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In Reply to: RE: Bach Mass in B minor posted by jazz1 on March 09, 2012 at 23:56:31
Like one poster said below...maybe Baroque and Classical period music is just not for you. I've tried to listen to Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Vivaldi and other earlier composers - but anything composed before the 1840's or so, just doesn't grab me. Most of it I find to be too light...and repetitive to the point of being monotonous. Mozart especially, is like listening to tree frogs and crickets chirp for an hour. Give me Wagner, Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky and Sibelius instead.
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It's possible that you really aren't attuned to the Baroque and Classical era composers, but as others have suggested, it may also be that you're listening to the wrong recordings. There's a lot of very dull and unimaginative playing available on records (especially of Mozart and Haydn), and unfortunately, it's often done by big-name artists on major labels, which means that such recordings are often "recommended" on various lists, often by people who actually haven't heard them.
I love baroque music, and as I said Bach is most probably my fav composer
with Haydn, I enjoy most classical music but I did not explore the more
religious side of it, such as the masses.
Their is plenty classical music interpretations I find boring and I am always looking for the ones played with passion.
I can hear a lot to be liked in the Mass in B minor but the Jochum leaves me cold thus my question.
Hmmm. Mozart is, after Bach, the least repetitive composer ever. And the B minor Mass is anything but light! It's one of the grandest works ever penned. No, make that *the* grandest.
I don't now how much you've listened to the earlier music, but it has a more complex syntax than anything on your list, except, in his more inspired moments, Wagner. As such, it requires more effort on the part of the listener -- in the form of lots of listening -- to have an effect. But the effect is commensurately more profound, and well worth it.
"If only I could impress Mozart's inimitable works on the soul of every friend of music, and the souls of high personages in particular, as deeply, with the same musical understanding and with the same deep feeling, as I understand and feel them, the nations would vie with each other to possess such a jewel." - Haydn
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