A lot of new music I don't like, but I usually shrug. Different strobes for deferrent phobes, after all. But Ades' music--- my impeccable fraud detector goes off. His utter lack of irony tells me he might be fooling himself as well as trendy gullibles. And Dave, I couldn't slog through Jane Austen, either. Like Sorabji?
I think this piece (and the majority of Adès' music) is amazing. People seem to be concerned with the intelectual rather than the aural. I find this work tantalisingly fragile and i'm not even going to compare it to Sting's interpretation of the Dowland song... Well... I might just mention it...
A lovely and innocent melody is battered, raped, and murdered by a brutal and mindless accompaniment. A pastiche, like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?
@MrAgnostikos A little dramatic don't you think.... Although I'd rather staple my scrotum to a searingly hot radiator than trudge through another Jane Austen novel so we might not be of the same opinion.
He may be one of the first not to use irony or express angst in his quotation, but that doesn't make him a fraud. It makes him a different composer.
PhysiqueQuantique 10 months ago
Semplice e geniale!
marioguidoscappucci 11 months ago
A lot of new music I don't like, but I usually shrug. Different strobes for deferrent phobes, after all. But Ades' music--- my impeccable fraud detector goes off. His utter lack of irony tells me he might be fooling himself as well as trendy gullibles. And Dave, I couldn't slog through Jane Austen, either. Like Sorabji?
MrAgnostikos 11 months ago
@MrAgnostikos Call it what you will, I simply call it good music and enjoy it. Life is so much nicer when you view it in that light.
QuantikMusic 8 months ago
I think this piece (and the majority of Adès' music) is amazing. People seem to be concerned with the intelectual rather than the aural. I find this work tantalisingly fragile and i'm not even going to compare it to Sting's interpretation of the Dowland song... Well... I might just mention it...
daveisgr81 11 months ago
A lovely and innocent melody is battered, raped, and murdered by a brutal and mindless accompaniment. A pastiche, like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?
MrAgnostikos 1 year ago
@MrAgnostikos A little dramatic don't you think.... Although I'd rather staple my scrotum to a searingly hot radiator than trudge through another Jane Austen novel so we might not be of the same opinion.
daveisgr81 11 months ago
Wonderful. A piece in darkness, you see only some contours of the song. Great portrait of Dowland.
edufern1 1 year ago
Curiously tedious. This could be a joke.
MrAgnostikos 1 year ago
Very good! I'd never heard this particular Ades piece before. I love it.
AdamDavies13 2 years ago