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- londonBoy0
"whoever composed the wedding march from a midsummer's night dream"
Mendelssohn is the man.
Me?
Stravinsky (God-like)Prokofiev (I worship - my tip: Piano Concerto No.3 in C)
Debussy (Yummy french genious - my tip: Prelude A L'apres Midi D'un Faune)
Ravel (Bolero: Torvill & Dean - sadly, incredibly boring to play - my tip: Piano Concerto in G and LeftHand Concerto in D flat)
Barber (Adagio for Strings used in PLATOON -i think! His other stuff is really good too.)
Mozart (genious - my tip: Piano Concerto No.21 in C)
Rachmaninoff (russian genious)
Shostakovich (lighten up!! - my tip: Symphony No.5)
Dvorak (Hovis Bread Advert)
Brahms (yeah - my tip: Symphony No.2 in D and No.4)
Elgar (Nimrod, Pomp & Circumstance et al.. - my tip: Symphony No.1 in A flat)
Bartok (academic)
Mark-Anthony Turnage (modern + british)
John Williams (you either love him or hate him)
Richard Strauss (not the Strauss family that gave us those horrid viennese waltzes like Blue Danube! - This is the Strauss that gave us Also Spract Zarathustra (Original Planet of the Apes))
James McMillan (Scot - my tip: The Beserking)
Stockhaussen (experimental)
Lutoslawski (my tip: orchestral works)
Michael Tippett (important)
Falla (spanish stuff)
Benjy Britten (Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra)
Stephen Sondheim (music theatre)
Copland (my tip: Clarinet Concerto)
Dukas (frenchman who gave us the Sorcerer's Apprentice)
Grieg (my tip: Piano Concerto in A minor)