So, which composers do you listen to most, with a relatively fewer recordings in your collection?
I am going to compile my list soon. I'd say near the top have got to be Sibelius and Taneyev.
I'm sure there may be a few surprises here and there. :)
Excellent thread idea, Ray! I'll have to think about this one, though.
Quote from: ChamberNut on March 09, 2014, 07:40:14 AM
So, which composers do you listen to most, with a relatively fewer recordings in your collection?
I am going to compile my list soon. I'd say near the top have got to be Sibelius and Taneyev.
I'm sure there may be a few surprises here and there. :)
Hmmm. My first thought is Nyman for the past few years, or ten Holt.
Oh, that's easy. Albert Roussel. This is especially true when I got the four-CD Naxos box, my first introduction to the composer, and listened to each CD something like 10 times in the first year.
Now, it is the "per capita" that makes this interesting. That rules out Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Feldman, Chopin, Liszt, Schubert, Schumann... I think recently, even with a now relatively large number of CDs (maybe 10 or 12), Brian is high on the list.
Quote from: Brian on March 09, 2014, 08:12:48 AM
Oh, that's easy. Albert Roussel. This is especially true when I got the four-CD Naxos box, my first introduction to the composer, and listened to each CD something like 10 times in the first year.
You could lower that dangerously unstable ratio with the addition of Brilliant's excellent 3 cd set of his chamber music.
Just sayin' .... 0:)
Quote from: Ken B on March 09, 2014, 08:15:40 AM
You could lower that dangerously unstable ratio with the addition of Brilliant's excellent 3 cd set of his chamber music.
Just sayin' .... 0:)
Actually I do have it already. But those 7 CDs, plus the last Naxos orchestral CD, make my full Roussel collection.
For me it's Miaskovksy, Weinberg, Taneyev and Boris Tchaikovsky.
Ippolitov-Ivanov.
For me, it's a toss-up between Chavez, Revueltas, Ginastera, Bacewicz, and Koechlin (it's not like the market is loaded with recordings of his music to begin with anyway).
Quote from: Mirror Image on March 09, 2014, 08:41:55 AM
For me, it's a toss-up between Chavez, Revueltas, Ginastera, Bacewicz, and Koechlin (it's not like the market is loaded with recordings of his music to begin with anyway).
That's not a toss-up. That's a circus juggling act!
Quote from: springrite on March 09, 2014, 08:45:20 AM
That's not a toss-up. That's a circus juggling act!
:P
Well, I was right about Sibelius. He was the # 1, and it wasn't even close!! Followed by Schumann and Saint-Saens! I was wrong about Taneyev, only about middle of the pack.
A comparative of Top 30:
Most Listened to Composers (over the past five years) in order:
Beethoven
Mozart, W.A.
Brahms
Shostakovich
Schubert
Tchaikovsky
Schumann, R.
Bach
Haydn
Bruckner
Dvorak
Prokofiev
Wagner
Sibelius
Taneyev
Mendelssohn
Mahler
Stravinsky
Bartok
Strauss, R.
Berlioz
Rimsky-Korsakov
Chopin
Vaughan Williams
Ravel
Saint-Saens
Faure
Glazunov
Miaskovsky
Vivaldi
Now, compared to Top 30 Composers most listened to (per capita of recordings):
Sibelius
Schumann, R.
Saint-Saens
Tchaikovsky
Chopin
Bartok
Berlioz
Bach
Prokofiev
Strauss, R.
Mendelssohn
Schubert
Beethoven
Bruckner
Taneyev
Brahms
Dvorak
Mozart, W.A.
Shostakovich
Faure
Vivaldi
Wagner
Vaughan Williams
Stravinsky
Glazunov
Ravel
Haydn
Mahler
Rimsky-Korsakov
Miaskovsky
Some caveats. Regarding Rimsky-Korsakov and Miaskovsky, it has only been a year since I got most of the recordings, with only 1 listen to most of them. In fact, there are still a few discs of Rimsky that I haven't listened to.
Gorecki for me. I have few recordings, but I listen to them fairly frequently.
Sibelius for sure!!!! His symphonies are present in my soundscape several times each weekl. Mostly with Davis and LSO although I strive for diversity in ensembles. Interesting that his name came up so quickly (and twice!!). It is probably my wife's fault in terms of my post.
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Quote from: Moonfish on March 09, 2014, 10:43:56 AM
Sibelius for sure!!!! His symphonies are present in my soundscape several times each weekl. Mostly with Davis and LSO although I strive for diversity in ensembles. Interesting that his name came up so quickly (and twice!!). It is probably my wife's fault in terms of my post.
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I don't understand what you mean. Sibelius is your wife's fault? That is some good wife you got there if that's what you can blame her for!
Quote from: Ken B on March 09, 2014, 10:52:00 AM
I don't understand what you mean. Sibelius is your wife's fault? That is some good wife you got there if that's what you can blame her for!
Ha ha! Well, she likes Sibelius a LOT so she always put them in the player (especially the Davis set). As a consequence they get a lot of more spins! Not a bad thing as Sibelius is a great composer and his works are places where one can wander for hours on end. :)
What counts as a "recording"? A CD? A 2- or 3-CD set? A box?
Quote from: amw on March 09, 2014, 11:32:48 AM
What counts as a "recording"? A CD? A 2- or 3-CD set? A box?
A piece.
No, you cannot count a 400 disc Toscanini box!
;)
I was thinking more along the lines of Haydn complete symphony sets, but yes.
Just going by individual CDs... Marini, Froberger, Charpentier, Marais, Lachenmann, Holliger, Grisey, Radulescu and, over in jazz-world, Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor.
Thomas Tallis. I only have one cd, but it's a desert island disc.
Shostakovich. I only have two sets of the string quartets, and I listen to both fairly often.
In no particular order:
Janacek (I need to get the rest of the operas as I only have House and Vixen now - and the Decca chamber etc set & Suk/Neumann in the VC)
Satie (2 discs: The Socrate & al. disc, and De Leeuw playing the usual suspects)
Dowland (1 disc: The Parley of Instruments playing Lachrimae)
Mompou (1 disc: Perianes playing Musica callada)
Holmboe (Storgårds & Chamber Orch. of Lapland playing the Chamber Symphonies)
In no particular order:
Johann Strauss I
Mussorgsky
Glazunov
Satie
Bantock
Rimsky-Korsakov
Britten
Just remembered that Gabriel Pierne might belong here for me.
Probably Schoenberg. His output isn't massive anyway and I'm not exactly overflowing with multiple recordings of many of his works but I do spin his music fairly regularly.
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I just own this two cd Vanguard set of piano music by Eugene List. But if cds would wear out, it would definitely be unplayable by now.
It's a brilliant set though.
Weiss: Lute Sonatas
I just realized that Weiss's Lute Sonatas played by Barto (Naxos) definitely has to take the prize of the most listened to composer in my home. I have listened to these on an almost daily basis over the last fifteen years. Great music! Currently Barto has recorded eleven volumes of these works. I think they are fantastic!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvius_Leopold_Weiss (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvius_Leopold_Weiss)
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Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 10, 2014, 08:15:38 AM
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Sarge
*pound le table!*
Quote from: Moonfish on March 10, 2014, 08:08:18 AM
Weiss: Lute Sonatas
I just realized that Weiss's Lute Sonatas played by Barto (Naxos) definitely has to take the prize of the most listened to composer in my home. I have listened to these on an almost daily basis over the last fifteen years. Great music! Currently Barto has recorded eleven volumes of these works. I think they are fantastic!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvius_Leopold_Weiss (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvius_Leopold_Weiss)
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Yes a fantastic series of recordings.
Quote from: springrite on March 10, 2014, 08:18:06 AM
*pound le table!*
Hmm, I hadn't thought what French verb there? battre? concasser? I'm sure whatever I picked would sound absurd to a Frenchman. You do WHAT to the table? Mais POURQUOI monsieur. O-la-la, ma pauvre table!
Quote from: Moonfish on March 10, 2014, 08:08:18 AM
Weiss: Lute Sonatas
I just realized that Weiss's Lute Sonatas played by Barto (Naxos) definitely has to take the prize of the most listened to composer in my home. I have listened to these on an almost daily basis over the last fifteen years. Great music! Currently Barto has recorded eleven volumes of these works. I think they are fantastic!
Oh yes they most certainly are! For a while I got to write reviews of those for MusicWeb every time a new one arrived. One day the new release came and I looked on the back and saw a praise quote from a reviewer and thought, "Hey...those words look familiar..."
("marvelously vivid performances and beautifully recorded")
You might want to check - Volume 12 is out, and it's got a pirate ship on the cover if my memory is correct. Did you pick that up?
Quote from: Brian on March 10, 2014, 12:21:13 PM
Oh yes they most certainly are! For a while I got to write reviews of those for MusicWeb every time a new one arrived. One day the new release came and I looked on the back and saw a praise quote from a reviewer and thought, "Hey...those words look familiar..."
("marvelously vivid performances and beautifully recorded")
You might want to check - Volume 12 is out, and it's got a pirate ship on the cover if my memory is correct. Did you pick that up?
Ahhh, I have been looking for vol 12 over the last year, but have not yet come across it. I will intensify my efforts (besides, it will probably show up in one of these threads). Are you sure you are not thinking about vol 10 (from 2010) with its sail ship?
It is good to know that there are other Weiss enthusiasts in the world!!! Yay!
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EDIT: yeah, I think vol 12 is not around the corner..... no trace of it
At the moment I am listening to music by a lot of Finnish composers, Pingoud, Madetoja, Klami. Also Lilburn, Tubin, Kinsella, Truscott, Meulemans, Sternefeld, Ippolitov Ivanov.
Quote from: Moonfish on March 10, 2014, 01:06:10 PM
Ahhh, I have been looking for vol 12 over the last year, but have not yet come across it. I will intensify my efforts (besides, it will probably show up in one of these threads). Are you sure you are not thinking about vol 10 (from 2010) with its sail ship?
Oops, you're absolutely right. :( Sorry about that. Guess I'm a little too excited about it.
Quote from: Brian on April 19, 2014, 06:32:49 AM
Oops, you're absolutely right. :( Sorry about that. Guess I'm a little too excited about it.
Yeah, you got me so excited with the news of a new volume of Weiss' music. I guess vol 11 back in 2012 was the latest. Still crossing my fingers for an additional one though!! :)
Quote from: Moonfish on April 19, 2014, 01:27:14 PM
Yeah, you got me so excited with the news of a new volume of Weiss' music. I guess vol 11 back in 2012 was the latest. Still crossing my fingers for an additional one though!! :)
You missed vols 13 and 14 last year?
>:D
Quote from: Ken B on April 19, 2014, 03:54:29 PM
You missed vols 13 and 14 last year?
>:D
Teaser!!!
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