Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Classical Compositions of… the 1920s

Yeah, that's what I hoped I was helping them do.:(

Tbf there needs to be a modicum of willingness on the listener's part, and most people are simply uninterested in exploring why it is they feel so repelled by that bewildering web of sounds upon encountering it for the first time. Same goes for modernist literature, painting, architecture, film, etc. There's only so much you can do as a pedagogue to awaken said willingness.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Dammmmitttt

I missed the one day warning

Pretend Sibelius 7 got 2 votes instead of one, okay?

Well clearly my vote wasn't counted. I voted Prokofiev's 2nd piano concerto.

A shame about the low turnout and the top result (j/k, I like Gershwin).

Onwards to an especially dire decade for our would-be illustrious species:

Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Classical Compositions of… the 1930s

Pretend Sibelius 7 got 2 votes instead of one, okay?

my man

<3

Sibelius's 7th deserved better. I'm glad even The Tempest got a vote, though – it absolutely rules.

Oh man, no Janacek pieces got a vote? That's brutal. This was his decade, too bad there were so many other luminaries around at the same time.
If anyone hasn't heard these Janacek pieces by any chance please give them a listen. All of them.

:(

They're all wonderful, but I have a soft spot for the string quartets, especially as played by the Pražák Quartet.

xpost

i yield to no one in my love for sibelius' incidental music. Sure the tempest is the coup de grace but swanwhite, pelleas, king christian and jedermann are just as dear to me. I love that there's this other less rigorously self-critical side to him which is just all wonderful hooks and fairy wishes