Album Rating: 4.5

Some m/ shit right here

lol no shit :D

what'd'ya listen to specifically

The found about three of them for the first time, but I specifically listened to Natura Renovatur by Giacinto Scelsi the 2nd time around.

It's been a while since I listened to something that made me feel the way that album did. :/

it made you feel what

bored?

not really bored, it flustered me. after a while, I was shaking. I was engaged by it, but I didn't
enjoy it, like I was cringing to it. the entire time, I felt like something was going to happen,
something big, but it never did.

yeah dude bach's suites rule omg #4 lajfd
also love 6, prefer maisky's interpretation tho

ooh, my friend would always play suite #1 in class. it was always a pleasure to hear. ^_^

#1's prelude is one of those things that i feel like is just used way too fuckin' much. it's an awesome piece tho so it doesn't suffer the way 4 seasons does from overexposure

your friend is no fournier

but fuk, i'm obsessed with his cello suites, i've got six recordings (Casals, Wang, Fournier, Queyras, Rostropovich, Bylsma), might get more, Maisky you say?

my friend (knows way more about classical than me, also a cellist) isn't too fond of maisky tho so beware. i know there was one performance from maisky that he really liked but that was it. it might've been #6.

sure but as a pianist i despise fur elise, i don't even know how to objectively rate it anymore because i'm so sick of it (and honestly i haven't heard it played in about 5-6 years...), even though i had to do a lot of analysis to play it properly for a concert

ok better example, bach's 1st cello suite's prelude. i'd prob 3.0 it or so, not b/c it isn't a great piece but b/c i've heard it so much.

if i were a cellist i'd prob hate it even more b/c so many cellists play it

i'm not talking about hearing it so much that you get sick of it (I think we're on two different discussions here), i'm talking about how a long and focused detailed analysis of this can leads to a much stronger appreciation of this piece because it's so goddamn cool and amazing and all that shit


also if we're gonna talk about cello pieces that need to stop being performed constantly I nominate fucking Saint Saens' Cello Concerto. THERE ARE OTHER CELLO CONCERTI IN THE WORLD, PEOPLE

you don't think that kind of analysis requires listening to it so much you get sick of it? for my piano exams i listened to my piece probably 1000 times by a performer my teacher recommended. and honestly i'm a mediocre pianist. but maybe people do musical analysis differently idk

i don't even know that cello concerto (or do i?) all i know is that elgar's and dvorak's are two of my favorite pieces of all time and i don't think either is underperformed

elgar's and dvorak's are two of my favorite pieces of all time [2]

Shostakovich also




but they're all behind Bach's, of course

gotta get in to classical music

Shosty's cello pieces are the shit, ugh

you don't think that kind of analysis requires listening to it so much you get sick of it?

edit: nvm