So I gave BEETHOVEN a chance. If this doesn't unleash wrath on me nothing will.

[UTUSN]

From the internet know-it-alls/gourmet/connoisseurs, yadda yadda "the LATE quartets" the "GROSSE FUGUE" yeah right. Ptooie.

If I've said it once I've said it a million times: Melody MELODY *MELODY*!1 So I DELETED those ahead-their-time things.

The Civilized will be glad to know I am listening to the TUNEFUL things right now, the violin sonata/concerto, the piano Emperor. That's what I'm talking about, soon back to my lateR Romantics (you know what I'm talking about, Pyotr).

[UTUSN]

1. O.K., I cave and go wild with the crowd. I'm so commercial. The "Emperor" is up (*next* after this:

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What "caving and going with the crowd" meant was abandoning the arcanely sophisticated Late works in favor of the "popular" stuff. *Stuff*!1 Did I call Ludwig's oeuvre *STUFF* like so much crayon-on-the-frig?!1

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Whatever blows your skirt up. I like the late quartets

and the last piano sonatas, Ops. 109, 110 and 111. And Fidelio.

[UTUSN]

3. Why would a piano put up with following a long, GLORIOUS orchestral "introduction" (Emperor).

Can it handle it?!1 Looks like we have a YES!1

[Manifestor_of_Light]

10. Sometimes

I play the easier piano sonatas. Easy is a relative term. I don't think they are easy, and I will never play them as fast as a professional does. But they are satisfying. Plus the Pathetique Sonata. My first love in piano composition is the Chopin Waltzes. I worked on them as a 12-year-old and I know several of them very well. My second love is Mendelssohn (songs without words, Volume 6.)

[kentauros]

4. This might help you appreciate Beethoven more:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

11. Bobby Cornu really flubbed that entrance! He might get traded!

[kentauros]

12. It looks like we have an injury in the bass section.

It looks like it's a groin injury, Pete! That's what happens when the basses get too close together.

[malthaussen]

15. Poor guy could not hold it together for that sequence.

Always fun to watch somebody lose it.

-- Mal

[Manifestor_of_Light]

17. French grip or German grip?

Either way, it's dangerous.

[UTUSN]

5. Actually, I'm hearing some TCHAIKOVSKY here

[BeyondGeography]

6. Beethoven was a punk

Bless him.

[UTUSN]

8. Bwah-HAH Thanks!1 Let it be known to Lounge that I am not a total barbarian,

that OF COURSE I am familiar and amazed with the predictable popular MASSIVE parts I know, but I've been AWAY and out of touch for decades - nay, SCORES. My final pronouncement is not "slowness" but rather: Stateliness, more than I've been accustomed to in the interim.

[UTUSN]

9. *Don't* I?!1 Or...

[kentauros]

13. Ode to Joy

Tomita

Wendy Carlos

Taking the 5th

Portsmouth Sinfonia

Walter Murphy

[UTUSN]

14. A modest appeal to the Highest Authorities of Lounge: An emoticon for Tongue-in-Cheek

(or tongue/somewhere)

[malthaussen]

16. On a more serious note, I was listening to the Chailly/LGO versions recently...

... the faster tempi really make a difference. They seem to emphasize the point that Ludwig was a revolutionary composer, overturning long-established practice.

-- Mal

[KamaAina]

18. Oh. I thought you meant the movie about the dog.

Now that would unleash wrath on you!

[UTUSN]

19. You "get" me, you really really "get" me!1 n/t