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In Reply to: RE: A Classical Music Work You Really Cannot Listen To posted by John C. - Aussie on August 08, 2015 at 20:57:34
I like a lot of Beethoven sonatas, and curiously the most played give me the most trouble. The first movement of the Moonlight is frankly boring, to me at least.The Appassionata seems to me to be "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing....". I think the actual thematic material of the first movement is relatively weak and it's just an anger fest - a genius flailing around in some kind of rant against the world. It's disturbing....
As they say in school, "Discuss........."
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Partly due to I played it too many times when I was a kid.
Sick of it now.
I've never liked those sudden fortissimo chords which alternate between the two hands - such a cheap effect! (It can be mitigated a bit if the pianist plays them poco piu mosso IMHO.) The second and third movements are wonderful though. In the third movement, I always think about the story of the great Rubinstein (i.e., ANTON Rubinstein) playing the movement so fast that, by the time he got to the coda, his arms and fingers locked up and he couldn't go on, slamming the piano lid down in disgust - the audience is said to have gone wild with cheers and applause! Even Czerny says the the last movement should not be played too fast, but my imprint performances were Richter and Moravec, so I've never liked performances with more moderate tempos - LOL!
One problem may be that you've simply heard it and/or played it too often. I find it hard to listen to Beethoven's fifth symphony, especially the first movement, for that reason.
Beethoven's relentlessness can wear you out. He never knew there would be recordings and people listening to the same thing endlessly. In his time he had only one chance to grab the listener by the throat.
The late string quartets are another matter.
It's embedded in lots of his music, isn't it?
:-)!
He was going to be HEARD!!!
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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