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In Reply to: RE: 10 works or composers you never want to hear again posted by rbolaw on August 20, 2016 at 18:09:49
1. Queen - We are the Champions
2. Beatles - Hey Jude
3. Bernstein conducting Mahler on video
4. Bernstein conducting anything else on video
5. Sinatra - New York, New York
6. Leonard Cohen singing Hallelujah
7. Beethoven Appassionata sonata
8. National anthems from obscure countries
9. Any and all Richard Clayderman
10. R.Strauss Dance of 7 Veils with a fat soprano strippingUgh.... feel sick after that.....
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OK - there's one spot (actually two: once in the exposition and once in the recapitulation) where Beethoven has the fortissimo chords battering away in alternating hands. Yes, that seems like an embarrassing miscalculation to me. (Beethoven goes back to his tyro stage and pounds the piano!)
But other than that, the Appassionata is a great piece! Maybe you've been listening to Schnabel too much? ;-)
A low blow, Chris.
Anyway, there's always Richter.
Jeremy
?even Richter?
You know me - I hate anything overblown and melodramatic....I'd lob the opening into the same bag as Tchaikovsky's piano concerto or Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2. No need to wake the dead here....
I like pieces that announce themselves politely and with a sense of mystery. Falla's Noches for instance. Love the opening of Beethoven's 31/3 for instance - just perfect. Or several of the others like 10/3, 27/1, 101, 109, 110. He can get it right when he wants to.
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But that's just what the Appassionata does! Beethoven doesn't get going on the pounding until a couple of lines later!
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