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People have mentioned the Central European 20th c. stuff. And I agree, it's great. But don't forget the French. I mean Milhaud and Poulenc in particular. And the lesser lights of Les Six: Ibert, Honneger, etc. But also Faure. We think of him as a 19th c. composer, but he died in 1925. And...

It's true Brahms is (oddly) divisive. But I think the F-minor piano quintet is one of his more well known pieces. I have a bunch of LPs of it; I guess my fave is Curzon and the Budapest. This AM I listened to an assortment of Renaissance secular stuff played by Les Menestriers. This evening...