Your Top 10 Favorite Composers

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[Sergeant Rock]

Yes. I caved. I really like Mahler now. I just wish everything he wrote wasn't so long. It makes me less inclined to want to listen on an impulse. I was blown away by the 7th, though. Totally blown away. The 1st, too.

I am going on a long car trip (Northern Virginia to central Maine) for July 4th so I need listening material. If you had to recommend one (1!) Mahler box (1-9) that is relatively inexpensive, what would it be? I'd like it to include "Das Lied van der Erde" and possibly "Das Knaben Wunderhorn", though the latter isn't so important.

The EMI box of the complete works, including the songs, can be had for 31 bucks from several Amazon sellers.

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Sarge

[North Star]

The EMI box of the complete works, including the songs, can be had for 31 bucks from several Amazon sellers.

Sarge

+1

10 Reason to buy it now:

1. Giulini & CSO, No. 1
2. Klemperer's 2 & DLvdE with Ludwig & Wunderlich
3. Barbirolli's No. 6 & No. 9, and Rückert-Lieder with Baker
4. Horenstein's No. 4
5. Tennstedt's No. 5 & No. 8
6. Ferrier, Walter & Wieners in Kindertotenlieder
7. Rattle & CBSO's No. 7
8. Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Schwarzkopf, DF-D & Szell
9. Songs Of A Wayfarer with DF-D & Furtwaengler
10. the box is also an excellent paperweight.

[Brahmsian]

+1

10 Reason to buy it now:

1. Giulini & CSO, No. 1
2. Klemperer's 2 & DLvdE with Ludwig & Wunderlich
3. Barbirolli's No. 6 & No. 9, and Rückert-Lieder with Baker
4. Horenstein's No. 4
5. Tennstedt's No. 5 & No. 8
6. Ferrier, Walter & Wieners in Kindertotenlieder
7. Rattle & CBSO's No. 7
8. Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Schwarzkopf, DF-D & Szell
9. Songs Of A Wayfarer with DF-D & Furtwaengler
10. the box is also an excellent paperweight.

Another reason:  It includes the Piano Quartet! 

[Sergeant Rock]

+1

10 Reason to buy it now:

1. Giulini & CSO, No. 1
2. Klemperer's 2 & DLvdE with Ludwig & Wunderlich
3. Barbirolli's No. 6 & No. 9, and Rückert-Lieder with Baker
4. Horenstein's No. 4
5. Tennstedt's No. 5 & No. 8
6. Ferrier, Walter & Wieners in Kindertotenlieder
7. Rattle & CBSO's No. 7
8. Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Schwarzkopf, DF-D & Szell
9. Songs Of A Wayfarer with DF-D & Furtwaengler
10. the box is also an excellent paperweight.

Yep, it's chock-full of classic performances that must be in a serious Mahler collection.

Sarge

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Vaughan Williams
Miaskovsky
Bax
Bruckner
Sibelius
Shostakovich
Braga Santos
Copland
Rubbra
Walton

[Moonfish]

1. Bach
2. Haydn
3. Verdi
4. Wagner
5. Beethoven
6. Mozart
7. Schubert
8. Chopin
9. Debussy
10. Sibelius
11. Handel
12. Marais


Traditional list, eh?

Reassessing...... (and in no particular order/ranking)
Kicked out Debussy and replaced him with Mahler...  he he (even as I am listening to a wonderful La Mer with van Beinum and the CO!)

1. Bach
2. Haydn
3. Verdi
4. Wagner
5. Beethoven
6. Mozart
7. Schubert
8. Chopin
9. Mahler
10. Sibelius
11. Handel
12. Marais

[Papy Oli]

let's see...

The unchallenged top 3 :

1. Mahler
1. Bruckner
1. Beethoven

then 2 proper newcomers in the last year, mostly thanks to Hogwood...

2. Haydn
2. Vivaldi

then 7 long-serving regulars.

3. D. Scarlatti
3. Satie
3. Schubert
3. Pärt
3. Chopin
3. Rameau
3. Loewe (could have possibly been Stravinsky)


The one that tantalizingly knocks at the door : JS Bach...

[Scion7]

Vivaldi
Handel
JS Bach
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Brahms
Schubert
Schumann
Tchaikovsky
Bartok

[Sammy]

Bach at the top with my remaining favorites in no particular order:

Scheidemann
Froberger
Handel
Mozart
Haydn
Brahms
Shostakovich
Schumann
Weinberg
Miaskovsky
Scriabin
Mahler
Zemlinsky

Forgot to add Dvorak.  I've likely forgotten others as well.

[Brahmsian]

Bach at the top with my remaining favorites in no particular order:

Scheidemann
Froberger
Handel
Mozart
Haydn
Brahms
Shostakovich
Schumann
Weinberg
Miaskovsky
Scriabin
Mahler
Zemlinsky

Forgot to add Dvorak.  I've likely forgotten others as well.

I thought Taneyev would be there too, Don.  Probably on the cusp. 

[Karl Henning]

How can anyone keep such a list to 11?

[Henk]

Beethoven
Mozart
Mendelssohn
Chopin
Bach

Stravinsky
Sciarrino
Donatoni
Takemitsu
Feldman

+1 Birtwistle

[North Star]

How can anyone keep such a list to 11?

Oh, very easily. It might be that such constraints make the list borderline silly, though.  0:)

Alkan
Bach
Chopin
Debussy
Elgar
Fauré
Gershwin
Haydn
Ives
Janacek

[Brahmsian]

Oh, very easily. It might be that such constraints make the list borderline silly, though.  0:)

Alkan
Bach
Chopin
Debussy
Elgar
Fauré
Gershwin
Haydn
Ives
Janacek

No Sibelius?   

[Lisztianwagner]

Mine could be:

1. Richard Wagner
2. Ludwig van Beethoven
3. Franz Liszt
4. Gustav Mahler
5. Sergei Rachmaninov
6. Johann Strauss II
7. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
8. Maurice Ravel
9. Richard Strauss
10. Gustav Holst

[mn dave]

BEETHOVEN
Bach
Brahms
CHOPIN
Schumann
Schubert
Prokofiev
Haydn
Alkan
Sibelius

Or something like that.

[North Star]

No Sibelius?   

Ray, it might be that this list isn't quite my actual top 10 - they're not all assigned to each of the first 10 letters of the alphabet. 

But perhaps I should make a go at a proper list..

Bach
Ravel
Chopin
Sibelius
Janáček
Rakhmaninov
Mozart
Stravinsky
Shostakovich
Prokofiev

(no room for Beethoven, Berlioz, Bartók, Schönberg, Schubert, Schumann, Britten, Berg, Debussy, Haydn, Martinů, Ligeti, RVW, Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Zelenka, Villa-Lobos, Pärt, Varèse Dutilleux or Satie, I see. I like the Top 30 Favorite Composers thread more  )

[Henk]

Am I really the only one with good taste here? 

[mn dave]

Am I really the only one with good taste here? 

According to you, it seems.