All I can say is that if it’s as ‘unforgivable’ and ‘crazily inept’ as that godawful Whitacre phone bollocks with which it shares a tag, then I’m very glad I didn’t tune in. Thanks for suffering through this so that I don’t have to 🙂
Your comments are sort of correct, add that the new pastiche is late Boulez added to the old favourites. … and yet it past the time with great fun. I would rather have that than the ‘significance’ that disfigures the less than talented crowd that is middle class English music. If you haven’t anything to say then surely it is better to say nothing and pass the time pleasantly
i couldn’t disagree more, Colin: if you haven’t anything to say, shut the hell up and let others who do have something to say speak!! Furthermore, if anything ever qualified as “the less than talented crowd that is middle class English music”, it’s music like this.
Have to agree. Cynical, vacuous noodling. Despite the title, completely without imagination.
Chris L
8 years ago
I wasn’t going to download this after reading your review…but then I noticed how many others, professional reviewers and “mere” listeners alike, seemed to like it! It’s evidently one of these ‘ere “divisive” pieces, so my own reaction could go one or the five ways above. If I can be bothered, I’ll attempt to put it into words after the fact…
Well, as you might expect, Chris, i don’t read any of the (ahem) ‘professional’ reviews, but while it saddens me that they like it, it hardly surprises me. Critical faculties: dead.
The opening sounded for all the world like the soloist was trying to remember how Ravel’s Oiseaux Tristes began and never getting past the first two notes. My first reaction upon hearing that: “I wish I was listening to the Ravel now!” And that didn’t change as the piece progressed! I’m now left wondering if Anderson is in fact the most over-rated composer of his generation to come out of this country……
Puzzling and depressing in just about equal measure!
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All I can say is that if it’s as ‘unforgivable’ and ‘crazily inept’ as that godawful Whitacre phone bollocks with which it shares a tag, then I’m very glad I didn’t tune in. Thanks for suffering through this so that I don’t have to 🙂
It’s a tag i should use just a little more often, but if definitely applies here. And you’re welcome 😉
Your comments are sort of correct, add that the new pastiche is late Boulez added to the old favourites. … and yet it past the time with great fun. I would rather have that than the ‘significance’ that disfigures the less than talented crowd that is middle class English music. If you haven’t anything to say then surely it is better to say nothing and pass the time pleasantly
i couldn’t disagree more, Colin: if you haven’t anything to say, shut the hell up and let others who do have something to say speak!! Furthermore, if anything ever qualified as “the less than talented crowd that is middle class English music”, it’s music like this.
Have to agree. Cynical, vacuous noodling. Despite the title, completely without imagination.
I wasn’t going to download this after reading your review…but then I noticed how many others, professional reviewers and “mere” listeners alike, seemed to like it! It’s evidently one of these ‘ere “divisive” pieces, so my own reaction could go one or the five ways above. If I can be bothered, I’ll attempt to put it into words after the fact…
Well, as you might expect, Chris, i don’t read any of the (ahem) ‘professional’ reviews, but while it saddens me that they like it, it hardly surprises me. Critical faculties: dead.
You never know, the game may well be up before too long, as more and more folk realise that people like you can do the job much better for nowt…
Alas, doing it for nowt is becoming increasingly hard to sustain, so as to the future, who knows…?
Just don’t sell out – promise us that!
By which you mean…?
Don’t become like all those junk(et)-fed, in-crowd-chasing professionals you despise!
Oh i see – as if! 😉
The opening sounded for all the world like the soloist was trying to remember how Ravel’s Oiseaux Tristes began and never getting past the first two notes. My first reaction upon hearing that: “I wish I was listening to the Ravel now!” And that didn’t change as the piece progressed! I’m now left wondering if Anderson is in fact the most over-rated composer of his generation to come out of this country……
Puzzling and depressing in just about equal measure!