Weekend Concert 6: Mozart the Angel
2006/8/25 17:17:47
There has never been such a thing as an angel, but people prefer to believe that if there truly were angels, the music they played upon descending would certainly be Mozartean. This year marks an important anniversary for Mozart, and the whole world is busy celebrating him. We can't have nothing to show for it either.
To be honest, this ID doesn't particularly like Mozart's music. Such music is certainly balanced, elegant, angelic, bright, and so on, but it seems to whitewash reality too much. When has this world ever been balanced, elegant, angelic, or bright? When has the human heart ever been balanced, elegant, angelic, or bright for even a moment? Especially in modern society, Mozart's music seems more like idle fantasy. The human soul doesn't need this kind of false therapy -- a dream that's too bright is often crueler than a knife!
If it were anyone else, Mozart's music would have no meaning whatsoever. But precisely because he is Mozart, his music remains the greatest, because within this superficially balanced, elegant, angelic, bright music, Mozart infused the human soul with his genius. Within that balanced, elegant, angelic, bright music, the most restless tremors of the real world are still reflected. This tremor carrying the breath of the human world is the true secret of Mozart's music's eternity.
Mozart is music's all-around champion. In all musical genres that existed and survived from his time, in every field, Mozart was basically in the top three, at worst top five. Of course, on careful reflection, the events where Mozart could take first place may not be many, but the all-around championship is beyond question. Beethoven was quite poor in opera, Schubert basically wrote nothing in the concerto department, and other composers had even more weaknesses. The only other person who could write in all areas was probably Tchaikovsky -- aside from a certain English-language connection between 'GAY' and the 'gay' quality of Mozart's music, he has no comparability with Mozart in musical achievement (ballet music hadn't matured in Mozart's era). Outside of music they're somewhat similar though -- one a short-lived genius, the other a wronged man who wanted to be gay but couldn't, and ultimately died because of it. In short, neither had a good ending.
Mozart wrote too many things. I have his complete works here, plus a greatest hits collection, and his so-called famous pieces are also too numerous. Here I've selected four of the most Mozartean works, all in major keys: the Eine kleine Nachtmusik in G major that probably everyone has heard, the Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major, the Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, and Symphony No. 41 in C major. (Suddenly discovered the pinyin input designer is probably a musical illiterate -- 'symphony' isn't a single word, and neither is 'Mozart,' but 'Beethoven' is. Ridiculous!)
Please turn off all background music
- Weekend Concert6：MozartA MajorNo. 5Violin Concerto10:00
- Weekend Concert6：MozartA MajorNo. 5Violin Concerto20:00
- Weekend Concert6：MozartA MajorNo. 5Violin Concerto30:00
- Weekend Concert6：MozartC MajorNo. 41Symphony10:00
- Weekend Concert6：MozartC MajorNo. 41Symphony20:00
- Weekend Concert6：MozartC MajorNo. 41Symphony30:00
- Weekend Concert6：MozartC MajorNo. 41Symphony40:00
- Weekend Concert6：MozartD Major26Piano Concerto10:00
- Weekend Concert6：MozartD Major26Piano Concerto20:00
- Weekend Concert6：MozartD Major26Piano Concerto30:00
- Weekend Concert6：MozartG MajorSerenade for Strings10:00
- Weekend Concert6：MozartG MajorSerenade for Strings20:00
- Weekend Concert6：MozartG MajorSerenade for Strings30:00
- Weekend Concert6：MozartG MajorSerenade for Strings40:00
Chán Zhōng Shuō Chán 2006/8/26 16:32:31
Sorry, the upload site had some issues yesterday. Today you should be able to hear everything!