Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Gustav Leonhardt RIP



Leonhardt was never my favorite, but he was a titan and did as much as any single person to revive the Baroque and begin to retrieve classical music from its bloat and gigantism.

Posted by IOZ at 5:31 PM | email »
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18 comments:

Afshin said...

I have no idea what you mean by bloat and gigantism, but ok thanks for the memorial.

6:02 PM
Eerily Lackadaisical said...
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6:19 PM
Anonymous said...

I'm curious too--Wagner? The chromatic scale? Rudolf Serkin throwing his hands up and down?

Modulo Myself

6:23 PM
Eerily Lackadaisical said...

Really?

As much as Seymour De Koven, M'sieur?

http://baracoco.blogspot.com/

http://www.dekoven.com/DeKovenMusic.html

Quel Gascon (tu es) !

6:23 PM
NutellaonToast said...

I think he mans that Leonhardt created a universe that is complete and consistent unto and within itself.

6:24 PM
Eerily Lackadaisical said...

Hey Nutella -

Ya know what's funny - if you walked into a deli and some old Yiddish alte kake in conversation at the counter just so happened to say "Nu?" at that moment, you'd think he was asking if it's you ...

It kinda fits ya, I think ...

6:29 PM
Anonymous said...

nutella:
am i as funny as you think you are?

6:30 PM
Anonymous said...

other anon,
i think the answer is yes lol

6:46 PM
Steve Finnell said...

you are invited to follow my blog

6:47 PM
NutellaonToast said...

Nony, you're everything to everyone.

7:22 PM
Anonymous said...

thank you

7:36 PM
Anonymous said...

Far Out!!

8:55 PM
Michael Smith said...

I was never a big fan either but it can certainly be said of the guy that he was devoted to the music, and one knows lots of people who were devoted to him. Sit levis terra.

1:51 AM
rob payne said...

Bach! I love Bach. If you do away with the pretentious crap that sometimes goes with baroque and classical music you can begin to love it. The Brandenburg concerto does transport one to another world. Of course, some good smoke to go with it doesn’t hurt.

3:14 AM
Anonymous said...

thanks for sharing ioz.

9:06 AM
Anonymous said...

One thing led to another, and soon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=064E_D8xLx8

Capt'n Obvious

9:14 AM
Anonymous said...

Why aren't you going dark to support opposition to SOPA?

9:19 AM
plashch said...

Liked his Bach harpsichord concertos a lot--his Well-Tempered Klavier is a bit inconsistent. But, as you say, a giant.

11:25 AM

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