On Sunday, June 7, 2020 at 8:28:19 PM UTC-7, raymond....@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, 8 June 2020 10:59:59 UTC+10, Néstor Castiglione wrote:
> > It’s also just as possible to never tire of Beethoven, so long as one hears performances that in and of themselves don’t tire one’s patience. Then again, my curiosity to hear new Beethoven recordings may be the manifestation of some deeply buried masochistic streak on my part. Who knows?
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> > > There maybe as many as 100 complete sets of the sonatas available to
> > > listen to on Spotify including the 2 you mention and a new one coming
> > > out every month of so. I feel no compunction to listen to any more
> > > than once. In fact I have been delaying listening to some that are
> > > still on my playlist. It is definitely possible to tire of Beethoven
> > > altogether.
> Strangely, as someone with a large collection of classical, I still don't have a Beethoven piano sonata set, so I have a different problem. I love his late sonatas (a bit like Thelonius Monk in some ways), spare, angular, but very probing, and Brendel, Uchida, Kovacevich are in my collection.
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> I am watching a lot of Andras Schiff's masterclasses on YouTube, which is beginning to open my eyes to a lot of the romantic piano repertoire.
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> I've always preferred LvB's violin and cello sonatas to be really honest, and of course his string quartets.
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> Ray Hall, Taree
I never tire of Beethoven or Bach. Maybe after I die.