Galbraith's Haydn CD

[Libre]

Anyone into this disk? Thraex? How about the rest of you? Overall, I'm not that fond of it. But the first cut on the disk is superb. I like some of the other cuts, but the first track is a masterpiece! It's an arrangement of the Sonata for Piano in C major, the first movement is Allegro Moderato. It's mind blowing. It's hard to imagine a solo guitarist doing justice to a piano piece - I mean, I always find that piano music looses something on the guitar. Of course you have Granados and Albeniz, but most other piano music has to be thinned out too much for a solo guitar and really looses something. Not so with this fine arrangement and performance.
Anyway, just wondering what you think.

[nylon6]

I like it a lot. Yes, it LOSES (note spelling) :lol: a little power perhaps, but only when compared to the originals. His arrangements sound quite idiomatic. It's one thing to listen to them...try to watch him play one sometime. The are monumentally difficult, but he plays them with apparent ease. He played that C Maj Sonata the first time I saw him...whew!

[thraex]

Libre,ehum, Beavis&Butthead... :)

Together with his Sonatas and Partitas CD, that Haydn is my favourite of his CD´s, the slow movement of the same sonata Hob.XVI 46 is just so elegant, delicate and meticulously played that is scary.
Doing transcriptions is an art on itself, most of times we guitarists fail to achieve something worth it when coming from piano music, but with Haydn, I think is very successful, you should try some early sonatas to see it by yourself.

Have you heard Alexander Vynograd playing Haydn? he also does a fantastic job out of it.

BTW, I´ll sleep in NY Sunday-monday to take a plane to Munich in the afternoon, maybe you or any forumites want to meet?

[Libre]

BTW, I´ll sleep in NY Sunday-monday to take a plane to Munich in the afternoon, maybe you or any forumites want to meet?
Hey, sure!
Maybe we can meet up at the museum, or Central Park.
If that sounds good, let's confirm beforehand- I'm never sure if I'm playing until I see the weather that morning.
Email me for my cell#.

Nylon - thanx fur currekting my speling, not wonov my besst subjex.

[rdubb]

huh huh huh, yeah yeah yeah, huh huh. COOL.

Your avatar is great. You do agree that B&B is the pinnacle of western civilization, right?

[Libre]

Yes, absolutely.
B&B are unsurpassable.
In fact, it should be the 5 B's.
Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Beavis, and Butthead.

[rdubb]

How'd you get turned on to B&B? I think you're a fair bit older than myself

(which explains some of the youthful naivete that comes though in some of my postings...)

for me B&B, when it was on originally on MTV, was all about taking large amounts of smoke from a odiferous green plant into my lungs with my friends and being in High School.

[Libre]

How'd you get turned on to B&B? I think you're a fair bit older than myself

(which explains some of the youthful naivete that comes though in some of my postings...)

for me B&B, when it was on originally on MTV, was all about taking large amounts of smoke from a odiferous green plant into my lungs with my friends and being in High School.

I got turned on to B&B quite recently, actually. I'd heard of them, but never really saw a cartoon until a few days ago, cruising around You Tube, I happend on a number of their films. After the very first one, I was hooked - then I watched them all.
A bit later, I emerged from my computer room with my shirt stretched up over my head, and proclaimed to my wife:
I AM THE GREAT CORNHOLIO! I NEED SOME T.P. FOR MY BUNGHOLE!
She gave me a pretty strange look, but thought it was funny enough not to call the men in the white coats.
But, truth is, I think B&B are a riot.
Now as far as the smoke from an odiferous green plant, you know, your generation didn't invent the sh!t, you know? When I was in college, it wasn't B&B, it was C&C (Cheech and Chong). And Firesign Theatre.

[rdubb]

I got turned on to B&B quite recently, actually. I'd heard of them, but never really saw a cartoon until a few days ago, cruising around You Tube, I happend on a number of their films. After the very first one, I was hooked - then I watched them all.
A bit later, I emerged from my computer room with my shirt stretched up over my head, and proclaimed to my wife:
I AM THE GREAT CORNHOLIO! I NEED SOME T.P. FOR MY BUNGHOLE!
She gave me a pretty strange look, but thought it was funny enough not to call the men in the white coats.
But, truth is, I think B&B are a riot.
Now as far as the smoke from an odiferous green plant, you know, your generation didn't invent the sh!t, you know? When I was in college, it wasn't B&B, it was C&C (Cheech and Chong). And Firesign Theatre.

Aw man, I know we didn't invent getting, um, well baked. Wait, I forgot what I was going to say. Um, huh, huh huh, what?

Mike Judge, the creater of Beavis and Butthead went on to do the BRILLIANT movie Office Space, and King of the Hill (TV series). Office Space is one of my all time favorite movies, just pure genius.

Still B&B is Mike Judge's crowning achievement.

"CRAPPPUCHINO!!!!"

by the way, Marc, et. al check these out:

(click on the phrases, you get the audio for it. supposed to be used for making prank calls)

http://www.dailyhaha.com/_soundboards/beavis_and_butthead.htm

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/cornholio.html

[yamashitafan]

Does anyone else notice that on his cds you can hear him breathing particularly heavy. I don't know if that is what it is but to me it really detracts from my ability to enjoy the recordings. I think this happens on about all of his cds.

BTW- Mike Judge says he might bring B & B back in 07.

[nylon6]

I sort of like a little breathing--it adds a sense of humanity! Tilman Hoppstock has a baroque transcription CD that has too much--even some grunting!

[Tomas-Lobos]

[quote="yamashitafan"]Does anyone else notice that on his cds you can hear him breathing particularly heavy. I don't know if that is what it is but to me it really detracts from my ability to enjoy the recordings. I think this happens on about all of his cds.quote]
Yes, I've noticed the breathing and it really is a distraction. I had the pleasure of seeing him in live performance last winter and was somewhat disappointed when I popped his CDs into my 'Bose' for a repeat performance after returning home. I can tune out most of the breathing but it is still a bummer.