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Beethoven: based, or a lolcow? You decide.
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Hubert Parry is best known for his church anthems; his five symphonies belong to the Cinderella Corner of British Music. In his Symphony No. 3 in C Major "English", Parry follows the model of Mendelssohn's "Scottish" and "Italian" symphonies. This is most evident in the third movement, Allegro molto scherzoso, in which gentle, idyllic music comes in tandem with dance-like, arousing music. Parry betrays his Elgarian influence, with a dash of Tchaikovsky perhaps, in the final movement though.

 
Joly Braga Santos was perhaps the greatest portuguese symphonist of all time. His six symphonies are all towering achiements in compositional skill.

My personal fav is the 4th symphony. Exit music of the entire cosmos starts at 47:00:
 
Pianist Radu Lupu died at the age of 76.

Lupu was a very reclusive person who made few recordings, gave few concerts and almost no interviews. When fellow pianist Mitsuko Uchida invited him to Marlboro Music Festival to coach and hang out with budding virtuosos, he refused and said "Mitsusko, I don't really like music that much".

Lupu is most renowned for a series of recordings of the solo music of Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms, that he made for Decca between the early 70s to the early 80s. At his best, his sound is open, warm and stately, with finely etched details -- a less dreamy version of Arrau or Michelangeli, if you will. I, however, am not so keen on his exaggerated dynamics.

 
Heinichen is still under-recorded. The only easily available (and much acclaimed) recordings are the two 2-CD sets, of concertos and sacred music respectively, performed by Musica Antiqua Köln and directed by Reinhard Goebel.
 
Positron said:
Heinichen is still under-recorded. The only easily available (and much acclaimed) recordings are the two 2-CD sets, of concertos and sacred music respectively, performed by Musica Antiqua Köln and directed by Reinhard Goebel.
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Thank you mate. This thread is a bit of a gold mine, if you know how to ask the right questions.
I'll defininitely check out Musica Antiqua Köln.
 
Documenting cows these days requires me to type out Roe v Wade a lot, so I shortened it as RvW. So you have no choice but to listen to more RVW.


Dona Nobis Pacem was written in 1936. Like Britten's War Requiem 25 years later, it uses poetry (Walt Whitman's in RVW's case) to depict the horror of war. WWI turned out not to be "The War That Ends Wars"; very soon mankind were to see worse. So while in 1936 RVW was optimistic for the World to come under God's peaceful reign and ended his piece on a celebratory high spirit, Britten in 1961 could only voice, through Wilfred Owen's poem Strange Meeting, a poignant appeal to our common humanity.
 
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