Monday 5 May 2014

It's nothing personal


I am the heartless
And I have your heart
I seem nice but regardless
I could rip it apart

You've really misjudged me
Telling me you love me
I've ruined worser men
Who are worser than you

I like having my way
And I wanna have my way with you
You might be feeling played
But I like it when I play with you

It's nothing personal

Monday 1 July 2013

This substantial



This substantial but relatively neglected piece has affinities with the slow movements of the String Quintet in C major D. 956, and the Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat, D 898. Completed in the autumn of 1827, it is possibly a rejected slow movement of the Piano Trio No. 1. It has the sublime slowness of the string quintet movement, together with a similar use of pizzicato at various points, and with the same paradoxical effect: the pizzicato decorations of the main tune seem to enhance the underlying tragedy of the music, rather than lightening it