Fave B-tier composers

btw, my Spotify Release Radar playlist threw this movement from a symphony by Louise Ferranc; I had never heard of her but I like this a lot

https://open.spotify.com/track/70WG7tXKMQGcyLLG8PVVJ3?si=b39342cfb99b48ff

Awesome DJP I can’t wait to listen to all this tonight

Koechlin

Les Heures Persanes for piano. There’s also an orchestrated version

Les chants du nectaire. A three-hour work for solo flute.

He’s a composer worth exploring… an eccentric of diverse interests and influences.

Co-sign both versions of Les Heures Persanes

Also unmissable: Offrandre Musicale sur le Nom de BACH; the Law of the Jungle and Spring Running movements of The Jungle Book, Paysages et Marines (solo piano or chamber versions) and the Seven Stars Symphony (each movement dedicated to a different silent film star)

some of my favorite Buxtehude:

Sonata in G Minor, BuxWV 261
Toccata in G Major, BuxWV 165
Prelude in E Minor, BuxWV 143
Chaconne in C Minor, BuxWV 159

Thanks for this, was listening to different versions of each this orning. It's amazing how differently organists interpret the keyboard works. 143 was subdued and almost melancholy in the Bryndorf version, but brassy and assertive when played by Koopman. Koopman's liner notes specifically state there is little information how Buxtehude would have played his own works "so do what feels right for you."

I'm a little on the fence about Koopman's playing/interpretation anyway, but my feelings for him are complicated by him complaining in an interview about electric power windmills.