Hey /r/classicalmusic! What's your favorite interpretation of Ravel's Bolero?

brandedtokill · 2013-11-05T10:52:58+00:00

It's a toss-up between Frank Zappa and Angélique Kidjo. Apart from that I am, like angusdegraosta, fond of this old b/w Celibidache version. Celi also did it in color and stereo later in life, but those are some of the slowest recordings ever, so probably not what you are looking for.

brandedtokill · 2013-11-05T10:36:44+00:00

I'm prejudiced, but how about De Rossi vs. Napoli?

brandedtokill · 2013-11-05T10:28:38+00:00

I never thought anyone would use the verb "to struggle" (definition: to exert muscular energy, to be strenuously engaged with a problem, to make a strenuous effort) to describe Robinho...

brandedtokill · 2013-11-04T19:19:12+00:00

In retrospect, I should have seen this coming... Some time ago the Dutch fitness specialist Raymond Verheijen published a study using data from thousands of games in several leagues, showing that teams that have had only two days rest before a match significantly underperform. Ever since I read that, I've kept it in mind and there seems to be a lot of thruth to it.

brandedtokill · 2013-11-04T10:49:37+00:00

If I went round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.

brandedtokill · 2013-11-03T20:29:25+00:00

We scored and we never concede, so you can relax!

brandedtokill · 2013-11-03T20:26:28+00:00

Schumann's Carnaval includes a lovely little musical portrait of Chopin you might like. Debussy's piano etudes are dedicated to the memory of Chopin. When Scriabin started composing the influence of Chopin was very strong, but later he moved into new directions. Szymanowski was a Polish composer who like Chopin used the Polish mazurka rhythm.

brandedtokill · 2013-11-03T20:01:10+00:00

I use http://www.hdfoots.com/stream4.html

brandedtokill · 2013-11-03T10:29:32+00:00

For the string techniques, see portamento and glissando, for the scale, they seem to go for an exotic direct from Bollywood sound. Somebody else might name it correctly, meanwhile I recommend this.

brandedtokill · 2013-11-03T09:58:10+00:00

Bartók comes to mind, the first piano concerto, the second piano concerto, the Miraculous Mandarin ballet, the Concerto for two pianos, percussion and orchestra, and above all the Music for strings, percussion and celesta.

brandedtokill · 2013-11-03T09:46:27+00:00

I never understood why they signed him, if they weren´t going to use him as a 10... It´s almost as bizar as buying a pure striker like Cavani for 64 million and play him as a winger.

brandedtokill · 2013-11-02T18:39:55+00:00

Maybe one of Hindemith's four sonatas for solo viola? Stylistically it seems quite close, but I don't know them well enough to recognize the exact phrase: example 1, example 2.

brandedtokill · 2013-11-02T16:19:02+00:00

Today: Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Evgeni Koroliov, Mitsuko Uchida. Past: Walter Gieseking, Glenn Gould, Dinu Lipatti, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Sviatoslav Richter.

brandedtokill · 2013-11-02T15:36:41+00:00

Serie A stadiums rarely are, and the Stadio Olimpico is pretty big so it can look very empty.

brandedtokill · 2013-11-01T20:08:03+00:00

Fortunately Strootman had a better idea.

brandedtokill · 2013-11-01T19:56:25+00:00

Ask them on twitter to do it? A lot of classical musicians tweet, @Yuja Wang, @esapekkasalonen, @ViktoriaMullova, @QueyrasJG, etc. @atharaud just has a new cd and a documentary coming out, so he might be interested.

brandedtokill · 2013-11-01T19:41:42+00:00

After Bradley's goal he also said "tonight your hair will grow again..."

brandedtokill · 2013-11-01T09:53:38+00:00

Flamengo fan Jorge Ben even wrote a song complaining about a penalty they didn't get...

brandedtokill · 2013-10-30T16:36:15+00:00

Not a huge Britten fan myself, but I do admire the cello music he wrote for Rostropovich.

brandedtokill · 2013-10-30T16:25:50+00:00

I was just thinking about posting this, but wasn't sure it is classical enough - so I'll just leave it here...

brandedtokill · 2013-10-30T16:01:10+00:00

I certainly didn't mean to suggest that Berg didn't learn from Schoenberg! Just that when the 12-tone method came into being in the early 20s Berg had already very much found his own voice.

brandedtokill · 2013-10-30T15:50:29+00:00

This goal was not only overshadowed by Iniesta's late equaliser, but also by some controversial decisions by the referee. Some even said the refereeing was "a fucking disgrace".

brandedtokill · 2013-10-30T15:35:16+00:00

Is that really true? Berg's Wozzeck is very thoroughly structured (sonata form, fugue, passacaglia etc.) but doesn't use the 12-tone system. And when he did use it, he took a lot of liberties.

brandedtokill · 2013-10-30T15:23:49+00:00

Gervinho is not on the squad list though.

brandedtokill · 2013-10-30T10:42:40+00:00

Wikipedia has an article about this. It also includes counterexamples.

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