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[Mirror Image]

A few more:

Messiaen - psychedelic
Scriabin - bewitching
Tchaikovsky - heartbreaking
Schnittke - boundless
Penderecki - frightening
Webern - phlegmatic

[Symphonic Addict]

Copland - folksy

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Barber - troubled
Saint-Saëns - délicieux

[foxandpeng]

Woah! No joke, I'm listening to his VC Distant Lights right now when I read this, in fact at about 4-5 minutes left in the piece, and it just changed my entire listening experience. Thank you for that!

You're welcome 🙂. I love that piece very much!

[Irons]

Reger - stodgy
Delius - contemplative
Arnold - quirky
Leifs - earthy
Chopin - sentimental
Brian - messy
Dvorák - rustic
Brahms - refined
Valen - gloomy

A good list, particularly like Reger, Brian and Dvorak. Not sure about Brahms, I thought upholstered or Victorian. Delius was one I thought about but surprisingly could not come up with anything that fits.

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A good list, particularly like Reger, Brian and Dvorak. Not sure about Brahms, I thought upholstered or Victorian. Delius was one I thought about but surprisingly could not come up with anything that fits.

Brahms also sounds me like "lordly" and nostalgic. In fact, many composers provoke a myriad of emotions and ideas that is just captivating.

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Another one:

Langgaard - maverick

[Irons]

Another one:

Langgaard - maverick

You can say that again! After your recommendation - which I value, I purchased a CD. Noted foxandpend, who also knows his stuff, rates Langgaard too. Obviously me (or mood) but failed to make a connection with his music.  

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You can say that again! After your recommendation - which I value, I purchased a CD. Noted foxandpend, who also knows his stuff, rates Langgaard too. Obviously me (or mood) but failed to make a connection with his music.

I haven't seen any post by foxandpeng rating Langgaard yet  , but anyway, which works have you listened to? I recommend his symphonies 1-6, 9, 10 and 13 (1, 4 and 6 being exceptional in my view; No. 6 on Chandos is the best performance hands down), Music of the Spheres, Sinfonia interna, the string quartets, Fra Dybet, Sphinx, Drapa (On the Dead of Edvard Grieg), Heltedød, Antikrist and/or its suite The End of Time.

I'm aware about he was an odd composer, but somehow I do connect with his style quite well.

[Maestro267]

Schumann - Alive

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Bantock - sybarite

[Irons]

I haven't seen any post by foxandpeng rating Langgaard yet  , but anyway, which works have you listened to? I recommend his symphonies 1-6, 9, 10 and 13 (1, 4 and 6 being exceptional in my view; No. 6 on Chandos is the best performance hands down), Music of the Spheres, Sinfonia interna, the string quartets, Fra Dybet, Sphinx, Drapa (On the Dead of Edvard Grieg), Heltedød, Antikrist and/or its suite The End of Time.

I'm aware about he was an odd composer, but somehow I do connect with his style quite well.

I will have a crack at the 6th you recommend. I didn't reach that far having giving up after listening to the 4th of the Chandos disc and maybe prematurely thinking Langgaard is not for me. I do struggle making sense of multi-movement symphonies.

Sibelius: booze.

[Irons]

Vaughan Williams: old.
George Butterworth: young.