Most Listened to Composers (per capita of recordings)

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NJ Joe

#20
March 09, 2014, 11:57:27 AM
Thomas Tallis.  I only have one cd, but it's a desert island disc.
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Jay F

#21
March 09, 2014, 12:30:04 PM
Shostakovich. I only have two sets of the string quartets, and I listen to both fairly often.

North Star

#22
March 09, 2014, 12:54:52 PM
In no particular order:

Janacek (I need to get the rest of the operas as I only have House and Vixen now - and the Decca chamber etc set & Suk/Neumann in the VC)
Satie (2 discs: The Socrate & al. disc, and De Leeuw playing the usual suspects)
Dowland (1 disc: The Parley of Instruments playing Lachrimae)
Mompou (1 disc: Perianes playing Musica callada)
Holmboe (Storgårds & Chamber Orch. of Lapland playing the Chamber Symphonies)
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Lisztianwagner

#23
March 09, 2014, 02:47:09 PM Last Edit: March 10, 2014, 04:24:00 AM by Lisztianwagner
In no particular order:

Johann Strauss I
Mussorgsky
Glazunov
Satie
Bantock
Rimsky-Korsakov
Britten
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Brian

#24
March 09, 2014, 02:48:55 PM
Just remembered that Gabriel Pierne might belong here for me.

Dancing Divertimentian

#25
March 09, 2014, 06:26:10 PM
Probably Schoenberg. His output isn't massive anyway and I'm not exactly overflowing with multiple recordings of many of his works but I do spin his music fairly regularly.



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Drosera

#26
March 10, 2014, 03:33:21 AM
Gottschalk

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I just own this two cd Vanguard set of piano music by Eugene List. But if cds would wear out, it would definitely be unplayable by now.

It's a brilliant set though.

Moonfish

#27
March 10, 2014, 08:08:18 AM
Weiss: Lute Sonatas
I just realized that Weiss's Lute Sonatas played by Barto (Naxos) definitely has to take the prize of the most listened to composer in my home. I have listened to these on an almost daily basis over the last fifteen years.  Great music! Currently Barto has recorded eleven volumes of these works.  I think they are fantastic!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvius_Leopold_Weiss

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Sergeant Rock

#28
March 10, 2014, 08:15:38 AM



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springrite

#29
March 10, 2014, 08:18:06 AM
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Ken B

#30
March 10, 2014, 08:41:54 AM
Quote from: Moonfish on March 10, 2014, 08:08:18 AM
Weiss: Lute Sonatas
I just realized that Weiss's Lute Sonatas played by Barto (Naxos) definitely has to take the prize of the most listened to composer in my home. I have listened to these on an almost daily basis over the last fifteen years.  Great music! Currently Barto has recorded eleven volumes of these works.  I think they are fantastic!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvius_Leopold_Weiss

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Yes a fantastic series of recordings.

Ken B

#31
March 10, 2014, 08:44:57 AM
Quote from: springrite on March 10, 2014, 08:18:06 AM
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Hmm, I hadn't thought what French verb there? battre? concasser? I'm sure whatever I picked would sound absurd to a Frenchman. You do WHAT to the table? Mais POURQUOI monsieur. O-la-la, ma pauvre table!

Brian

#32
March 10, 2014, 12:21:13 PM
Quote from: Moonfish on March 10, 2014, 08:08:18 AM
Weiss: Lute Sonatas
I just realized that Weiss's Lute Sonatas played by Barto (Naxos) definitely has to take the prize of the most listened to composer in my home. I have listened to these on an almost daily basis over the last fifteen years.  Great music! Currently Barto has recorded eleven volumes of these works.  I think they are fantastic!

Oh yes they most certainly are! For a while I got to write reviews of those for MusicWeb every time a new one arrived. One day the new release came and I looked on the back and saw a praise quote from a reviewer and thought, "Hey...those words look familiar..."

("marvelously vivid performances and beautifully recorded")

You might want to check - Volume 12 is out, and it's got a pirate ship on the cover if my memory is correct. Did you pick that up?

Moonfish

#33
March 10, 2014, 01:06:10 PM Last Edit: March 14, 2014, 02:50:10 PM by Moonfish
Quote from: Brian on March 10, 2014, 12:21:13 PM
Oh yes they most certainly are! For a while I got to write reviews of those for MusicWeb every time a new one arrived. One day the new release came and I looked on the back and saw a praise quote from a reviewer and thought, "Hey...those words look familiar..."

("marvelously vivid performances and beautifully recorded")

You might want to check - Volume 12 is out, and it's got a pirate ship on the cover if my memory is correct. Did you pick that up?

Ahhh, I have been looking for vol 12 over the last year, but have not yet come across it. I will intensify my efforts (besides, it will probably show up in one of these threads). Are you sure you are not thinking about vol 10 (from 2010) with its sail ship?

It is good to know that there are other Weiss enthusiasts in the world!!!  Yay! 

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EDIT: yeah, I think vol 12 is not around the corner.....  no trace of it
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vandermolen

#34
April 14, 2014, 03:07:44 AM Last Edit: April 14, 2014, 03:10:36 AM by vandermolen
At the moment I am listening to music by a lot of Finnish composers, Pingoud, Madetoja, Klami. Also Lilburn, Tubin, Kinsella, Truscott, Meulemans, Sternefeld, Ippolitov Ivanov.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Brian

#35
April 19, 2014, 06:32:49 AM
Quote from: Moonfish on March 10, 2014, 01:06:10 PM
Ahhh, I have been looking for vol 12 over the last year, but have not yet come across it. I will intensify my efforts (besides, it will probably show up in one of these threads). Are you sure you are not thinking about vol 10 (from 2010) with its sail ship?

Oops, you're absolutely right.  :( Sorry about that. Guess I'm a little too excited about it.

Moonfish

#36
April 19, 2014, 01:27:14 PM
Quote from: Brian on April 19, 2014, 06:32:49 AM
Oops, you're absolutely right.  :( Sorry about that. Guess I'm a little too excited about it.

Yeah, you got me so excited with the news of a new volume of Weiss' music. I guess vol 11 back in 2012 was the latest. Still crossing my fingers for an additional one though!!   :)
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Ken B

#37
April 19, 2014, 03:54:29 PM
Quote from: Moonfish on April 19, 2014, 01:27:14 PM
Yeah, you got me so excited with the news of a new volume of Weiss' music. I guess vol 11 back in 2012 was the latest. Still crossing my fingers for an additional one though!!   :)
You missed vols 13 and 14 last year?








>:D

Moonfish

#38
April 19, 2014, 04:34:11 PM
Quote from: Ken B on April 19, 2014, 03:54:29 PM
You missed vols 13 and 14 last year?
>:D

Teaser!!!

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