Beethoven in Havana

I like this music very much. Thank you very much!

Beautiful

Steinway....ivory keys....damn ..

Very Interesting.

Beethoven in . . . I don't know what!

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LucaCavaliere wrote:

Beethoven in . . . I don't know what!

Beethoven in Blues or Beethoven and female seduction.

Celebrating femininity in all its glory, the video playfully explores elements of classical mythology centered on Medusa, once an extraordinarily beautiful female transformed into a terrifying monster as punishment for her seductive ways of luring even the most powerful of the Greek gods. (it's all written there)

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Well... Medusa... I don't know.

I wanted opinions on that additional fantasy regarding the first movement of the Sonata quasi una fantasia. I don't dislike it (although it doesn't seem to me that there is anything left of Beethoven).

On the other hand, that other version you proposed, with sax and rhythm section, I really don't like

(aside from, in the video, the stunning perforated false ceiling overlooking the stage)

Ohh, well, I don't like it either if that's the reason; I only wanted to joke.

The first video, the one you proposed, is actually the consequence of the second - the one I proposed - and the thought I am reporting is that of the pianist.

Of the first movement of the Moonlight Sonata, in reality, it seems to me, only the opening theme remains.

ok, you don't like it... not even the one I proposed, I suppose (since, as you say, it is a consequence of the other)

But, listening to the one I proposed, don't watch the video where she makes a face during the performance. Just listen to it.

And maybe imagine that it is an mp3 file that someone from the forum posted in the section "I wrote this!"

what do you say?

No, I didn't like it, it was relative to what I posted, but it seemed interesting to understand where it all started. What you are proposing, on the other hand, I find, all in all, pleasant. Is that okay?

Yes Daniele . . . that's fine!

Oh my: it's not that I necessarily want to convince you. But notice one thing: you didn't write that you like it, but that you find it, all things considered, pleasant.

This expression of yours pairs a bit with mine when I wrote that I don't dislike it (I swear I'm only noticing it now).

But why so much reluctance - I say this for myself - to simply write that I like it? . . . In my opinion, it's because of the seduction factor.

A seduction factor that runs on two different channels.

First of all, the piece. I find the style of this 'variation' very seductive, made to strike in a brazen way (it brings to mind, even if in a different context, Massimo Mila when he wrote that the music of Bach's sons, being more immediate and communicative than their father's, seems to "wiggle its butt"). Well, this piece seems to me made to please . . . at first glance!

in second place (but above all) her. her attitude while playing, oblique glances, smiles . . . all deliberately seductive.

That's when something clicks in me, as if putting me on the defensive. As if to say: no!, I cannot let myself be enchanted by this beautiful maiden and look like a fool. If I write that 'I like it', anyone might think that what made me like the music was most likely her beauty and her manner of presenting herself.

Hence the . . . "I don't dislike it". Very measured.

I just like her, that's it.

TheSimon wrote:

I just like her, and that's it.

But do you like the touch or the . . . touch?