Another list of the top ten classical composers

[MadFloyd]

Which recording? Also have you heard it live?

The Decca. Nope, I've avoided it to be honest.

 

[MadFloyd]

Let's try a different approach. Why would Schubert be considered more great than Haydn?

 

[bonzo75]

Let's try a different approach. Why would Schubert be considered more great than Haydn?

Sorry, I am not worthy to judge the two.

But no reason to not like one.

I personally don't like the Krips Decca that much, the RCA Munch is better. The live has always been great. It is based more on quieter passages than macro ones, so you might want to listen to the live first before judging.

 

[bonzo75]

Also on Brahms, this is a great one for not much. Don't buy all the Sarastros, this and the Anne Chaplin harpsichord are the very good ones.

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[MadFloyd]

Sorry, I am not worthy to judge the two.

But no reason to not like one.

I personally don't like the Krips Decca that much, the RCA Munch is better. The live has always been great. It is based more on quieter passages than macro ones, so you might want to listen to the live first before judging.

Fair enough, I'll do that. I'm always happy to be convinced and/or educated.

 

[Audiophile Bill]

Did someone say Schubert? How about a quintet.

Schubert - "Trout" Quintet - The Audio Beat - www.TheAudioBeat.com

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Lots of these on the tube, the storied one is Du Pre, Perlman, Mehta, Barenboim, Zuckerman when they were young - a realistic Schubertium - though more about them than the music. This one has music and Mutter - so so, but I stopped looking.

Chopin? a seducer...

All this talk of Schubert and nobody mentioned the Impromptus!!!

 

[Audiophile Bill]

Let's try a different approach. Why would Schubert be considered more great than Haydn?

That is a very reasonable challenge and one that can’t easily be defended, frankly. Haydn was monumentally prolific and is hugely under appreciated.

 

[Audiophile Bill]

Bit of controversy haha. The Impromptus are to Brendel as the Nocturnes are to Rubinstein

 

[tima]

All this talk of Schubert and nobody mentioned the Impromptus!!!

Schubert was an entertainer as much as a composer. He had lots of parties with drinking and friends with women on their laps, where he would play the piano and people would sing - they called these Schubertiums- it was all very impromptu.

 

[Audiophile Bill]

 

[Audiophile Bill]

And for you super slushy romantics out there

 

[Audiophile Bill]

Speaking of nostalgia

 

[zerostargeneral]

King Alfred at his sublime peak, bravo to the triplet.

Kindest regards,G.

 

[zerostargeneral]

Only Kogan could do that on all steel, amazing.

 

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[Audiophile Bill]

That is simply a mesmerising interpretation. I think that eclipses them all - what an incredible touch.

 

[Diapason]

I think this is a pretty solid list, although it suggests something I've been saying for ages:

music has been mainly downhill since 1750...

 

[Al M.]

Yesterday evening listened to Brendel playing Schubert's sonata No. 19 D 958 in C minor, the first of the set of three great last piano sonatas.

It was a recording from the late 1980s, and it was absolutely mesmerizing, marvelous. Such stormy urgency, romantic and partially with a longing undertone, an urgency which is eventually building up even in the slow movement. Above video is from another great Brendel performance 20 years earlier, and it is similar in interpretation. On this YouTube video, the dynamics underlying the urgency do not quite flesh out as they should and can be heard from uncompressed audio on a system that is up for them, but you'll get an idea nonetheless.

Yes, this a Top Ten composer, for sure.

Here is a great, rather comprehensive article on the three last piano sonatas by Schubert:

Schubert's last sonatas - Wikipedia

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