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ChamberNut

March 16, 2009, 07:10:08 AM Last Edit: March 16, 2009, 07:43:19 AM by KammerNuss
What are currently your five favorite composers, and your five composers "on the rise"?

Right now:

Favorites

Beethoven
Brahms
Bruckner
Mozart
Wagner

On The Rise

Shostakovich
Bartok
Mahler
Stravinsky
Haydn

karlhenning

#1
March 16, 2009, 07:26:07 AM
Quote from: KammerNuss on March 16, 2009, 07:10:08 AM
What are currently your five favorite composers, and your five composers "on the rise"?

Right now:

Favorites

Nielsen
Stravinsky
Schoenberg
Messiaen
Shostakovich

On The Rise

Mahler
Carter (already up there, but rising still)
Koechlin
Feldman (moving slowly, as he ought, and it's a steady ascent)
Hermann

jwinter

#2
March 16, 2009, 07:37:17 AM
Yay, a ranking thread!  Who'd a thunk it?   :P :-*

I'll play --

Favorites (confirmed faves for over a year):

Beethoven
Bruckner
Mozart
Mahler
Brahms

On the rise (my listening and appreciation has increased a lot in the past year.  A couple of these may be ready to move up into the above five):

Chopin
Haydn
Sibelius
Bach
Tchaikovsky
The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.

-- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

ChamberNut

#3
March 16, 2009, 07:38:18 AM
Quote from: jwinter on March 16, 2009, 07:37:17 AM
Favorites (confirmed faves for over a year):

Beethoven
Bruckner
Mozart
Mahler
Brahms


Wow J, almost exactly like my faves!  :o

karlhenning

#4
March 16, 2009, 07:40:26 AM
Quote from: jwinter on March 16, 2009, 07:37:17 AM
Yay, a ranking thread!  Who'd a thunk it?   :P :-*

I like that Ray specifically added the adjective current  0:)

ChamberNut

#5
March 16, 2009, 07:42:44 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on March 16, 2009, 07:40:26 AM
I like that Ray specifically added the adjective current  0:)

Yes!  Because mine has indeed changed, and I'm sure will continue to change from time to time.  You can update this at any time.  0:)

canninator

#6
March 16, 2009, 07:48:19 AM
Quote from: KammerNuss on March 16, 2009, 07:10:08 AM
What are currently your five favorite composers, and your five composers "on the rise"?

Favorites right now (changes over time of course)

Narvaez
Mudarra
Bach
Dowland
de Milano


On the Rise

Corbetta
Palestrina
Fuenllana
Murcia
Sor

Josquin des Prez

#7
March 16, 2009, 08:04:40 AM
Quote from: canninator on March 16, 2009, 07:48:19 AM
Favorites right now (changes over time of course)

Narvaez
Mudarra
Bach
Dowland
de Milano


On the Rise

Corbetta
Palestrina
Fuenllana
Murcia
Sor



The hell...

karlhenning

#8
March 16, 2009, 08:22:56 AM
"Josquin," this thread can only bring you pain . . . .

canninator

#9
March 16, 2009, 08:23:53 AM
Quote from: Josquin des Prez on March 16, 2009, 08:04:40 AM
The hell...

Favorites right now (changes over time of course)

Narvaez  vihuelist/composer from 16th C Spain
Mudarra ditto
Bach little known German composer, ripe for rediscovery
Dowland English master of the late-renaissance lute song
de Milano dodgy little Italian with a feather in his hat or the greatest composer for renaissance lute? I'm undecided.


On the Rise

Corbetta Baroque guitarist
Palestrina Little known composer who wrote some sacred music
Fuenllana another vihuelist
Murcia Santiago de, another baroque guitarist
Sor guitar of classical period, previously I'd considered quite dry and mannered, Jose Moreno (Glossa, not Chelsea FC) has changed my mind.


Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,   
And sorry I could not travel both...

karlhenning

#10
March 16, 2009, 08:28:10 AM
Dodgy little Italians can be likeable, too.

Bogey

#11
March 16, 2009, 08:39:44 AM
Top Five

Beethoven
Haydn
Bach
Mozart
Copland

On the rise: These are composers that I would not be surprised if I owned all their works in the future:

Dvořák
Ravel
Respighi
Fauré
Puccini  ;)

and just making it on to the radar of late: Volkmann

There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Bulldog

#12
March 16, 2009, 08:40:55 AM
Favorites:
Bach
Scriabin
Shostakovich
Schumann
Zemlinsky

On the Rise:
Mahler
Bruckner
Martin
Miaskovsky
Weinberg

Diletante

#13
March 16, 2009, 08:52:16 AM
Current favorites:


Tchaikovsky
Beethoven
Mahler
Chopin
Ravel


On the rise:

Shostakovich
Schoenberg
Brahms
Bartók
Rachmaninoff
Orgullosamente diletante.

bhodges

#14
March 16, 2009, 08:58:12 AM
Faves:

Bartók
Berg
Britten
Shostakovich
Stravinsky

On the rise (like these a lot already, just need to hear more):

Rihm
Dalbavie
Grisey
Scelsi
Murail

--Bruce

ChamberNut

#15
March 16, 2009, 09:08:51 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on March 16, 2009, 07:26:07 AM
Right now:

Favorites

Nielsen
Stravinsky
Schoenberg
Messiaen
Shostakovich

Karl,

I knew Shosty and Stavinsky were two of your faves, however, I did not know about Nielsen, Messiaen or Schoenberg.  Interesting.  :)  I expected JSB, Carter and Bartok to make that list.

orbital

#16
March 16, 2009, 09:09:37 AM
Current:
Chopin
Scriabin
Bach
Rachmaninov
Schumann

On the rise lately:
Mompou
Lourie
Mosolov
Sibelius  :o
Mozart  ;D

Sergeant Rock

#17
March 16, 2009, 09:12:21 AM Last Edit: March 16, 2009, 09:14:58 AM by Sergeant Rock
Top Five

Wagner
Mahler
Bruckner
Sibelius
Beethoven

That list hasn't changed in 35 years.

I have trouble picking five on the rise since my current pool of 300 favorites (  ;D ) has no composers I've recently come to appreciate more than I did, say, five or ten years ago. Thanks to Johan, I've finally heard all the symphonies of Havergal Brian, but my already high esteem for his music hasn't risen but has been confirmed.

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

karlhenning

#18
March 16, 2009, 09:38:07 AM
Quote from: KammerNuss on March 16, 2009, 09:08:51 AM
Karl,

I knew Shosty and Stavinsky were two of your faves, however, I did not know about Nielsen, Messiaen or Schoenberg.  Interesting.  :)  I expected JSB, Carter and Bartok to make that list.

Another day, they would, Ray;  I was going by what I've been playing (apart from GENESIS) lately  8)

ChamberNut

#19
March 16, 2009, 09:40:48 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on March 16, 2009, 09:38:07 AM
Another day, they would, Ray;  I was going by what I've been playing (apart from GENESIS) lately  8)

Ahh, I see Grasshopper!  8)
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