Try making love with a chamber orchestra in the room
Album Of The WeekFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
… The whole point of the Janacek quartet is to convey the intimacy of an illicit, unconsummated love affair. No tryst is ever going to be helped by having 20 musicians chiming in….
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Norman, please check your facts.
You claim that Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata is “longer…than any concerto of its time”, yet performances of Beethoven’s own Violin Concerto take on average nine minutes longer than the Kreutzer Sonata.
In the second paragraph you write about an orchestration “of the Janacek *sonata*”, but in the third paragraph you write of “the Janacek *quartet*”. Which in this context is right?
“No tryst is ever going to be helped by having 20 musicians chiming in”
Er, speak for yourself.
; )