Grasshopper

As always, J.O.P. has managed to find a composer I don't know. And as always, he has succeeded in making me really want to get to know him.

One of the few tolerable albums from a singer-songwriter who has always seemed to me (at the time) extremely overrated, only to end up almost completely forgotten (equally unjustly, as there is much worse out there). The review seems anything but trivial, but a tad too black-and-white: on one side, the good ones like Bennato, who have understood that pop songs are just that, and on the other, supposed verbose and pedantic professors who continue to sing about social commitment: (and who are they?)

The "For" is clearly unnecessary.

Eric Clapton has been declared dead several times, but it was never true. One of his stunning comebacks is just this, but it’s not the only one. May everyone be able to bourgeoisify like this.

I would like to know what Madonna, who is just a worn-out cultural phenomenon that has lasted too long, has to do with a music review site, but at least the Punisher adds a bit of humor, which is always welcome (because apparently, there are even those who take this one seriously).

Perhaps the best album by Dalla ever, or tied with "Come è profondo il mare." There’s no longer the Roveresque social commitment, but at the same time we are still far from a fall into the commercial. A bit more concise than usual, but still excellent.

If Murray Perahia treats these Impromptus with the same gentleness he uses in the Mozart Concertos I know, it must really be worth getting this version. For now, I’ll settle for the good Daniel Barenboim, and every time I hear him, I can’t help but indulge in an encore of No. 3 D 899. Without taking anything away from the others, of course. P.S. Bach superstar (3 rec.), followed by Schubert (2) and many others at 1. Who will take the trouble to inaugurate Mozart, who is incredibly still at 0?

I reiterate: Genoo, I don't know where you're coming from, but so far the few comments I've read from you pretty much always say "what a drag." I hope you have some other words in your vocabulary as well.

I agree with Cece that if the goal is to introduce De André to younger audiences, then such box sets are certainly welcome. However, if this isn't a commercial operation...

So many things are lost during a weekend away from debaser: apart from this last one, all comments would raise the hairs on your skin, even comparisons to illustrious figures like Enzo Siciliano, who, to be honest, would completely outshine me in general knowledge (and also music-wise) if I ever had the honor of comparing myself to him. I partly share Hal's and John O.P.'s doubts about A CERTAIN Mendelssohn, the overly academic one in some early works and not just those (even the String Quartets don't really excite me much). But these two symphonies fully belong to the other Mendelssohn, the one already significantly contaminated by the germs of Romanticism, who had thus already moved past that phase of somewhat formal elegance. Anyway, I am always positively amazed at how classical music interests a considerable number of debaserians.