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256  Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Your Discovery of the Year on: May 16, 2013, 10:18:44 am
I don't know where you guys find the time!
Another one here.  8)
257  Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: The Dozen Most Neglected on CD Non-British 20th Century Symphonists on: May 16, 2013, 09:59:03 am
Am listening to the Third Symphony by Benzecry. If you have a copy, listen to the second movement and then listen to the scherzo of the Dutilleux First Symphony! Benzecry's rip off of Dutilleux is even more obvious than Christopher Gunning's. Both composers should have been sued!

Karl

I will try (not sue) them for myself, the few things I heard from Benzecry so far sounded very eclectic indeed. But ripping is another matter.  :o
258  Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Which American composer wrote this XXth century symphonic work ? on: May 05, 2013, 09:34:30 pm
Perhaps Wallingford Riegger?  (I never heard this piece before myself, but it reminds me of the little I heard by Wallingford Riegger. :)
259  Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Havergal Brian Symphonies on CD on: May 03, 2013, 01:54:01 pm
Good to learn, I was already wondering.  ::)
260  Assorted items / Commercial recordings (vintage, new and forthcoming) / Re: Rhinemaidens, Rings and Rainbows all in a day on: May 03, 2013, 12:24:16 pm
Great to learn that they we're even able to include Vikings in this one-day Ring.  ;)
261  Assorted items / Coming broadcasts and listen-later links / Re: RVW's 9th on: May 03, 2013, 08:57:53 am
Um...believe it or not folks...it's 'Sinfonia Antartica', not Antarctica.  Even though 'Antarctica' is actually correct.

I think I read somewhere that RVW himself only discovered in a late stage that the Italian spelling is indeed Antartica, not Antarctica as in Latin or English.

Hello, I've recorded the RVW 9th yesterday and could upload it this weekend.

Great news!
262  MEMBERS' CORNER / Members' wish lists & requests / Re: Choral 'wish list' . on: April 28, 2013, 01:32:25 pm
You are obviously much better informed than I am, but here's my two cents.

I found Nick Strimple's book Choral Music in the Twentieth Century inspiring and widening my focus in many respects. Some fresh and not-so-recent 'discoveries', apart from everything Strimple discusses, are (at random): Passion and Resurrection and other choral pieces by the young Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds and also his fellow Latvian Vasks; almost everthing my own compatriot Hendrik Andriessen composed in this field; also another compatriot, often more modern, namely Daan Manneke; about everything by the Estonian Veljo Tormis; Voices of Light by Richard Einhorn (US); Lennox Berkeley and Herbert Howells among the Britons; Villa-Lobos (Choros 10 and the late religious choral pieces) for Brazil; Osvaldo Golijov's La Pasión según San Marcos for Argentina, ASO.  ;)
263  Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Lesser known followers of RVW on: April 23, 2013, 06:43:31 am
Braga Satos composed his First Symphony in 1946 at the age of 22. As far as I know he had never been out of Portugal. It is unlikely that he had ever heard any RVW in concert inside Portugal. Had he studied an RVW score ???  I have no idea.

He could have heard it on the radio, perhaps? The influence of VW 4 is so strong it would be surprising if it were coincidence.

As far as I know (not that well, but I tried to find out, one day) he could hear British music on the radio. In that case, he might even have heard some Moeran - as the influences seem to be even stronger, there (e.g. the opening bars of Moeran's Sinfonietta compared to Braga Santos' Divertimento).
264  Assorted items / Individual composers / Re: Balys Dvarionas 1904 - 1974 on: April 16, 2013, 03:52:42 am
This composer was well known.

Yes, he was. But only in Lithuania.
265  ARCHIVED TOPICS / Theory and tradition / Re: "The Worst Piece Of Classical Music Ever Written" on: April 09, 2013, 10:50:36 am
and Nielsen's 6th Symphony, though Nielsen is rather poor as a parodist, and I'm rather sorry he did that.

 8)
266  ARCHIVED TOPICS / Theory and tradition / Re: The most beautiful orchestral work of the twentieth century on: April 04, 2013, 09:50:22 pm
Oh, and then there's Joep Franssens' orchestral works!

He will be pleased to hear! But I think he qualifies mostly for the 21st century.  ::)
267  ARCHIVED TOPICS / Theory and tradition / Re: The most beautiful orchestral work of the twentieth century on: April 04, 2013, 02:35:32 pm
Another vote for the Tallis Fantasia here.  :)
268  ARCHIVED TOPICS / Theory and tradition / Re: The most beautiful orchestral work of the twentieth century on: April 03, 2013, 08:40:33 am
Or, as Hegel said, 'das Auge ist sonnenhaft'.  ;)
269  Assorted items / Individual composers / Re: Bernard Herrmann: Symphony no. 2? on: March 26, 2013, 07:46:09 pm
My Mother was convinced Walton had written a 3rd Symphony. It's possible to get such ideas into one's head ...

It is as Victor Borge said about his new waterproof watch - once a drop of water gets in, you never get it out again.
270  MEMBERS' CORNER / Members' wish lists & requests / Re: Taktakisvilli on: March 21, 2013, 12:05:52 pm
I was going to say the same - as I own this recording of the Concerto No. 2 for violin and chamber orchestra and love it dearly. The problem in finding it, perhaps, could be the German transliteration of his name, used for this German CD (Orfeo) and also in a few other cases, namely: Taktakischwili instead of Taktakishvili or Taktakishvilli (as you prefer).

                 
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