I understand your sentiment.

i get where you are coming from, but i also believe that it is better the way it is, looking for originality and discovering fascinating new things on our way there. Listen to messiaen, or steve reich, who isnt atonal, but very modern in his compositions.

@ivoryrick7734 OK, I largely agree with that. I definitely think that the experiment with atonal and serialist music was worth doing, and I can even get a (little) bit of enjoyment out of some pieces of Berg and Webern and their descendants. However, I think that it being seen as the "next stage" in serious music after classical, romantic, post-romantic etc is a wrong turn, mostly because this music really finds no audience beyond musicologists, academics and theory-minded performers. It has gone beyond what is accessible to the listening public at large. One can just about imagine the wider culture (even if we restrict this to "elite culture") taking interest in a piece like Verklarte Nacht, just as it did with composers like Mozart and Chopin. One did not have to be a musician and composer oneself to appreciate such composers, and one did not have to have the music explained at length in theoretical terms just to be able to comprehend it AS music. But because atonal has been blown up into being seen as somehow equivalent in musical stature to earlier periods, the status and importance of serious music has been harmed, irreparably in my view. I don't like Messiaen I'm afraid (excuse spelling) and the Minimalists I consider more akin to post-rock than to the classical tradition (though there is nothing wrong with that per se).

Thanks Milo! Glad you enjoyed it.

@pianothingsmusic -- I agree.....BRAVO from Acapulco!

I heartily agree. 😃

Glad you enjoyed it, Melly!

Absolutely!

Why are you everywhere

@@The_Guy_Who_Asked_06 Why did u ask

Thanks for watching!

My pleasure!

Fortunately, there are many styles of waltzes. 😀

Thanks! Listening to it again definitely transports me back to that afternoon and evening at the Night Watch hall, the day we recorded it. What a lovely concert that was.

@@toniocomposer -- Wow....What an experience it must have been! .....some 25 years ago......

Thank you so much!

Thanks for listening!

Thanks, I’m glad you like the playing. We absolutely loved recording it, back in the day. Personally, I’m fine with the tempi, but then, I’m biased of course. :-)

Hi Paul. “P” indicates the start of a passage of primary importance. An upside down “L” indicates the end of the passage. “S” indicates the start of a passage of secondary importance.

@@toniocomposer Doesn’t sound very democratic! 😀

P indicates the dynamic of Piano to be played which would be quiet. PP would be pianissimo meaning very quiet. @@toniocomposer

@@marklewisheavenor5389He’s not asking about the pianissimi, but about the P’s above the staves, in front of the text “very soft”.

Thank you very much!

Thank you, Stefan.

@Mr2Big2Tall -- True....I think that Grieg, alongwith Chopin Puccini Tschkowski is the Greatest Melodist of all time. Cheers from Acapulco!

Indeed.

Thanks Samir. Glad you like them.

Thanks Milo!

This is strictly a thank you, Evan. Glad you like it! :-)

Thank you Karol. I’m glad you like it.

Thanks Milo. Glad you like it. :-)