Read reviews of Satie latest recordings here 44 Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) His magnificent Socrate is like someone walking around a room thinking out loud, dictating to a poignantly detached typist. Its unknowability, inscrutability and mystery allows that. Why was Erik Satie sentenced to eight days in jail?.His Vexations, to be played 840 times, might as well be played a million times. No wonder he wrote ‘furniture music’ (background music). He came out of nowhere – nothing like him before or since. Just as Beckett withdrew from Joyce to carve his own world, Satie withdrew from Debussy to carve his. Read reviews of Tallis latest recordings here 45 Erik Satie (1866-1925)Īn original thinker, dadaist, artist, pianist and creator of furniture music Whether simple four-part homophony or the complex micropolyphony and dazzling sonic spectacle of Spem in alium, everything a composer interested in choral music needs to learn can be found here. Read reviews of Hildegard von Bingen latest recordings here 46 Thomas Tallis (c1505-85)Įnglish composer known best for his sacred polyphonic choral worksįrom ornate Marian effusions to syllabic settings in English, Tallis’s music encompasses all the diversity of styles that were required of a 16th-century English composer due to the frequent changes of monarch (and, therefore, religion): it’s ecstatic, propulsive, luminous, florid (or simple), with a harmonic richness and melodic grace that is very special. I’m a staunch atheist and yet somehow her music is a sublime taste of the divine.
As with all the best music, I think it’s impossible to describe her work – it is something that simply has be experienced. I eventually found out what the sample was and Hildegard has remained a constant companion ever since. I first discovered Hildegard’s music through the rave scene – Orbital’s 1991 trippy track Belfast uses a beautiful sample of O Euchari and I was instantly hooked. Theologian, mystic and now a saint, Hildegard composed sacred monophony Read reviews of Boulez latest recordings here 47 Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) He has done so much for other composers, too, building institutions and shaping how contemporary music is programmed in normal orchestral concerts. Serialist, modernist, conductor and founder of Ensemble intercontemporainīoulez is simply the best! Musically speaking, not only was he ground-breaking at the time, but his harmony and sonority are always gorgeous – if you slice his music, every bit is beautiful. Read reviews of Schumann latest recordings here 48 Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) Schumann: String Quartets Nos 1-3 Doric String Quartet Chandos CHAN 10692 Who were Clara and Robert Schumann’s children?.I feel close to Schumann, both personally and professionally. There’s something about Schumann’s Violin Concerto the music reminded me of myself.
I grew up listening to violin concertos, because my father played the violin. German Romantic composerwhose unstable mind spawned complex masterpiecesīach and Mozart write perfect music, but there’s a fragile quality to Schumann’s perfection. Read reviews of Rachmaninov latest recordings here 49 Robert Schumann (1810-56) 4 Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano) Philharmonia/Ettore Gracis (1957) EMI 567 2382 He has the gift of making his music seem as if he is speaking just to you. His melodic invention is to die for, his harmonic flavour subtle and instantly recognisable, his orchestration rich yet never cloying. The best recordings of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.He lays his soul before us in music like the Second Symphony, yet it is noble as much as passionate. No two of his piano pieces are alike, each one creates its own world. He never wrote a piece of music unless he had something to say and he never repeated himself he never outstayed his welcome. Rachmaninov belongs to the aristocracy of composers. Russian virtuoso pianist, gifted melodist and one of the greats of late-Romanticism The 50 best composers of all time 50 Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) He we present the Top 50, in descending order, with each famous composer personally appraised by one of those who voted for them.
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