On Dec 9, 2009, at 11:02 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Dec 9, 2009, at 9:48 PM, Shane Mage wrote:
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>> the "non-kitschy" works of Sibelius
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> What might those be, and how do they compare with the B Minor Mass?
The (undefined) word "kitschy" was DRR's, absolutely not mine. Sibelius didn't write masses, so there's nothing in the same genre to compare. In the recorded catalogue and the performance repertoire the stature of the Violin Concerto (second version) is comparable to those of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
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