10 favourite British Composers

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ComposerOfAvantGarde

Who are yours?

Currently mine are..........

Harrison Birtwistle
Helen Grime
Thomas Adès
Brian Ferneyhough
Oliver Knussen
Peter Maxwell Davies
Rebecca Saunders
James Dillon
Sally Beamish
Ralph Vaughan Williams

North Star

#1
Something like this:

Benjamin Britten
Edward Elgar
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Michael Tippett
Gustav Holst
Gerald Finzi
William Byrd
Ronald Stevenson
John Dowland
Michael Finnissy
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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Daverz

Nothing very adventurous in the top 10.  In alphabetical order:

Alwyn
Arnold
Bax
Bliss
Britten
Elgar
Holst
Moeran
Vaughan Williams
Walton

ritter

#3
I can't make it to 10  ::). Here's my list:

- William Walton
- Harrison Birstwistle
- Alexander Goehr
- Jonathan Harvey
- Richard Rodney Bennett

EDIT to include:
- Henry Purcell
- John Dowland


Still not 10 ! ???

Autumn Leaves

Allright :):

Bax
Bliss
Bantock
Bridge
Britten
Holst
Delius
Elgar
Walton
Vaughan Williams

springrite

#5
Brian
Rubbra
Bax
Alwyn
Elgar
Bridge
Delius
Birstwistle
Britten
Gibbons
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

ComposerOfAvantGarde

Quote from: ritter on July 20, 2016, 01:38:25 AM
I can't make it to 10  ::). Here's my list:

- William Walton
- Harrison Birstwistle
- Alexander Goehr
- Jonathan Harvey
- Richard Rodney Bennett


You are really quite good at mentioning composers I have overlooked! I love the music of Jonathan Harvey especially.

Jo498

Purcell
Dowland
Byrd
Tallis
Gibbons
Britten
Vaughan Williams
Elgar
but I don't really care for most of the British late romantics or moderns I have heard. So if I knew more renaissance choral music and Elizabethan composers I'd probably rather fill up the list with them... or even with Locke, Blow or Boyce...
Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
- Blaise Pascal

Sergeant Rock

Havergal Brian
George Lloyd
Malcolm Arnold
Ralph Vaughn Williams
Edward Elgar
William Walton
Daniel Jones
Frederick Delius
Edmund Rubbra
William Alwyn
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

mc ukrneal

Edward Elgar
William Byrd
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Eric Coates
Gustav Holst
Ivor Novello
Hubert Parry
William Walton
Benjamin Britten
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Be kind to your fellow posters!!

ritter

Quote from: jessop on July 20, 2016, 02:16:45 AM
You are really quite good at mentioning composers I have overlooked! I love the music of Jonathan Harvey especially.
Well, that's one of the good things of these games, no?  ;) In my case, I see two names in other lists which are blatant and inadmissible omissions from mine  :-[: Henry Purcell and John Dowland. I've ammended my list accordingly...

Cheers,

Karl Henning

Maybe these:

Benjamin Britten
William Byrd
Erik Chisholm
John Dowland
Edward Elgar
Gustav Holst
Ivan Moody
Luke Ottevanger
Thomas Tallis
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

North Star

I remember rather liking the piano works I've heard from Chisholm. I need to explore further. There's that Hyperion PC disc, of course. What are your favourite Chisholm work, Karl?
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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Karl Henning

Quote from: North Star on July 20, 2016, 06:29:28 AM
I remember rather liking the piano works I've heard from Chisholm. I need to explore further. There's that Hyperion PC disc, of course. What are your favourite Chisholm work, Karl?

I really need to explore further, myself, Karlo;  but the piano solo piobaireachd I find richly rewarding, the more of them I listen to.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

North Star

Quote from: karlhenning on July 20, 2016, 06:33:40 AM
I really need to explore further, myself, Karlo;  but the piano solo piobaireachd I find richly rewarding, the more of them I listen to.
Yes, those are the pieces I'm familiar with, too. Splendid stuff.
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

My photographs on Flickr

Mirror Image

In no particular order:

Vaughan Williams
Elgar
Delius
Britten
Tippett
Finzi
Moeran
Howells
Rubbra
Alwyn

springrite

Quote from: Mirror Image on July 20, 2016, 06:37:20 AM
In no particular order:

Vaughan Williams
Elgar
Delius
Britten
Tippett
Finzi
Moeran
Howells
Rubbra
Alwyn

That's so obviously in reverse order  ;)
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.


Andante

As far as I can see not one mention of George Frideric Handel ??? :( :(
Andante always true to his word has kicked the Marijuana soaked bot with its addled brain in to touch.

amw

Finnissy
Barrett (R)
Dillon
Ferneyhough
Saunders (R)
Weeks
Tippett
Gerhard
Handel
Medtner