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Tag: Concerto for Two Pianos – Stravinsky
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having heard Stravinsky’s Concerto for
Two Pianos already, if you’ve taken in
the most instructive of any of my
suggested comparisons to hear beside
first, written in 1935, the second, 1781,
you’ll hear the passage of time fly by
both here are played by the same two
performers, brothers, incidentally, an
extraordinary couple, making your
aesthetic decision that much more
contained, straightforward
utterly unexpected, even disarming,
he’s evidently much more in tune
with the Twentieth Century, even
the 21st, than the more bucolic
music of, energetic as it is, Mozart,
who is not of our era, however still
entirely relevant
with Stravinsky, you hear the traffic,
the hustle and bustle of modern life,
the pulse and frenzy of a more
frenetic century, though it must be
remembered that Mozart wrote his
piece between the American, 1776,
and the French, 1789, Revolutions,
a couple of historically seismic
events, not at all not turbulent
if you listen, you can hear it all in
the music, art is like that
enjoy
R ! chard
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as I was about to listen to Stravinsky’s
I thought, combination, I came upon,
entirely inadvertently, his Concerto for
Two Pianos, which, to my confusion,
was for only two pianos
a concerto is a piece of music consisting,
indeed, of more than one movement,
but with an accompanying orchestra,
according to the definition, Stravinsky
must’ve been playing with words, his
suits my project, a month of, specifically,
sonatas, irrespective of his erroneous
nomenclature
and it is entirely delightful, though
maybe in your face, listen
this is where I might elaborate on the
meaning of sonata, it is nothing more
than a piece of music consisting of
more than one segment, called
movements, anything can happen,
much like in a novel, consisting of
chapters, where anything also can
happen
the term sonata is used for pieces of
music written for one or two instruments,
for the one which can only play one note
at a time, anything not a keyboard,
requires harmonic accompaniment, it is
a tradition, though not absolute
a piece of music written for three
instruments consisting of more than
one segment, movements, is called
a trio, for four, a quartet, five, a
quintet, and so forth, until one stops
counting and we call it a symphony,
a symphony is a sonata written for
an indefinite number of instruments,
which is to say an orchestra
a concerto is a symphony with a
soloist, it’s named according to
the soloist’s instrument
but they’re all, essentially, sonatas
a piece of music consisting of more
than one segment of music, or
movement, written for two instruments
only, as far as I’m concerned, is called
a sonata, so, to my mind, this Concerto
sonata
but that’s just my opinion
what do you think
I think one should ever read the fine
print, even with Stravinsky
R ! chard
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