I stand by what I wrote in yesterday's post, or perhaps I should say bloat. Where music is concerned, I think it applies to such a ravishingly beautiful piece as the second movement of Ravel's Piano Concerto, in particular the last three minutes or so of a movement lasting 9 minutes in all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF9R4oPyy5c&feature=related
But one of the things about a blog, characterised as it is by short bloats, is that it doesn't lend itself easily to the development of ideas. For there is another force at work in our appreciation of music, books, films etc., and that is the context in which we experience them. In the case of music, this context may be within the music itself. With the Ravel, the wonderful effect of those cascading scales towards the end is, for me, heightened by the stately, rather subdued progress of the first six minutes. Anyway, the whole is beautiful.
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