Your Top 10 Favorite Composers

[Florestan]

Oh for heavens' sake. I wouldn't have even noticed if you hadn't of bloody well written "THE GERMAN CONNECTION" on the very next line. Okay? You're the one who decided to label some people with "Austrian" and some other people with "German". It wouldn't have remotely occurred to me to query in any way your Austria/Vienna classification if you hadn't then highlighted the fact that you chose to label a couple of German-born people in the "Austrian" category, rather than the "German" category, by HAVING a "German" category.

Of all the people reading that thread, some of them German, YOU are the only one to nitpick and hairsplit on that. If I wouldn't know you, I'd be really annoyed. But I do know you, so I'm not. I'm amused, actually.

[Madiel]

Of all the people reading that thread, some of them German, YOU are the only one to nitpick and hairsplit on that. If I wouldn't know you, I'd be really annoyed. But I do know you, so I'm not. I'm amused, actually.

And if I didn't know you, I'd be even more irritated by your responses than I am already.

Nitpick? Hairsplit? What you mean is I'm the only person who reacted in any way whatsoever to your categorisation. So why did you bother making the categorisation, if not to get responses of some kind? You WANTED a response. And then you decided to be as combative as possible about it. What a surprise. Because you find combat amusing.

I don't, okay? I don't remotely enjoy dealing with you when you decide to be like this.

[Florestan]

So why did you bother making the categorisation, if not to get responses of some kind?

I made the categorization because that's how I see things. Both Beethoven and Brahms spent most of their careers in Vienna and are associated with that city. Vienna in turn is associated with Austria. This is what I had in mind when writing "Austrian Connection". And the irony is that it's not even the first time I posted it. You surely have missed it the first time otherwise you'd have taken issues with it right then.

You WANTED a response.

No, I did not. Don't pretend you can read my mind.

And then you decided to be as combative as possible about it.

As combative as possible, really? Well, our exchange is in plain sight of everybody else, let them be the judge.

What a surprise. Because you find combat amusing.

Not at all. What I find amusing is to watch you being annoyed by things that don't seem to bother anyone else. May I remember you the recent fuss you made about Hoboken, or Laurel & Hardy's names being replaced with local ones?

I don't remotely enjoy dealing with you when you decide to be like this.

And yet you keep replying to my posts. Why? Do you want to have the last word? Okay, have it: reply to this and I promise I won't reply back. The whole kerfuffle is a storm in a glass of water anyway and I'm done with it.

And as far as I'm concerned, we're still friends.

[Madiel]

Right. So when you write something about how you don't know how I could have such a bizarre notion, I'm not supposed to answer you. If I actually try to EXPLAIN, then I get in trouble for responding.

FFS. Talk about setting up the rules of the game to ensure you win.

[kyjo]

OT Favorite recording(s) of it? 

PD

Tim Hugh (Naxos) and Paul Watkins (Chandos) are both excellent. Yo-Yo Ma's Lyrita recording has its merits but he was quite young when the recording was made are there are some passages of technical insecurity. Raphael Wallfisch (Chandos) is perfectly fine but doesn't quite generate the emotional intensity of the others.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Tim Hugh (Naxos) and Paul Watkins (Chandos) are both excellent. Yo-Yo Ma's Lyrita recording has its merits but he was quite young when the recording was made are there are some passages of technical insecurity. Raphael Wallfisch (Chandos) is perfectly fine but doesn't quite generate the emotional intensity of the others.

The first recording I heard of it was on Supraphon with Jiri Barta (which I really enjoyed!).  I also have at least one (maybe 2?) with Janos Starker (Amazing!!).

PD

[kyjo]

The first recording I heard of it was on Supraphon with Jiri Barta (which I really enjoyed!).  I also have at least one (maybe 2?) with Janos Starker (Amazing!!).

PD

Wait whaaaaat? I'm not familiar with recordings of the Finzi concerto by Barta or Starker. More info please!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Wait whaaaaat? I'm not familiar with recordings of the Finzi concerto by Barta or Starker. More info please!

My goof! lol I had remembered saying "Another Kodaly fan!" and quoting you earlier; I had forgotten that we had also spoken of Finzi!  Apologies!  I have Tim Hugh's recording....which I fell in love with first listen.  That's the only one that I currently own.

I'll keep an eye out for the Paul Watkins one.  I don't believe that I've heard any of his recordings before now.

Best,

PD

[kyjo]

My goof! lol I had remembered saying "Another Kodaly fan!" and quoting you earlier; I had forgotten that we had also spoken of Finzi!  Apologies!  I have Tim Hugh's recording....which I fell in love with first listen.  That's the only one that I currently own.

I'll keep an eye out for the Paul Watkins one.  I don't believe that I've heard any of his recordings before now.

Best,

PD

Ahhhhh, that makes sense! No worries.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Ahhhhh, that makes sense! No worries.

I was starting to think that we were doing a musical version of "Who's on What Base?"!   

PD

[Christo]

My goof! lol I had remembered saying "Another Kodaly fan!" and quoting you earlier;

The 'other Kodály fan' was me BTW. 

[Pohjolas Daughter]

The 'other Kodály fan' was me BTW. 

Will do my best to find an unoccupied brain cell somewhere in my head to also file away that fact Christo.    

PD

[Christo]

Will do my best to find an unoccupied brain cell somewhere in my head to also file away that fact Christo.    

PD

No. 17 appears to be empty after you kicked another Dutchman out, there! 

[Pohjolas Daughter]

No. 17 appears to be empty after you kicked another Dutchman out, there! 

lol Sorry, but you're going to have to share the cell! 

PD

[LKB]

It's been a while, so my current top ten are:

Mahler
Bach
Beethoven
Schubert
Bruckner
Josquin des Prez
Tchaikovsky
Schumann
Shostakovich
Berlioz

Musing upon number eleven,

LKB

[MN Dave]

BEETHOVEN
Bach
Brahms
CHOPIN
Schumann
Schubert
Prokofiev
Haydn
Alkan
Sibelius

Or something like that.

Still something like that, but not quite.

[vandermolen]

Today's list:
VW
Miaskovsky
Honegger
Bax
Shostakovich
Braga-Santos
Glazunov
Sibelius
Walton
Moeran

[Symphonic Addict]

This is an interesting list. I think 10 narrows you to be intelligent and practical, or emotional and academic, or viceversa, mixed, etc.

Beethoven
Nielsen
Brahms
Shostakovich
Vaughan Williams
Janáček
Martinů
Dvořák
Haydn
Sibelius

[Christo]

Today, possibly:

Arnold
Barber
Braga Santos
Falla
Holmboe
Kodály
Nielsen
Respighi
Tubin
Vaughan Williams

[Mirror Image]

Just a copy and paste from my 'Top 25' list:

Debussy
Mahler
Strauss
Bartók
Ravel
Sibelius
Shostakovich
Martinů
Stravinsky
Dvořák