How is it possible that an English composer, Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, made a piece named after vodka, and yet I haven't ever heard of any Russian composers writing anything related to vodka!
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Segei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff, Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, et cetera, would compose much better after drinking vodka!
It's wonderful to hear this! My teacher studied with Bax and intorduced me fleetingly to this piece nearly forty years ago. Many thanks for posting!---David Thomas Roberts
(1) of little weight or importance (2) having no sound basis (as in fact or law), like a frivolous lawsuit. (3) lacking in seriousness, or (4) marked by levity. Entering a vodka shop is no act of expressing excessive or unseemly frivolity. It is a place where asteroids of denial and depression splash up against earthy worlds of hope, delusional and otherwise. Listening to Bax's "In a Vodka Shop" is serious music. Let the musicologists explain.
It's lamentable how underrated (or, at least, relatively unknown) Bax is. I quite enjoyed this piece--frivolous, but not absurd. Now and then, I hear sections that remind me of Liszt. Lovely piece, and a very clean performance.
Delightful piece. Imagine it played by a pianist with a lighter touch.
AulicExclusiva 1 month ago
How is it possible that an English composer, Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, made a piece named after vodka, and yet I haven't ever heard of any Russian composers writing anything related to vodka!
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Segei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff, Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, et cetera, would compose much better after drinking vodka!
(I'm joking!)
MINORSECONDXXI 1 month ago
here is my mail, send me the sheet music, because i wanna learn this so bad! : lisboaandr@gmail.com
MinecraftlyShow 2 months ago
RemindS me of grieg lol.
addeex1 5 months ago
I alway grin after hearing the last chords
littlecanargie 7 months ago
amazing title :)
1993DoubleD 10 months ago
Do I detect some Medtner? Some Scriabin and a pinch of Stranvinsky too.
TheBulgarianThunder 10 months ago
@TheBulgarianThunder I'm getting Finlandia, Smirnoff and Absolut.... respect
johnnywindows1 2 weeks ago
Do I detect some Medtner?
TheBulgarianThunder 10 months ago
This reminds me of Moeran's Bank Holiday.
jeffbrak 10 months ago
@jeffbrak This was published in 1915.
Moeran's Bank Holiday is from 1925.
AulicExclusiva 1 month ago
It's wonderful to hear this! My teacher studied with Bax and intorduced me fleetingly to this piece nearly forty years ago. Many thanks for posting!---David Thomas Roberts
PolkRidgeAesthete 1 year ago
Jokerman!
faktablad 1 year ago
w ogóle nie czuję tutaj wódki:)
chimai14 1 year ago 2
Frivolous has at least 4 meanings:
(1) of little weight or importance (2) having no sound basis (as in fact or law), like a frivolous lawsuit. (3) lacking in seriousness, or (4) marked by levity. Entering a vodka shop is no act of expressing excessive or unseemly frivolity. It is a place where asteroids of denial and depression splash up against earthy worlds of hope, delusional and otherwise. Listening to Bax's "In a Vodka Shop" is serious music. Let the musicologists explain.
BrucknerMotet 2 years ago
danke
yuehchopin 2 years ago
It's lamentable how underrated (or, at least, relatively unknown) Bax is. I quite enjoyed this piece--frivolous, but not absurd. Now and then, I hear sections that remind me of Liszt. Lovely piece, and a very clean performance.
Calliope222 2 years ago 3