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In Reply to: RE: I included it in my own Stereophile "Fantasy Symphony Season" write-in competition example posted by John Marks on April 20, 2021 at 15:21:45
I'll take #3, please, perhaps with a clutch of Barber Songs in lieu of the Four Last Songs to make it all-American (and compellingly viable as a not-fantasy offering by a major American orchestra).A few years back we saw Anne-Sophie Mutter perform the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto along with a Takemitsu piece in Boston (my only live experience with the BSO). One reviewer called the Takemitsu pairing "incongruous" -- and it certainly felt that way at the time. The pairing of East with West, despite the merits of each, is tricky to say the least.
In Concert #4 you've got Butterworth after Shostakovich...that is RADICAL. Milk after hot sauce radical!:-)
Without meaning to engineer my own list, I will say that I would certainly attempt to include more Scandinavian orchestral works -- a major lacuna in this country, where we cannot look past Sibelius, Nielsen and Grieg to perform works by significant voices including Atterberg, Aho, Kokkonen and a host of others, all of whom get a great deal of attention from me. On my fantasy list, I would also add a splash of Robert Simpson, David Matthews or Richard Arnell to display the sheer power of an orchestra in the hands of composers that are absolutely unknown here in the U.S.
Edits: 04/21/21Follow Ups:
Did Dima S. ever write anything more Mozartean (and totally lacking in irony) than the slow movement of Pf Cto 2?
If so, I am all ears.
ciao,
john
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