Tosta, I love " L'histoire du soldat" as well, have seen it live several times.
My point is Stravinsky is at the top of every top ten list of century and I think there are others better, no question he is talented.
i.e I think Bartok Quartets alone put him higher. |
Great minds think alike Rpfef, Janacek was my second choice, tie-breaker was he's much better known. |
Villa Lobos is certainly right up there, his string quartets were a big surprise to me.
Problem I have with Ellington is you never know what was written by Strayhorn.
Sorta like Beethoven publishing Schubert work as his own. |
Well Map, IMHO because there is only so many hours we have on this earth to listen and the good is the enemy of the best.
But then I'm senile. |
Straight up, Ellington claimed works he did not write. |
Learsfool, you are no fool. I could not agree with you more and you put it perfectly. |
Easy, I bet 9 out of 10 people would just proclaim it nonsense out of hand. |
Beats me fan, I 've heard quite a bit of it live in Germany, Montreal, Tanglewood and Mpls.
In Glasgow too, but you'd expect it there. |
I would have thought it bombastic, if this was about overated Stravinsky would be on my short list. |
Dayglow, you certainly can make a strong case for Bax alright !! |
Of course there has always been evil, and Rock has been a great help to the evil one in glorifying the baser elements of human nature to its service . |
Not likely , If Britten wasn't already SO well known he would have been my choice, is my choice for best of 20th with Bartok a close second. But many are coming to that conclusion , so I went for Martinu .
Brownsfan, do you think I'd be smarter to buy a used Sony 5400
or a new Rega or irArcam DAC ? CA 640 as transport. |
Map, you are right of course.
But from the perspective of one who hears the footsteps of the Grim Reaper coming ever closer, what Classical can do for you at its greatest, say ,a Bach Cantata, The Monteverdi Vespers, a Josquin Desprez Mass,a Bruckner Motet
or a Mozart Quartet, is to focus you on the eternal and polish
your mind and soul for the coming journey we all must make.
Even the best of the adrenal raisers don't do that. |
Newbee, because I'm a deeply flawed person who often does stupid things.
Ignorance is not bliss, it is hell itself. |
Newbee , Billy Budd and Peter Grimes have sure stuck .
American audiences like warhorses more than europeans, Britten is very popular in Germany, his "Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge" was the theme song on Radio Classic Berlin for a long time. His various cello works are also common there. I heard his Violin Concerto live in Montreal, his music is broadcast a lot on CBC French service as well.
US isn't only place. I love Piano music of BAX as well, very beautiful. |
True Frogman I thought of that when starting this post but could not have expressed it as well as you have.
I remember being frozen like a deer in the headlights. when I first heard Martin's Violin Concerto on the radio back in the seventies. I did finally get a copy of it with Martin conducting, but his music then was on Swiss labels you couldn't find in the days before Amazon etc.
Glazunov isn't much done in the USA, but he is a concert staple in much of Europe. |
Amen, Photon46, the amount of fascinating modern music coming out of Finland alone beggars belief.
Not to mention half the conductors in the world are Finnish. |
Thanks Frogman, I went to Finland several times when I lived in Germany, would LOVE to live there forever if that was possible.Am an Englund fan.
Re, Glazunov, WI Pubic Radio is playing his Salon Waltz Piano
piece right this second. They play him fairly often and have a CD quality signal, best programming I've heard either here or in Europe. |
I once heard an English Critic refer to Stravinsky as the Jane Austen of music,
so skilled at his craft he has to be in the Canon, but really
doesn't have much to say.
His words , not mine. |
I don't know how much thinking has to do with it, seems to me its like women, you like what you like and thats an end to it. |
I did THINK that anyone would know I was referring only to Classical.
Those not alive and of the age of reason before rock arose have no idea of the great harm rock has done to society.
And thats not just the sour-grapes of an old man. |
The ancient strategy of the evil one is to cloak evil in the guise of banality.
A person, or a society, is either getting better or worse.
Not all rock is bad or evil per se, but its no help which
in the end is evil. You don't get to"hell' by jumping off a cliff but by sliding down a slope.
True, there are shades of gray , but the important stuff tends toward black and white.
Its true there is less hypocrisy now than before rock,which may be a good thing in personal relations but is not necessarily a good thing for society in general.
Hypocrisy is the tribute vice plays to virtue, permission to feel guilt-free is no advance. |
