8 composers you can live without

[DublinJimbo]

Bellini
Donizetti
Mozart
Rachmaninov
Paganini
Delius
Glazunov
Satie

[salymap]

The two threads remind me of an old song:

Accentuate the positive

Eliminate the negative

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Probably Bruckner's greatest earworm! How it came to my attention was by being raised in an interval talk during a broadcast from one of Luciano Berio's UK visits, in the early 1990s iirc. The talk considered the Italian avant-gardist's turn to orchestrating some of Mahler's early songs; I seem to remember this tune emerging as one from the Wunderhorn cycle, though my memory could be playing me tricks. I may have it on a cassette.

Berio had "form" with the Mahler Scherzo itself - looking through the score to find bar refs, I couldn't help "hearing" the Swingle Singers! (Talk about "earworms"!)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Well, I go away for the weekend, and arrive back to find the return of the Negative Thread. .

But



I do like Suffolkcoastal's list.

[Sir Velo]

Flabbergasted that no one has mentioned Queldryk so far.

Everyone's favourite omphaloskeptic and self-styled 'philosophe du jour', Alain Lobotomy, has beaten us to this lark. In this month's Gramophone he states witheringly:

'Occasionally I feel I must stretch my horizons and have a go at Mozart, but find him too jolly, or Beethoven, but find him too emotional, or Schubert, but find him too limp.'



Where to start with critique as profound as this?

Followers of de Bottom may be surprised to hear this bit of unwonted humility from the great man on his Twitter feed: "The disgust you feel when you reread something you've written a few days ago: that's how people experience you in real time." Obviously, referring to this article.

[Nick Armstrong]

Followers of de Bottom may be surprised to hear this bit of unwonted humility from the great man on his Twitter feed: "The disgust you feel when you reread something you've written a few days ago: that's how people experience you in real time." Obviously, referring to this article.

Yes I saw that "tweet" from the Bottom but you were quicker than I at finding this thread to which it seemed very relevant

[Thropplenoggin]

Yes I saw that "tweet" from the Bottom but you were quicker than I at finding this thread to which it seemed very relevant

I was minded of Alain Lobotomy whilst reading The Big Sleep earlier today:

'Hair like steel wool grew far back on his head and gave him a great deal of domed forehead that might at a careless glance have seemed a dwelling place for brains.'

[Serial_Apologist]

I was minded of Alain Lobotomy whilst reading The Big Sleep earlier today:

'Hair like steel wool grew far back on his head and gave him a great deal of domed forehead that might at a careless glance have seemed a dwelling place for brains.'

Whereas for me the two words that come most readily to mind are Swiss Cottage, for some silly reason

[Sir Velo]

Vaughan Williams..
Respighi

One can never predict another's musical enthusiasms but I would have thought the Tudor polyphony influences on VW and the Baroque on Respighi would have endeared each of these composers to you Vints. A case of too much ersatz; not enough echt perhaps?

[vinteuil]

One can never predict another's musical enthusiasms but I would have thought the Tudor polyphony influences on VW and the Baroque on Respighi would have endeared each of these composers to you Vints. A case of too much ersatz; not enough echt perhaps?

... ersatz not echt : nicely put.

Tallis is better when not messed around with by Vaughan Williams, Couperin when not messed around with by Respighi. In my opinion.

[ahinton]

... ersatz not echt : nicely put.

Tallis is better when not messed around with by Vaughan Williams, Couperin when not messed around with by Respighi. In my opinion.

And is Chopin "better" when not "messed around with" by Godowsky or Bach by Liszt and Busoni (or sometimes both)?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And is Chopin "better" when not "messed around with" by Godowsky or Bach by Liszt and Busoni (or sometimes both)?

Yes.

[teamsaint]

and Mozart by Tchaikovsky...and.....

[Pabmusic]

and Mozart by Tchaikovsky...and.....

Tchaikovsky by Stravinsky??

[Nick Armstrong]

and Mozart by Tchaikovsky...and.....

Oh c'mon, it's the best thing PT wrote....