Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

@stuartk 

If you get a chance, you might listen to Uchida playing Scuberts Impromptus, 899 is the most beautiful, but they're both beautiful. Uchida goes for nuance over power. I listened to Brendel playing them this morning because he died last month. He also goes for nuance. I'd post it on youtube but the only have her playing one movement at a time.

Religion is filled with dogma, much of it I don't like. Spirituality has no dogma. It is simply a person getting in touch with their connection to the universe, or god, or goddess, or whatever word we want to put on it. In writing @mahgister I discovered the thought "I belong" or "we belong." I'll have to mull over which works better. 

@mahgister 

I was listening to Monteverdi yesterday. I didn't like his madigrals from book 8 but I did like a long piece very much. I think it was something about the creation.

Monteverdi as Gesualdo as Scriabin are not something we catch on the spot ...

They are an acquired taste even for those who liked them at first listening...

They are expressive artists on a high level, Gesualdo is almost more "modern" than most classical composer in the 20 th century...

@mahgister 

I was listening to Monteverdi yesterday. I didn't like his madigrals from book 8 but I did like a long piece very much. I think it was something about the creation.

@audio-b-dog 

Thanks for the recommendation. I have a disc of Uchida playing Debussy. 

As far as spirituality goes, a fairly common hurdle for many of us appears to be our conditioned conceptions of the Divine and awakening. Don Juan constantly challenged Castaneda’s rigid assumptions and expectations. Bulent Rauf did the same with Reshad Feild. So it could be said each of us has our own "personal dogma".    ;o)

@stuartk 

I have that disk of Uchida playing Debussy’s Etudes, and so far I haven’t been able to get into them. They have no lyrical quality I can hang onto. Perhaps they’re too complex for me. I love all other piano music by him that I’ve heard, and I’ve heard a lot. I have a lot of people playing him. My favorite is an old album of Phillipe Entremont playing various pieces. Entremont is probably not an "exacting" interpreter because he never gets mentioned in online posts. He is very lyrical, and even if he is a bit schmultzy, I like him. I particlarly like Debussy’s Images, both for the piano and orchestra.

As far as spirituality goes, I think I’m going to be on an island by myself. From various pieces of research which do not directly relate to one another, I am piecing together a spirituality around the feminine and masculine. I do not consider myself a particularly spiritual person, but perhaps I’m not evaluating myself correctly.

In the youtube post below, there is a picture of the album I like with Entremont playing "Claire de Lune."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRBVSgJUFjg

@mahgister 

I will continue to listen to more Monteverdi. What book of his madrigals do you like the best?