If you have heard of the suggested artist then chime in, like or dislike, if you haven't then perhaps you'll like them, and we'll have broadened your musical horizons (and how pretentious does THAT sound?
)Seriously though, whatever the musical style, and perhaps combining and amplifying threads from "CLASSICAL...recommendations" to "Broadly defined avant-garde and modern music" let's share.
Alberic Magnard is a French composer who studied under Massenet and whose symphonies I would include in the very loose grouping of "Romantic." especially perhaps his 3rd.
A historical footnote, and I'll have to quote directly from Wikepedia here, but this demands respect - "In 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Magnard sent his wife and two daughters to a safe hiding place while he stayed behind to guard the estate of Manoir de Fontaines at Baron, Oise. When German soldiers trespassed, he fired at them, killing one of them, and they fired back and set the house on fire. It is believed that Magnard died in the fire, but his body could not be identified in the remains."
So, there he is, Alberic Magnard. I'd never heard of him until recently but I'm now a fan. You can pick up a 3 CD set of his symphonies via Amazon and it's definitely worth every penny of the eight and a half quid I paid for it.
Now, who have you heard of that I haven't, and really should have? It's not often I'll ask you to persuade me to part with my hard earned cash, so make the most of it. Come all ye - folkies, rockers, jazzers, classicists, etc. et al.
