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vandermolen

#940
June 03, 2018, 11:36:35 PM
List No. 37b

VW
Miaskovsky
Bruckner
Sibelius
Walton
Tubin
Bax
Shostakovich
Braga Santos
Copland

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

André

#941
June 04, 2018, 06:15:42 PM Last Edit: June 04, 2018, 06:27:29 PM by André
Jeffrey, what do you recommend from Braga Santos ? I yet have to hear a note from this composer...  :o


... apart from this disc, which I enjoyed very much indeed if I'm to believe my notes  ::)

kyjo

#942
June 05, 2018, 05:38:03 AM
Quote from: André on June 04, 2018, 06:15:42 PM
Jeffrey, what do you recommend from Braga Santos ? I yet have to hear a note from this composer...  :o


... apart from this disc, which I enjoyed very much indeed if I'm to believe my notes  ::)



I'm not Jeffrey, but I'm a huge Braga Santos fan as well! Start with his Symphony no. 4 (one of my all-time favorite works), a thrillingly life-affirming work. Then try his symphonies nos. 1-3, which are in a similar style. The Marco Polo recordings (led by conductor Alvaro Cassuto) are all excellent.
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

André

#943
June 05, 2018, 05:55:19 AM
Thanks for the tip, Kyjo. Jeffrey will no doubt nod in agreement !  ;)

kyjo

#944
June 05, 2018, 05:59:42 AM
Quote from: André on June 05, 2018, 05:55:19 AM
Thanks for the tip, Kyjo. Jeffrey will no doubt nod in agreement !  ;)

I'm sure he will! ;) Here's the link to the fantastic recording of the 4th Symphony:

[asin]B00006B1KD[/asin]
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

vandermolen

#945
June 05, 2018, 06:47:03 AM
Quote from: André on June 05, 2018, 05:55:19 AM
Thanks for the tip, Kyjo. Jeffrey will no doubt nod in agreement !  ;)

Absolutely!  :)

I would say symphonies 1,2,3 and 4 and this very nice Naxos CD for starters:
[asin]B005YD11Q0[/asin]
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Chronochromie

#946
June 07, 2018, 03:36:01 PM
Monteverdi

Rameau

Mozart

Beethoven

Schubert

Berlioz

Debussy

Schoenberg

Messiaen

Ligeti

Madiel

#947
June 07, 2018, 06:22:43 PM
Quote from: Chronochromie on June 07, 2018, 03:36:01 PM
Monteverdi

Rameau

Mozart

Beethoven

Schubert

Berlioz

Debussy

Schoenberg

Messiaen

Ligeti

Interesting and diverse list.
Nobody has to apologise for using their brain.

kyjo

#948
June 12, 2018, 07:00:51 PM
Time to (slightly) update my list:

Atterberg
Sibelius
Dvořák
Shostakovich
Brahms
Braga Santos
Vaughan Williams
Rachmaninoff
Ravel
Hanson

...in some sort of order.
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Florestan

#949
June 16, 2018, 07:30:27 AM
My list hasn't changed but I'll arrange it differently (by geography, not by order of preference, mind you!):

1. The Viennese Connection: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms
2. The German Connection: Mendelssohn, Schumann
3. The Russian Connection: Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff
4. The Odd Man Out: Chopin

:D
"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part." - Claude Debussy

vandermolen

#950
June 20, 2018, 04:38:28 AM
Quote from: kyjo on June 12, 2018, 07:00:51 PM
Time to (slightly) update my list:

Atterberg
Sibelius
Dvořák
Shostakovich
Brahms
Braga Santos
Vaughan Williams
Rachmaninoff
Ravel
Hanson

...in some sort of order.

V much agree although rarely listen to Dvorak and Brahms. My older brother greatly admires both of them.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

flyingdutchman

#951
June 25, 2018, 04:50:37 PM
Tchaikovsky
Dvorak
Smetana
Schumann
Brahms
Mendelssohn
Sibelius
Schubert
Glazunov
Gade

Jaakko Keskinen

#952
August 28, 2018, 06:57:24 AM
A new list.

Wagner
Debussy
Berlioz
Nobuo Uematsu
John Williams
Puccini
Beethoven
Walton
Sibelius
Rachmaninoff
"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo

amw

#953
August 28, 2018, 07:59:49 AM
Quote from: amw on April 19, 2018, 12:10:56 AM
Mozart [string quartets/quintets/piano concertos/piano quartets/violin sonatas]
Haydn [string quartets]
Cage [freeman etudes/prepared piano music/sonatas and interludes/string quartet/number pieces]
Donatoni [estratti/rima/souvenir/abyss/le ruisseau sur l'escalier etc]
Kurtág [....concertante/...quasi una fantasia/doppelkonzert/hipartita/kafka-fragmente/joszef attila fragments/scenes from a novel]
Schubert [D840/845/887/929/946/947/959/960]
Saunders (R) [most works but particularly molly's song 3/dichroic seventeen/solitude/fletch/cinnabar/a visible trace/stasis/skin]
Machaut [motets/messe de notre dame/lai de la fonteinne/lai de consolation]
Marenzio [madrigals books 1, 5, 6]
John Cage - pretty much the same things actually: prepared piano works, string quartet in four parts, number pieces, also some of the early non-prepared piano works and for some reason the organ works?
Domenico Scarlatti - mostly on piano, ideally an 18th century one
Johann Sebastian Bach - cantatas mostly with some harpsichord stuff
Chris Dench - various free stuff he put on his dropbox
Bent Sørensen - choral & chamber music
Guillaume de Machaut - all his stuff (looking into promoting Machaut into a permanent top 10 or 20 position)
Anon. - Ludus Danielis, Las Huelgas Codex, various Sequentia & Alla Francesca albums
Felix Mendelssohn - various compositions written by him between the ages of 16 and 21, also some of the Lieder ohne worte


Overall top 10:
Schumann
Beethoven
Schubert
Bartók
Mozart
Haydn
Dvořák
Brahms
Chopin
Cage

vandermolen

#954
August 28, 2018, 09:00:24 AM
Favourites New List:

Vaughan Williams
Miaskovsky
Honegger
Braga Santos
Tubin
Rosenberg
Bax
Moeran
Diamond
Copland

+ Shostakovich  ::)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

SymphonicAddict

#955
September 15, 2018, 01:06:50 PM Last Edit: September 15, 2018, 01:09:20 PM by SymphonicAddict
My current list:

Brahms
Dvorák
Tchaikovsky
Langgaard
Shostakovich
Puccini (yes, this one!)
VW
Martinu
Tubin
Villa-Lobos

Honorable mentions: Braga Santos and Rosenberg.

Florestan

#956
September 15, 2018, 01:25:15 PM
My list of top 10 favorite composers (besides my top 10 favorite composers ---  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: ) is currently this, in no particular order:

Gabriel Fauré
Moritz Moszkowski
Henri Vieuxtemps
Henri Herz
Pablo de Sarasate
Sergei Bortkiewicz
Luigi Boccherini
Francis Poulenc
Anton Arensky
Enrique Granados




"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part." - Claude Debussy

Josquin13

#957
September 15, 2018, 07:16:44 PM Last Edit: September 15, 2018, 07:29:22 PM by Josquin13
My 10 favorite composers:

1. J.S. Bach
2. Josquin Desprez
3. G.F. Handel
4. Guillaume Dufay
5. W.A. Mozart
6. F.J. Haydn
7. Claude Debussy
8. Maurice Ravel
9. L. V. Beethoven
10. Jean Sibelius

Honorable mention: Corelli, Lassus, Mahler, Schumann, Schubert, Du Caurroy, Prokofiev, Tallis, Byrd, Chopin, Wagner, Bruckner, Biber, Shostakovich, Brahms, & Vivaldi.

My 10 Favorite composers of the post WW2 generation (up to today):

1. Witold Lutoslawski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oobR6rf_dns&frags=pl%2Cwn
2. Vagn Holmboe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz8PuRo8Xyo&frags=pl%2Cwn
3. Joonas Kokkonen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkPXmUSdwqo&frags=pl%2Cwn
4. Samuel Barber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWtgxh34ifo&frags=pl%2Cwn
5. Einojuhani Rautavaara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a159hrxRiso&frags=pl%2Cwn
6. Harri Vuori: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrpZMz28fM4&frags=pl%2Cwn
7. Per Nørgard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY0F8D6lIkA&frags=pl%2Cwn
8. Robin Holloway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk2iSclrwzQ&list=OLAK5uy_kRrj25Hw-_Ub4nKsBymgAnS2sJcN84OPc
9. Paavo Heininen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SORoR1wO76I&index=5&list=OLAK5uy_kZ1MZd1U-HeJstq4dAG1izXL75aidHfxs&frags=pl%2Cwn
10. Magnus Lindberg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqOg-uDSER4&frags=pl%2Cwn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLVH2hUbOdY&list=PLfGPNeCLLY6uOHT6z1flVgJOhlF1XG22I

Honorable mention: Messiaen, Dutilleux, Boulez, Part, Peterrsson, Schuman, Ligeti, Penderecki, Tavener, Moody, Knussen, Piston, Rochberg, Persichetti, Nørholm, Harbison, Stout, Glass, Sørenson, Hillborg, McCabe, Sessions, Rorem, Englund, Tüür, Abrahamson, etc..

Florestan

#958
September 22, 2018, 01:37:29 PM
Quote from: schnittkease on September 15, 2018, 05:58:11 PM
Henri Herz?!  Beefing up on the Salonstücke, are we?

Charming as they are, I was thinking more about the piano concertos.

And yes, I do think that salon music is just like Schiller's Maria Stuart: besser als ihr Ruf.
"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part." - Claude Debussy

Christo

#959
September 23, 2018, 12:42:26 PM
Favourites that we share are at least
Quote from: SymphonicAddict on September 15, 2018, 01:06:50 PM
Dvorák
Tchaikovsky
Langgaard
Shostakovich
VW
Martinu
Tubin
Villa-Lobos
Honorable mentions: Braga Santos and Rosenberg.
Quote from: vandermolen on August 28, 2018, 09:00:24 AM
Vaughan Williams
Honegger
Braga Santos
Tubin
Rosenberg
Moeran
Diamond
+ Shostakovich  ::)
Quote from: kyjo on June 12, 2018, 07:00:51 PM
Dvořák
Shostakovich
Braga Santos
Vaughan Williams
Rachmaninoff
Ravel
.... and many more!~ :)
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948
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