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Quote from: Alan Howe on Sunday 19 May 2024, 16:59The Suppe is trash - I've just checked. IMHO, of course.I've just re-listened too and I think that's rather harsh. Hurwitz's verdict is ridiculous, of course, but this time around I could hear more clearly Suppé's attempts at symphonic writing - the first movement in particular, and the quasi-fugal passage in the last. The second, slow, movement also develops into something a little more serious towards the end. It is clearly an attempt at a symphony but it's let down by Suppé's choice of thematic material (often trite, if melodic) which doesn't lend itself to development, just repetition. This, in conjunction with his colourful and sometimes bombastic orchestration, cheapens the whole thing. It's not trash, I did enjoy it more the third time around, but it's definitely not "one of the great, mid-century, Austro-German symphonies".
Quote from: tuatara442442 on Yesterday at 01:14His aesthetics is peculiar from time to time. He thought Pfitzner's PC, and by extension, all of his compositions are extremely boring.
Quote from: Alan Howe on Sunday 19 May 2024, 16:59Hurwitz thinks Sullivan was the greatest British composer.I always take that as an over-correction on the low status of comedic music