Your Top 10 Favorite Composers

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vandermolen

#702
June 22, 2016, 04:40:49 AM
Quote from: ChamberNut on June 22, 2016, 04:29:02 AM
A recent favourite film of mine.  :D
I'm going to the dentist tomorrow - so thanks for that!  ??? :P :-[
"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).

Autumn Leaves

#703
June 30, 2016, 11:31:22 PM
Not so long since my last list I guess but heres the latest one:

Bruckner
Chopin
Debussy
Mahler
Mendelssohn
Schumann
Shostakovich
Sibelius
Tchaikovsky
Vaughan Williams

Mirror Image

#704
July 02, 2016, 05:27:32 AM
^ Great list, Conor! 8)

ComposerOfAvantGarde

#705
July 17, 2016, 07:16:13 PM
1 to 10 as of today

Boulez
Dean
Pintscher
Liza Lim
Birtwistle
Olga Neuwirth
Carter
Isabel Mundry
Sculthorpe
Rebecca Saunders

Mirror Image

#706
July 17, 2016, 07:18:40 PM
I think I'll give this a try for today, too, Jessop (in no particular order):

Sibelius
Nielsen
Ravel
Bartok
Vaughan Williams
Bruckner
Dvorak
Schnittke
Takemitsu
Szymanowski

bhodges

#707
July 17, 2016, 08:29:45 PM
Quote from: jessop on July 17, 2016, 07:16:13 PM
1 to 10 as of today

Boulez
Dean
Pintscher
Liza Lim
Birtwistle
Olga Neuwirth
Carter
Isabel Mundry
Sculthorpe
Rebecca Saunders

A very unusual line-up, with some off-the-radar choices. Happy to see Dean, Pintscher, Birtwistle, Neuwirth, and Carter get some love, especially. Never heard anything by Mundry; in any case, nice to see her as one of four women on your list.

--Bruce

ComposerOfAvantGarde

#708
July 17, 2016, 09:49:53 PM
Quote from: Brewski on July 17, 2016, 08:29:45 PM
A very unusual line-up, with some off-the-radar choices. Happy to see Dean, Pintscher, Birtwistle, Neuwirth, and Carter get some love, especially. Never heard anything by Mundry; in any case, nice to see her as one of four women on your list.

--Bruce

My top 10 is always basically just a reflection of which composers I have been enjoying most of all lately. I really love Mundry's 'Ich und Du' for piano and orchestra, and I am also fond of arrangements she has made of music by Dufay which have been released on that wonderful Kairos label. :)

EigenUser

#709
July 18, 2016, 03:36:24 AM
1. Bartok
2. Ligeti
3. Ravel
4. Messiaen
5. Haydn
6. Beethoven
7. Feldman
8. Gershwin
9. Mendelssohn
10. hmmmm...

Slot number 10 could be a number of things... Webern or Berg perhaps? I've really taken to Berg recently, especially the Chamber Concerto. And I managed to learn his Piano Sonata cover-to-cover on piano.

Or Debussy? Schumann? Hard decision.
Beethoven's Op. 133 -- A fugue so bad that even Beethoven himself called it "Grosse".

vandermolen

#710
July 18, 2016, 04:05:36 AM
Today's list:

Miaskovsky
Vaughan Williams
Tubin
Rosenberg
Bax
Copland
Diamond
Sibelius
Shostakovich
Walton
"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

#711
July 22, 2016, 02:07:36 PM
Tonight:

Vaughan Williams
Holst
Nielsen
Tubin
Shostakovich
Stravinsky
Respighi
Falla
Braga Santos
Barber
... 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

Mirror Image

#712
July 23, 2016, 07:50:09 AM Last Edit: July 29, 2016, 05:06:38 PM by Mirror Image
Time for an update:

Sibelius
Nielsen
Ravel
Bartók
Vaughan Williams
Shostakovich
Prokofiev
Martinů
Dvořák
Schnittke

Scion7

#713
July 23, 2016, 07:58:07 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on July 23, 2016, 07:50:09 AM
Time for an update

Schnittke

I really am worried about you.   ;D
Saint-Saëns, who predicted to Charles Lecocq in 1901: 'That fellow Ravel seems to me to be destined for a serious future.'

North Star

#714
July 23, 2016, 07:59:31 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 20, 2016, 06:53:55 PM
My current list:

Nielsen
Sibelius
Dvořák
Bruckner
Vaughan Williams
Bartók
Shostakovich
Elgar
R. Strauss
Rachmaninov

Quote from: Mirror Image on July 17, 2016, 07:18:40 PM
I think I'll give this a try for today, too, Jessop (in no particular order):

Sibelius
Nielsen
Ravel
Bartok
Vaughan Williams
Bruckner
Dvorak
Schnittke
Takemitsu
Szymanowski

Quote from: Mirror Image on July 23, 2016, 07:50:09 AM
Time for an update

Sibelius
Nielsen
Vaughan Williams
Bartók
Shostakovich
Prokofiev
Martinů
Dvořák
Schnittke
Szymanowski

I'm astonished to count as many as five same names on all of the three most recent lists: Sibelius, Nielsen, Vaughan Williams, Bartók, Dvořák. :D
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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Mirror Image

#715
July 23, 2016, 08:02:22 AM
Quote from: Scion7 on July 23, 2016, 07:58:07 AM
I really am worried about you.   ;D

Hah! I love Schnittke, but it wasn't always this way of course. I think he's the best Russian composer to arrive after Shostakovich. That particular generation has some cool ones like Gubaidulina, Denisov, Firsova, Artyomov, but IMHO Schnittke leads the pack since I believe his music is a continuation of where Shostakovich left off and he, in his own way, upheld the tradition with his some downright zany polystylistic methods, which I find strangely compelling and he just made it work.

Scion7

#716
July 23, 2016, 09:38:21 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on July 23, 2016, 08:02:22 AM
Hah! I love Schnittke, .

While that's a more frightening statement than Shrillary in her Chairman Mao unisex-suit giving her speech now at the DNC, I believe that inside, there is a man with a taste for the true greats (Bach-Beethoven-Mozart-Haydn-Handel-Brahms-Vivaldi) waiting to burst free . . . as violently as that hide-her-age-Darkman-one-hour-lasting-facemask that Clinton's got on at the moment.

You CAN be saved, MI - I just know you can!   It may take electro-shock treatments . . . it may take vision/sound depravation . . . it may take radical, untested drugs ... but I know we can get there!  Step into the light, MI, step into the light!    :D
Saint-Saëns, who predicted to Charles Lecocq in 1901: 'That fellow Ravel seems to me to be destined for a serious future.'

Mirror Image

#717
August 01, 2016, 04:50:38 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on July 23, 2016, 07:50:09 AM
Time for an update:

Sibelius
Nielsen
Ravel
Bartók
Vaughan Williams
Shostakovich
Prokofiev
Martinů
Dvořák
Schnittke

Time for some editing:

Sibelius
Nielsen
Ravel
Bartók
Vaughan Williams
Shostakovich
Prokofiev
Dvořák
Copland
Martinů

ComposerOfAvantGarde

#718
August 01, 2016, 11:41:21 PM
Quote from: Scion7 on July 23, 2016, 09:38:21 AM
While that's a more frightening statement than Shrillary in her Chairman Mao unisex-suit giving her speech now at the DNC, I believe that inside, there is a man with a taste for the true greats (Bach-Beethoven-Mozart-Haydn-Handel-Brahms-Vivaldi) waiting to burst free . . . as violently as that hide-her-age-Darkman-one-hour-lasting-facemask that Clinton's got on at the moment.

You CAN be saved, MI - I just know you can!   It may take electro-shock treatments . . . it may take vision/sound depravation . . . it may take radical, untested drugs ... but I know we can get there!  Step into the light, MI, step into the light!    :D

Scion7, I have to say in all my honesty that it is actually THIS POST OF YOURS which is the most frightening thing I have ever read on the Internet!!!!  :o :o :o :o :o

Mirror Image

#719
November 07, 2016, 03:02:07 PM
I suppose a revision is in order:

Mahler
Sibelius
Nielsen
Vaughan Williams
Bartók
Dvořák
Bruckner
Shostakovich
Rachmaninov
Martinů

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