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In Reply to: RE: Forsyth and Ireland posted by Amphissa on November 07, 2015 at 06:47:47
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).
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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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