Top 100 List 2013
My local radio station is currently playing its listener-voted top 100 list for the end of the year. This is an annual event where listener votes are solicited for two weeks and one can vote for up to...
View ArticleRussian piano composers (the greats, the criminally neglected, and the...
I'm not sure there is (or was) a thread on this topic. But as I was listening to Rachmaninoff's Preludes (Alexander Budyonny, TB Productions label-a great album), it occurred to me the literal plethora...
View ArticleTop 100 Classical Composers
This is the start of a new Top 100 Classical Composers Thread, and I hope you will participate. Here are the parameters: 1. Participating members please post your top 100 composers ranked from 1 thru...
View ArticleMy Dad's vinyl collection
Hi, I am clearing out my Dad's stuff and have listed his much loved vinyl collection. The LPs are generally in very good condition, the 78s in poor condition. I do not have space to keep it and am...
View ArticleReasons for owning multiple copies of the same work
Since we have a big poll going on the value of polls I thought I would post a silly poll. But there are some valid points in the choices and hopefully the discussion will be enlightening. One of the...
View ArticleThe Queen of Spades from Yugoslavia
I am in the first stage of preparing a DVD-Audio set from some Russian music LPs I've accumulated - but not heard. The major works in it will (I hope) be Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and Tchaikovsky's...
View ArticleWhat are some of the most evocative or subtle, poignant orchestral pieces?
I find many of Ravel's works (along with his orchestration of Mussorgsky's "Promenade(s)" and "The Old Castle"), Beethoven's second movement of his 7th symphony, the fourth movement of Mahler's 5th...
View ArticleThe TC Top 100 Recommended Art Songs
TC Top 100 Recommended Art Songs 1. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde 2. Schubert: Winterreise, D911 3. Strauss: Vier Letzte Lieder 4. Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op.48 5. Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin, D795...
View ArticleMussorgsky and Stravinsky favorite piece
I guess Golitsin's exile from khovanshchina is my favorite from Mussorgsky. Has for Stravinsky best piece in my book is the devil dance Mussorgsky i dont have that mutch material except Night on bare...
View ArticleOrchestrated piano works
Lately I've been looking into different orchestrations of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, other than the famous Ravel one. I bought a recording recently where each movement was orchestrated by...
View Articlename a favorite composer in these 4
Dukas, Chabrier, Debussy, Ravel? Im discovering the french school of classical composer, i really like Dukas and Chabrier among them, Debussy i can pronounced myself i did not heard enought work, just...
View ArticleOutstanding orchestrations of other composers' works
Can you think of any case of a famous composer orchestrating a work by other (more or less) famous composer. Let me give you a few examples: Ravel orchestrated Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky,...
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