late romantic, 20th century music

[Haffner]

Hey! No fair! I mentioned Schoeck a few pages back and no one noticed! I agree entirely, and the disc posted is a real winner, but I wouldn't call the Elegie either sweet or Straussian - it's a highly individual, very subtle and extremely skillful piece, and Schoeck at his very best (the Notturno is more complex, but I don't think it is necessarily finer). The Elegie also represents one extreme of a particular type late Romanticism - I don't know any other piece which explores this particular region of nostalgia, loss, late-ness more thoroughly than this one does. No, not even Strauss's Four Last Songs - this is the brown study to end all brown studies, the autumnal flipside of Schumann's equally extreme op 39 Liederkreis, and that is high praise in my book!

(laughing sympathetically) Don't feel alone, sul G, that happens to me all the time.

[springrite]

Hey! No fair! I mentioned Schoeck a few pages back and no one noticed!

Maybe because some people did not believe the "Not Saul" disclaimer.   

But seriously, I was not following this thread and only read it today, and only read the last page at that. Otherwise I would have responded to you for sure. Feel better now? 

[sul G]

Slightly [sniff] 


Though I do know Saul's a big Schoeck fan. Well, it sounds a bit Yiddish, doesn't it?

[DavidRoss]

Though I do know Saul's a big Schoeck fan.

Schoeck fan?  Or schlock fan?

[sul G]

Yes, you're right - must be the latter. Can't be both, they are mutually exclusive.

[Haffner]

Schoeck fan?  Or schlock fan?