26-10-2014, 20:43
Hello Semitone. Your choices are interesting.
I conincide (not as absloute favourites, for I have none) with Mahler, Vivaldi Debussy. Saint Saens slightly less, and Takashi Yoshimatsu a very interesting pick (contemporary).
But if one talks of contemporaries I may suggest a number of Others.
John Tavener for example. Morten Lauridsen another.
One or two score-writing soundtrack composers, Gabriel Yared for example. Or Howard Shore.
But asserting that Mozart, Beethoven and Bach are 'nothing special' is a bit too much. But to each his own, as you correctly declare.
Our likes and dislikes are extremely subjective.
I also like certain renaissance composers such as Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli. Palestrina. Monteverdi (late renaissance, mannerism, early baroque).
But 'classical' is an inexact term to encompass them all. Very inexact.
But remember, non-experts do not know many of these composers.
Are you a musician?
I conincide (not as absloute favourites, for I have none) with Mahler, Vivaldi Debussy. Saint Saens slightly less, and Takashi Yoshimatsu a very interesting pick (contemporary).
But if one talks of contemporaries I may suggest a number of Others.
John Tavener for example. Morten Lauridsen another.
One or two score-writing soundtrack composers, Gabriel Yared for example. Or Howard Shore.
But asserting that Mozart, Beethoven and Bach are 'nothing special' is a bit too much. But to each his own, as you correctly declare.
Our likes and dislikes are extremely subjective.
I also like certain renaissance composers such as Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli. Palestrina. Monteverdi (late renaissance, mannerism, early baroque).
But 'classical' is an inexact term to encompass them all. Very inexact.
But remember, non-experts do not know many of these composers.
Are you a musician?
Cogito, ergo sum...