I almost started a thread with this title last Friday after watching the proms.
My answer is: Beethoven. There is nothing better than Beethoven.
There is nothing better than Beethoven.
Apart from Bach.
Plugging a Les Paul (ideally a Custom or Junior) or a telecaster into a loud Marshall non-master volume half stack, hitting an A chord and letting it ring out into feedback.
Ticking off trail features and jumps you thought you'd never ride again after a few years away from "proper" riding.
Putting the out of office on, shutting down the laptop and putting it away for a week.
The gravy and last nub of pastry crimp as you finish a proper Cornish Pasty.
Felling trees that make the ground shake.
A siesta, or better still une sieste crapuleuse.
🙂
I just listened to the double violin concerto to see if you are right. It’s close, but I’m not convinced. I’m putting up the third, the fifth and the ninth - what are you offering to convince me Bach is better?
For what it’s worth I reckon Bach wrote more good stuff, but nothing to beat Ludwig at his best.
A garden piss
... doing nothing with the mind completely blank.
Bach? Two Violins, Magnificat, Brandenburgs, toccata and fugue in d minor but Beethoven's (republican!) 9th is indeed an outlier
Riding through the damp smell of autumn
