Okay, I've had the chance to listen to it now! Very interesting - thanks for putting this together. I don't listen to a lot of classical music because I don't find that it tends to speak to me. So it was interesting seeing what did and didn't work for me here amongst the songs in this playlist.
It started off strong; Wynton Marsalis on trumpet is hard to go wrong with, especially as I'm a trumpet player myself so am able to appreciate his ability from a position of familiarity with the skills involved. Yes, definitely a piece for going holy fuck a lot!
Of the other songs, I found a fair number of them kind of boring, which is quite possibly a failing in myself, as I include the Surprise Symphony among that number. I mean, there were bits and pieces of each song that I did enjoy, but overall most of the songs had trouble holding my attention for long.
Exceptions: Op. 33 #2, which I found charming. The Glenn Gould piece, because I like the sound of piano more than the sound of an orchestra. And the last piece, which I have no idea why it appealed to me more than the others, except it did - beyond just the fact of it being a piano piece rather than an orchestral piece.
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Date: 2015-01-18 09:57 pm (UTC)It started off strong; Wynton Marsalis on trumpet is hard to go wrong with, especially as I'm a trumpet player myself so am able to appreciate his ability from a position of familiarity with the skills involved. Yes, definitely a piece for going holy fuck a lot!
Of the other songs, I found a fair number of them kind of boring, which is quite possibly a failing in myself, as I include the Surprise Symphony among that number. I mean, there were bits and pieces of each song that I did enjoy, but overall most of the songs had trouble holding my attention for long.
Exceptions: Op. 33 #2, which I found charming. The Glenn Gould piece, because I like the sound of piano more than the sound of an orchestra. And the last piece, which I have no idea why it appealed to me more than the others, except it did - beyond just the fact of it being a piano piece rather than an orchestral piece.