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Britten - Pshaw!

I'll never understand the appeal of Britten -or Delius -or Shostakovitch. I'm speaking "for the most part". And, yeah, I know it's my loss, and you feel sorry for me, etc., etc. But can you honestly tell me with a straight face that the by-turns-overblown-and-vapid War Requiem is a better work than the Mass in G minor? Or that some stupid opera such as "Albert Herring" even belongs on the stage? Please!

And don't even get me started on Britten as an interpreter! That clunky St. John Passion, or his amateurish duo performances with Richter. . . words fail me!

No! The great British composers are without doubt: Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Stanford, Parry. . . (And Will and Kate evidently agree with me about Parry, considering all of his music they used at their wedding!) Those composers at least wrote real music that stirs the soul. In fact, in this respect (now that I think of it), the Tallis Fantasy may be the greatest work ever composed in the history of music!



Edits: 07/15/15

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