What’s Your Favourite Symphony?

[Simon B]

As others have pointed out it does change by the day...

Today it is Elgar 2 - for the perfectly sound reason that I'm heading to the Barbican later where LSO/Elder will be playing it. Hopefully as authoritatively as they did the 1st on Thursday.

Edit: I see that someone else has applied the same logic upthread for exactly the same reasons. It must be reasonable then!

That said, the answer is still Mahler 3 really, just about. Bella Kemp expressed the reasons more eloquently than I could - essentially it is everything in one concise (record holdingly long!) symphony.

[Richard Barrett]

What's your favourite sandwich?

[Richard Barrett]

What's your favourite Christmas decoration?

[Richard Barrett]

What's your favourite window cleaning product?

[Simon B]

What's your favourite rhetorical question?

[vinteuil]

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Watt's my favourite improver on Newcomen's 1712 steam engine.

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[vinteuil]

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Watts my favourite drummer in a popular beat combo.


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[BBMmk2]

There would be the odd trite contribution to this thread. I thought it be good to have here, but as usual......

[ahinton]

Tchaikovsky, Mahler and Elgar come to mind. The there's Ives (Universe Symphony), Bruckner (9th) . . .

I don't agree about the Bruckner, at least now that we know just how much through composed and fully scored material there is in his hand for the finale of his last symphony, but I do agree about the other cases that you mention (and how AEP managed to create so convincing a symphony out of Elgar's copious but haplessly disorganised sketches for his Third Symphpony I suspect I will never know)...

[ahinton]

What's your favourite window cleaning product?

Who's your favourite composer from Swansea?

(Point well taken, though)...

[vinteuil]

Who's your favourite composer from Swansea?

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... so many to choose from!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Jones_(composer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Metcalf_(composer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Walters

... now, I know that ahinton cannot have been hinting at K**l J*****s - so who on earth can he have meant?




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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

There would be the odd trite contribution to this thread. I thought it be good to have here, but as usual......

There's been over seventy "trite answers", Bbm.

[BBMmk2]

There's been over seventy "trite answers", Bbm.

I know. Time for this thread to close down I think?

[vinteuil]

I know. Time for this thread to close down I think?

... o, it's just getting interesting!

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[Alison]

Let's keep going.