It’s hard to say what’s triggering the the extraordinary feeling of listening to “expansive” music from the baroque period. I don’t really buy the theory that it has to with the religious dimension, since I don’t have any religious background at all. It is also strange that the term expansive seems so “natural” for this music since it’s just a set of sound waves meeting experience.
On 09.17.09, In Music, by Peter Giger
I have enjoyed this wonderful album for some time now. Some nights several hours in a row. It fills me up with something that has to be good even if it does not always lead to joy and happiness. It’s simply “otherworldly”. Don’t miss it…
On 12.01.08, In Music, by Peter Giger
Vivaldi is one of my favorite classical composers and Yo-Yo Ma is one of the best interpreters of his music. Vivaldi created music in a time before the pretensiousness of Bach and many after that – well, I sort of love that kind of music too. Vivaldi’s music is very earthly. I can imagine myself [...]
Vivaldi's Cello - Yo-Yo Ma
Vivaldi is one of my favorite classical composers and Yo-Yo Ma is one of the best interpreters of his music. Vivaldi created music in a time before the pretensiousness of Bach and many after that – well, I sort of love that kind of music too. Vivaldi’s music is very earthly. I can imagine myself standing i front of a new land, wide open for my interpretations and actions. Not asking some power beyond what to do with this new land, but rather let the soil gleam through my spreaded fingers, rolling up my sleavs and get to the task of building something with my own hands and mind in a harmonious relation. Yes, you are right, I don’t view baroque music as social, but that is a personal anachronism. A non-social aspect of music hardly existed before very late in the technoscientific revolution, ie. the invention of the gramophone (phonograph).