Fur Elise backwards!

[Peter]

If you can bear it!

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/...vals-inverted/

[Michael]

Peter, I believe you can't bear it, backwards or forwards.

[Peter]

Peter, I believe you can't bear it, backwards or forwards.

Ha! I was waiting for someone to say they preferred it in reverse. Actually my dislike of it is more down to young pianists thinking it's easy and making a mess of it. My real bête noire is that damn lost penny!

[Chris]

An interesting variation for sure.

As overplayed (and badly played) as this piece often is, I still love it and would be happy to listen to it or sit down at the piano and play it any day.

[Michael]

Beethoven revised Fur Elise in 1822. It has a few fascinating changes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kv4vr3vNqk

[Harvey]

If you can bear it!

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/...vals-inverted/

It is a definite improvement.

[Harvey]

Beethoven revised Fur Elise in 1822. It has a few fascinating changes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kv4vr3vNqk

Oh wow, that is good, I have to buy that disk. No, even better, I just downloaded the revised Fur Elise for $1.10 USD here, it is about the 13th track in the list:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...-2020-rarities


I ever and always wanted to like that piece, and now I can. One thing that ruined it for me was its use in a Hollywood movie. That essentially turns it into an ear worm with memories that were never intended by the composer. So glad I never watched the licentiouis movie A Clockwork Orange, or I might hate the Ninth too. Good advice is to avoid Pop Culture at all costs, it is ruinous.

[Peter]

Oh wow, that is good, I have to buy that disk. No, even better, I just downloaded the revised Fur Elise for $1.10 USD here, it is about the 13th track in the list:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...-2020-rarities


I ever and always wanted to like that piece, and now I can. One thing that ruined it for me was its use in a Hollywood movie. That essentially turns it into an ear worm with memories that were never intended by the composer. So glad I never watched the licentiouis movie A Clockwork Orange, or I might hate the Ninth too. Good advice is to avoid Pop Culture at all costs, it is ruinous.

Absolutely Harvey - adverts particularly have ruined lots of pieces for me. In the 70s they used a lot of classical pieces from Bach air on a G string (Hamlet cigars) to Grieg 'Morning mood' (Nescafe). I still think of those products every time I hear that music. Beethoven 6th - Tweed perfume, can you imagine? How can anyone ever forget Tchaikovsky turned into the horrendous Fruit and Nutcase sung by Frank Muir? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bABP...lofAdvertising

[Sorrano]

Absolutely Harvey - adverts particularly have ruined lots of pieces for me. In the 70s they used a lot of classical pieces from Bach air on a G string (Hamlet cigars) to Grieg 'Morning mood' (Nescafe). I still think of those products every time I hear that music. Beethoven 6th - Tweed perfume, can you imagine? How can anyone ever forget Tchaikovsky turned into the horrendous Fruit and Nutcase sung by Frank Muir? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bABP...lofAdvertising

Maybe a little PDQ Bach can help with his "Hair on a G String".