Grasshopper

DeRank ™: 5,88

DeAge™ : 7973 days • Here since 11 august 2004

Weather Report Heavy Weather

3 oct 06

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So far I thought the masterpiece was "Black Market," but I didn't know this one. Now I at least think that both are masterpieces, but I still have to absorb "Heavy Weather," which I'll do with great pleasure.

Ludwig van Beethoven Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra n.3 in do minore op.37

2 oct 06

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What was I doing in July to have missed a review like this, on one of my "fascinations"? Without taking anything away from Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor," I have never understood why both the Third and the Fourth are considerably less famous, and therefore less recorded and less performed in concerts. Unlike Hal (strange but it happens occasionally), I have a slight preference for the unusual sweetness, apparently so un-Beethovenian, that animates the Fourth Concerto, especially its first movement, but I also consider the Third a masterpiece in its own right, elevated by the sublime melody of the "Largo," one of the most inspired of all Beethoven's works, which says a lot.

Ludwig Van Beethoven Sonata per Violino e Piano No.9 "Kreutzer"

2 oct 06

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Besides the reviews, I should also read the comments. Odradek clarifies the doubt, stating that almost the entirety of the text is by Tolstoy. At this point, I have the same doubt as trellheim: to whom do I give the rating? I resolve it in the same way as trellheim: whoever it goes to, the rating can only be 5.

Maurice Ravel Tzigane, Rhapsodie De Concert

2 oct 06

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P.S. However, I am not familiar with Perlman's version, which may even be better than Accardo's. This is just a suggestion.

Maurice Ravel Tzigane, Rhapsodie De Concert

2 oct 06

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Well, well... I see that Ravel is a hit on Debaser (three reviews for a classical composer is no small feat). This one is great, especially because it highlights a quite unknown work, yet full of the mysterious charm of gypsy music and (they say) terribly difficult to play. In this regard, Salvatore Accardo's interpretation, which makes his violin perform true somersaults, is absolutely the best I know.

Ludwig Van Beethoven Sonata per Violino e Piano No.9 "Kreutzer"

2 oct 06

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Hasn't anyone replied yet? Well, I’ll take it upon myself. No, it’s not that “Ninth,” which is a symphony (in D minor Op. 125) and not a Sonata for violin and piano like this one. As for the ensemble, there’s quite a difference... However, in terms of creativity, both are masterpieces, even if the Symphony is infinitely more famous. I didn’t quite understand if Josi cites Tolstoy (I read "The Kreutzer Sonata" a long time ago) or uses his own words. In the latter case, a 5 would still be too little, but in the former, kudos for the apt quotation. In doubt, I won’t vote, but I appreciate it, and as usual, I recommend my favorite version, with Zino Francescatti (violin) and Robert Casadesus (piano).

Francesco Guccini Metropolis

29 sep 06

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Perhaps when he went (went?) to the tavern and got drunk like a tile (an Etruscan simile of uncertain origin), he would curse like a Turk, or at least the "Guccini character" that the media has constructed, and which impressed Duane so much that he made it his own, is this. Certainly, in concerts and other "public" occasions, I've never heard him let slip even a "Dio bono!"

Miles Davis Kind Of Blue

28 sep 06

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I don't understand why to exalt this masterpiece one must necessarily spit venom on the poor Thom Yorke and Co. I consider Kind Of Blue among the top 5 jazz albums of all time (I even included it in the notes), but at the same time, I think that many albums by Radiohead, in their own genre, are excellent, first and foremost Ok Computer. That their genre is different and that therefore the comparison between Miles Davis and Radiohead makes no sense seems so obvious to me that it wouldn't even be necessary to say it.

Francesco Guccini Metropolis

27 sep 06

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The discourse of the "political Guccini" is an old and now outdated tale: I know people on the right who adore his deep and "existential" lyrics and who would never dream of labeling him as a "singer of the revolution" (which revolution, anyway?) because of two political songs, which are among other things widely misconstrued (for "La locomotiva," see my review on "Radici"). Furthermore, he himself, back in 1976, with "Avvelenata," explains, "but I never said that revolutions are made with songs..." Clearer than that... One just has to want to understand.

Francesco Guccini Metropolis

27 sep 06

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I return to debaser only this morning and I see that ajeje has taken it upon himself to defend truth and justice alone, just like Guccini's Don Chisciotte. Perhaps it wasn't even worth it, because it's clear that Duane doesn't know this author, and anyway, if even when faced with the verses I've quoted (and those Hal cited) he can only focus on the mercenary vice of swearing of the mountain man from Pavana, it's evident that by now he, or whoever stands for him, have built a tailored "Guccini character" and they don't want to delve into the subject. And we know there’s no worse deaf than one who doesn’t want to hear. Anyway, thanks ajeje.