Five et Cinq

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karlhenning

#20
March 16, 2009, 09:42:22 AM
Quote from: KammerNuss on March 16, 2009, 09:40:48 AM
. . .  8)

That emoticon likes me well, somehow . . . .

Dr. Dread

#21
March 16, 2009, 09:46:13 AM
Oh, I don't know...

Solid:

Bach
Beethoven
Chopin

I listen the fuck out of those guys.

Other:

Beethoven or Haydn or Brahms or Schumann or Purcell or Mozart or...

karlhenning

#22
March 16, 2009, 09:48:07 AM
Looks like Ludwig van double-dipped there . . . .

Dr. Dread

#23
March 16, 2009, 09:48:44 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on March 16, 2009, 09:48:07 AM
Looks like Ludwig van double-dipped there . . . .

Not only Beethoven, but Beethoven!!!

I think Schubey was supposed to go there.  ;D

Bogey

#24
March 16, 2009, 11:40:59 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 16, 2009, 09:12:21 AM
Top Five

Wagner
Mahler
Bruckner
Sibelius
Beethoven

That list hasn't changed in 35 years.


And neither has, or will, the avatar.  Heck, Sarge had this avatar on these back in the day:

There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Josquin des Prez

#25
March 16, 2009, 12:09:59 PM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on March 16, 2009, 08:28:10 AM
Dodgy little Italians can be likeable, too.

I just have an hard time believing that dodgy little Italians with a recorded output amounting to a mere handful of cds containing brief polyphonic ditties for lute could prefigure in anyone's favoted "top 5" list out of the entire pool of incommensurable genius found within our classical tradition. Ho wait, i get it, it's all about individual taste, right? We should all be respectful to canninator for his esoteric choice and perhaps praise him for his originality on top of it, right?

nut-job

#26
March 16, 2009, 12:18:57 PM
Quote from: Josquin des Prez on March 16, 2009, 12:09:59 PM
I just have an hard time believing that dodgy little Italians with a recorded output amounting to a mere handful of cds containing brief polyphonic ditties for lute could prefigure in anyone's favoted "top 5" list out of the entire pool of incommensurable genius found within our classical tradition. Ho wait, i get it, it's all about individual taste, right? We should all be respectful to canninator for his esoteric choice and perhaps praise him for his originality on top of it, right?

Too bad JdP isn't a moderator, then he could just delete reference to composers who are not geniuses and save us from our delusions.

George

#27
March 16, 2009, 12:23:50 PM
Quote from: KammerNuss on March 16, 2009, 07:10:08 AM
What are currently your five favorite composers, and your five composers "on the rise"?


Favorites

Beethoven
Chopin
Rachmaninov
Schubert
Shostakovich

On The Rise

Ligeti
Faure
Schoenberg
Bruckner
Mahler

Gabriel

#28
March 16, 2009, 12:39:50 PM
Currently, as the ones I'm currently interested in (so not "all-time favourites", for these would be probably Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn and Schubert).

Favourites
Krommer
Field
Haydn
Rejcha
Cherubini

On the rise
Hyacinthe Jadin
Dusík
Wölfl
Fesca
Clementi

Dancing Divertimentian

#29
March 16, 2009, 01:51:15 PM
Quote from: Josquin des Prez on March 16, 2009, 12:09:59 PM
I just have an hard time believing that dodgy little Italians with a recorded output amounting to a mere handful of cds containing brief polyphonic ditties for lute could prefigure in anyone's favoted "top 5" list out of the entire pool of incommensurable genius found within our classical tradition. Ho wait, i get it, it's all about individual taste, right? We should all be respectful to canninator for his esoteric choice and perhaps praise him for his originality on top of it, right?

Shut up.
Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

nut-job

#30
March 16, 2009, 01:57:36 PM
Quote from: donwyn on March 16, 2009, 01:51:15 PM
Shut up.

Succinct, yet it leaves nothing unsaid.

Lethevich

#31
March 16, 2009, 10:07:16 PM
My favourites keep changing (except for Haydn - I seem to find a world of invention in particular in his symphonies):

Current favourites:
Haydn
Chopin
Bach

Rising in enjoyment:
Wagner
Schoenberg
Britten

Burnt out on:
Brahms
Josquin
RVW
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

springrite

#32
March 16, 2009, 10:17:18 PM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on March 16, 2009, 09:38:07 AM
Another day, they would, Ray;  I was going by what I've been playing (apart from GENESIS) lately  8)

Thus the "right now".  ;D

Five I have played a lot lately:

Bach
Medtner
Scriabin
Carter
Chopin

Five I used to play a lot but have hardly played at all in the past months:

Brahms
Beethoven
Feldman
Mahler
Liszt


I know, I changed the question a bit. Then again, this is the only way I could reply.
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

snyprrr

#33
March 16, 2009, 11:03:22 PM
A)

1. Xenakis
2. Sciarrino/ Ligeti/ Lutoslawski/ Donatoni/ Yun/ Scelsi/ Feldman/ Rihm-Lachenmann...and the rest-all of them
3. Honegger/ Pettersson/ Sessions
4. any string quartet after 1888 (or anything by Arditti,hrumph)
5. Finzi

B)

1. Ropartz/ Koechlin/ d'Indy/ Magnard/ Schmitt/ Pizzetti etc.
2. Boccherini/ Cherubini/ Spohr
3. Wolf/ Busoni/ Pfitzner/ Krenek/ Berg-Sch-Webrn
4. Jeff Buckley/ Chris Bell
5. true silence

canninator

#34
March 17, 2009, 12:55:00 AM
Quote from: Josquin des Prez on March 16, 2009, 12:09:59 PM
I just have an hard time believing that dodgy little Italians with a recorded output amounting to a mere handful of cds containing brief polyphonic ditties for lute could prefigure in anyone's favoted "top 5" list out of the entire pool of incommensurable genius found within our classical tradition. Ho wait, i get it, it's all about individual taste, right? We should all be respectful to canninator for his esoteric choice and perhaps praise him for his originality on top of it, right?

I didn't want to have to state the obvious but I will. The OP stated "current" top five so take it elsewhere tough guy.

Guido

#35
March 17, 2009, 05:22:34 AM
Quote from: snyprrr on March 16, 2009, 11:03:22 PM
A)

1. Xenakis
2. Sciarrino/ Ligeti/ Lutoslawski/ Donatoni/ Yun/ Scelsi/ Feldman/ Rihm-Lachenmann...and the rest-all of them
3. Honegger/ Pettersson/ Sessions
4. any string quartet after 1888 (or anything by Arditti,hrumph)
5. Finzi

B)

1. Ropartz/ Koechlin/ d'Indy/ Magnard/ Schmitt/ Pizzetti etc.
2. Boccherini/ Cherubini/ Spohr
3. Wolf/ Busoni/ Pfitzner/ Krenek/ Berg-Sch-Webrn
4. Jeff Buckley/ Chris Bell
5. true silence

What have Honegger/ Pettersson/ Sessions got to do with each other?

Also - very glad to see Finzi on here! He really is a wonderful composer, and my favourite of the 'minor masters' of English composers of that time.
Geologist.

The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away

Kullervo

#36
March 17, 2009, 07:04:10 AM
Favorites
Sibelius
Fauré
Honegger
Schoenberg
Nielsen

On the rise
Koechlin
Janáček
Diamond
Ives
F. Martin

DavidRoss

#37
March 17, 2009, 08:51:28 AM
Hmmm.  Favorites?  Definitely Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Sibelius.  Picking a fifth gets tough.  Stravinsky?  Mahler?  Prokofiev?  Brahms?  All contenders, but I probably enjoy listening to Debussy as much as any of them.

On the rise?  Definitely Mahler--at least I'm listening to his music more than I have in some years.  Probably Bax, but it's a very gradual ascent.  Pärt's getting more play recently.  Rosetti, unknown to me until recently, so even a little play indicates a prodigious ascent.  And both Bruckner & Dvořák have been moving up steadily over the past few years.
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

karlhenning

#38
March 17, 2009, 09:46:18 AM
Quote from: DavidRoss on March 17, 2009, 08:51:28 AM
On the rise?  Definitely Mahler--at least I'm listening to his music more than I have in some years.

Same here.  Even my most painful concert-going experience ever — a Mahler Sixth conducted by Ozawa — has been effectively nullified by this wonderful new issue of Levine and the BSO playing the piece.  I believe my days of poo-poohing Mahler are done.

ChamberNut

#39
March 17, 2009, 09:49:06 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on March 17, 2009, 09:46:18 AM
Same here.  Even my most painful concert-going experience ever — a Mahler Sixth conducted by Ozawa — has been effectively nullified by this wonderful new issue of Levine and the BSO playing the piece.  I believe my days of poo-poohing Mahler are done.

Nice to hear, Karl!  I myself am eagerly awaiting a performance of Mahler's 6th live, the season finale of the Wpg Symphony Orchestra.  They better damn play the Andante as the 3rd movement!!   ;) ;)
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