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In Reply to: RE: Rachmaninov....Isle of the Dead posted by Amphissa on August 09, 2016 at 08:06:24
For me, Rachmaninoff is the most overrated, overplayed of any composer in concert halls and radio today. A lot of the adulation of Rachmaninoff is because of the political environment it was written, not the quality of the music, as he was a refugee of, and defiant reactionary against, the modernist Bolshevik rebellion, which has now fortunately collapsed and disappeared.
Most of his music is mediocre. What melodies do turn up are often trite, and there is a lot of inconsequential filler. But then, I'm not an expert on Rachmaninoff's music.
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"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
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You remember that - the article that discussed Rachmaninoff's mediocre, trite, and inconsequential music, and predicted that his music would quickly fall by the wayside. After all, it shared the same kind of vulgarity with Hollywood movie music. True connoisseurs would never lower their standards to accept music like Rachmaninoff's.
Are you still waiting for this to happen? ;-)
from several earlier posts by Amphissa. You don't think I could come up which such incisive prose, do you? I just substituted "Rachmaninoff" for "Shostakovich".
Of course, Amphissa is correct - those terms more properly apply to Shostakovitch! ;-)
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