Musical confessions

[Beef Oven!]

Vints, what DO you like?

He like the Ligeti.

[vinteuil]

Vints, what DO you like?

... well, off the top of my head - albéniz, alkan, avison, bach js jc cpe wf &c, bartók, beethoven, berg, berlioz, biber, boccherini, boito, brahms, bruckner, buxtehude, byrd, cabezón, campra, chabrier, charpentier, chopin, clementi, couperin l & f, d' anglebert, debussy, dowland, dufay, dunstaple, duphly, dussek, dvořák, fauré, field, franck, frescobaldi, froberger, gaultier, gibbons, gluck, granados, handel, haydn, janáček, josquin, krommer, lobo, lully, mahler, mendelssohn, milhaud, monteverdi, morales, mozart, palestrina, poulenc, puccini, purcell, rameau, rossini, saint-saëns, scarlatti, schubert, schütz, sibelius, strauss, sweelinck, telemann, tye, verdi, victoria, vivaldi, wagner, weber, webern, weiss, zelenka...

Is that enuff to be going on with??




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[cloughie]

... well, off the top of my head - albeniz, alkan, avison, bach js jc cpe wf &c, bartok, beethoven, berg, berlioz, biber, boccherini, boito, brahms, bruckner, buxtehude, byrd, cabezon, campra, chabrier, charpentier, chopin, clementi, couperin l & f, d' anglebert, debussy, dowland, dufay, dunstaple, duphly, dussek, dvorak, fauré, field, franck, frescobaldi, froberger, gaultier, gibbons, gluck, granados, handel, haydn, janacek, josquin, krommer, lobo, lully, mahler, mendelssohn, milhaud, monteverdi, morales, mozart, palestrina, poulenc, puccini, purcell, rameau, rossini, saint-saens, scarlatti, schubert, schutz, sibelius, strauss, sweelinck, telemann, tye, verdi, victoria, vivaldi, wagner, weber, webern, weiss, zelenka...

Is that enuff to be going on with??

Don'y you like Ravel or Rachmaninov?

[vinteuil]

Don'y you like Ravel or Rachmaninov?

... well spotted - yes to ravel : not really in to rachmaninov, bar some of the solo piano stuff...

[Serial_Apologist]

... well spotted - yes to ravel : not really in to rachmaninov, bar some of the solo piano stuff...

I would think the common denominator to be a dislike of excessive schmaltz, with the exception of Puccini.

[Richard Tarleton]

I'm amazed that the Korngold was written a full four decades later than the Glazunov - it's as if nothing had happened in the meantime. Now there's a good late Romantic wallow, were the doctor to prescribe one. Neville Marriner said in a radio interview that the slow movement was a good choice for showing off the properties of a good violin you were trying to sell.

[vinteuil]

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Is that enuff to be going on with??

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... and of course many more - how cd I have forgotten to include balbastre, böhm, boyce, clérambault, corelli, gabrielis, koželuch, krauss, muffat, ockeghem, sheppard, tallis, taverner...


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[ahinton]

I'm amazed that the Korngold was written a full four decades later than the Glazunov - it's as if nothing had happened in the meantime. Now there's a good late Romantic wallow, were the doctor to prescribe one. Neville Marriner said in a radio interview that the slow movement was a good choice for showing off the properties of a good violin you were trying to sell.

The Korngold concerto is far from the composer at his best, I think. The Barber's well worth playing but not a top drawer violin concerto. The Elgar is in the top 20 or so. Only my opinion, of course!

[Tony Halstead]

The Korngold concerto is far from the composer at his best, I think. The Barber's well worth playing but not a top drawer violin concerto. The Elgar is in the top 20 or so. Only my opinion, of course!

Oh dear... the Elgar 'in the top 20' seems like damning with faint praise!

[cloughie]

... well spotted - yes to ravel : not really in to rachmaninov, bar some of the solo piano stuff...

Wot not even the symphonies and Sym Dances?

[Nick Armstrong]

how cd I have forgotten to include balbastre

Oh I'm so happy I lobbed in my pigeon-worrying cat this morning!



Of course, I was trying to be very precise about violin concertos. If John Sheppard had written a violin concerto, for instance, he'd be relevant to my confession. However I accept that Alpie's 'what do you like?' widened the argument, and it's interesting you mention Sheppard vinny - I've recently come to the conclusion that he is one of my very favourite composers; indeed, I confess while I'm at it that he's displaced Tallis, in that I now couldn't contemplate the desert island without some Sheppard.

And as I was at pains to say, there would be piano concertos by Mozart, Ravel, Rachmaninov... all day long.

[ahinton]

Oh dear... the Elgar 'in the top 20' seems like damning with faint praise!

Hardly so when one considers just how many thousands and thousands of violin concertos there are!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Oh dear... the Elgar 'in the top 20' seems like damning with faint praise!

Well, it's in my top two.

No, make that one.

[ahinton]

Well, it's in my top two.

No, make that one.

OK. Top 20 will do for me, given others such as the Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Shostakovich 1 & 2, Roslavets 1, Stevenson, Prokofiev 1, Reger, Szymanowski 1 & 2, Dutilleux, Carter, Busoni, Walton, Berg, Bartók 1 & 2...

[vinteuil]

OK. Top 20 will do for me, given others such as the Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Shostakovich 1 & 2, Roslavets 1, Stevenson, Prokofiev 1, Reger, Szymanowski 1 & 2, Dutilleux, Carter, Busoni, Walton, Berg, Barták 1 & 2...

... Bach did a couple of good ones too, y'know...