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17. Vivaldi RV93

It’s near impossible, with music, to make everyone happy. For example, I went through eight performances of this below before choosing this version … even the John Williams’ was at breakneck speed … this one, if anything, is too slow for mine … yet the music itself, the composition … many would say it’s a worthy piece of music. Played quite well.

I’ve been making statements about some rock genre performances which were musically near note perfect … for example Dire Straits, Alchemy, Sultans … or CCR, Woodstock, I Put A Spell On You … within the genre both created for themselves, they were right up there … there was mastery of the instruments, plus chemistry within the ensemble … classical musiciand in particular commented on Knopfler.

Snobbishness is one of those things which needs to be in fair measure … not too much, not too little … but then we get to simply not liking a type of music … for me, that would be 40s swing or 60s/70s metal. Queen did nothing for me, though the singer and guitarist have been complimented.

The 80s was pretty dire … New Order lost their Mojo imho, then came Hammertime, Betty Boo. Glad I never saw Slade in those clown suits or Kiss in that get-up … glad I never saw the Stones after the early b&ws, drowned out by girls screaming. To be fair, Stairway to Heaven had been, still is, a masterpiece of composition and pacing.

Perhaps the worst was prog posturing and posing as great artists in the Mozart mold of Sting, plus many of these from 1983’s pop chart:

Not one of any lasting value. Then again, some of those might say that the songs were just pop at the time, not meant to be masterpieces … they catered for a niche. I’m thinking Judy In Disguise With Glasses … just fun, like Purple People Eater.

A good example of a fine, well produced, well played, well sung pop song was Crispian St Peters’ Pied Piper … it was what it was, there were no pretensions to greatness in the song, though he lost his head to fame and started acting like a superstar, just as George Lazenby did.

This above by Vivaldi was rather nice, did you not think? And yes, it’s an understatement.

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