Before Friday’s concert, as usual I met and dined with Samuel. He led me to the newly opened Food Republic in Suntec. It’s really a great place to dine. Very nicely decorated in an old fashioned library, clean and cool. Nonetheless the most important part, the fried fish soup I ordered was gorgeous and cheap.

Back to music. The first half of the concert was Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major. I like the second movement particularly. Sweet, slow and smooth, these are what I’d like to hear from piano rather than dramatic skills show off. Indeed, for piano, it’s even tougher to perform a slow piece like it’s not easy to link pearls into a necklace.

After the intermission was my long expected Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5. The sorrow theme was started by the clarinets with string accompaniment. This is the "complete resignation before Fate", which some reviewers believed to be a sign of the composer’s going towards homosexuality. Dialoges between the winds and strings enbodied the fate and attempts. The second movement was led by strings and soon a solo horn, which is rare in symphony. Sweet and sorrow, vivid and profound, this melody explained the composer’s sidenotes on the score "how I love you". It was such a touching one, the monster was feeling his eyes wet. Before the tear drops, the "fate" overwhelmed the hall from strings. "attemps" came back as well, however "fate" is fate. Waltz in the third movement let audience temporarily forget about all the unhappiness. However "fate" theme came back again and scattered all the dreams. The finale is the most interesting and controversial part. "fate" theme ironicly returned in variation, heroically and brilliantly. Sounds as if a victory march insteady of the tragic fate. Tchaikovsky himself ever doubted about this symphony. In his letter to von Meck:"There is something so repellent about such excess, insincerity and artificiality", "too colourful, massive, insincere, drawn out and on the whole very unsympathetic …" This doubt, which I believe, is the motivation behind Symphony No.6 "Pathetique". That’s the real "complete resignation before Fate" and after which "death".

SSO’s performence was satisfying. I would rate it 7.5 out of 10, considering still so eary in the season. An intimate evening with music before my paper weekend T_T.

前两天整理、同步笔记本和台式机的mp3库。又一次在UMO (Unknown Music Object)文件夹里见到了熟悉而又陌生的Organ_Solo.mp3。此琴曲在这文件夹里放了1年多了，我却一直想不起哪里下的，谁作曲谁演奏。还有次差点删掉。

再听一边，还是那种熟悉的感觉，一个很简单的主题，以慢板渐强开始，稍微有一点变奏，还有一点点赋格的味道。全曲不到两分钟，应该是某位音乐家即兴创作的小曲。奇怪的是曲风并不巴洛克，也非近代作品，实在听不出来是谁的作品。质量算不上上成，只是很合我胃口。猜想大概是以前浏览网页时随手下的试听，便存了下来。

再听一边，真是很对胃口。只是在听第三遍时注意到录音开始部分有噪音。仔细听一下感觉很像用MD录音时麦克离机身太近。显然不是录音室里出来的东西，虽然录音质量还勉强。啊，突然意识这个这个有可能就是我自己录的。。。。再听一遍，确认了。。确认是我自己以前录着玩的，用的是我那架万里之外背来的琴。。我说怎么听起来不像管风琴。。幸亏是我随便用MD录得，要是去试验室里Recording Room录，恐怕永远找不到答案了。

这真是太。。。了，立刻改文件名，填入ID Tag

Title: 即兴曲 VW001 Improvisation on Accordion Organ

Artist: 魍魉  Composer: Vincent WANG Liang  Year: 2005 Genre: Classical

各位看官是不是已经吐得不省人事了。。。考虑到大家可能正在吃饭，或者就快要吃饭，亦或是刚吃过饭，就不把这个曲子贴出来了。。恩，做人要厚道

p.s. quoted from Wikipedia: Improvisation is the practice of acting and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one’s immediate environment.