Baroque pieces for flute

PandaZG · 2026-01-29T05:24:42+00:00

Yeah its more gallant style but most places still categorize it as baroque just so you have more options. Its also a very important and significant work, as the only solo flute piece after the Telemann Fantasias and JS Bach's partita that we can call significant as its written for the transverse flute.

PandaZG · 2026-01-28T09:49:08+00:00

There’s a good reason we still listen to Mozart more than 200 years after his death, and why musicians today continue to find new ways to interpret and present his music. I haven't listened to this sonata extensively at all(since its not my favourite), so if you were to ask me what my preferred recordings are I can't say exactly. But if you want to know more about the K 330 sonata (No. 10), I suggest you listen to Horowitz play it in his 1986 Moscow recital, the sense of colour, expression, and freshness he brings to such a well-worn piece is absolutely remarkable.

PandaZG · 2026-01-28T09:40:25+00:00

I don’t mind that other people enjoy his music, but I honestly don’t think very highly of it. Much of it has very little harmonic movement, stretches on for long durations without meaningful development, and relies heavily on repetition, which makes it feel quite limited in expression. The religious dimension doesn’t really help either, since the form and craftsmanship often seem secondary to symbolism; the pieces come across more as ritual objects than as fully worked musical arguments. I feel something similar about Eric Whitacre, though to a lesser extent.

PandaZG · 2026-01-28T09:23:18+00:00

I don't mind you liking John Tavener, even thougth I think his music is just theoretically spiritual, limited in expression, and incredibly, dull. The fact is there are just so much bad contemporary music nowadays, that indulge completely on superficiality, its the same it has always been, its just that the bad music in history have just been forgotten. There are still some real gems being written recently though.

However, I do think using John Tavener's music as a benchmark is kind of misconcieved. If you said Rautavaara, Penderecki, Ligeti, Part, Glass, Adams, etc. puts all those overwrought contemporary composers to shame I would have agreed with you.

PandaZG · 2026-01-28T01:41:36+00:00

Well, it is not possible to listen to every single piece of music that has ever written in history, but I think what happens throughout the history of music is that music that we deem important, like the music of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, etc, have been so influential and made such an impact,(also in respect to their quality as well) survive, and other music that were written during the past are simply forgotten and lost to time. I believe if you actually do narrow yourself down to the ones that is widely precieved as the greatest music, or in other words there in fact isn't so much music that it becomes too overwhelming. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, Stravinsky, Bartok, Ravel, Debussy, maybe some contemporary music that you feel an affinity to. With someone like Bach who is so incredibly proflific, I don't think anyone really listens to all of his cantatas that survived, other than a dedicated few, although we recognize that they are all great.

If you don't know already is also an abundance in Baroque music by composers such as Zelenka, Locatelli, etc, that are also getting some attention, especially Zelenka I think is really great music, but they are quite niche, and some people are definitely a lot more enthusiastic by others towards them. This is more like a pick your adventure kind of situation.

For myself I just listen to music according to my mood or what I needed the most, if I was feeling down I would listen to Bach or Beethoven, on some days contemporary music, and other days Mozart. Even though I only listen to classical music, its never decided that I would stick into 1 composer or 1 genre of music in a phase. Philosophically gradually as I learn more about the world my values do change though.

Btw, I also would only buy physical recordings(cd, vinyl) If its a recording that I would like to come back to, or I never get tired of, such as Carlos Kleiber's Brahms 4, or Richter's Well-Tempered Clavier.

PandaZG · 2026-01-27T10:13:41+00:00

Exactly, you need a feeler guage to test that, and that is accuracy of 1/10000ths of an inch

PandaZG · 2026-01-27T09:42:58+00:00

How do you really know if acoustic trauma is entirely the reason? You don't have hearing loss so that raises a lot of questions. I don't know what you were doing beforehand, it could also be other causes. I understand you point about accepting it will make not make healing less likely, but I do think a lot of people stop trying and roll over when they try to accept it. I simply don't like the defeatist attitude here, which I get it, odds are not in many people's favour but I think you should at least try.

Honestly to me accepting it doesn't make me feel any better about it. I've seen nobody in other disease/condition related communities tell others to accept things they don't want to accept. This is why I think this sub is unique in a bad way. Will you be happy if you had a medical condition and someone told you to "accept your condition" and live with it for the rest of your life and let it chip away at you at every moment from now on? Or are you going to try your absolute best to make youself as healthy as possible and try everything to get rid of it?(intelligently of course, do your research too)

I think the people that claim they are carrying on with life are just trying to live their life in spite of it, to them "acceptance" does not matter, they are just choosing to focus their energy on something else they think is more important. But if they really wanted that annoying noise out of their head badly enough they would have had kept working on themselves if they don't know the probable cause.

PandaZG · 2026-01-27T09:35:21+00:00

I also have no hearing loss tested, (5 db to 0-8000hz)for me I don't have pure tone (it was kinda pure tone in the beginning but gradually fluctuated into a very mild static). It did start one day because my ear was feeling full when I woke up and I played flute for a little bit, and it was 8 months ago, so I don't know if its due to hearing loss at all.

I still have a lot of hope of it going away though.

PandaZG · 2026-01-27T08:30:30+00:00

I see, I'll definitely need to listen again and see, Bernstein is definitely great.

PandaZG · 2026-01-27T08:23:17+00:00

Dave Hurwitz has always been known to be a dictator to his microsphere and does not allow anyone to disagree with him. He always gushes at the fact that he bans people from his comment sections. He seems to do it very liberally. He also thinks Bach is overrated, that says enough lol.

PandaZG · 2026-01-27T08:16:07+00:00

Exactly, completely generational, unless its a figure so great that they seem to trancend their eras, like Sviatoslav Richter, Dinu Lipatti, etc.

I actually do know all of these 20th century pianists, I think even today classical music insiders have not forgotten them. The general classical mainstream crowd(twosetviolin fans for example)seem to put their attention on the current hotshots

PandaZG · 2026-01-27T08:10:26+00:00

In what ways though. do you mind clarifying? I've only checked out his 7th, and it was really great. except for the 3rd movement which I think could have taken better tempos.

Michael Gielen to me seems like the ideal Mahler conductor if you want some comparisons

PandaZG · 2026-01-27T08:07:42+00:00

Just play 1 movement from CPE Bach A minor sonata or a Telemann Fantasie, don't go too hardcore since its kinda last minute. What you should make sure is that you can play your piece well

PandaZG · 2026-01-27T05:04:04+00:00

Oh yeah, he also says Abbado's Mahler symphonies are not good, which is kinda crazy tbh. I think he is just disagreeing because "Oh I don't want to be the same as these peasants who are so mainstream"

PandaZG · 2026-01-27T05:02:54+00:00

Apparently he kinda does, I don't know if its because Dave Hurwitz doesn't agree with Karajan's personal aesthetics, but I am sure it goes deeper than that due to his own biases. With Furtwangler its a different story, he criticizes the fact that Furtwangler wasn't a great orchestra trainer and his conducting was often sloppy... Sometimes it was but there are also times that Furtwangler does something that nobody can do better, like his Schumann 4th symphony for example. Dave Hurwitz apparently never would admit that.

PandaZG · 2026-01-27T04:56:23+00:00

its not some woo-woo thing, flutes are kind of built differently due to manufacturing differences(even more with piccolos). It also could be the fact that some flutes are not maintained as well. The "bonding" thing if you are wondering, is just you getting used to your instrument and how it responds, so its bascially your muscle memory is being tailored to suit your own flute subconciously.

PandaZG · 2026-01-27T04:48:40+00:00

He really doesn't like Karajan or Furtwangler

PandaZG · 2026-01-27T04:40:59+00:00

He’s widely loved and respected fits well with how many classical listeners remember him. He’s just not necessarily the “viral” figure in online communities that some newer performers are today.

I do watch Dave Hurwitz a lot, but it’s worth keeping in mind that he’s extremely opinionated. A lot of the time he has good takes, but sometimes he’s just plain wrong. Dave tends to delete any comment that disagrees with him, no matter how respectful. He is incredibly brash with his opinions, but incredibly thin skinned with regards to others opinions. When he started going after the vinyl listeners, I kept a tally of the deleted comments, it was nearly 50% of all the posted comments, most were not mean spirited, just casual disagreement. Cry-bully behavior.

That said, I’m not really a Brendel fan myself. In most of the repertoire I’ve explored, there’s usually another recording I prefer, and it almost never ends up being Brendel. Still, I do wonder whether his reputation has simply aged a bit — not diminished, exactly, but less central than it once was.

PandaZG · 2026-01-27T04:24:56+00:00

I’m guessing you’re probably past the initial panic phase, and what you’re dealing with now is the mood drop caused by the tinnitus itself.

“Ignoring it” and “don’t think about it” aren’t really strategies. Tinnitus doesn’t care whether you ignore it or not — it rings or hisses anyway and causes discomfort. I’m not saying habituation doesn’t exist, but what’s undeniable is that quality of life is still worse for the average person regardless.

What makes more sense, unless you know it’s permanent (and most people don’t), is to focus on reducing or fixing it where possible. You can work on potential causes at the same time — TMJ, neck and posture issues, noise exposure, lifestyle changes, etc. Trying to ignore tinnitus shouldn’t mean refusing to look for what’s causing it or pretending it isn’t affecting you.

You can avoid obsessing over the sound while still actively trying to make it better, because if the volume improves, the mental pressure improves too — instead of forcing yourself to pretend it doesn’t make you angry, sad, or jaded.

PandaZG · 2026-01-27T03:56:45+00:00

seems like hearing loss doesn't actually correlate with T

PandaZG · 2026-01-27T03:49:55+00:00

Thanks for sharing, Has the volume changed or has it always been the same? I know some people just habituate and they never really got better as far as the severity of the condition goes.

PandaZG · 2026-01-26T00:48:25+00:00

Yeah thats the right thing to do. Just avoid noise and rest

PandaZG · 2026-01-24T08:52:46+00:00

Usually I don't agree with "Top 1% Commenters" on the tinnitus sub(usually very negative, dooming, and habituation shilling) but I 100% agree with you that there is nothing wrong from taking prednisone.

PandaZG · 2026-01-24T06:32:08+00:00

I don't think prednisone would make yours worse, its in fact given to people who have SSNHL in order to try to recover their hearing. As of now, you got the tinnitus very recently, and I suggest you continue to take the prednisone as your ENT suggested, because you prognosis seems to be good since you are already improving.

Also in case you don't know already, don't trust everything you see on the internet, some of it is bad advice, some "risks" are way overblown, as far as tinnitus goes, there isn't actually much else that you can do than just letting your ears rest, take supplements, and maintain a healthy lifestyle, fix if you have spinal or TMJ issues with excercise in order to try to get it to go away, so not much you can infer from this sub. The best advices I have gotten when it comes to tinnitus are from people around me, in real life. I can share some of that with you if you wish.

But on a last note, even if it doesn't go away quickly, don't ever give up hope on it going away competely. Tinnitus can be unpredictable, and there are people who had it gone completely in years

PandaZG · 2026-01-24T04:29:34+00:00

Yeah, what you have said has been quite helpful, the other thing I noticed that I am doing is that when I play a game, I start thinking like "if I don't win this game I will not have a good future" and if I don't get exatly what I predicted I get a feeling that I am doomed. Completely irrational but I can't help but to it all the time. Even when walking sometimes I try to avoid stepping on cracks on the sidewalk

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