In Reply to: RE: Heard Aztec Two-Step in person posted by learsfool on July 14, 2015 at 19:30:40:
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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Follow Ups
- Britten - Pshaw! - Chris from Lafayette 09:28:22 07/15/15 (13)
- RE: Britten - Pshaw! -- Britten and Stravinsky . . . - goldenthal 22:21:37 07/31/15 (2)
- RE: Britten - Pshaw! -- Britten and Stravinsky . . . - P.C. 18:46:19 08/01/15 (1)
- RE: Britten - Pshaw! -- Britten and Stravinsky . . . - goldenthal 15:34:56 08/17/15 (0)
- I'll take your list too - and add Bax... - krisjan 08:19:04 07/17/15 (1)
- I don't know those string quartet works - Chris from Lafayette 11:44:07 07/17/15 (0)
- Britten - Shaw! - rbolaw 14:32:47 07/15/15 (7)
- Ever hear the story about Moszkowski. . . - Chris from Lafayette 17:02:50 07/15/15 (6)
- :-) nt - rbolaw 17:07:37 07/15/15 (5)
- Still the greatest ever performance of "Britten". . . - Chris from Lafayette 17:26:56 07/15/15 (4)
- Believe it or not, Dudley Moore and Arturo Delmoni once played together - John Marks 09:02:55 07/16/15 (2)
- That's easy to believe - rbolaw 09:51:38 07/16/15 (0)
- "There were giants in the earth in those days" - Chris from Lafayette 09:40:00 07/16/15 (0)
- You bet I've seen it. - rbolaw 19:20:51 07/15/15 (0)