Am I ready for Menter's 'Nightwish' Sonata?

[michel dvorsky]

I love Marc-Andre Hammerlings' recording of this piece on the Hibernian label. Only question is? ami ready to play it?

Songs I've platyed so far:

• Fur Elise Cuthbert - Bach arr. Coldplay
• Zenakis' Everyman
• Bumblebee song by Risky-Korkaloff
• Mandelson Song Without Word - "Jaghermeister"

Also, I've played in international competitions (i.e., I won my highschool piano prize)

[weissenberg2]

LOL

[thalbergmad]

There are definately some hard songs in your repetoire. My own opinion is that you will probably get banned before you get a chance to play this mantlepiece.

I played Chopins - Raindrops keep falling on my head prelude at the Rampton Hospital Talent Contest in 1986 and i got 4th prize.

Thal

[ahinton]

Bach arr. Coldplay

...if only he had...

• Zenakis' Everyman

Evryalistair knows that's wrong...

• Bumblebee song by Risky-Korkaloff

Is that the same thing that's better known as The Bum of the Flightlebee?

• Mandelson Song Without Word - "Jaghermeister"

Mandelson without words would be a delight over here in UK.

But I thought that Menter (i.e. Sophie) was a singer...

Best,

Alistair

[retrouvailles]

I would laugh at this, but I remember the unfortunate consequences of the last thread.

[pies]

You forgot Neon Leon

[communist]

Your making your self look like a bigger *ss than Ikedian 

[pianowolfi]

• Mandelson Song Without Word - "Jaghermeister"

Hehe, how many "Jaghermeister" did you drink before posting this? ;D

[ahinton]

You forgot Neon Leon

No, pies - we all forgot you. Easily done - and you make it easier still than otherwise it might be...

Best,

Alistair

[nanabush]

wow, Menter's 'Nightwish' Sonata the mantelpiece.   

[ahinton]

wow, Menter's 'Nightwish' Sonata the mantelpiece.   

Or "mentalpies", perhaps; that said, there may be plenty of others around here who suffer unduly from night wind......

Best,

Alistair

[ronde_des_sylphes]

But I thought that Menter (i.e. Sophie) was a singer...

Best,

Alistair

You did? 

She was a pianist, and a highly attractive one by all accounts. Liszt had a very positive view of her, so to speak.

[lostinidlewonder]

You should first study the Pathetic Sonata.... song.... from Beefoven.

[quantum]

You should first study the Pathetic Sonata.... song.... from Beefoven.

do I get fries with that?

Should go Chopin some lettuce first. 

[ahinton]

You did? 

She was a pianist, and a highly attractive one by all accounts. Liszt had a very positive view of her, so to speak.

OK, so misfired joke again; never mind!...

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

do I get fries with that?

Should go Chopin some lettuce first. 

And while you're about it, don't forget Laser Dues and the Apache Nutter - and, of course, the sonata that Beethoven composed for Hamelin and accordingly entitled the Hammerklavier...

Then, of course, there's Holst's Jew pitta (the bringer of jolly tea) - and there's Delius's Song of the High Heels - and the piece that Vaughan Williams wrote about Gravesend that he called Toward the Unknown Region. Elgar, who hailed from near the border between England and Wales, gave us his symphonic study False Taff -and we must not forget Wagner's musikdrama about the collapse of Persia, Parsi Fall.

Best,

Alistair

[michel dvorsky]

and we must not forget Wagner's musikdrama about the collapse of Persia, Parsi Fall.

Best,

Alistair

Wagner also composed that wonderful ode to the frustrated baker: "G0ddamn Merangue!"

[gep]

Or "mentalpies", perhaps; that said, there may be plenty of others around here who suffer unduly from night wind......

Best,

Alistair

Haydn did; after all, he wrote the Fart-well symphony.

Anyone hear Smetana's The Mildew recently?

Or Mahler's big boner Reserection Symphony (with final chorus "Auferstehn, ja auferstehn wirst du")?

gep

[ahinton]

Haydn did; after all, he wrote the Fart-well symphony.

But that was but one work of many that he wrote; one may accordingly presume that the Norwegian composer Fartein Valen suffered from it all his life.

Anyone hear Smetana's The Mildew recently?

I haven't, but I did listen to a production of his The Buttered Bread.

Or Mahler's big boner ReserectionSymphony (with final chorus "Auferstehn, ja auferstehn wirst du")?

And that's such a long piece too, is it not? (though isn't its correct title Raise Erection?) - but then Mahler is so often wonderfully horny, whereas his earlier compatriot Schubert was only ever a winter riser - and an unfinished one at that...

Best,

Alistair

[gep]

I did listen to a production of his The Buttered Bread.

I thought that piece was called The Battered Bride! I stand corrected!
What do you think of Sortachoughitch's opera The Hose? Or Straywhisky's The Failed Bird?
And what about PDQ Bach's opera The Stoned Guest?

Personally I like Messyawn's Trallalahoopla Symphony quite a bit! Unlike Procoughjew's *** Sonatas, they're bit bit cheap...

from: gep on Today at 05:51:42 AM
Or Mahler's big boner ReserectionSymphony (with final chorus "Auferstehn, ja auferstehn wirst du")?

And that's such a long piece too, is it not? (though isn't its correct title Raise Erection?)

Long it may be, but it never gets really hard!

gep

NB: one of the above is a real piece, under that name!

[tanman]

if you like the nightwish song, then you should try the moonfright sonata song by mozart 

[ahinton]

if you like the nightwish song, then you should try the moonfright sonata song by mozart  

Oh, please don't start that one again!

By the way, in case anyone has any doubts, I can assure the forum that Robin Holloway's Domination of Black has no connection with our esteemed forum member Richard (and I've no reason to assume that he's into that kind of thing anyway).

Best,

Alistair

[lontano]

Is that the same thing that's better known as The Bum of the Flightlebee?

Wasn't that the song that crippled guy sang played in the movie "Glare"? I think it's part MacRomanoff's Symphony that his dad made him play all day.

[lostinidlewonder]

Why do I feel so hungry reading this thread?

[cygnusdei]

I played Gazpacho de lanai in my recital - they loved it!

[pies]

A

[kay3087]

Does anyone know where to find the sheet music for Op. 5 by "Menter"? In real life format.

[retrouvailles]

Does anyone know where to find the sheet music for Op. 5 by "Menter"? In real life format.

https://imslp.org/wiki/Romance,_Op.5_%28Menter,_Sophie%29

[kay3087]

Many thanks, though I was asking for the sheet music in a book. I also need Medtner's Op. 5, if anyone can help.

[thetamman]

hahahaha this definitely made my day

[arensky]

I love Marc-Andre Hammerlings' recording of this piece on the Hibernian label. Only question is? ami ready to play it?

You wish!