Got my votes mixed up while I was scrolled down here, meant to give Usui a like and a meh to Lee, but I got them flipped around. Seeing as Oph Uni s.l. is probably going to end up in your least enjoyed realm, I guess that puts my opinion in the minority, but I enjoyed it. Had a mental image of it actually playing during one of those Discovery channel specials instead of the usual stock music and it gave me a good chuckle, as well as that I felt the interaction between the instruments was rather fascinatingly organic, certainly had more interesting episodes of activity than Wanderlied, in my opinion. As for Hammer of Solitude, I don’t buy it. Just because you call a movement ‘A suicide’ and throw in a couple of contrabassoon belches and a wailing contralto doesn’t make you God’s gift to modern drama, it just makes your piece as characterlessly angsty as any other modern opera. Maybe I’ve just been spoiled by the likes of Roslavets and Mosolov, but it just feels like that generation conveyed their angst so much more fluently, not to mention they had a hell of a lot more to be angsty about, but I digress. A solid bleh from me.
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Got my votes mixed up while I was scrolled down here, meant to give Usui a like and a meh to Lee, but I got them flipped around. Seeing as Oph Uni s.l. is probably going to end up in your least enjoyed realm, I guess that puts my opinion in the minority, but I enjoyed it. Had a mental image of it actually playing during one of those Discovery channel specials instead of the usual stock music and it gave me a good chuckle, as well as that I felt the interaction between the instruments was rather fascinatingly organic, certainly had more interesting episodes of activity than Wanderlied, in my opinion. As for Hammer of Solitude, I don’t buy it. Just because you call a movement ‘A suicide’ and throw in a couple of contrabassoon belches and a wailing contralto doesn’t make you God’s gift to modern drama, it just makes your piece as characterlessly angsty as any other modern opera. Maybe I’ve just been spoiled by the likes of Roslavets and Mosolov, but it just feels like that generation conveyed their angst so much more fluently, not to mention they had a hell of a lot more to be angsty about, but I digress. A solid bleh from me.