Lesser Known Composers

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RE: Lesser Known Composers

But Pablo, maybe the time is not right for you.  Try listening to it again in 6 months or a year and see if you feel the same.

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Here are the results of my listening experiment:

a) Busoni: Piano Concerto.  I was reminded of Rachmaninov's 2 'ugly duckling' piano concertos during movements I & II.

During movement III, I wanted to get up and move around, lie down for a snooze, then had thoughts of food.

At about 7 minutes into movement IV, I noticed a familiar melody - where have I heard that before?  During movement V I almost fell asleep.

Despite these negative events, I was surprised how quickly the 70 minutes passed and will plan more uninteruppted listening.

 

b) Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica.  It sounded as though the  wrong notes were being played at times, a sort of Les Dawson style.  However, I'm not ready to give up on atonal music yet. (If that's what it was).

 

Thanks for your interest gents.

 

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RE: Lesser Known Composers

Great comments Kev!! It's so long since I heard the Busoni concerto I must get it out again.

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I have just watched the Alice in Wonderland ballet; I'm not really a big fan of ballet but the music was wonderful. Joby Talbot following on from where Prokofiev left off, why isn't it available on CD?

 

 

 

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I heard Erik Satie was a lesser known composer.

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There are esoteric names of the past like Carl Czerny but I immediately think of contemporary composers whenever this topic is presented. Frederich Rzewski is supremely underrated and an amiable conversationalist. Isang Yun is one who I enjoy listening to more than most. Michael Kugel is more known for his viola playing but is also a composer of the instrument. Vytautas Barkauskas is interesting and challenging at the same time. Eva Beglarian is a fun and intelligent composer. No one mentioned Kaija Saariaho or Sofia Gubaidulina?

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I forgot to mention Moritz Eggert!

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With the exception of the great Czerny (a lesser known composer only to the general public but a very significant to musicians and collectors), I can leave without the rest, although I have a good number of recordings of most of them.

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