Jared wrote:
Fergus and I will shortly be commencing our 'Learning to love Bruckner' initiation programme.. ;-)
Nay Jared, I gave up the ghost on that crusade many years ago I am afraid!
Jared wrote:
Fergus and I will shortly be commencing our 'Learning to love Bruckner' initiation programme.. ;-)
That does not surprise me unfortunately; the attention span of the young nowadays has become such that they will not even buy a full album but merely a single track at a time so I very much doubt that they would have the mental capacity to sit through a full opera LOL!!!Jared wrote:
Incidentally, when I went to see Verdi's Otello, there were 500 people in the audience, and I kid you not, at 44 year of age, I WAS the youngest!
Good man, stick to Mahler, Bach, Beethoven & Strauss, that's quite enough for any young fellow.fergus wrote:Jared wrote:
Fergus and I will shortly be commencing our 'Learning to love Bruckner' initiation programme.. ;-)
Nay Jared, I gave up the ghost on that crusade many years ago I am afraid!
No list of that nature, no matter how small, is complete without a mention of Brahms.. discredit Bruckner at your peril, but you'll never get away with omitting my 'desert island' composer... ;-)Seán wrote: Good man, stick to Mahler, Bach, Beethoven & Strauss, that's quite enough for any young fellow.
Oh perhaps my post was misleading. I feel that Fergus does promote -- through his sheer natural enthusiasm -- works by said composers, perhaps Brahms should be included on the list too, but he certainly does champion works by the 4 mentioned above.Jared wrote:No list of that nature, no matter how small, is complete without a mention of Brahms..Seán wrote: Good man, stick to Mahler, Bach, Beethoven & Strauss, that's quite enough for any young fellow.
Heavens no, I do like Bruckner but not to the same extent as I love Mahler....but that's just me.discredit Bruckner at your peril, but you'll never get away with omitting my 'desert island' composer... ;-)