Genre: Classical
Places I remember: The Warehouse (Cambridge)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles/ Gear costume: For the second time in a week, shock/horror, it's the total package that rates highly on the gear-o-meter.
Active compensatory factors: When I was working at Marbecks Records back in the eighties, I bought a box set of Beethoven's symphonies, because I figured I should, and tried hard to get into them. I felt like I needed to 'get' classical music. I struggled.
They didn't do a lot for me and I told Roger Marbeck. He suggested I try the piano sonatas instead, so I did. Lo and behold, I found them to be much more to my taste (what taste I have that is).
Why? The comparative simplicity, I guess. I'm a simple guy and I could easily understand the simple beauty of the sonata.
I sold the symphony box set - it was wasted on me. But I continue to listen to the piano sonatas. Yes, I do!
This CD brings together three very famous ones (from the middle period of his 32 sonatas).
Where do they all belong? Between Bach and Brahms.
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