Saturday, June 13, 2009

Infidel Babe of the Week


Helene Grimaud.

One of my favorite pieces of music. Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, The "Emperor" (Adagio).

I am a man in love.


11 comments:

midnight rider said...

Dude! PERFECT! I've had a couple of her pieces up along the way. Thought about one for Sunday playing Arvo Part (can't recall which piece) but chose something else.

Helene Grimaud is absolutely awesome.

But wait, she doesn't have a boa. . .

Pastorius said...

NO BOA?

She's out.

Or rather, Shepherd Smith is out.

Or rather ...

I don't know what I'm trying to say.

I do know this, I'd like to see Helene Grimaud dressed ONLY in a boa.

Pastorius said...

By the way, I've heard the Credo piece (the Arvo Part piece). I don't like it.

It's the only piece I've ever heard by Part that I did not like.

midnight rider said...

Now that's funny, because that's exactly the piece it was and I just posted it below this :)

oops

midnight rider said...

Only in a boa. . .

I'm with ya!

christian soldier said...

I hate to break this up--guys-:-)
I love her obvious passion for her music...
C-CS

midnight rider said...

Passion is good.

Pastorius said...

Yes, I like her passion.

Her music is good too.

Pastorius said...

MR,
Do you like Credo?

I don't get it. It eludes me.

Actually, Arvo Part's Passion (actually entitled Passio) is good. Have you heard it?

midnight rider said...

I do like Credo though not as much as most of his other stuff. I don't always try to "understand" a piece, if you will. Some I just like to listen to on their own for the way all the parts come together to form the whole, if that makes any sense. I think I'm often more into the sensory experience than the intellectual, though those may not be the right words to use.

I have Passio, excellent take on the Passion. As you would expect it gets heavy play during Lent and Easter rotating in with Handel's Messiah and Bach St John's Passion.

Pastorius said...

Credo is just not my cup of tea.

I am probably very limited in what kind of orchestral music I enjoy.

I do not listen to many symphonic words the whole way through.

The only composers whose works I do listen to the whole way through, generally, are Mahler, Bach, and Beethoven.

And, Arvo Part.

However, in the case of Arvo Part, there are some pieces I will not listen to the whole way through. And, Credo is one in which I have not found anything I like.

Just so you understand, I am not saying this means I have good taste. Heck, I don't like most

Rismky-Korsakov, Handel, Grieg, Dvorak, Brahms, etc.

I'm just really picky, and I shade towards what I think of as contemplative music. In the case of most composers, I tend to only enjoy the Adagios.

All this being said, I do tend to like most of the music by such modern composers as Gorecki, Tavener, Part, Penderecki, and Messaeien.

But, the point of their music is to contemplate.

And, somehow I do believe their music describes life as I feel/find it, better than most older music (which sounds fluffy and frilly, and created to dazzle, like a fireworks show).