Our Summer BAL 9: Haydn Symphony in G No 92

[antongould]

i am having a bit of a Haydn symphonies bash so I thought I'd get advice from the experts i.e. those here assembled or assembled in 2014 .... the top 15 from a salymap survey were ......

No. Position
88 1
104 1
102 3
103 3
100 5
101 6
26 7
90 7
92 7
94 7
96 7
98 7
44 13
73 13
95 13

[MickyD]

Tell me if I am being dense, antongould, but I'm afraid I don't understand that list of Haydn symphonies!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Tell me if I am being dense, antongould, but I'm afraid I don't understand that list of Haydn symphonies!

IIRC - Symphonies 88 and 104 came out as those most frequently cited by Forumistas who expressed a preference as their "favourite" of the Haydn Symphonies. !02 & 103 were the equal third most popular, 100 the fifth, 101 the sixth ... and so on.

[antongould]

Sorry MickyD for not offering more explanation .... but ferney has, hopefully, provided the necessary clarification .....

[MickyD]

Thank you, gentlemen, for enlightening me! I have to say that I think I would have cited more of the early or middle-period symphonies as my particular favourites.

[antongould]

I have just seem a BBC Music magazine poll showing, presumably, their readers top 20 symphonies and Haydn does not appear ..... !!!!!

[Pulcinella]

I have just seem a BBC Music magazine poll showing, presumably, their readers top 20 symphonies and Haydn does not appear ..... !!!!!

Not readers, ag; they asked 151 conductors to name their top three (greatest, whatever that means!), and then added up the totals.
Here's the list from the top down: this time the number is the number of the symphony ().

Beethoven 3
Beethoven 9
Mozart 41
Mahler 9
Mahler 2
Brahms 4
Berlioz Fantastique
Brahms 1
Tchaikovsky 6
Mahler 3
Beethoven 5
Brahms 3
Bruckner 8
Sibelius 7
Mozart 40
Beethoven 7
Shostakovich 5
Brahms 2
Beethoven 6
Bruckner 7

For me, part of the surprise was that all the Brahms symphonies featured.

(I don't want to hijack this thread, so perhaps if discussion is to ensue we need to start a new one?)

[antongould]

I sit, not for the first time, corrected .... Yes might merit a separate thread ......

[Tony Halstead]

Not readers, ag; they asked 151 conductors to name their top three (greatest, whatever that means!), and then added up the totals.
Here's the list from the top down: this time the number is the number of the symphony ().

Beethoven 3
Beethoven 9
Mozart 41
Mahler 9
Mahler 2
Brahms 4
Berlioz Fantastique
Brahms 1
Tchaikovsky 6
Mahler 3
Beethoven 5
Brahms 3
Bruckner 8
Sibelius 7
Mozart 40
Beethoven 7
Shostakovich 5
Brahms 2
Beethoven 6
Bruckner 7

For me, part of the surprise was that all the Brahms symphonies featured.

(I don't want to hijack this thread, so perhaps if discussion is to ensue we need to start a new one?)

It's quite a shock to see:
Mahler 6 not featured; no Haydn; no Nielsen; no Vaughan Williams; only one Sibelius.

[Nick Armstrong]

It's quite a shock to see:
Mahler 6 not featured; no Haydn; no Nielsen; no Vaughan Williams; only one Sibelius.

===========> copied to the new dedicated thread.

[Tony Halstead]

===========> copied to the new dedicated thread.

Thanks, Cali!

[silvestrione]

New thread? Sorry to be dense, but I can't find it.

[Bryn]

New thread? Sorry to be dense, but I can't find it.

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?15601-151-Conductors-Can-t-Be-Wrong&p=573832#post573832

[silvestrione]

Thanks! Platform 3...never really been there

[Pulcinella]

Recently supplemented my not so large Haydn symphony collection (31, 59, 73, Harnoncourt; 60, 70, 90, Rattle; 93–104 Colin Davis; whatever BBC MM ones there might be) with the English Sinfonia/Groves 92, c/w 104, and rather like it!

PS: The BBC MM CDs include the AAM/Hogwood 76 and 77!