Re: What are you listening to?
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:28 pm
Did you just bite off more than you could chew...?Seán wrote:I gave up on Bach's B Minor Mass earlier
Did you just bite off more than you could chew...?Seán wrote:I gave up on Bach's B Minor Mass earlier
Sorry, I don't mean to be disrepectful (as I know you'd be able to cite all kinds of music I can't get a grip of) but I must clearly be missing something here... I was completely bowled over by Bach's Mass in B, the very first time I heard it... what exactly would there be to 'bite off'?? :-/Diapason wrote:Did you just bite off more than you could chew...?Seán wrote:I gave up on Bach's B Minor Mass earlier
I feel the exact same way, but I'd rarely listen to it all in one sitting. There's just so much music here that I often think it's better broken into smaller pieces. Given its provenance, I don't feel "guilty" doing that here, whereas I might with other works.Jared wrote:I was completely bowled over by Bach's Mass in B, the very first time I heard it... what exactly would there be to 'bite off'?? :-/
I'll trythe Suzuki next. I shouldn't try and listen to new music when I am very, very tired, it's too much like hard work I suppose. I will not give up on Bach, I'd be a fool to do so. His instrumental music is simply wonderful, all of it, I love it.Diapason wrote:Did you just bite off more than you could chew...?Seán wrote:I gave up on Bach's B Minor Mass earlier
LOLJared wrote:Seán wrote:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Paysages-French ... 959&sr=1-1
I wouldn't mind you posting that picture every so often, as personally I find her ridiculously cute...
the Butcher voting goes like this:Diapason wrote:Back in the Usenet days, on the classical newsgroups, the B minor mass was regularly voted the greatest piece of music ever written.
Tsk tsk. Where's Belshazzar's Feast then? ;-) :-DJared wrote: Fave 20th Century Choral Work: Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, then RVW: Sancta Civitas
I'm sure that lot will cause some upset and consternation... ;-)
Simon, please let me introduce you to over two hours of sheer delight:Diapason wrote:I don't know that Dvorak requiem at all...
I enjoy it, but like Elgar's Falstaff, it simply doesn't quite grip me in the same way, Darren...bombasticDarren wrote:Tsk tsk. Where's Belshazzar's Feast then? ;-) :-DJared wrote: Fave 20th Century Choral Work: Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, then RVW: Sancta Civitas
I'm sure that lot will cause some upset and consternation... ;-)