The Music Thread

[DiehardHeelFan]

There is an acoustic demo version (below) where he references Christine/Chrissie. Apologies if I’ve ruined your vision of the song

Stand corrected E Street Radio played the 75 Main Point, PA version of Thunder Road and it clicked Thunder Road has Mary, Chrissie/Christine and Angelina (Main Point show). Born to Run has Wendy. Cannot remember if he’s used different names at all for BTR. So Wendy from Peter Pan is still alive. Maybe had I read “title track” in your post I might not have gone down this rabbit hole ha. It has been fun. Has me trying to think of the different names of women he’s used over the years

 

[heelinhell]

given how we are continuing the slow march to a dystopian America today, I'm gonna join Merle at his table...

 

[Centerpiece]

I know some may not appreciate Rick Beati’s take on the music industry, or his takes on pop music or music theory, but I’m posting this anyway. A lot of explanations about the history of Western music for the fist 2/3s of this video, but I’m really posting this for the piano piece played towards the end. As a musician myself, I really like and even love all kinds and styles of music. But this is the stuff that boils it all down to the essence, at least in Western music.

 

[Ramrouser]

Stand corrected E Street Radio played the 75 Main Point, PA version of Thunder Road and it clicked Thunder Road has Mary, Chrissie/Christine and Angelina (Main Point show). Born to Run has Wendy. Cannot remember if he’s used different names at all for BTR. So Wendy from Peter Pan is still alive. Maybe had I read “title track” in your post I might not have gone down this rabbit hole ha. It has been fun. Has me trying to think of the different names of women he’s used over the years

Love the Angelina version at the Main Point show. - “This 442’s gonna overheat, make up your mind girl I gotta get her back out on the street."

Thanks for posting this.

 

[Ramrouser]

Not going to argue about best but this album will always be my favorite.

Soo different from BTR and The Wild the Innocent.

 

[p5mmr9]

I know some may not appreciate Rick Beati’s take on the music industry, or his takes on pop music or music theory, but I’m posting this anyway. A lot of explanations about the history of Western music for the fist 2/3s of this video, but I’m really posting this for the piano piece played towards the end. As a musician myself, I really like and even love all kinds and styles of music. But this is the stuff that boils it all down to the essence, at least in Western music.

The bach piece he plays at the beginning is from one of my favorite records - Glenn Gould on piano with Bernstein conducting Bach's concerto in D mol BMV1052



This is the live version and not the actual version available on streaming (the version Beato plays is the one available on streaming) - regardless, it is an incredible recording. How Gould uses his incredible talent for voicing for this recording is sublime. Usually recordings of this piece are incredibly muddy and pulling out the polyphonic lines individually as a listener can be really trying - it's amazing in this almost 70 year old recording (recorded in 1957 iirc) how clear the orchestration and especially the piano sound.

 

[p5mmr9]

While I'm out here recommending Glenn Gould recordings - I suggest everyone take 10 mins and listen to this recording of Liszt's transcription of Beethoven's 6th Symphony 2nd Mvmt. It is a miracle recording.

 

[heelinhell]

While I'm out here recommending Glenn Gould recordings - I suggest everyone take 10 mins and listen to this recording of Liszt's transcription of Beethoven's 6th Symphony 2nd Mvmt. It is a miracle recording.

Thank you for offering that recording. I own around a dozen classical CDs but have neglected playing them over the last year. Thank you for redirecting me to that small portion of my CD collection.

Listening to that piece is 10 minutes well spent and for me it was the best 10 minutes I have spent this week.

I will research Glenn Gould and add his work to my collection.

 

[Icky Mettle]

What is it about the beach that makes people blast the lamest, cheesiest, worst country music? It’s like they’re making an effort to be obnoxious.

 

[Carolina Fever]

is their an artist you

What is about the beach that makes people blast the lamest, cheesiest, worst country music? It’s like they’re making an effort to be obnoxious.

I can't stand people that play music so loud on the beach that I can hear it, too. I have ear buds, though, so I don't have to hear it. They should use ear buds, too. Everyone doesn't want to hear your music.

 

[Icky Mettle]

is their an artist you

I can't stand people that play music so loud on the beach that I can hear it, too. I have ear buds, though, so I don't have to hear it. They should use ear buds, too. Everyone doesn't want to hear your music.

And I’ve found that people who blast their music in public places mostly have terrible taste in music.

 

[finesse]

is their an artist you

I can't stand people that play music so loud on the beach that I can hear it, too. I have ear buds, though, so I don't have to hear it. They should use ear buds, too. Everyone doesn't want to hear your music.

Speak for yourself.

 

[p5mmr9]

Thank you for offering that recording. I own around a dozen classical CDs but have neglected playing them over the last year. Thank you for redirecting me to that small portion of my CD collection.

Listening to that piece is 10 minutes well spent and for me it was the best 10 minutes I have spent this week.

I will research Glenn Gould and add his work to my collection.

Gould is most well known for his Bach interpretations - especially his 1956 and 1981 recordings of the Goldberg Variations. But his Beethoven and Brahms recordings are incredible. He is my favorite pianist and while he is eccentric and his approach is often idiosyncratic - he always brings unique insight into the pieces he records.

 

[Patb78]

Gould is most well known for his Bach interpretations - especially his 1956 and 1981 recordings of the Goldberg Variations. But his Beethoven and Brahms recordings are incredible. He is my favorite pianist and while he is eccentric and his approach is often idiosyncratic - he always brings unique insight into the pieces he records.

Brahms is probably the most underrated composer of piano music there is. Certainly Beethoven and Bach are the two great masters of classical keyboard music, Brahms is definitely a close third.

 

[p5mmr9]

If one says the 10 greatest composers of all time are Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Wagner, and Verdi - then 6 of the top 10 are incredible composers for keyboard. Chopin is on this list having nearly only composed for the piano. So, it's hard to say Beethoven, Bach, and Brahms are the three greatest composers of keyboard music while ommiting others such as Chopin, Mozart, and Schubert - not to even mention others such as Romantic composers like Liszt, Rachmaninov, and Scriabin or 20th century "modernists" like Prokofiev, Schoenberg, and Hindemith. I think it's hard to "rank" composers either in a general sense or specifically to a particular instrument, form, or setting because time changes instruments, techniques, and technology. It's easier to rank contemporaries but even then it can get complicated - Wagner vs Brahms, Mozart vs Haydn - etc.

Regardless, Brahms's chamber works are all amazing...not just his solo piano pieces, but his string quartets, his piano quartets are incredible. He certainly earned his place among the composing greats of all time.