Sheer pleasure; unalloyed pleasure; pleasure neither encumbered nor enhanced by other sources of pleasure like nostalgia, romance, culture, wit – not even beauty. No, the pleasure of this is not even aesthetic, although it is a piece of classical music. I’m sort of shy writing about sex, but the closest analogy I can think of is prolonged foreplay so delicious that what inevitably follows it, terminology be damned, can only be an anticlimax.
Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783): Fandango, played by Begoña Uriarte.
Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783): Fandango, played by Begoña Uriarte.
I went on line and listened to other pianists play this.
No, Madame Euterpe, thank you, they are all very nice, these girls and boys, but I must have Miss Begoña.
No, Madame Euterpe, thank you, they are all very nice, these girls and boys, but I must have Miss Begoña.
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