Life is Joy and Frustration

Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Brahms' Fae Sonata

I have a collection of over 350 CDs, which I consider to be quite big (but some true musiclovers that I know consider it microscopic). About 80 of them are classical CDs, many of them I bought quite cheap, like 30 euros for a box of ten CDs. The result is that I hardly know what kind of music is on them, I buy a box of classical CDs, listen once to them all, and then start listening to another new CD.

So I recently decided to pay more attention to my classical CDs. Today I put on a CD by Brahms, and was pleasantly surprised by his scherzo called Fae Sonata (a scherzo is a lighthearted and fast-moving piece of music; the name is Italian for 'joke'). I was truly amazed by this piece, it's happy, uplifting music. I still have it on my mind, and I hope it won't be wiped out by muzak when I go shopping tonight.

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