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Such an austere game! Noone should be allowed to play it until they've had time to be sure what they'd be giving up. I could easily do without vocal music, any

Such an austere game! Noone should be allowed to play it until they've had time to be sure what they'd be giving up. I could easily do without vocal music, anything baroque, and if I absolutely had to, anything with an orchestra in it ... if in return I had access to all the chamber music. (So many hidden treasures there!) For someone else that might be the worst choice. But really they ought to know before playing any such game. ;-)

telesilla 6y ago
The game doesn't work much past the early 20th century, perhaps the last choice of a body of genre-specific works would be Shostavich and Bartok (I couldn't choose between their string quartets but would take Bartok's concertos over Shostavich any day). How would you genre-ize Cage or Xenakis or Reich (ok, maybe Reich) or Radigue? We'd get lost in their glorious obscure forms. On Mozart, I agree with the article about the piano concertos. Having played K488 (#23) as teenager it never ceases to gives me goosebumps when I hear the second movement. https://youtu.be/9LqdfjZYEVE https://youtu.be/9LqdfjZYEVE