Gloomy improvisation

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Either that, or I was secretly practising octaves 

[ted]

I cannot say I found it gloomy at all, perhaps poignant in the usual sense of much music in that it speaks of inaccessible ecstasy, you know, like Keats's "faery lands forlorn". There are at least two ways of looking at it: either we see music as a lasting apotheosis of exceptional associations, moments and states of mind in ordinary life, or as representing ecstatic experience totally beyond anything in life. The latter obviously contains an intrinsic sadness but I wouldn't describe it as gloom. Or perhaps it is just that I don't bother listening to music I find truly gloomy. Anyway, very enjoyable as always.

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Thanks ted. It's maybe more melancholy than outright gloomy. The piano actually needs a bit of tuning in the treble; how easy that's going to be to arrange in the current environment is another matter! I could see myself doing quite a bit of improvisation in the next month the way things are looking.

[quantum]

More like how a gloomy day reveals certain beauties in nature that are otherwise obscured on a blue sky day.

There were parts that reminded me of of Medtner's 1st concerto.