A New Year List of favourites, symphonies 1 to 9

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  • salymap
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 5969

    Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View Post
    Many thanks for the great work antongould. I have really enjoyed this thread.
    Yes, thanks to anton, the true President of the thread.

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    • antongould
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8775

      Originally posted by salymap View Post
      Yes, thanks to anton, the true President of the thread.

      Come on everyone knows I am Cratchit to your Scrooge - when can I have my first bit of coal for 2013?

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      • salymap
        Late member
        • Nov 2010
        • 5969

        Originally posted by antongould View Post
        Come on everyone knows I am Cratchit to your Scrooge - when can I have my first bit of coal for 2013?
        Ba Humbug

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        • Barbirollians
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 11663

          Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
          This may make you incredibly jealous, but I heard Sir John conduct most of those at live concerts during the 1960s.
          Shame you didn't have a piratical tape recorder with you !

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          • Eine Alpensinfonie
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 20569

            It was all open reel in those days.

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            • Barbirollians
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 11663

              Rather difficult to conceal !!!

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              • HighlandDougie
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 3079

                I've been in the ADSL-free wilds of Cornwall so have only just read this thread. Not an easy task but, based on frequency of listening:

                1. Tchaikovsky
                2. Tippett
                3. Vaughan-Williams
                4. Shostakovich
                5. Bruckner
                6. Sibelius
                7. Beethoven
                8. Dvorak
                9. Mahler

                and, just to add a bit of flavour, my most-listened to recordings are:

                1. Abbado/Chicago Symphony Orchestra
                2. Davis/LSO
                3. Previn/LSO, jointly with Hickox/LSO (it's the recording on my i-Phone, much listened to when on 'planes)
                4. Kondrashin/Moscow PO, jointly with Wigglesworth/Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Raiskin/Mainz & Rheinisch Orchestras
                5. Haitink/Bavarian RSO
                6. Davis/Concertgebouw
                7. Immerseel/Anima Eterna
                8. Ancerl/Concertgebouw
                9. Haitink/Concertgebouw (the recent Blu-Ray)

                and, to cheat, I'd slip in the Cooke et al reconstruction of Mahler's 10th where Daniel Harding and the Vienna Philharmonic might have lost the crown to Eliahu Inbal and the Concertgebouw.

                The one-per-composer rule, coupled with one-per-number means that there is no Berwald, no Brahms, no Honegger, no Martinu and, above all, no Nielsen. But if it comes to a battle between 4ths (DSCH vs Nielsen) or 5ths (Bruckner vs Martinu vs Nielsen) .....

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                • Lateralthinking1

                  Those who chose something other than Mahler (and Tippett!!) for the 2nd might wish to note that there will be second symphonies in the Essential Choice slot on Essential Classics with Sarah Walker every day this week (Monday-Friday):

                  M - Sibelius
                  T - Brahms
                  W - Beethoven
                  T - Rachmaninov
                  F - Schumann

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                  • Suffolkcoastal
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 3290

                    Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View Post
                    Those who chose something other than Mahler (and Tippett!!) for the 2nd might wish to note that there will be second symphonies in the Essential Choice slot on Essential Classics with Sarah Walker every day this week (Monday-Friday):

                    M - Sibelius
                    T - Brahms
                    W - Beethoven
                    T - Rachmaninov
                    F - Schumann
                    Much as I like all 5 of the symphonies, they are typically safe and unadventurous choices, which I suppose is in keeping with mornings on R3 these days.

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                    • EdgeleyRob
                      Guest
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 12180

                      Originally posted by Suffolkcoastal View Post
                      Much as I like all 5 of the symphonies, they are typically safe and unadventurous choices, which I suppose is in keeping with mornings on R3 these days.
                      Why not:

                      M - Rawsthorne
                      T - Parry
                      W - Alwyn
                      T - Arnold
                      F - Miaskovsky

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                      • Suffolkcoastal
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 3290

                        That would be very nice ER, or even something like.

                        Martinu
                        Kallinikov
                        Honegger
                        Piston
                        Fibich

                        The Sibelius had to be there for BaL I suppose. Then they could have followed it with four other Scandinavian 2nds, that would have shown greater enterprise.

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                        • AjAjAjH
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 209

                          Assuming that this list is about your favourite numbered symphonies 1-9 but you use each comoser only once.

                          1 Elgar.
                          2 Brahms.
                          3 Mahler.
                          4 Shostakovich.
                          5 Tchaikovsky.
                          6 RVW
                          7 Beethoven.
                          8 Bruckner.
                          9 Dvorak.

                          Assuming it means your 9 favourite symphonies but you use each composer only once.

                          1. Bruckner 8.
                          2. Brahms 2.
                          3, Elgar 2.
                          4. Sibelius 2.
                          5. Beethoven 7.
                          6. Dvorak 9.
                          7. Mahler 9.
                          8. Tchaikovsky 5.
                          9. Berlioz 'Harold in Italy'.

                          Top 9 using a composer as many times as you like would be different again. (2 Mahler's and 2 Tchikovsky's included)

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                          • Pabmusic
                            Full Member
                            • May 2011
                            • 5537

                            Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
                            Why not:

                            M - Rawsthorne
                            T - Parry
                            W - Alwyn
                            T - Arnold
                            F - Miaskovsky


                            Originally posted by Suffolkcoastal View Post
                            That would be very nice ER, or even something like.

                            Martinu
                            Kallinikov
                            Honegger
                            Piston
                            Fibich


                            The Sibelius had to be there for BaL I suppose. Then they could have followed it with four other Scandinavian 2nds, that would have shown greater enterprise.
                            Sibelius
                            Berwald
                            Atterberg
                            Stenhammar
                            Rangstrom

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