Prokofiev symphonies

[pastoralguy]

Changing the subject momentarily, what is it about sixth symphonies? Beethoven, Mahler, Nielsen, Sibelius, Myaskovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Pettersson, Matthews?...

George Lloyd...?!

[teamsaint]

I hope that in time Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic could deliver some devastatingly good Prokofiev symphonies.

i'm sure they would do a wonderful job, Alison.
lets hope it happens soon.

[jayne lee wilson]

Liverpool vernacular eh, Jayne?

I'll have to trap someone else into saying it and see what happens...

As this witty piece implies, it was probably Shakespearean vernacular too...

http://spellingtrouble.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/mischievous-or-mischievious.html

[EdgeleyRob]

George Lloyd...?!

Oooops how did I forget ?

[pastoralguy]

Oooops how did I forget ?

[verismissimo]

Changing the subject momentarily, what is it about sixth symphonies? Beethoven, Mahler, Nielsen, Sibelius, Myaskovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Pettersson, Matthews?...

The Pastoral and the so-called 'Tragic' seem rather strange bedfellows to me (just to take the first two in your seminal list, ah). And where's Le Matin? Wonder if Beethoven knew it?

[rauschwerk]

The Pastoral and the so-called 'Tragic' seem rather strange bedfellows to me (just to take the first two in your seminal list, ah). And where's Le Matin? Wonder if Beethoven knew it?

Le Matin wasn't actually Haydn's sixth symphony. Beethoven's chief influences would seem to have been Haydn's Creation and Justin Heinrich Knecht's Pastoral Symphony of the 1780s.