Where can I find recordings of more of Christopher Fox's works (i.e. etudes, sonatas)? Are there any other exponents of Finnissy other than Pace? Not that I necessarily have something against Pace but I'd like alternative examples. Similarly, where can I find a full version of The Road? I've only seen excerpts on Amazon, played by Rzewski himself.Oh, and how do you pronounce Rzewski? I thought I knew, but I heard people pronouncing it both "reh-ZEW-ski" and "reh-CHEV-ski" and now I'm confused.~Max~
1. Different Fox.2. Hodges, Knoop, Henck, that dutch fag who plays the Barlow.3. Live performance vid.4. JEFF-skee; the J is like the Z in "azure".
Whether or not my questions - reference to which has, incidentally, no need of your inverted commas - were posed with a view to serving anything that you might believe to be a useful purpose is, of course, your personal prerogative to decide (for yourself, that is). That said, I remind you that the exchange was as follows. You wroteRemarkably, this thread began in the most inane of questions and ended with one of most bookish arguments I have ever seen in these forums.The notion that this thread began with what you claim to believe may be an inane question is open to reasonable challenge if not all other contributors thereto happen to share your view, as indeed is demonstrably the case; my questioning of your belief as to its inanity was therefore equally reasonable.I drew your attention to the fact that this wa snot the first time that the subject had been raised in this or other fora and accordingly asked you - in a non-combative manner - what it was that made you assume that this particular instance of it is "remarkable" and that, if you believe the "argument" here to have been "bookish", what kinds of "book" you had in mind when so stating? Again, not unreasonable or combative.I stated that "the question is not, I believe, an inane one in and of itself, even though I do feel that it may well be an over-estimated and misunderstood one that may not necessarily appear to address the reasons for and background to the various difficulties concerned - nor, perhaps, even the great variety of the difficulties themselves". Again, the fact that I happen not to coincide with your view 100% and stated as much was reasonable and done in a non-combative manner.The questions were therefore simple. No pedantry was accordingly involved, any more than was any desire to "correct" your perfectly reasonable choice of words (even though I did not entirely agree with them) or indeed anyone else's.Best,Alistair
Honestly speaking, interpretating this gives me a lot of headache. Is such elevated diction necessary in.... an frickin' internet forum? Many times, I can't take you - as renowned a figure in music as you are - seriously because of your almost comedic bombast.
"Oh and by the way, I have the sheet music for Opus C if people are interested"Yeah blfatminor i'd be interested. Do you want anything in return? (i do mean anything )
Take something for it, then. I'm not sure that I am the renowned figure in music that you state, but I thank you sincerely for the compliment inany case. So, by your own apparent admission, you can't take things comedic? Ah, well...Best,Alistair
I could certainly take comedy. But I pose you the question whether you want to be perceived as such.
And while we're about it (and since you refer to matters to do with humour), it seems odd that you omit the "C" from your forum ID when the real Schönberg is famously supposed to have claimed that there was still plenty of fine music yet to be written in C major" (or whatever his real words were)...Best,Alistair
Oh yeah kudos to that guy on the fake repertoire - it's very impressive. The giveaway is that "Bach Italian Concerto" is listed in the orchestral section thereby proving he has no clue what he's on about.
hahaha a good point. If there were an excuse, it is that I made this ID when I was around 10 and my spelling was, at best, haphazard.
Hey guys! How goes it? Hey, I was just wondering: what's the hardest piano piece ever written?
Nice catch.Quote from the third link:"Anyone who plays piano is my instant friend."Is that so? Apparently you have instantly became friends with a lot of "ignorant fucktards," yes?
I'm sure you could find at least one recording of me if you decided to look.
Hodges, Knoop, Henck, that dutch fag who plays the Barlow.
You could also have mentioned Jonathan Powell, who has played ECT, the complete Verdi transcriptions and the last four of the piano concertos - and let's not forget the composer himself!...
Jonathan Powell's on-line repertoire list lists only Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 6. Perhaps his blog needs an update?
Topic: Hardest piece ever written? 