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[liuzerus87]

It seems I should introduce myself! I'm a Yank, and I've been listening for 6 or 7 years now (basically, since I started college).  Rather, I should say, I was raised on classical, but it wasn't until I went to university that I actually started listening critically, deciding which recordings and which artists I liked.

As for my tastes, I love Brahms and Schubert, and in terms of performers, I adore Furtwangler. I also admire Schnabel and Cortot greatly, along with others. I've been told I need to stop listening to dead people playing deader people's music, but I can be very stubborn at times.

Please be gentle...?

[TheGSMoeller]

Greetings, and welcome!

Don't stop now, dead people have written some fantastic music!

[springrite]

It seems I should introduce myself! I'm a Yank, and I've been listening for 6 or 7 years now (basically, since I started college).  Rather, I should say, I was raised on classical, but it wasn't until I went to university that I actually started listening critically, deciding which recordings and which artists I liked.

As for my tastes, I love Brahms and Schubert, and in terms of performers, I adore Furtwangler. I also admire Schnabel and Cortot greatly, along with others. I've been told I need to stop listening to dead people playing deader people's music, but I can be very stubborn at times.

Please be gentle...?

1    Welcome!
2    Many of us started in college, too
3    I like your taste.
4    Many of  the dead people played better
5    To listen to people who are still alive, maybe start by going to a few concerts and recitals?
6    We are all stubborn. It is sometimes called taste.
7    We are not always gentle, but we make allowances for people who like Furtwangler. Better if you also list Bach and Mahler, though!

Again, welcome!!!

[eyeresist]

Greetings, and welcome!

Don't stop now, dead people have written some fantastic music!

When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.

And, on that note, welcome.

[Mirror Image]

Welcome aboard! I don't care much for Schubert, but Brahms is more to my liking. Do you have any other favorites? Shostakovich perhaps? Hehehe.....

[North Star]

Welcome to the forum, Liuzerus!
Brahms & Schubert are among my favourites, too.
Cortot, Furtwängler & Schnabel have their fans in the forum, too, and I don't mind them in the least, either, except for the limitations of the recording techniques during that era, which still captured the piano quite well. But I spend my money supporting living artists.
And yes, dead people are the best composers, certainly - but the living ones needn't despair, they'll join the dead soon enough. 

[eyeresist]

And yes, dead people are the best composers, certainly - but the living ones needn't despair, they'll join the dead soon enough. 

[mc ukrneal]

Welcome and enjoy yourself.

[Karl Henning]

And yes, dead people are the best composers, certainly - but the living ones needn't despair, they'll join the dead soon enough. 

O . . . K . . . .

And: welcome, fellow Yank!

[Sergeant Rock]

As for my tastes, I love Brahms and Schubert, and in terms of performers, I adore Furtwangler.

Furtwängler/Brahms....can't be beat 

Sarge

[Szykneij]

Welcome!

(Cool choice of avatar.)

[liuzerus87]

Thanks for the welcomes all!

As for my composer tastes, of course I love a lot of other composers. Bach of course is one of the greatest composer of all time; if I had a pick a greatest piece ever written, the Chaconne for solo violin would probably get my vote. Mahler and Shostakovich are a bit more difficult for me... I enjoy certain works of theirs, but I don't think I've completely absorbed their style the way I have others.

And as for dead people... recordings still don't replicate the concert experience for me, so of course I still attend concerts and enjoy them greatly. Over the past couple of years, I've been able to see some really amazing concerts (Leon Fleisher and the ABQ were my favorites). But when I'm sitting in my living room, I have a tendency to reach for old masters still...

And it's great to see some other Furtwangler lovers on here. Furt and Brahms go together like sliced bread and something that goes along really well with sliced bread. I'm not sure where I was going with that analogy.

[Brian]

Furt and Brahms go together like sliced bread and something that goes along really well with sliced bread. I'm not sure where I was going with that analogy.

[Karl Henning]

I thought he was going to go sliced bread and semiconductors . . . .

[springrite]

I thought he was going to go sliced bread and semiconductors . . . .

Semi-conductor... you mean Mr. Kaplan???

[mc ukrneal]

Thanks for the welcomes all!

And it's great to see some other Furtwangler lovers on here. Furt and Brahms go together like sliced bread and something that goes along really well with sliced bread. I'm not sure where I was going with that analogy.

I see the problem - I don't like sliced bread!

[TheGSMoeller]

Dead composers, sliced bread, semi-conductors!!

This has become an intense thread.

[bhodges]

And it's great to see some other Furtwangler lovers on here.

One of my faves: his Bruckner Eighth. Welcome, liuzerus87, and hope you have a good time here.

--Bruce

[Lilas Pastia]

Welcome and make yourself at home. Any opera? Wagner, Verdi... 0:)

Bruce is right. Furtwängler's Bruckner 8th is one for the ages. And his 1944 WP Eroica, too. But his Mozart is deadly

[Lisztianwagner]

Welcome to the forum, I hope you'll have a nice time here!
I really appreciate Furtwängler too, his Tristan und Isolde is absolutely one of the best recordings of that opera ever made.

Ilaria