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DavidRoss

#40
March 17, 2009, 04:56:54 PM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on March 17, 2009, 09:46:18 AM
Same here.  Even my most painful concert-going experience ever — a Mahler Sixth conducted by Ozawa — has been effectively nullified by this wonderful new issue of Levine and the BSO playing the piece.  I believe my days of poo-poohing Mahler are done.
And the 6th is one of my favorite 8 or 9 of his symphonies.  It was tapping into my local band's recent recordings that got me back on board the Mahler train, as well.  And it might help that we haven't had many "Mahler is God and everyone else sucks" threads around here lately.  Of course, I can still love much of Gus's music while still thinking it could have been much better if only he'd had a blue pencil.  The thing is that though the craftsmanship often fails by my admittedly modernist standards, so much of his music is so glorious that little else comes close in either of the genres in which he excelled.
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

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mahler10th

#41
March 17, 2009, 05:49:00 PM Last Edit: March 17, 2009, 07:15:07 PM by John
Right Now (no order):

1. Ture Rangstrom
2. E. Rautavaara
3. Sibelius
4. Martinu
5. Malcom Arnold

On the up...

1. Stenhammar
2. Palestrina
3. Schubert
4. George Lloyd
5. The Arditti Quartet

Permanents:

Sibelius, Mahler, Bruckner, Beethoven, R. Strauss

Wot?  No Schoenberg, Berg or Webern?   :-X

Kullervo

#42
March 17, 2009, 06:09:23 PM
Quote from: DavidRoss on March 17, 2009, 08:51:28 AM
Rosetti, unknown to me until recently, so even a little play indicates a prodigious ascent.

What is his music like?

snyprrr

#43
March 17, 2009, 06:13:01 PM
Quote from: Guido on March 17, 2009, 05:22:34 AM
What have Honegger/ Pettersson/ Sessions got to do with each other?

They write symphonies?  :P

Bogey

#44
March 18, 2009, 03:55:12 AM
Quote from: Corey on March 17, 2009, 06:09:23 PM
What is his music like?

Sorry to interrupt.  I just got my first disc of his work recently.  Harry started me with this one, Corey.  Wonderful stuff:

http://www.amazon.com/Rosetti-Clarinet-Concertos-Concerto-Horns/dp/B00001NTPE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1237377194&sr=1-1

See PM.
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DavidRoss

#45
March 18, 2009, 05:23:49 AM
Quote from: Corey on March 17, 2009, 06:09:23 PM
What is his music like?
He was a classical composer of many symphonies, concertos, quartets, trios, quintets, and choral pieces.  A contemporary of Haydn and Mozart, his music sounds similar in style.
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

Kullervo

#46
March 18, 2009, 05:27:33 AM
Quote from: DavidRoss on March 18, 2009, 05:23:49 AM
He was a classical composer of many symphonies, concertos, quartets, trios, quintets, and choral pieces.  A contemporary of Haydn and Mozart, his music sounds similar in style.

Thanks. I did some reading up on him anyway (I only asked to spark conversation). I can appreciate the classics objectively but deep down inside they do nothing for me.
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