Your musical homeland

[Bella Kemp]

A lovely thread. My musical homeland - several thousand miles from the geographical homeland of my ancestors! - is Vaughan Williams, Holst, Benjamin Britten; and the heartland of that homeland would be Vaughan Williams' Fifth Symphony. My Literary homeland (sorry to wander off topic) would be Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov (but perhaps not Dostoevsky).

[antongould]

Good to know he's high up in your ranks, Anton.
But the comma wasn't in the question.
I think you read this as:
How did Igor rate, Anton?

.... ah and just when I was pretending to be under 70 ...

[Pulcinella]

.... ah and just when I was pretending to be under 70 ...

Stay safe and well!
Hope you have lots of Anton, Gould, and Igor to listen to if you find you are confined to quarters.

Then there's all those Finzi songs: getting to know them would make a good project!

[LMcD]

A lovely thread. My musical homeland - several thousand miles from the geographical homeland of my ancestors! - is Vaughan Williams, Holst, Benjamin Britten; and the heartland of that homeland would be Vaughan Williams' Fifth Symphony. My Literary homeland (sorry to wander off topic) would be Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov (but perhaps not Dostoevsky).

Currently playing on 'Breakfast' is Holst's Suite No. 1 for Military Band.
The heartland of my homeland, as you so eloquently put it, would be the Tallis Fantasia, but I also rate the 5th symphony very highly. I didn't realize that I currently have 4 recordings: Handley/RLPO, Barbarolli/Halle (1944), Boult/LPO (1970) and Davis/BBCSO (BBC Music Magazine).
I hope life in the capital doesn't become too grim. I commuted in every workday during the miner's strike and the IRA bombing campaign, but what's unfolding now is in an entirely different league. The 3 composers you name, plus Elgar and Sibelius, will certainly help me through!

[BBMmk2]

For me, it has to be Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Bax and Bach. Or mostly late 19th century to 1945 British music.

[MrGongGong]

This

[LMcD]

For me, it has to be Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Bax and Bach. Or mostly late 19th century to 1945 British music.

I didn't want to come up with too many names, but Rawsthorne, Finzi, Butterworth, Britten (the latter post-1945 as well), among others, are important to me.

[Quarky]

This

I'm still holding. Let me know when to let go, please.

[richardfinegold]

Introspective music, such as the late Beethovian Piano Sonatas and Quartets, Debussy Piano Etudes, Bach WTC seem to fit my current mood. More extroverted music doesn’t click now. Yesterday I wound up switching off a doom laden Shostakovich Quartet and Bach Peasant Cantata, both of which seemed to be mucking up my inner seratonin levels

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Big, lush orchestral music, with lots of string vibrato, played at a 'musical' tempo (without OCD adherence to metronome markings). I'm less keen on vocal vibrato and abhor it on French horn and clarinet. The romantic era is central, but not exclusive - big band baroque and classical performances get my vote, even when the fashion designers poo-poo it.

A Norrington-free zone.

[Bryn]

Big, lush orchestral music, with lots of string vibrato, played at a 'musical' tempo (without OCD adherence to metronome markings). I'm less keen on vocal vibrato and abhor it on French horn and clarinet. The romantic era is central, but not exclusive - big band baroque and classical performances get my vote, even when the fashion designers poo-poo it.

A Norrington-free zone.

As in "I likes what I likes and don't give a toss about what the composer intended".

[Edgy 2]

I didn't want to come up with too many names, but Rawsthorne, Finzi, Butterworth, Britten (the latter post-1945 as well), among others, are important to me.

I'm with you with those four names LMcD
The list of British composers that are more important to me than so much other core repertoire is endless.
Frinstance Arnold,York Bowen,Alwyn,Howells .......

[Pulcinella]

Stay safe and well!
Hope you have lots of Anton, Gould, and Igor to listen to if you find you are confined to quarters.

Then there's all those Finzi songs: getting to know them would make a good project!

Have just taken my own advice and ordered this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gerald-Finzi-Collected-Songs-Including/dp/1423456777/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1PIKZPVES14P3&dchild=1&keywords=finzi+collected+songs&qid=1584616687&sprefix=Finzi+coll%2Caps%2C157&sr=8-1

54 songs for £17.77!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

As in "I likes what I likes and don't give a toss about what the composer intended".

Not necessarily. I just answered the question honestly and openly. I don't claim to know what composers "intended", but I'm well aware of what they had to accept at the time of composition.

[Bryn]

Not necessarily. I just answered the question honestly and openly. I don't claim to know what composers "intended", but I'm well aware of what they had to accept at the time of composition.

Ah, like Beethoven having to accept many of his works being performed at considerably slower tempi than he intended, and getting very miffed about it (as reported by Ferdinand Ries)?