Grasshopper

N.B. "Auero" stands for AUREO.

I forgot...

My shopping list has alarmingly grown in recent days: a double Keith Jarrett, a sextuple (!) Bill Evans, and now this one that truly seems like a must-have, if we pay attention (and I don't see why we shouldn't) to one of the most comprehensive and detailed reviews I've read on this awesome site.

I don’t know him completely, but almost. What I know is good, the review even better.

The very idea of Sting indulging in pre-Baroque music intrigued me quite a bit. After this excellent review, my curiosity has doubled... let's hope the album has a decent price.

It's the first album by the Mahavishnu Orchestra that I got to know (just recently), and it was a wonderful discovery. I also had half a mind to review it, but it seems like it’s already been done quite well (John McLoughlin aside).

Anonymous, it's not that anonymous comments are rejected. It's the anonymous comments that are self-serving that are turned away. I see that a magic hand has made your two "1s" disappear and that now you join the chorus of 5... that's not what interests me. I would like (but perhaps I'm asking too much) a reasoned judgment, then the vote can be 4, 3, 2, or even 1 (even though I don't think I deserve it). But giving a 1 just for the sake of cutting down doesn't seem sensible to me. And in any case, cut me down but not Beethoven, for goodness' sake!

P.S. The funniest thing about these Anonimi, Bastardoni, etc. (they have a thousand names) is that in their frenzy to harm the reviewer, they fling their 1s at music they’ve never heard in their lives and will never hear. Thus, poor Beethoven finds his Trios judged, averaging out like a decent album, somewhere between mediocre and good. That is, of course, unless our Anonymous feels like throwing down a few more 1s. There’s no clearer evidence of the futility of ratings than this.

Well done to our flag bearer: a healthy and fresh gust of idiocy opens new horizons in an environment where (can you believe it?) they only talk about music. And then the Anonymous takes on a rightful claim: why on earth should the Cretino, who as Fruttero & Lucentini have masterfully explained represents the vast majority of the population, be excluded from any environment, even if it’s just a music review site? It’s not fair. Good job, Anonymous, keep it up. If you’re also able to articulate a few sentences, let us know what you feel while doing this. It must be something akin to the thrill of throwing stones from a bridge or dirtying freshly painted walls, I don’t know... I’d love to find out from you if you can put together four words.

I think that despite their close birth years (Mozart born in 1756, Beethoven in 1770), both because of Mozart's precociousness (and not Beethoven's) and due to certain events that occurred in the meantime (like the French Revolution, for example), the two belong to epochs that are farther apart than they seem. In Mozart's time, the musician is still little more than a servant, even though Mozart himself will try to oppose this condition, and in fact, he will die poor, deeply in debt, and buried in a mass grave. By the early 1800s, Beethoven can already afford to be a professional artist, living off his music, and above all, he doesn't have to satisfy the tastes of some spoiled noble, but can instead impose his talent on the noble music lovers he knows (like the Archduke from the Trio). Therefore, comparing Mozart to Beethoven seems a bit forced to me: for me, both are absolute geniuses of their time.