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What is this thread about, objectively speaking?
Hey can anyone recommend anymore pipe organ music? I know this sounds kind of an odd request.
it's the all inclusive of topics. where self proclaimed objectivists talk about the great mysteries of stuff. it's so open minded we didn't even bother bringing a real board and a room.What is this thread about, objectively speaking?
it's the all inclusive of topics. where self proclaimed objectivists talk about the great mysteries of stuff. it's so open minded we didn't even bother bringing a real board and a room.
It's also kind of shocking to realize that many of these talented and fine composers produced hours and hours of quality music back in the day, but in some cases 5 minutes worth of it is all that has survived to us.
Had Mendelssohn not "re-discovered" J.S. Bach, somebody else would have eventually. Brahms? Reger? Taneyev? Somebody would have.It's even more shocking than that. Today, JS Bach is of course one of just a handful of the most widely known composers in history and yet within about 40 years of his death he was almost completely unknown, outside the small group of scholars/studying composers. Mendelssohn is widely credited as (re)popularising JS Bach with the general public. So, it's maybe not so shocking that numerous other talented composers and works vanished for good. Of course today we have recording technology but of all the hundreds of great popular pieces of music in the last 40 years or so, I wonder how many of them will still be known in a couple of centuries or so?
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@RRod , you have historically informed performances, which are based on scriptures and on the mechanics of the available instruments at the time. So it's not randomly chosen, but if you talk about performances from the 50's by the likes of Karajan, then that's different and I am not entirely sure what they based their interpretation on.
That is my objection to HIP. I think the performer's interpretation of the work is just as important as the composer's intent. It's interesting to hear music played on instruments contemporary with the time it was created, but to me, it's only interesting that way as a curate's egg. I want the conductor and performers to add something of themselves to the music, not just meticulously reproduce something from hundreds of years ago. Art is a living thing... at least until it's bottled up in formaldehyde and set on a shelf. I don't want to live long enough to see that happen.