One work that you'd like fellow GMG members to discover.

[Cato]

Note to Mirror Image: one means one!!!

What about a small group with the benign term "Honorable Mention" ?   0:)

Newer GMG members should know Karl Henning's works:

https://www.youtube.com/v/tN3aMOrzEb8

Just as great, but listed as Honorable Mention because I can really only choose 1 work...

https://www.youtube.com/v/7a7pFvJhfuc

https://www.youtube.com/v/H1GX6gAmom8

[(poco) Sforzando]

We're allowed only one? Then I'll make it "Solo e pensoso" from the 9th book of madrigals by the 16th-century Italian composer Luca Marenzio. Now here's a composer who is truly underrecorded: only two of his books of madrigals have been recorded complete, with several other miscellaneous compilations. And yet some musicologists regard him as the foremost composer of madrigals in this period. This is probably his most famous single work, notable for the opening set against a rising chromatic scale. There are HIP versions of some of his works, but for sheer musicality give me this older one by the great Deller Consort:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0PPZSqvC9E

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Jean Cras - Quintet for flute, harp and string trio

https://www.youtube.com/v/Q-ATDBgDbLE

What a lovely work - thanks for posting. 

[Luke]

Many here already know it, but my first thought is Schoeck's Elegie. Late Romanticism gets no later, nor more romantic. The last word in autumnal nostalgie. Utterly, utterly, heart-rendingly gorgeous.

[The new erato]

What a lovely work - thanks for posting. 

The Jean Cras recordings on Timpani are very worthwhile overall, certainly one of my major disscoveries of the last few years.

[Jo498]

Not sure about completeness but La Venexiana have recorded Marenzio's books 6 and 9 and (slightly different but overlapping personnel) La compagnia del Madrigale books 1 and 5. Still less than half of them, I guess and this seems certainly unfair compared to Monteverdi or Gesualdo. But one may be optimistic with more interest in this music and several younger italian ensembles active in that repertoire.

[ritter]

Abel Decaux (1869-1943): Clairs de Lune, for piano, 1900-1907. Sounds like something written after Schönberg's atonal works and Debussy's solo piano masterpieces, but predates them.

Wonderful work indeed. It caused a great impression on me when you first brought it to our attention here on GMG, Karlo!.

My contribution to the thread: Florent Schmitt's Symphonie concertante pour orchestre et piano, op. 82. A major, briliiant late work by this neglected composer, where a whole lot of influences can be detected (Scriabin, even Schoenberg at times), but all woven into one unified whole by Schmitt's craft. And note the order of the participants in the title: "orchestra and piano" (and not the other way around). That in itself is already a statement of what the work is conceived like.

https://www.youtube.com/v/50H94eSNqkM

AFAIK, there's only one commercial recording, which is very good but long OOP and not easy to find:

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The Jean Cras recordings on Timpani are very worthwhile overall, certainly one of my major disscoveries of the last few years.

Thanks. Had not heard of him and will certainly be investigating. I have a feeling that starting this thread might not be good for my already depleted bank balance. 

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Jean Cras - Quintet for flute, harp and string trio

https://www.youtube.com/v/Q-ATDBgDbLE

I bought a second hand copy of the first Timpani CD featured above music by Jean Cras. It is beautiful and very eloquent music. I can play it in the house without being told to turn it down or turn it off. No booklet unfortunately. Reminds me of Debussy's chamber music - a very nice discovery and I look forward to investigating more music by Jean Cras.

[vandermolen]

The Jean Cras recordings on Timpani are very worthwhile overall, certainly one of my major disscoveries of the last few years.

The CD I bought (see above) had no booklet - it stated this in the advert but I had not noticed. I emailed Timpany to see if I could buy a copy of the booklet from them. Within a few minutes they emailed me a digital booklet which they said was better than the original as the pictures were in colour - what a nice company.

[jochanaan]

Robert Suderburg: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra "within the mirror of time"

Also, Hovhaness' Mount St. Helens Symphony (#50).

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Robert Suderburg: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra "within the mirror of time"

Also, Hovhaness' Mount St. Helens Symphony (#50).

I don't know the first work but the Hovhaness is one of his best I think. I especially like the Schwarz recording on Delos/Naxos.

[Jay F]

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[Florestan]

Gentlemen of the gloom-and-doom persuasion, please be aware that you click below at your own risk! 

Darius Milhaud - Le Carnaval d´Aix, Op. 83b

https://www.youtube.com/v/QpjP3mZhQeo

or



One of the jolliest 20-th century composers´ hommage to the hugely popular and influential 18-th century Commedia dell´arte. Infectiously frolicsome!

[Rinaldo]

Gentlemen of the gloom-and-doom persuasion, please be aware that you click below at your own risk! 

Darius Milhaud - Le Carnaval d´Aix, Op. 83b

https://www.youtube.com/v/QpjP3mZhQeo

Whoa, that 4th movement is straight off Respighi's Gagliarda from Ancient Airs & Dance! Is Milhaud 'quoting' him or do the compositions share the same rennaisance inspiration?

[vandermolen]

Gentlemen of the gloom-and-doom persuasion, please be aware that you click below at your own risk! 

Darius Milhaud - Le Carnaval d´Aix, Op. 83b

https://www.youtube.com/v/QpjP3mZhQeo

or



One of the jolliest 20-th century composers´ hommage to the hugely popular and influential 18-th century Commedia dell´arte. Infectiously frolicsome!

Yes, much too jolly for me. Where is the sense of looming catastrophe? Actually it sounds very nice, reminds me a bit of Francaix whose music I like. Actually if you like this you might well like the Damase piano concerto which features in the opening post of this thread. Milhaud is one of the composer's whom I need to investigate more. I have a complete box set of the symphonies but have hardly listened to it. Where should I start? Thanks for posting. 

[Mirror Image]

Yes, much too jolly for me. Where is the sense of looming catastrophe? Actually it sounds very nice, reminds me a bit of Francaix whose music I like. Actually if you like this you might well like the Damase piano concerto which features in the opening post of this thread. Milhaud is one of the composer's whom I need to investigate more. I have a complete box set of the symphonies but have hardly listened to it. Where should I start? Thanks for posting. 

You didn't ask me, but I used to be a fan of Milhaud, but like you said there's hardly anything dramatic in his music or heart-rending to keep me truly interested or invested in the music BUT my favorite work of his is Symphony No. 6. He's very much a composer I've outgrown and find his idiom constantly off-putting, but his 6th shows a deviation from a lot of his other music. The problem I also have is his music starts to run together after awhile. Quite tiresome as there's not much variety in the writing, but if someone else enjoys him, then to each their own. His music just isn't my thing.

[vandermolen]

You didn't ask me, but I used to be a fan of Milhaud, but like you said there's hardly anything dramatic in his music or heart-rending to keep me truly interested or invested in the music BUT my favorite work of his is Symphony No. 6. He's very much a composer I've outgrown and find his idiom constantly off-putting, but his 6th shows a deviation from a lot of his other music. The problem I also have is his music starts to run together after awhile. Quite tiresome as there's not much variety in the writing, but if someone else enjoys him, then to each their own. His music just isn't my thing.

Right, No.6 it is. Thank you John. 
I think that my experience with his music generally is identical to yours.

[Karl Henning]

[...] Milhaud is one of the composer's whom I need to investigate more. I have a complete box set of the symphonies but have hardly listened to it. Where should I start?

Your Mileage May Vary, but I ultimately found the Milhaud symphonies a dull disappointment.

[nathanb]

Stockhausen - LICHT

As with any other work, listen to the whole thing or hush