Polish Classical Music

In general, I'm not overwhelmingly a fan of 20th century French music and the only French composers who were anything special in my opinion were Faure, Lalo, and some early Debussy:-)

Heifetz performing the Lalo Violin Concerto is almost mesmerizingly beautiful!

@Novichok
Don't worry, no one did.

Oh, and don't let's forget of course about Saint Saens!
Bizet was no slouch either LOL. Then there's always Delibes' "Lacme" Berlioz? Not overwhelmed.

@Lyzko
Saint-Saens is the one I forgot! I love his music, especially (overdone, I know) the Swan (it isn't called the Dying Swan as I think it is). I think Bizet composed Symphony in C as the Balanchine ballet. Very nice composer.

I think also Adolphe Adam is good, he was the composer of Le Corsaire and Giselle.

Saint Saens' violin potboilers are hokey, but nonetheless beautiful.

Surely you jest! Possibly the finest (and certainly most misunderstood) French composer of the 19th century!

Matter of taste, I suppose. His "Symphonie Fantastique" promises far more than it delivers and is all too gimicky in my opinion. Not bad though as background music in Kevin Kline's "Sleeping With The Enemy":-)

It's impossible to say. There are so many of wonderful composers in the past, who can tell who's the best? Apart from the obvious superior Chopin of course.

On the side, this has been such a civilised thread for PF, thank you to everyone of you who has made a post on here so far.

I've always been far more into vocal music (because the human voice is the most interesting instrument of all) and he's amazingly ahead of his time....

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I know it's a classical music thread, but I want to say Nadezhda Batoeva has recently been made prima ballerina of the Mariinsky.