Which composer do you like more than you think you do?

[Black Swan]

For me very few that I like more than I think I do. For me what composer do I really not like? Easy answer, Delius. My idea of a perfect Xmas gift are 10 Delius cd's and a Hammer, Shostakovitch is a close 2nd.

John

[EdgeleyRob]

yep RVW always does better than i expect .... and i find my ears pricked

Not sure I could survive without RVW's music,it is an essential part of my well-being,a bit like my blood pressure and asthma medication.

Which composer do I like more than I think I do? Wagner.

I have the Bohm ring cycle and a couple of orchestral and BC cds.
I've not yet heard every note of the ring,never seem to find the time,it's on my 'when I retire ' list.
On the occasions when I dip into these records I enjoy the music more than I was expecting to.

[Flosshilde]

I've not yet heard every note of the ring,never seem to find the time,

Come on, it's only 15 hours!

You'll have an excellent chance over Christmas, when it's being broadcast on R3 an act a day.

[salymap]

I'm not sure I really like Brahms' Symphonies much I like a lot of his piano music, Four Serious Songs, concertos, can't stand the St Antoni Chorale [Haydn variations]. I have sometimes heard the symphonies lately and quite enjoyed them though. St Antoni never.

[teamsaint]

I'm not sure I really like Brahms' Symphonies much I like a lot of his piano music, Four Serious Songs, concertos, can't stand the St Antoni Chorale [Haydn variations]. I have sometimes heard the symphonies lately and quite enjoyed them though. St Antoni never.

Love Brahms as a rule, but those variations I have to agree are ...oh well lets just say, not for me !

Trying to think of a composer who fits the OP for me, but can't yet....

[Suffolkcoastal]

Brahms also for me and also Mendelssohn and come to think of it Verdi too.

[Lateralthinking1]

Verdi too.

Some might ignore the composer part of the question and say all opera.

I would be very inclined to say that I dismissed all opera other than Italian opera but I know that isn't wholly true.

[3rd Viennese School]

I think I like some of the music Radio 3 play on Hear and now even more than I do than I think I do.

I get all the people in the pub to listen to a bit of the show sometimes.

Then I listen to it and think "whattt????"

3VS

[Roslynmuse]

Brahms and Handel for me - both are composers I habitually dismissed and whose positive qualities I am starting to discover. My problem with Brahms is that early on I heard a couple of pieces I still dislike (the 2nd Piano Concerto and the Double Concerto) and any echoes of those works in the symphonies etc turned on the gagging response. I then got to know the songs and have come to hear the lyrical aspect of his music in the instrumental music too. Handel - always heard him as not-as-good-as-Bach rather than the very different sort of animal - a theatre animal - that he is.

There are several more composers though whose music I like less than I think I do (and quite a few whose music I like exactly as little as I think I do!)

[Barbirollians]

Prokofiev .

[richardfinegold]

Vagn Holboe

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Tchaikovsky

[teamsaint]

Tchaikovsky

you got to get him on a good day though.....surely up there in the "most variable quality of output " league !

Is there a thread in that? Maybe not.

[visualnickmos]

Brahms

[Serial_Apologist]

Is there a thread in that? Maybe not.

There was, iirc.