Your Top 10 Favorite Composers

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springrite

#240
January 22, 2015, 11:07:26 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on January 22, 2015, 10:54:05 AM
I guessed who this list was from before I read the name.  :)

'Tubin, Braga Santos, Kinsella....' Were the giveaways.

Not to mention the length...
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

vandermolen

#241
January 22, 2015, 11:35:27 AM
"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).

Christo

#242
January 22, 2015, 11:45:26 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on January 22, 2015, 10:54:05 AM
I guessed who this list was from before I read the name.  :)

'Tubin, Braga Santos, Kinsella....' Were the giveaways.

Happy I kept my anonymity as a member of the Alcoholics Anonymous.   :-X
... 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

springrite

#243
January 22, 2015, 11:46:45 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on January 22, 2015, 10:54:05 AM
I guessed who this list was from before I read the name.  :)

'Tubin, Braga Santos, Kinsella....' Were the giveaways.

Or should I also mention alphabetical ?
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

PaulR

#244
January 23, 2015, 10:34:18 AM
Swore I posted in this before.....Updated list regardless.....

1. Shostakovich
2. Weinberg
3. Schumann
4.  Biber
5. Haydn
6. Beethoven
7. Mussorgsky
8. Martinu
9. Corelli
10. Brahms

vandermolen

#245
January 23, 2015, 11:59:57 AM
Today's list. If Christo can list 20 composers, so can I. 8) 21 actually.

Braga Santos
Bate
Miaskovsky
Bliss
Vaughan Williams
Kinsella
Rootham
Dyson
Copland
Rubbra
Shostakovich
Honegger
Bruckner
Bax
Gliere
Tubin
Glazunov
Sibelius
Klami
Madetoja
Rosenberg
"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).

Christo

#246
January 23, 2015, 12:08:27 PM Last Edit: January 23, 2015, 01:33:26 PM by Christo
Quote from: vandermolen on January 23, 2015, 11:59:57 AM
Today's list. If Christo can list 20 composers, so can I. 8) 21 actually.

8) Cannot disagree with any of your choices, except that I know too little Rootham (missed the favoured Lyrita CD, so far). See that you dived deeper into Bruckner in between.  :)
... 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

Ken B

#247
January 23, 2015, 01:16:42 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on January 23, 2015, 11:59:57 AM
Today's list. If Christo can list 20 composers, so can I. 8) 21 actually.

Braga Santos
Bate
Miaskovsky
Bliss
Vaughan Williams
Kinsella
Rootham
Dyson
Copland
Rubbra
Shostakovich
Honegger
Bruckner
Bax
Gliere
Tubin
Glazunov
Sibelius
Klami
Madetoja
Rosenberg

I do not know Klami, Rootham, Bate

North Star

#248
January 23, 2015, 01:26:32 PM
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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André

#249
January 23, 2015, 04:26:46 PM
I do not know Rootham, Bate.

Mirror Image

#251
January 23, 2015, 06:32:46 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on January 23, 2015, 11:59:57 AM
Today's list. If Christo can list 20 composers, so can I. 8) 21 actually.

Braga Santos
Bate
Miaskovsky
Bliss
Vaughan Williams
Kinsella
Rootham
Dyson
Copland
Rubbra
Shostakovich
Honegger
Bruckner
Bax
Gliere
Tubin
Glazunov
Sibelius
Klami
Madetoja
Rosenberg

Okay, I'll play, too! 8) Top 21:

Elgar
Vaughan Williams
Shostakovich
Ravel
Bartok
Britten
Stravinsky
Berg
Schnittke
Villa-Lobos
Martinu
Delius
Janacek
Barber
Prokofiev
Respighi
Sculthorpe
Poulenc
Debussy
Szymanowski
Copland

EigenUser

#252
January 24, 2015, 02:27:21 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 23, 2015, 06:32:46 PM
Okay, I'll play, too! 8) Top 21:

Elgar
Vaughan Williams
Shostakovich
Ravel
Bartok
Britten
Stravinsky
Berg
Schnittke
Villa-Lobos
Martinu
Delius
Janacek
Barber
Prokofiev
Respighi
Sculthorpe
Poulenc
Debussy
Szymanowski
Copland
Top 22  >:D :P:
1. Bartok
2. Ligeti
3. Ravel
4. Messiaen
5. Haydn
6. Mahler
7. Feldman
8. Gershwin
9. Debussy
10. Mendelssohn
11. Schumann
12. Ohana
13. Ockeghem
14. Webern
15. Stravinsky
16. Bruckner
17. Boulez
18. Dvorak
19. Reich
20. Ades
21. Tchaikovsky
22. Beethoven

The last three are admittedly 'bottom of the barrel'. Not the composers (lol at the idea of calling LvB 'bottom of the barrel') -- just things I need to hear more of, but that have the potential of being top.

Based solely on the Op. 9b, Schoenberg is a possibility for 23. I think the world of that piece.
Beethoven's Op. 133 -- A fugue so bad that even Beethoven himself called it "Grosse".

The new erato

#253
January 24, 2015, 02:34:23 AM
I'm so boring. My favorites are the great names, even though I listen mainly to lesser names, 

Jo498

#254
January 24, 2015, 03:51:05 AM
Quote from: The new erato on January 24, 2015, 02:34:23 AM
I'm so boring. My favorites are the great names, even though I listen mainly to lesser names,
I am even more boring; my favorites (see somewhere above) are all great names and I mainly listen to their music (although quite a bit of lesser names as well, lately I think Telemann might make it into my top 20  ::))
Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
- Blaise Pascal

The new erato

#255
January 24, 2015, 04:12:16 AM
Of course I stil take healthy doses of Bach cantatas, Beethoven string quartets and Brahms chamber music, but I know the canon quite well and have great joy in discovering less known music, even though I usually see quite clearly why it is less known. But it is a great pity that the great stuff put some "very good but not quite on that level" music in the shade. And the vagaries of musical history has a surpsing number of "might gave beens".

Ken B

#256
January 24, 2015, 10:45:46 AM
You "boring" guys sound a bit like Hugh Hefner lamenting he was never with any plain women.
8)

Christo

#257
January 24, 2015, 02:33:28 PM
To some, 'great names' are not always the dearest composers they know. That's all.
... 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

vandermolen

#258
January 24, 2015, 03:17:19 PM
Quote from: Christo on January 24, 2015, 02:33:28 PM
To some, 'great names' are not always the dearest composers they know. That's all.

Absolutely and nothing 'boring' about that too. Am just discovering Schubert.  ::)
"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).

Moonfish

#259
January 24, 2015, 06:27:03 PM
Heck, I am doing 21 as well! Perhaps a bit traditional.  :-\ I need to bring in more Baroque composers into the 21 "realm"!

Bach
Elgar
Sibelius
R Strauss
Wagner
Verdi
Beethoven
Chopin
Bruckner
Mozart
Weiss
Marais
Haydn
Schubert
Mahler
Debussy
Rameau
Vaughan Williams
Brahms
Vivaldi
Dvorak

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