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Thread ID: 8451 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2003-07-25
2003-07-25 18:24 | User Profile
We've had some good posts on the 'Favorite Composer' thread.
I'd like to know what less-than-ubiquitous composers people are listening to.
One discovery I've made is Cesar Franck, whose disc I bought because Wilhelm Furtwangler was the conductor. Furtwangler was one of the great Beethoven conductors in 1920s-1950s Germany.
George Antheil is also quite good, if very experimental. 'Ballet Mecanique' was just the tip of the iceberg.
John Adams, of 'Shaker Loops' fame, is a good present day composer. He also did the opera 'Nixon in China' which I have not yet heard.
2003-07-28 07:36 | User Profile
How about Carl Maria von Weber? Not obscure in Europe, but getting very obscure here in U.S. I have Abu Hassan, Der Freischütz, Oberon, Euryanthe, Silvana, Peter Schmoll, Die Drei Pintos (Mahler completion), all complete.
Among American composers, John Knowles Paine--Oratorio St. Peter, Mass in D, and George Whitefield Chadwick 1st and 2nd symphonies.
Joachim Raff, 3rd, 4th, and 5th ("Lenore") symphonies.
Giuseppe Martucci, complete orchestral works.
Plus a few other stray items acquired over the last 35 years.
Jahel
2003-07-30 07:11 | User Profile
AY:
The Japanese Emperor shares your appreciation for Sibelius. "Finlandia" is his favorite piece of music. I'd say that the Violin Concerto by JS was the twentieth century's finest, with Sam Barber's a distant second.
Jahel:
Check out Chadwick's "Symphonic Sketches" and his tone poem "Aphrodite", too.
2003-07-31 19:18 | User Profile
Looks like I've got quite a shopping list here! :D
Thanks for all the posts!
2003-10-29 04:53 | User Profile
hmmmmmmmmmm,
A. Scriabin F. Schreker C. Ives E. Kanitz
There's not much doing in the USA with H. Berlioz Several "Big Gun" composers (immediately post-war2) gathering dust incl. R. Sessions, E. Blackwood, W. Piston, H. Cowell
Question: does anyone care?