sebp;632294 Wrote: > Just trying to make it a bit clearer (or not) with an example: > > What you may know as Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons is his most famous > work. > This work consists of four violin concertos, that are themselves part > of a bigger 12 concertos ensemble, known as Vivaldi's opus #8. > Each concerto is made of several movements, which will most often be > used as the base for tracks on a CD. > > Now, this Vivaldi's work will be played by one or more orchestra(s) and > soloist(s) managed by one conductor, at some place and at some time, and > will be recorded. > This is what you may call a version of the work, and classical music > lovers will often own several versions of the same work. > > Another weird thing with classical records is that it's not uncommon to > have several works by one or several different composers on a single > CD. > This will often be the case when a soloist releases a record. > > Say now you own several versions of Vivaldi's Four Seasons in you music > library, and you want to listen to one. > You may want to listen to one version conducted by Andrea Marcon, or to > another one conducted by Herbert Von Karajan. > If you chose Von Karajan, do you want to listen to the version where he > conducted Michel Schwalbe, or to the one where he conducted Anne-Sophie > Mutter? > > You may also want to select a soloist first, chose a > composer/conductor/orchestra next, etc. > > I don't even tell you it's possible that the same orchestra, conductor > and soloist(s) may have played the same work, the same year, at > different venues, and that many "versions" have been recorded. > > Browsing classical music has nothing to do with the way you browse > popular music. > To be efficient, it has to be flexible.I've often tried to make this point, > but I've never said it this well. Here, here.
The only thing I can think of to add is this: for those of us who's enjoyment of classical music is centered more on the work in question rather than the performance, the addition of a secondary genre classification would be a real boon. Thus, we'd be able to browse: Classical Era (genre) -> Beethoven, L (composer) -> Chamber Music (sub genre) -> Albums ..or, say... French Modernism (genre) -> Koechlin, C (composer) -> Choral Works (sub genre) -> Albums -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86452 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
