Hi everyone,
As the heading states I'm from New Zealand. I'm a Business Analyst by profession who first started listening to serious music when I was 15 (44 years ago). Quite honestly listening to great music has been a big part of my life and been important soul food and has sustained me during the dark times.
My taste in composers and musical genre's/styles is extensive though my first love is Mozart, as I've got older I now rank J. S. Bach on the same level.
Some of the other composers I like are:
Beethoven (especially the String Quartets)
Schubert
Haydn
Brahms
Wagner (love the music but not the man)
Bruckner
Mahler (I don't buy into the neurotic thing as much as others seem to)
Sibelius
Bartok
Berg, Webern, Schoenberg
Tchaikovsky
Prokofiev (love his piano music)
Shostakovich
Favourite conductors
Carlos Kleiber, Karajan, and Furtwangler
Favourite Pianists
Gilels, Richter, Brendel, and Zimerman
Other things about me:
History fascinates me (anything from ancient through to modern history)
I'm a political junkie
I love great cinema (not modern Hollywood blockbusters)
Welcome to GMG, Crassus!
Greetings and welcome. :)
Welcome aboard! I hope you enjoy yourself here. Fantastic list of composers, btw. 8)
Hail Marcus Licinius, and welcome.
PS, you might want to avoid the Parthian thread.
Hello and welcome. With an appreciation of such a range of composers as you list you should enjoy yourself here :)
Welcome!
Welcome and enjoy yourself!
Welcome !
With your musical tastes you will have many friends here.
I was in New Zealand a couple years ago around Christmas. Did 4 o the great walks: Tongariro, Wanganui river, Kepler Track and Routeburn. Great fun !!
Welcome! Which part of NZ are you in? (if its okay to ask, its fine if you'd rather not say)
A warm welcome from the antipodes!
Hope you have a good time here on GMG.
Regards,
Woohoo another 2nd Viennese school fan! Welcome to GMG! 8)
Hi there Crassus. Greetings from Mozart's Vienna. Welcome to the forum. 8)
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Quote from: Hollywood on October 22, 2016, 11:31:07 PM
Hi there Crassus. Greetings from Mozart's Vienna. Welcome to the forum. 8)
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Hey, LTNS! Welcome back to you too?
Many thanks for the warm welcome everyone!!
And another welcome from me, Crassus. Quite an eclectic list of composers there (= good). Hope you enjoy yourself!
--Bruce
Gday crassus, Similar tastes to mine, where about in Gods Own? not a jafa! ;D ;D
Welcome from me too.
Do you like the music of your compatriot Douglas Lilburn?
His first two symphonies and Aotearoa Overture are favourites of mine.
Quote from: Thatfabulousalien on November 20, 2016, 12:13:07 AM
Is it just me or is Lilburn NZs Sibelius? ;)
He studied under Ralph Vaughn Williams.
Quote from: Thatfabulousalien on November 20, 2016, 11:50:29 AM
I know that ::)
I mean that he seems to me to have that sort of cultural idol that Sibelius does. Granted, he's not as popular as Sibelius but still.
I haven't noticed or heard anything like that. The very few times I hear him mentioned by locals its largely to express indifference - perhaps after hearing him they assume he's a Brit who settled here as an adult. It always surprises me when people from elsewehere speak of him in glowing terms (not that I have anything against him).
Someone like Gareth Farr seems to get mentioned much more regularly as a homegrown composer to be proud of.
edit: on the other hand, the biography of Lilburn that University Of Canterbury published a few years ago was actually a good seller - so maybe there's more interest than I hear about from just my small circle of classical friends etc
http://www.cup.canterbury.ac.nz/catalogue/Douglas_Lilburn.shtml
Quote from: Thatfabulousalien on November 20, 2016, 11:50:29 AM
I know that ::)
I mean that he seems to me to have that sort of cultural idol that Sibelius does. Granted, he's not as popular as Sibelius but still.
OK so which work do you consider sounds like Sibelius perhaps give an example, I actually like some of his works.
Quote from: Thatfabulousalien on November 20, 2016, 12:13:07 AM
I love Lilburn, his third Symphony is more to my taste though. Is it just me or is Lilburn NZs Sibelius? ;)
Absolutely right I think (Sibelius comment) in terms of his national standing (or maybe not according to above comments) and the sound of symphonies 1 and 2 in particular - which I think do, in places, sound like Sibelius and his teacher VW.
He sent Vaughan Williams parcels of jam from NZ during the war.
The only Lilburn I have ever listened to is 'Three Inscapes' of which the second was the only one that particularly interested me.
Some parts kind of remind me of the way RVW orchestrates, some parts kind of remind me of the seamless shifts from one idea to the next and an almost inaudible barline associated with Sibelius maybe? I have to think hard to make those links and it seems rather silly to make that comparison anyway because I am sure that 'Three Inscapes' is totally different to anything either RVW or Sibelius would have written.
Quote from: Thatfabulousalien on November 20, 2016, 07:37:21 PM
I didn't say that he sounds like Sibelius..... ::)
Then why link Sibelius and Lilburn in the same sentence, it would have been more appropriate to have said Vaughn Williams or is there a Sibelius connection there that I am missing ::) ::)
I recently checked out some other pieces on the recording that Three Inscapes is on and i really enjoyed some of them. None of them really sound anything like Vaughan Williams OR Sibelius to me (unless I squint and tilt my head to one side) so I have no idea what you guys are talking about haha.
Quote from: jessop on November 22, 2016, 01:54:48 AM
I recently checked out some other pieces on the recording that Three Inscapes is on and i really enjoyed some of them. None of them really sound anything like Vaughan Williams OR Sibelius to me (unless I squint and tilt my head to one side) so I have no idea what you guys are talking about haha.
I think that Symphony 2 is the most Sibelian - certainly like Sibelius there is a strong sense of nature and a powerful brooding quality to some of the music. All subjective of course. :)
Quote from: jessop on November 22, 2016, 01:54:48 AM
I recently checked out some other pieces on the recording that Three Inscapes is on and i really enjoyed some of them. None of them really sound anything like Vaughan Williams OR Sibelius to me (unless I squint and tilt my head to one side) so I have no idea what you guys are talking about haha.
I agree, I was only using RVW as a possibility due to his musical relationship with Lilburn. Lilburn has his own sound as far as I am concerned