"Inessential" Classics

[doversoul1]

I would like to hear more of Nicola Porpora's music, Porpora having been in the early part of his career teacher to some of the great castrati, and towards the end a teacher of Haydn, with spells in most of the major capitals of music, Naples, Venice, London, Dresden and Vienna.

Some reviewers don’t seem to read their own paper (one was in The Observer but all the same)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/nov/03/porpora-cantatas-review

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/09/porpora-cantatas-iestyn-davies-review?INTCMP=SRCH

From A. Scarlatti to Puccini and a lot of other opera composers composed some wonderful instrumental music. It will be good to hear them more often.

[ed] and please see The Early Symphony thread on the Early Music Board

[aeolium]

doversoul, there are one or two other composers who might, in the words of the first reviewer, be "compared unfavourably to Handel", but never mind about that. Comparison is the enemy of appreciation, imo - let's hear the composers on their own terms.

Agree about the instrumental music - many wonderful baroque trio sonatas, for instance.

[doversoul1]

aeolium

there are one or two other composers who might, in the words of the first reviewer, be "compared unfavourably to Handel",

I’d say Vivaldi is one when it comes to operas. His vocal works could be heard more often.

[MrGongGong]

aeolium


I’d say Vivaldi is one when it comes to operas. His vocal works could be heard more often.

I'm sure they might occasionally play the Gloria in the morning ?

[doversoul1]

I'm sure they might occasionally play the Gloria in the morning ?

Essential Breakfast

[3rd Viennese School]

What about Schnittke?
And some Henze.

3VS

[Vile Consort]

Scheidt!

And definitely Robert Simpson.

And the symphonies of Charles Tournemire. OK, the organ works as well.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

What about Schnittke?
And some Henze.

Scheidt!

A bit extreme, VC?

[amcluesent]

I suggest getting some Titz out.

[Nick Armstrong]

Ponce

[Anna]

Ponce

Do you, in fact, mean Perfumed Ponce?

[Nick Armstrong]

Do you, in fact, mean Perfumed Ponce?

Whether Señor Manuel Ponce was wont to nard himself with pungent essences and eaux, I know not.

But as a youth, he used to weep in butchers' shops...

(Did Uncle Monty ever join this Forum? I miss him!)

[jayne lee wilson]

I'd like to put in a mention for Lepo Sumera, whose 3rd Symphony is a craggy, volcanic and sulphurously atmospheric evocation of Nordic Landscapes, but quite fresh and original in sound; it's on BIS with the first 2. IIRC, David Fanning introduced it on R3 around 1993/4 as part of the "Symphonic Steppes" series.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Sumera is an interesting composer, I have all 6 of his symphonies, they certainly have a sound world that is more individual the more one gets to know them. He might still be writing had he not died so relatively young in 2000.

[marthe]

Schutz as well as Scheidt.