Your Top 10 Favorite Composers

[Ken B]

Here's a list of 10 works that is slightly out of step with Karlo's current list for 20th Century recommendations for our new member:

Messiaen: L'ascension
Sculthorpe: Kakadu
Ligeti: Lontano
Panufnik: Autumn Music
Hartmann: Symphony No. 6
Xenakis: Hiketides
Scelsi: Konx-Om-Pax
Lutoslawski: Piano Concerto
Schnittke: Cello Concerto No. 1
Takemitsu: A String Around Autumn

Forgot SoLlong Shostakovich, It's Been Nice Knowing You But Don't Call Us, We'll Call You by some Georgian composer whose name escapes me.

[Brian]

Here's a list of 10 works that is slightly out of step with Karlo's current list for 20th Century recommendations for our new member:

Messiaen: L'ascension
Sculthorpe: Kakadu
Ligeti: Lontano
Panufnik: Autumn Music
Hartmann: Symphony No. 6
Xenakis: Hiketides
Scelsi: Konx-Om-Pax
Lutoslawski: Piano Concerto
Schnittke: Cello Concerto No. 1
Takemitsu: A String Around Autumn

  why would you recommend these to somebody who prefers baroque music?!?!

[Ken B]

  why would you recommend these to somebody who prefers baroque music?!?!

I'm just gonna recommend Out in the Sun and leave the rest to you guys ....

[Mirror Image]

  why would you recommend these to somebody who prefers baroque music?!?!

As I mentioned, my list is merely an extension, or 'side-step', from Karlo's list. There's more to the 20th Century then what happened in the first half of it.

[Mirror Image]

Forgot SoLlong Shostakovich, It's Been Nice Knowing You But Don't Call Us, We'll Call You by some Georgian composer whose name escapes me.

Kancheli?

[sheri1983]

Some suggestions, in no particular order, that might make you reconsider the previous century. There's plenty to connect everything here to traditions from earlier eras.

Rakhmaninov: All-night Vigil
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms, Apollo, Pulcinella
Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite, Symphonies nos. 2-7
Nielsen: Symphony no. 3, Clarinet Concerto
Ravel: Piano Trio
Pärt: Stabat Mater and Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten

Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues Op. 87
Britten: Ceremony of Carols and Cello Suites
Elgar: Violin Sonata
Debussy: Suite bergamasque, La cathédrale engloutie
Martinů: Nonet
Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos, Flute Sonata

Janáček: On the Overgrown Path
Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances, Rhapsodies nos. 1 & 2 for violin & piano / violin & orchestra.
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Villa-Lobos: Introduction to the Chôros, Chôros nos. 1-5, Five Preludes for guitar
Silvestrov: La Belle Dame Sans Merci (from the Silent Songs)

Thanks for the list, will listen and give you my opinion also I found Debussy interesting as I have listen to some pieces I found profound

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Thanks for the list, will listen and give you my opinion also I found Debussy interesting as I have listen to some pieces I found profound

Debussy is definitely worth a few (thousand) listenings. Definitely one of my favorite French composers.

[sheri1983]

Here's a list of 10 works that is slightly out of step with Karlo's current list for 20th Century recommendations for our new member:

Messiaen: L'ascension
Sculthorpe: Kakadu
Ligeti: Lontano
Panufnik: Autumn Music
Hartmann: Symphony No. 6
Xenakis: Hiketides
Scelsi: Konx-Om-Pax
Lutoslawski: Piano Concerto
Schnittke: Cello Concerto No. 1
Takemitsu: A String Around Autumn

Thanks, happy to see work for Cello as it is my favorite instrument. will check it out.

[North Star]

Thanks, happy to see work for Cello as it is my favorite instrument. will check it out.

Some more recommendations on that note:

Kodaly: Sonata for Solo Cello
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Pärt: Fratres for 12 Cellos
Debussy: Cello Sonata
Poulenc: Cello Sonata
Prokofiev: Violin Sonata no. 1 in F minor, Cello Sonata
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras nos. 1 & 5

[Madiel]

*bangs head on desk quietly*

This thread has basically become "Hi, welcome! Please become more like me!". Complete with creepy smile.

[Karl Henning]

*bangs head on desk quietly*

This thread has basically become "Hi, welcome! Please become more like me!". Complete with creepy smile.

I am alive to your concern, here.

[North Star]

Compiling this without looking at my previous list, I see I removed Berlioz to make room for Mozart.

Bach
Beethoven
Brahms
Chopin
Janáček
Mozart
Prokofiev
Ravel
Sibelius
Stravinsky

[Brian]

Since this thread began, Mirror Image has listed a total of 22 composers in his top 10. 

[Karl Henning]

He's just warming up!  0:)

[Karl Henning]

Compiling this without looking at my previous list, I see I removed Berlioz to make room for Mozart.

Bach
Beethoven
Brahms
Chopin
Janáček
Mozart
Prokofiev
Ravel
Sibelius
Stravinsky

Of course, I cannot argue that Mozart does not belong there.  But Berlioz being dropped, hurts . . . .

[North Star]

Of course, I cannot argue that Mozart does not belong there.  But Berlioz being dropped, hurts . . . .

It was a hard choice. 

[Karl Henning]

I should not have cast that stone, Karlo  0:)

My next-earlier post seems to have been at a time when we were allowing an even dozen:

I was aware of "missing" Berlioz, Nielsen & Sibelius this go-around;  they have not fallen into "disfavor," strictly speaking . . . as the names came to my mind, though, I acknowledged that in fact I have not been listening to much (any) of their music of late.  Likewise, although they've been absent from my recent listening, Bach & Rakhmaninov remain best-loved composers.

[North Star]

I should not have cast that stone, Karlo  0:)

Ha! And yours was a list of twelve. 
I was somewhat surprised that my list was so nearly identical to the earlier draft. And I feel sorry for Bartók.

[Karl Henning]

Ha! And yours was a list of twelve. 

I know.

And it would be bad form to plead, Well, everyone was doing it . . . .

[North Star]

I know.

And it would be bad form to plead, Well, everyone was doing it . . . .

I meant merely that you dropped Berlioz from a longer list than I did. I suppose a smaller drop is a blessing.   0:)