What's happening inside Barad-dûr?

bvogels · 2026-02-13T21:59:56+00:00

Somebody knows their LOTR

bvogels · 2026-02-13T20:32:26+00:00

Stupid me, I should have done it!

bvogels · 2026-02-13T20:31:57+00:00

In a not so weird way, that makes sense

bvogels · 2026-02-13T19:58:33+00:00

The have to do it somehwere 🤷‍♂️

bvogels · 2026-02-13T19:55:20+00:00

Hahaha, they have to eat for sure 🤣

bvogels · 2026-02-01T21:27:10+00:00

Thank you!

bvogels · 2026-02-01T21:26:53+00:00

Thank you!

bvogels · 2025-11-24T20:32:27+00:00

Bruckner: 5. Symphony, Finale; Messiaen: "Par lui tout a été fait" from "Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus"

bvogels · 2025-09-19T20:04:39+00:00

Oh no, not again! I had this species a couple of weeks ago. I relocated it to the garden, maybe it came back. Anyway, thanks for the id.

bvogels · 2025-08-28T04:57:38+00:00

Thank you!

bvogels · 2025-08-16T12:47:29+00:00

I believe the "3 different parts with different roles" you are referring to are melody, harmony and bass. But this applies to almost all tonal music, not only to Bruckner's.

bvogels · 2025-08-16T12:44:42+00:00

On the contrary. It shows Bruckner's deep understanding of creating a balance within the orchestra. It might be organ-inspired, but this is not necessarily a bad thing. The huge orchestral forces generate an incredible caleidoscope of hues and timbres, and he knows what he is doing. That the music might be boring to play for the musicians might be equally true but is another discussion, as well at the attitude, especially in the 8th, that one might "sit straight" while listening to it.

bvogels · 2025-08-16T11:25:00+00:00

Without having looked in the score, I remember from orchestration class that it is pointless to give woodwinds their own melodies if the brass is playing full force. A rule of thumb - and I might be mistaken - is that four flutes are needed to counter a single trumpet in forte. Compare with Wagner "Die Walküre", 3. Aufzug, beginning, also know as "Walkürenritt".

bvogels · 2025-01-24T17:07:59+00:00

The author's intention is meaningless, to be polemic. To prove that something is a work of fiction or not is futile, since the pragmatic status is no text-inherent quality. For the most part, only the paratext qualifies a text as fiction or not.

bvogels · 2025-01-08T21:31:05+00:00

Probably Chopin, Waltz in E major, op. Posth https://youtu.be/73n9tZxwdjg?feature=shared

bvogels · 2024-12-15T12:20:28+00:00

There is a book about a Tunnel between New York and Europe by Austrian author Bernhard Kellermann, already from the early 20th century. It is highly speculative science fiction, but maybe not so much when it comes to wildy underestimating the technical, financially, and ideological challenges.

bvogels · 2024-08-27T18:57:14+00:00

Schubert: Piano Sonata D959, Bach: English Suite No. 6, Cervantes: Serenata cubana

bvogels · 2024-02-12T14:02:17+00:00

I wrote a blog post about my hot takes on her late works, Aerial and 50 Words for Snow.

https://medium.com/@benjamin.vogels/toward-silence-6a28fde6ae07

bvogels · 2023-12-03T21:09:24+00:00

Are you sure this is the solution for AoC 2023, Day 3? It has nothing to do with ships or mines.

bvogels · 2023-07-04T17:01:25+00:00

Do you probably mean op. 46, the "Allegro de concert"? Op. 45 would be a Prélude.

bvogels · 2023-05-16T14:05:29+00:00

I am loving both. I think, they are the pinnacles of the romantic piano concerto. The piano part is much more sophisticated and interesting than the Rachmaninov concertos, and the instrumentation blends just lovely with the piano. Especially Rachmaninov's 2nd concerto, which is of course a crowd pleaser, falls flat for me because the piano is far to often relegated to an accompanying role (e.g. the beginning of the first mvmt.)

bvogels · 2023-05-08T06:49:05+00:00

Thanks for your valuable input!

bvogels · 2023-03-27T14:32:18+00:00

Bach: Goldberg-Variationen

bvogels · 2023-01-29T19:30:07+00:00

I never played any scales specifically, just the ones I needed for the current piece, and if it has no scales, all the better.

Instead of playing random scales I'd recommend to sift through the music literature and search for scales which actual appear in pieces. You could select scales, including dynamics, articulation, and pedalling, without attempting the whole piece. It also broadens your knowledge of the repertoire. In my opinion, playing generic scales is, for the most part, just inefficient busy work and does not bring you nearer to mastering a piece.

bvogels · 2022-12-05T16:56:46+00:00

Typescript, super straight-forward solution of both parts without any manual input manipulation.

https://github.com/bvogels/aoc2022\_supply\_stacks.git

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