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Individual composers / British composers
« on: August 07, 2022, 02:44:22 pm »
Ladies/Gentlemen:
Lovely to see British 19-20thC composers getting plenty of exposure.
Were it not for the likes of Alwyn, Bax, Bantock, Bliss, Delius, Parry...+ a good few...I would never, 12-15 years ago, have started out on the road that has led to a 'hobby' which will easily see me to my grave !
It was from there that I ventured to try some of the Scandinavians/'Lowlanders'...Gade, Diepenbrock, Holmboe, Rangstrom, Ysaye + so many others, that have eventually led to the collection that, despite my own lack of musical scholarship (yes, you may be surprised to hear I DO have some elsewhere !), is my very best reason for 'carrying on'.
What's the point of this post ?
Well...am venturing to try (for the first time on-line) some uploads - you may have looked at their titles in the 'Downloads' section & thought 'what a prat'...& of course on many levels you'd probably be right.
Only remotely worthwhile response - please don't assume 'Oh, heard of him/her..(s)he's good'. So are some of the other guys/gals...partly 'wrong place, wrong time' - partly just so little chance for anyone, however brilliant, to get a 'major' concert performance nowadays - ONLY modern piece I seem to see regularly on concert programmes is Berg Violin Concerto 'Dem Andenken eines Engels'...which won't make my own favourites' list at all .
Do give the 'jazz classics'/'far eastern classics' a look....& a polite comment !
Never know - you could be pleasantly surprised, & if you're not...you're in luck, as without any interest in them I shan't trouble you further !
Lovely to see British 19-20thC composers getting plenty of exposure.
Were it not for the likes of Alwyn, Bax, Bantock, Bliss, Delius, Parry...+ a good few...I would never, 12-15 years ago, have started out on the road that has led to a 'hobby' which will easily see me to my grave !
It was from there that I ventured to try some of the Scandinavians/'Lowlanders'...Gade, Diepenbrock, Holmboe, Rangstrom, Ysaye + so many others, that have eventually led to the collection that, despite my own lack of musical scholarship (yes, you may be surprised to hear I DO have some elsewhere !), is my very best reason for 'carrying on'.
What's the point of this post ?
Well...am venturing to try (for the first time on-line) some uploads - you may have looked at their titles in the 'Downloads' section & thought 'what a prat'...& of course on many levels you'd probably be right.
Only remotely worthwhile response - please don't assume 'Oh, heard of him/her..(s)he's good'. So are some of the other guys/gals...partly 'wrong place, wrong time' - partly just so little chance for anyone, however brilliant, to get a 'major' concert performance nowadays - ONLY modern piece I seem to see regularly on concert programmes is Berg Violin Concerto 'Dem Andenken eines Engels'...which won't make my own favourites' list at all .
Do give the 'jazz classics'/'far eastern classics' a look....& a polite comment !
Never know - you could be pleasantly surprised, & if you're not...you're in luck, as without any interest in them I shan't trouble you further !
