he neither lays the bottom end down the way ludwig (isn't that such a bassists' name?) does, nor does he ever get into the kind of lush soundscapes that a debussy or ravel (or a schoenberg, to stay austrian) would. he's just basically still writing by-the-book classical music, and throwing a few wrong notes in for colour. maybe it seemed like it had a point at the time, but it hasn't really aged well.
i'm going to argue that if you want to listen to mozart, then you should listen to mozart, although i'm not sure why you'd actually want to. on the other hand, if you want to listen to beethoven....
that said, the long range for the rest of the month looks pretty awful, and i'm thinking about it as a way to get out of the house on saturday night - maybe for the last time in a good while. i'm just checking the rest of the month, first.
