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#91
The Polling Station / Re: Eleven favourite 20th Cent...
Last post by Florestan - Today at 06:05:50 AM
My list

Rachmaninoff 2 & 3
Medtner 1-3
Bortkiewicz 3 "Per aspera ad astra"
Ravel G
Poulenc Piano Concerto, Concerto for Two Pianos
Falla - Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Khachaturyan
#92
The Polling Station / Re: Eleven favourite 20th Cent...
Last post by Brian - Today at 06:03:17 AM
Quote from: Brian on October 12, 2013, 02:15:22 PMRavel - for the left hand
Ravel - for both hands
Shostakovich No. 2
Prokofiev No. 1
Prokofiev No. 3
Rachmaninov No. 3
Ullmann
Gershwin
Symanowski - Symphony No. 4

I have fond memories of concertos by Englund, Kabalevsky, and Tveitt, but I'm not sure which ones. Let's take the last two out of that group.

My list seems to paint me as not very adventurous. Hrm. For what it's worth, the Viktor Ullmann piece deserves serious consideration by everybody in this thread. It's a firecracker, and only about 20 minutes. Actually no fewer than 6 of my top 9 are between 15 and 25 minutes long.

Updating more than 10 years later.

Bartok - No. 3
Britten
Guarnieri - No. 2
Martinu - No. 4
Poulenc - both for one piano and two
Rachmaninov - No. 3
Rautavaara - No. 3
Ravel - both for one hand and two
Szymanowski - Symphony No. 4

Honorable mentions: Prokofiev 1, 2, 3, and Tveitt for two pianos
#93
The Polling Station / Re: If you had to choose just ...
Last post by DavidW - Today at 05:56:39 AM
Quote from: Cato on Today at 05:40:51 AMDvorak: Serenade for Strings, Second Movement.

I would counter that with the first movement of Tchaikovsky's string serenade!
#94
Composer Discussion / Re: The Snowshoed Sibelius
Last post by Mirror Image - Today at 05:55:10 AM
Quote from: Skogwald on Today at 05:19:33 AMIs there a version of the Fourth Symphony that really emphasizes the dissonances? I'm looking for a very modernist version to sample.

Osmo Vänskä's recording with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra on BIS is a rather modernist view of the work. All three of Paavo Berglund's accounts will also fit the bill nicely. Colin Davis' first go around with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Philips is also worth looking into.
#95
The Polling Station / Re: Eleven favourite 20th Cent...
Last post by DavidW - Today at 05:53:31 AM
Quote from: San Antone on Today at 05:48:42 AMI was sure it said "your 20 favorite ..."  oh, well ....  :)

... from the 11th century... ;D
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Composer Discussion / Re: The Snowshoed Sibelius
Last post by Mirror Image - Today at 05:52:53 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on May 20, 2024, 11:14:29 PMI really like the middle one which is the complete incidental music.

Very nice, but, actually, all three discs are the complete music for The Tempest. I haven't done any side-by-side comparisons, but the Kamu on Naxos is the most complete one of the three.
#97
The Polling Station / Re: Eleven favourite 20th Cent...
Last post by San Antone - Today at 05:48:42 AM
Quote from: Florestan on Today at 05:18:56 AMYou mean ten extra, actually (the thread asks for eleven, you nominated twenty-one)... ;D

I was sure it said "your 20 favorite ..."  oh, well ....  :)
#98
General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What concerts are you look...
Last post by (poco) Sforzando - Today at 05:42:19 AM
I'm starting to look at the video now. Drab is an understatement. What is Walther doing crawling around on his hands and knees on a bare stage? Give me a beautiful Renaissance church full of color and people. Spot-checking, everything seems the same dull tone of grey.
#99
The Polling Station / Re: If you had to choose just ...
Last post by Cato - Today at 05:40:51 AM
Faaar too many choices...   ;D

Right now I will offer for your consideration:

Bruckner: Symphony #6, the last 5 minutes or so of the slow movement, beginning with the last appearance of the "funeral march."

Dvorak: Serenade for Strings, Second Movement.

Dvorak: Symphony #4 First Movement, the Second Subject after the introduction

#100
General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...
Last post by Harry - Today at 05:36:38 AM
Franz Liszt.
The complete Piano Works.
Volume I.
Waltzes.
Leslie Howard, Piano.
See back cover for details.

Qobuz finally put the complete piano works solo in their streaming options. So after many years of waiting, I can finally listen to Howard's integral monumental view on a composer, who escapes me sometimes in understanding.
Sound is good, and as expected the performance too, but that I always knew anyway. It will take me some time of course to listen to all, but time of life given I will succeed.
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