Top 5 Favorite British composers besides Elgar, VW, Holst, Britten and Walton

[springrite]

Rubbra, Brian, Alwyn, Bax and McEwen.

[Mirror Image]

I shall add them. I am not familiar with either of their music. Are you, John?

P.S. I have also added Sally Beamish.

Harvey is from the 'spectral school' but I'm not really familiar with his music or Anderson's for that matter. Another name for your list is Elizabeth Lutyens.

[Sammy]

Bainton
Bax
Leighton
Stanford
Rubbra

[kyjo]

Harvey is from the 'spectral school' but I'm not really familiar with his music or Anderson's for that matter. Another name for your list is Elizabeth Lutyens.

I'm not really into the "spectralist" composers (I've tried Murail and Dusapin and haven't liked either of their music), so I think I'll pass on Harvey. Thanks for mentioning Lutyens. She is known, more than anything, for inventing the derogatory term "the cowpat school" to categorize composers such as VW, Finzi and Howells. I haven't heard any of her music, much of which is 12-tone. I have a feeling that her music is going to be more like Webern than Schoenberg or Berg, though.....hopefully I'll prove to be wrong!

P.S. I've added Oliver Knussen, a fantastic composer and conductor.

[Daverz]

Alwyn
Arnold
Bax
Bliss
Moeran

Actually I like some of these guys more than the "top tier" listed in the subject line.

[North Star]

Tippett, Ireland, Finzi, Dowland, Purcell

BTW, I assume you meant to put John Tavener in the poll, not Taverner, since the poll focuses on the more recent ones.

[Wanderer]

Bantock, Brian, Delius, Foulds, Stanford.
Honorary mentions: Parry, Simpson, Rubbra, Bowen and McEwen.

[mc ukrneal]

Coleridge-Taylor, Foulds, Stanford, Parry, Bantock (in no particular order).

[TheGSMoeller]

Nyman.

[Klaze]

First 4 were very easy: Tippett, Ireland, Rubbra, Bax...

Fifth...Brian!

[Sergeant Rock]

Havergal Brian
Lloyd
Arnold
Bax
Delius

[DavidW]

I notice that the other thread is locked.  I wasn't angry last night, I just wanted to point out that the poll was flawed.  I hope that no offense was taken.

[The new erato]

Without Purcell the poll is flawed.

[DavidW]

I voted for Arnold, Bax, Brian, Frankel, and Simpson.

[DavidW]

Without Purcell the poll is flawed.

Yup but he would automatically win!

[AnthonyAthletic]

i voted for Arnold, Bax, Delius, Finzi & Stanford.

It could well change, as there's an awful lot of Brit composers on this list whom I haven't discovered yet, and one or two names who are totally new to me.

[DavidW]

i voted for Arnold, Bax, Delius, Finzi & Stanford.

It could well change, as there's an awful lot of Brit composers on this list whom I haven't discovered yet, and one or two names who are totally new to me.

I think that should be the criterion for being too esoteric... even a Brit who is enthusiastic about Brit classical hasn't heard it!

[AnthonyAthletic]

Absolutely David,

Eric Chisholm, Christopher Gunning, Patrick Hadley, John Joubert, Elizabeth Lutyens five names I had not heard of before this poll took place.

There's at least 15 on the list to whom, I don't own/heard one single note of...many I could not answer to which period they belong.

[Klaze]

Every poll is flawed. What was the problem with the other one, besides the fact that the two mainly cover different time periods?

[Karl Henning]

All right, where's Sorabji?  You've added Sally blooming Beamish, but there's still no Sorabji??!!