> Daniel Shoskes wrote: > > > Since learning to play the lute for the past 2 years, my interest and > > enjoyment of classical guitar has surprisingly declined. I can barely > > listen to recordings of lute transcriptions on guitar. The tone and > > interpretations now sound incredibly anachronistic to me. The > > "classical" composers that I played with enjoyment (Sor, Giuliani) now > > sound simplistic and predictable compared to other contemporaries. > > Pretty much the only classical guitar and now enjoy is by 20th century > > composers (Brouwer, Britten) and the occassional brilliant > > interpretation of earlier music I find Dan instinct entirely justified.
> Sor and Giuliani were surely not Beethoven, Schubert, or Mendelssohn, > but their music has its charms, and in time you'll have no trouble > appreciating them. If you want to speed the process, spend a bit of > time with their contemporaries who weren't Beethoven, Schubert, or > Mendelssohn. > HP So do you really think it would be possible to spend time with Spohr, Hummel, Viotti etc. without getting massively irritated? RT Feci quod potui, faciant meliora potentes. == http://polyhymnion.org ___________________________________________________________ $0 Web Hosting with up to 200MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. Signup at www.doteasy.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
