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The first post is already there, and I will be delighted to have my music friends (you know who you are, folks) pay me a visit. Comments and suggestions will be very much appreciated.
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Just a couple of days ago I got from the library the "originals" reissue of Michelangeli's Debussy (Preludes and Images) simply because I was curious to double check my earlier impressions of "originals" by comparing it to the first CD issues which I've had for a long time. Again - exactly the same unpleasant effect! A sharper image with pronouncedly more metallic (or even glassy) sound. Forget about Michelangeli's subtle "gold coins wrapped in velvet and dropped on Italian marble floor" upper register. What I heard instead was "steel slugs dropped on the glass top of a coffee table". Nor was there any warmth left in the piano lower octaves - just the wiry, thin (and, yes, sharp) bass notes flaring in a total aural vacuum...
Of course, this perception maybe just a phenomenological perversity on my part. So I thought to post this rant to see if there is another soul in the world who hears DG efforts the way I do (i.e., as gimmickry that nearly vandalizes the recorded treasures.)
Greek youths are trying to make a point...
Here is a quote from one of these "youths":
"Speaking as an anarchist, we want to create those social conditions that will generate more uprisings and to get more people out in the streets to demand their rights," said 32-year-old protester Paris Kyriakides.
"In the end, the violence that we use is minimal in comparison to the violence the system uses, like the banks," Kyriakides said. [italics mine]
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Here we go again: It is banks that perpetrate violence (slapping customers on the cheek with deposit slips???) And the peace-loving young men - like Mr Kyriakides - just set cops on fire, burn buildings and demolish cars - really no big deal, compared to what the monsters in three-piece suits do by forcing people to work(!!!) for living... (those vicious corporate bastards!)
A truly sad publicity for the descendants of Plato, Aristotle and Euclid...
I hope things will calm down soon in beautiful Greece, and that a few of those young heads (including Mr Kyriakides') get cracked wide open by batons along the way, so that maybe some brains can be implanted in the empty space inside. Otherwise the worldwide sales of Plato's Dialogues will plummet, and people all over the world will start watching TV instead of immersing themselves nightly in the heated philosophical debates about Virtue, Knowledge, Truth and Mathematics!
И так, первый шедевр запавший мне в душу:
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"For some time now the death of serialism has repeatedly been proclaimed. Yet all the lushly scored, tonally grounded neo-Romantic works that have been written over the last 20 years by a new generation of composers trying to win back audiences to new music have made all those knotty old 12-tone pieces sound more invigorating than ever. I would rather hear a Boulez chamber work or the Babbitt piano music than any crowd-pleasing piece by Richard Danielpour. "
Anthony Tomassini
Chief Music Critic
New York Times
July 9, 2000
(italics mine).
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After reading this I began to think of Tomassini in far more positive terms than I ever did before...
"Художественные оформления" сопровождающие выкладываемую мной музыку изредка вызывают возмущённо-брезгливые комментарии - комментарии в которых чувствуется обида за (дорогие сердцу) мной испоганенные "символы". Такого рода комментарии привели меня к следующему выводу:
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Since it is in no way related to music, I decided to post the picture separately in my LJ.
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