Leoš Janáček - 'Intimate Letters', 2nd Movement
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Janacek wrote this quartet toward the end of his life, when he fell in love. Here we only have the second movement. "Intimate Letters" as it were envelops the listener gradually in the epistolary dialog of the lovers. It produces a nearly hypnotic state in which pieces of everyday reality intermittently appear and disappear, suspended as if in a fog. There are questions and clashes, hesistations and near-silences. Occasionally promising sweet melodies surge, only to vanish again.
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Thank you so much for posting this; this is a very mature piece alive with artistry and imagery--if it were a painting I would hang it on my wall.
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I'm pretty sure that a musical masterpiece has to be gorgeous. Otherwise, how would it be a masterpiece?
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gorgeous btw is not a good word to describe a masterpiece.
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thank you very much
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Gorgeous. Intimate Letters are to be ranked among the gretest pieces ever composed. Janacek - a Czech egnius.
amichus 3 years ago 4
i don't think it necessarily has to be, how do i say this, "pleasing" necessarily to be a masterpiece. think about things like picasso. (this is, after all, "art music" not "entertainment music") but i would certainly say that whoever says gorgeous is not a good word to describe a masterpiece is just being a pretentious jerk. and yes, it is gorgeous, i think.
albachteng 3 years ago 2