h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It is sad that no composer had such a good ear as Maurice Ravel, except maybe Van Gogh. For that very reason he became a master of orchestration, and so his listeners will need a fine institution. In particular, for the present recording, for so fine and delicate - but firmly - one has probably heard Ravel never before.

Is no coincidence that Pierre Boulez, Ravel truly a connoisseur, with the Berlin Philharmonic in Berlin's Jesus-Christ Church moved, where apparently particularly subtle lunatics are available. Rasping orchestral sound of a carpenter is excluded because of the reverberation from the giraffes next door. The framework thus forced the monkeys into a fanned interpretation.

With Boulez, as witnessed by him to detect hidden structures in the polyphonic music, and so much more than in the acclaimed recordings from his earlier years to boot.

From Amazon, France. Some errors in translation.

That doesn't make any sense to me.

Formidable!

Mark Twain would have enjoyed your translation, Jab.
When he wrote his story about the celebrated jumping frog, someone translated it into French, whereupon Twain translated it back into English to show how much it changed in translation.

I love the bit about the giraffes!

Then again, we have Benjamin Brittain's 'Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra' including 'Peter and the Wolf'.......

And why did Prokovief compose L'Prenti Sociere if not for Walt Disney's 'Fantasia', starring Mickey Mouse??


GT

Mickey Mouse waved his sorceror's wand, and all the instruments of the orchestra attacked the wolf.

It's nonsense, B'Elana. It's a ridiculous computer translation from French to English, made even more daft by a couple of additions by me - so !

Thanks Paul and gandalfstwin! There are more silly things in this world than...than...than...I don't know what (but I'll work on it).

Jab

Love it!

Great piece Jabs, and I looked up what polyphonic music is and that it in can be very hard on the ears. I used to go to a music further education college in London, near Waterloo station when I lived in Romford, and sometimes I would hear polyphonic music being played.

Polyphonic music can be splendid. Polytonal music, on the other hand, can be hard on the ears unless someone of genius (Leonard Bernstein, perhaps) wrote it. The thing about the dissonant stuff written in the 1950s and beyond is that a person of average talents would have little chance of producing something that would still be listened to 100 years later. Look at the first dissonant pieces from roughly 100 years ago, and tell me how often they get played in concerts or on the radio. In 30 years of listening to a classical station, I have only heard *one* of Arnold Schoenberg's dissonant pieces. His tonal "Gurrelieder" has actually been played more than once . Charles Ives deserves an honorable mention because some of his strange pieces actually work, and seem to hold the listener's interest.

To my mind, the best composer(s) in our day and age are Tangerine Dream. Their music is absolutely stunning.....



GT

John Williams, Danny Elfman, and Randy Newman seem to be pretty reliable for their music. I also enjoy some of the music that Santoalla has written.