.
I'm struck by your post and your call for chromatisism. It's that chromatisim that makes all of the great musics of the very late 19th century and early 20th century come alive, and makes it my ultra favorite period of music. So, it's particularly ironic, even stingingly so, that those academics are always ripping the late Romantics for using chromatisism. They rip Mahler, Strauss, Holst and all of that group apart for the very thing that we love in their music. What a bunch of twits. I once had a spat with Stereophile critic Richard Lennart over his ravaging of Strauss's chromatisism. Of course, Lennart's mostly a pop/rock dude who happened to wander into the dark waters of classical music, so he doesn't know what he's talking about. But, he was aping the undigested crapola he'd read from the critic hard liners.
For Strauss, incidentally, irony came to roost. Having suffer the slings and arrows in his prime for being a musical radical, he then became considered an arch conservative; a figure representing the dying tonal post Romantic style [the so-called late 19th century style] in the face of 20th century radicalism espoused by such new radicals as Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, Iannis Xenaksis, and the like.
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Follow Ups
- Yes, But That's A Bit Unfair - Mike Porper 08:21:29 01/22/16 (1)
- No doubt, but after my garlic and onion epiphany, it's hard to go back. nt - jdaniel@jps.net 08:32:08 01/22/16 (0)
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