Messages

I am new to this forum and so not aware if we're allowed to give 'plugs', but I listen constantly to the following internet radio station; http://stream.psychomed.gr/webstream%20classical.html  .
I used to think I possessed a comprehensive knowledge of composers (even obscure composers) and their output, but since discovering this station I have been astonished to learn just how much really deserving music, often by unknown composers, is out there whilst being ignored by the 'mainstream' outlets.
Louise Farrenc, Victor Bendix, John Marsh, Charles Tournemire, the list goes on and on. Not to mention the wonderful symphonies of Felix Weingartner.

I don't know if others read the 'comments' section below the Youtube recording of the Rott symphony?; (posted by Stephen Jablonsky2 years ago)
"You can understand why Brahms hated the piece. It is just like Bruckner, only better. The fact that something so modern and powerful was written by a kid of 22 must have added to the ire. Listening to the piece is like discovering the store where Mahler bought his ideas. He took as much as he could carry and took them home and recooked them. Rott was dead four years when Mahler started his First Symphony but the seeds had been planted."

When you consider that all music is made up of scales and arpeggios, it is inevitable that the same ideas will surface independently from time to time. But the Rott / Mahler 5 comparison sounds very derivative. Perhaps Mahler was simply saying "This is how I think Rott should have done it"?