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What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Nodaisho:
--- Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 09 Oct 2009, 22:48 --- I'd honestly say that Beethoven never figured out how to write a complete piece of music until his fifth symphony
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I find the Fifth to drag on too long. I've heard that is a problem with a lot of his work, but I haven't heard enough to know for sure.
I think the problem with this was that we aren't getting the best album, we are getting the album that the most people don't dislike. Same problem as tends to happen with popular music.
Bastardous Bassist:
--- Quote from: Nodaisho on 10 Oct 2009, 22:30 ---I find the Fifth to drag on too long. I've heard that is a problem with a lot of his work, but I haven't heard enough to know for sure.
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1) The coda certainly is...significant, but at least it doesn't just kind of fizzle like his previous four symphonies (was reminded of this fact yesterday upon attending a performance of his first, which I've actually played before). That and he brings his motivic development to a very pleasing close in the fifth.
2) Listen to more Beethoven. I actually prefer his less popular symphonies more, probably due to the unfamiliarity. Though, there does seem to have been a bit of a push recently to play his first two symphonies. Maybe because of the recent 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth.
3) I was really drunk when I made that post, but I still stand by it pretty much. The only thing is that the subject under discussion was concertos, and I brought up Stravinsky, whose main focus was ballet.
Nodaisho:
I was thinking that it was going a bit long before the coda, at which point I heard the recapitulation begin and thought "Oh, good, it is almost done." The coda started shortly afterward, and I stopped paying any attention to it.
He starts off strong, but tends to draw it out for too long with too little, which is by no means a rare mistake. I seem to remember some of Bach's work getting a bit self-indulgent with harpsichord solos, to the point where even Iron Butterfly would think it is a bit over-done.
valley_parade:
You guys like hideously boring music.
Mr. Doctor:
I guess I have to go with Low...
But I still think The Manical Vale was the shit... you guys suck.
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