t this stage of my life, after listening to classical music for thirty years or so, I have come to the conclusion that Haydn was the greatest composer of all....
'm forced to agree that most people don't know and as a consequence don't acknowlegde the bulk of his work, but I have listened to many of his compositions and...
love Liszt's music too, and he's another underrated composer. I revel in the Piano Sonata. But the point you make about the Romantics being more interesting...
understand the amount of works that Haydn produced is astronomical, however the more works you turn out the less people listen, and the less they listen the...
feel compelled to cast my vote for Giacomo Puccini. He has written so many absolutely gorgeous Operas with undeniable arias, it's just hard not to rate him as...
ne reason why I like Haydn's music so much is the astonishing way he takes a developing form - the sonata - and imbues it with so much variety, surprise and...
mm, people come in many temperaments (like keyboard tuning). My last piano teacher was a great Haydn admirer and he cajoled me into buying all five books of ...
specially Rachmaninoff! I find Rachmaninoff's works to be astounding, aside from the usual degree of difficulty, but he also stayed with the romantic style...
on't forget Strauss wrote his Four Last Songs in 1945. That really is the last flowering of true Romanticism in 20th Century. I love the structure of Russian ...
haven't heard kissin do the Rach 2, but I've heard Barto, Rach himself with Ormandy conducting (a must listen to), Vakhnadze, and Ashkenazy. I prefer ...
hat was only a wish list. I don't think Kissin has done Rach Two, I don't know. But he did do both of Chopin's Concerto at the age of twelve. I have a ...
like a lot of Rachmaninov's music, especially "The Isle Of The Dead" and the "Symphonic Variations", the latter being a clear and wonderful masterpiece. I'm...
would say that Mahler is very Austrian. But if he is anything, he is in a genre of his own. There was nothing like Mahler before him, and no one has taken his...
wo very different responses to Mahler can be found in Berg's Three Orchestral Pieces and Berio's Sinfonia. Berg condenses Mahler into three relatively short ...
..but that's this month. I love the fact that my favorite composer changes all the time. It's a way for me to quasi-obsess and learn as much about them as ...
ell, the Haydn that broke down my last resistance and convinced me of his greatness was not the well-known stuff like the "London" symphonies, but the earlier...
would like some feedback on what composer you'd like me to post on my website this coming month.<br> I was going to post Debussy, but am always open to ...
igital, debussy sounds fine. Had you started with Albinoni, then proceed to Bartok, then Chopin, then Delius, then there might have been some system in the...
he Symphony Number 5 is one of my favorite...Did you hear when the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps did it on the field in 1996 and won with it?!...
didn't like Haydn's 33 Sonata at all, I could understand what he was doing, and I respect the work that he did, but I just left me wanting to turn it off, so I...
've lately been working on duets, and I have a wonderful book of Schubert duets. I'm currently working on the primo part of "Two Characteristic Marches, Op. ...
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