Earliest & Latest

[max]

What's the earliest and latest music in your collection or list of preferences. That is, what is your range?

[Harry]

What's the earliest and latest music in your collection or list of preferences. That is, what is your range?

As early as you can go and as late as you can get......

[Lethevich]

As early as you can go and as late as you can get......

Ditto, hehe.

[Que]

I seem to have little interest in the extremities: little Renaissance, no medieval; little Modernists, no Post-modern/contemporary.

Q

[Harry]

I seem to have little interest in the extremities: little Renaissance, no medieval; little Modernists, no Post-modern/contemporary.

Q

But then you are really into Bach.........

[max]

As early as you can go and as late as you can get......

...which is usually a matter of choice or discovery!

[The new erato]

From Perotin to Ligeti. If it's notated, it's in my field of interest!

[Mozart]

Handel to Brahms. Wait who came first? Vivaldi right? So then Vivaldi to Brahms.

[Great Gable]

Baroque through to the end of Classical. Earlier than Baroque does little for me. There are a few post-Classical exceptions, such as Rachmaninov, Khachaturian (of whom it could be said both were throwbacks) and the odd, isolated work (Gorecki's 3rd, Elgar's Cello, some Vaughan Williams).
Almost all 20th Century works are at best ugly to my ears and at worst (the majority) cacophonic. Music must relate to me emotionally before any other factor. I can go on to have an intellectual relationship with many pieces but if it fails to move me, from an emotional perspective, I will never grow to love it. I find the vast majority of 20th Centurey works to be utterly devoid of emotion and beauty. I know many will argue the case of recent output but it will be to no avail to me - if I don't hear/feel it - it's not there. If someone else feels it - then it is - for them.

I feel the same about pretty much all art forms post 1900. For me Architecture, Art, Sculpture and Music (Classical - the blanket term not the sub-genre) all died along with Queen Victoria (no connection - I'm just using the date) with the odd few exceptions. Those exceptions all have one thing in common - they are all looking backwards to what came before.

[Mark]

My collection spans the period from Hildegard von Bingen to James MacMillan, but my main focus is from (roughly) Beethoven to Finzi. I'm particularly lacking in opera and what I think of as 'very modern' works, however.

[marvinbrown]

What's the earliest and latest music in your collection or list of preferences. That is, what is your range?

 My collection ranges from J.S. Bach -> R. Strauss.  So basically from 1685 -> 1949.  


  marvin  

[Wendell_E]

Earliest:  Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), I think.

Latest:  "Has it been recorded yet? When will it be released? I'm waiting!"

[drogulus]

     I'll listen to a wide variety of music, but my interest falls chiefly in the 1850-1950 range. That's not by design, though.

[Shrunk]

Hildegard to Turnage

[lukeottevanger]

Earliest, if it counts, is that HMA Ancient Greek disc; then some Byzantine chant (c. 400 AD) before moving into Gregorian chant etc. Latest is me  , or, if you mean real music, other composers born in the 70s such as Ades and Michael Hersch. My collection is about as evenly spread between these two extremes as it can be, though there is naturally a bias towards later composers simply because there is more of this music and it is more recorded. I don't have one main area of interest; I feel as if there are different bits of me, each equally fascinated by different areas of music history.

[Mark]

Earliest, if it counts, is that HMA Ancient Greek disc; then some Byzantine chant (c. 400 AD) before moving into Gregorian chant etc. Latest is me  , or, if you mean real music, other composers born in the 70s such as Ades and Michael Hersch. My collection is about as evenly spread between these two extremes as it can be, though there is naturally a bias towards later composers simply because there is more of this music and it is more recorded. I don't have one main area of interest; I feel as if there are different bits of me, each equally fascinated by different areas of music history.

Ah yes, I'd forgotten about Gregorian chant. However, I don't know if we should allow works not definitely contributable to particular composers. If we do permit such, then I can rightly say that the span of my collection includes Gregorian chant. But certainly, nothing earlier.

[marvinbrown]

Latest:  "Has it been recorded yet? When will it be released? I'm waiting!"

  An admirable approach Wendell_E, I wish I could be like that.  Sadly, I have lost interest in practically all music that came after R. Strauss.


  marvin

[Mark]

Sadly, I have lost interest in practically all music that came after R. Strauss.

You are hereby commanded to go and buy this:

[marvinbrown]

You are hereby commanded to go and buy this:

  I am not familiar with any of Finzi's compositions, I will have to look into that particular recording  .

  marvin

[Keemun]

Gregorian chant to Ligeti.