Benjamin Staern

Music: likes Rossini, Stravinsky, Bruckner, Varése, Britten, Bartok, Birtwistle, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Mozart, Schönberg, Berg, Webern, Birtwistle, Wagner (especially with Parsifal and Tristan), Richard Strauss, Messiaen, Liszt, Boulez, Stockhausen, Rihm, Keuris, Henze, Puccini, Verdi (not all!) don't like: Shostakovich (except 4th Symphony 5th, the 7th = propaganda music no.1), Bernstein (except for West Side Story), Hindemith (except for Ludus Tonalis and Mathis der Maler, Kammermusik), Korngold (except for Die Tote Stadt, Violin Concerto, film scores), Rachmaninov.