TheSound
An Englishman in New York
Some excellent threads here relating to classical music, maybe in time we could bump a few of them up!
Nothing specifically though for chamber music and the piano repertoire, so how about we start a topic to listen to/enjoy/discuss this?
I love chamber music. I see parallels between chamber music and rock music, it's the interplay between individual musicians, complimenting each other, responding to each other, perfectly feeding off each other, which you can never get with a huge 90 piece orchestra, though orchestral music has it's own very different and equally rich rewards I think. There is obviously such an intimacy in chamber music, and the subtleties in the music are such that there is no room for error, a member of a string quartet is far more exposed to their audience than the guy sitting 4th row back in the second violins in a symphony orchestra. Also I think it is true to say that many composers revealed their truest selves and most personal thoughts through the music they wrote for smaller chamber-sized ensembles, or solo piano. I find it fascinating. So here's a few of my own favourites to kick off. The Schubert Quintet movement here is IMO one of the most miraculous pieces of music ever written, in any genre of music, but then that goes much of the music that genius wrote.
Nothing specifically though for chamber music and the piano repertoire, so how about we start a topic to listen to/enjoy/discuss this?
I love chamber music. I see parallels between chamber music and rock music, it's the interplay between individual musicians, complimenting each other, responding to each other, perfectly feeding off each other, which you can never get with a huge 90 piece orchestra, though orchestral music has it's own very different and equally rich rewards I think. There is obviously such an intimacy in chamber music, and the subtleties in the music are such that there is no room for error, a member of a string quartet is far more exposed to their audience than the guy sitting 4th row back in the second violins in a symphony orchestra. Also I think it is true to say that many composers revealed their truest selves and most personal thoughts through the music they wrote for smaller chamber-sized ensembles, or solo piano. I find it fascinating. So here's a few of my own favourites to kick off. The Schubert Quintet movement here is IMO one of the most miraculous pieces of music ever written, in any genre of music, but then that goes much of the music that genius wrote.