Should I worry?

[quintett op.57]

Could you post an example, please?

Biber's Battaglia if you need an older example (which can make us think of the battle in Strauss "Ein Heldenleben")


Regarding Liszt, you can't say he didn't try to transcend the music of his time.
I don't know an older atonal work than his "Bagatelle sans tonalité"

[paulb]

Rachmaninov was one of my favourite when I started my collection.
Still like him very much but I love Schnittke.
I also prefer Pettersson to Sibelius. Listening to Pettersson 8 just now, brother!

Interesting comments.
Glad to know others like you who appreciate  both these late 20th C composers.
In time i feel your affectations for Rachmaninov will fall away.
As I see the Sibelius sound world has fallen off due to your exposure to Pettersson.
Its really an inevitable psychological process, normal course of events in the mind.
I hope one day you get to hear the 12th , but the Caprice recording, after you've heard the cycle 5-15, including the 12th with CPO label.
This Caprice 12th  is something altogether darker and moving that all the others. Schnittke comes close to this depth of power and underworldly imagery.