Mentor Vs Student: Who is the Better Composer, Brahms or Dvorak?

This month we’re considering head-to-head match ups, starting with these 28 composers left as a comment in “10 Classical Music Composers Recommended by Charlie Martin”:

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After Tuesday’s opening match-up pitting William Byrd vs Thomas Tallis, another of PJ Lifestyle’s classical music experts offered his suggestions for match-ups:

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Last week we featured the Trombonist’s first head-to-head on Wednesday (Tchaikovsky Vs Rimsky-Koraskov), his second on Thursday (Brahms vs Wagner), and then Shostakovich Vs Prokofiev on Friday. This week let’s draw in more of Markham S. Pyle’s suggestions with the Trombonist’s match-ups. Today it’s the mentor Johannes Brahms vs his student Antonín Dvořák. Who was the greater composer? Which are your favorites of their compositions that should be added to the collection? Whose violin concerto here do you prefer?

Brahms:

Dvorak:

Here are the previous recordings included so far in this feature. Please leave your suggestions in the comments, on twitter to @DaveSwindle, or via email: DaveSwindlePJM AT Gmail.com

Johann Sebastian Bach

Ludwig van Beethoven

Hector Berlioz

John Dowland

George Frideric Handel

Joseph Haydn

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Felix Mendelssohn

Maurice Ravel

Richard Strauss

Franz Schubert

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Antonio Vivaldi

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Franz Liszt

Rimsky-Korsakov

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin

Mily Balakirev

Cesar Cui

Frederic Chopin, Gabriel Faure

Charles Gounod, Erik Satie

 

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28 Recommendations from Markham S. Pyle

William Byrd and Thomas Tallis

Aaron Copland

 

The Reformed Trombonist’s Match-Up Suggestions:

Shostakovich

Brahms

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