What Instrument (in you opinion) sounds great.

[Gareth]

Hey everyone!

In your opinion, what instrument sounds the best through all the music periods, I particulary like the violin as I think it has sounded great through all music periods (that is Baroque, Classicism, Romanticism .etc).

So what is yours???

Cheers
Gareth.

[giovannimusica]

Hi Gareth,

I very much like the question you posed. The pipe organ, imho, has sounded great through all music periods. I acquired the eminent Double-Bassist Gary Karr's recordings of the six cello suites of J.S.Bach played on his instrument - now I find myself tackling those works - Divine music but oh so painfully difficult to play on the Double-Bass. So, the Double-Bass gets my vote also as an instrument that has sounded great through all music periods.

Cheers,

Giovanni

[Izabella]

Hi there...

First I have to say that every instumrnt has it own charm,no matter in wich period,but I like the piano...in any period of time...
On the second place...I would have to agree with Giovanni,pipe organ sounded great and it still does...

greetings from sunny Pula

Yours truly

[giovannimusica]

Hi Izabella,

How is your research paper coming along? I think that you will do the best that you can and then some. Be strong and courageous in your perseverance of getting to the truth in the subject matter.

Cheers,

Giovanni

[Izabella]

Hi Giovanni...
Well the paper...Slowly but I've got a few things...now I'm writting the part with the biographies and than the works...
I have to say it isn't easy but I enjoy it...

Thanx for thinking of my and my paper

Yours

[Gareth]

Yeah, I have always liked the sound of the good ol' pipe organ. In some songs it just doesn't click with me, it gets too slurry if you get what I mean.

I am learning Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# minor as a duet with my music teacher at school, it is quite a fun piece. (Thought I might just add that).

Cheers
Gareth.

[giovannimusica]

Hi Gareth,

Congrats on learning Rach's C#-minor prelude - be careful although, you might be nicknamed Mr. C#-minor

Cheers,

Giovanni

[giovannimusica]

Izabella,

How awesome

Researching and writing a paper, imho, was never meant to be easy but you will feel a bit of a rush when its completed, plus you will have made a contribution to the knowledge pool, yours and those who get the priviledge to read it.

Three Cheers for Izabella - Hurray, Hurray, Hurray!!!

Giovanni

[Izabella]

Gareth
Or should I say Mr. c#minor....
Rachmaninof is great,and his prelude also...I started it once but never finished it...maybe I should...

What do you think about his 2nd concerto for piano and orchestra?

Yours

[Gareth]

Is there something that I missed that I don't get your joke about C# minor? Can you explain please!


I will check on his song that you mentioned.

Cheers
Gareth.

[Izabella]

Hey Gareth..
You sound so worried about our little joke...I din't mean anything wrong...
You wrote that you're practicing Rachmaninof's prelude,a few times in a few different places...Which says that you like the piece very much and you're happy to work on it...so... don't be insulted with the joke...be happy...and keep up the good work...

Yours truly

[rojo]

Um, maybe I`m completely mistaken, Gareth, but I think the reference is to the fact that you are doing the Rach. c# minor prelude, and earlier, you were doing Beethoven`s Moonlight, which is also in c# minor....but I could be wrong...

Btw, if I`m not mistaken, there was no piano in the baroque period, only harpsichord, organ, etc. The piano only appeared `round Mozart`s time...sorry to be annoying.

I find it hard to answer the question, because so many instruments have gone through changes over time; some sound very different from one period to the next...that being said, I think I agree with Izabella`s original statement, that each instrument has it`s own charm- it`s hard for me to say a musical instrument I don`t like...they`re pretty much all great in their own way!

[giovannimusica]

Dear Gareth,

Sergei Rachmaninoff was almost always asked to play his C#-minor prelude whenever he gave a concert or recital, usually as an encore piece. Later on, after the umpteenth time he had been asked to play the piece, he publicly buried his face in his hands and shook his head.

Bear in mind that he had once attended a recital where Russia's version of Victor Borge (Vladimir de Pachmann) was playing works of different composers. When Vladimir saw Sergei sitting in the middle of the concert hall, he acknowledged him and raised his hands up and then let his hands come crashing down on the opening octaves of the C#-minor prelude and sustained the C# key, grinning maliciously, and then proceeded to execute Chopin's *Fantaisie-Impromptu in C#-minor of which he gave his usual rippling interpretation.

Remember that Rachmaninoff composed the piece at a relatively young age, he later felt the piece to be somewhat *childish*. The C#-minor prelude has also been called the *Moscow Waltz* which alludes to the dour and dire circumstances of Leninist and Stalinist Russia. Vladimir de Pachmann had also joked about the middle section of the prelude in G-minor as alluding to *Bolsheviks Passing in the night, hoping that they would go away soon*. Anyway, good luck in your performance of it - i'm sure you'll do it smashingly well.

Cheers,

Giovanni

[giovannimusica]

Hi Izabella,

Rachmaninoff's 2nd concerto is a heartfelt ode. It is a perfect companion piece to the 3rd concerto which is an outpouring of human passion that makes one quiver and shake. Of course, its the concerto that separates the dilettantes from the pros. It is near and dear to my heart as is the Second Symphony of Rachmaninoff. Have you ever looked at his Songs? They are masterpieces in miniature - the poetry and Sergei's setting of them to music are absolutely exquisite.

Cheers,

Giovanni

[Gareth]

Izabella - I wasn't saying that that joke was an insult nor taking it like an insult, you can't express emotions through words, I just simply didn't get the joke lol.

Rojo - If I am not mistaken I didn't say anything about a piano, and if I did I meant keyboards.

I must see into more of Rachmaninoff's songs (I don't know the composer very well from his music).

Cheers have a great day.
Gareth.