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In Reply to: RE: Local Competitions posted by Chris from Lafayette on November 07, 2015 at 01:13:12
I'm not a great fan of flute music, but I do like Forsyth well enough. His music has always struck me as very professionally composed, solidly within the British pastoral school of its period. His Viola Concerto is an exemplary work. There's a good Hyperion disc of it coupled with Bowen's Viola Concerto, which is more adventurous in its influences.
As for Ireland, I'm not sure he is any better known these days than Forsyth. Well, maybe in the realm of chamber music, but not on orchestral programs. This is really unfortunate, because Ireland wrote some very enjoyable orchestral music. The Chandos disc collecting some of his best symphonic poems and suites is a really fine one.
It's really interesting that so many very good composers are pretty much forgotten by audiences today, and actually by orchestral musicians as well, and yet their chamber music continues to be played. The constriction of the core repertoire of orchestral music has been really disheartening. So many fine works by very good composers ignored and forgotten, while audiences are bludgeoned with repetition of warhorses.
Sorry about the rant. It's not the first time I've said it and won't be the last. hahaha
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
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They have the Forsyth/Bowen album (that you mentioned) available as a 20-bit download (i.e., 20/44.1). There's also a note there indicating that only "a few" CD copies remain. Probably a sign of the times, although I'm not complaining. ;-)
Yeah - I agree that the Forsyth Concerto is very fine. Forsyth had never even been on my radar until I was contacted about playing the Viola concerto a couple of weeks before the competition.
I'm kind of predisposed in favor of Russian repertoire however (Shostakovich excepted!), and my favorite "unjustly neglected" little-known composer right now is R-K's son-in-law, Maximilian Steinberg. The two Neeme Jarvi DG CD's of his two symphonies (and other works) and his Passion Week choral music CD (which I posted about earlier this year) are just magnificent IMHO, and these works are so undeserving of their neglect. Liapunov's Second Symphony is another work whose neglect I just can't understand. Even better known composers, such as Glazunov, are not as well known as they should be (again, just IMHO of course).
Jarvi's on Orfeo has the most rousing finale, esp. the last pages. I like the lyrical theme in the 1st mov't as well.
I first heard the delicate theme of Kalinnikov's 1st symphony on the radio; I stayed in the car until the piece was over, just to hear who the composer was.
I've been on a mission over the last ten or so years to get every recording I can of this work, and almost everyone I've listened to is worthy, although the Rozhdestvensky set recently reissued by Melodiya seems to be afflicted with tape wow every now and then - too bad. There's also a stunningly engineered version by Sinaisky and the BBC (on their own label) which now seems to be available only via hi-rez download (24/96). (It had been free with BBC Music Magazine in its CD incarnation!)
My favorite of the ignored Russians (including Myaskovsky) is Taneyev. What wonderful chamber music he penned. And his John of Damascus is truly beautiful.Yes, Steinberg is worth hearing. Too bad DGG abandoned recording his works. I was just getting interested.
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
Edits: 11/08/15
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