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Topic: Tchaik Grande Sonata (Read 1388 times)

jehangircama

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Tchaik Grande Sonata

on: December 01, 2007, 04:53:02 PM

I just heard a recording of this piece- haven't seen any posts or discussions abt it over here. I enjoyed listening to it. Why isn't it played more often?

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Kassaa

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Re: Tchaik Grande Sonata

Reply #1 on: December 01, 2007, 05:21:55 PM

Because it's trash. Tedious, structureless unintelligent writing and the music goes absolutely nowhere. Hardly seems worth the sixty pages of studying. That's what most of the people I talked to say. I more or less agree, it's indeed tedious and way too long, but it has some nice moments though.