A New Year List of favourites, symphonies 1 to 9

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  • cloughie
    Full Member
    • Dec 2011
    • 22110

    #31
    Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
    1. Elgar
    2. Rachmaninov
    3. Beethoven
    4. Strauss (I suppose it's the 4th)*
    5. Vaughan Williams
    6. Tchaikovsky
    7. Buckner
    8. Dvorak
    9. Mahler
    *no surprise there then Alps!

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    • Il Grande Inquisitor
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 961

      #32
      1. Elgar
      2. Borodin
      3. Sibelius
      4. Shostakovich
      5. Tchaikovsky
      6. Mahler
      7. Beethoven
      8. Dvorak
      9. Schubert

      When we played this game over on the old R3 boards - Ron's Hogmanay Symphonic Desert Island Sudoku (6 years ago... where does time fly?) - we were allowed a tenth to cover 'un-numbered' symphonies, such as Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. There was also a rule to enable symphonies with a higher number to be included by adding the numerals together, hence Mozart's Jupiter would be number 5 (4+1).
      Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency....

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      • salymap
        Late member
        • Nov 2010
        • 5969

        #33
        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
        I'd pay $$ to see that
        More fun than a croose with some I could mention

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        • Sir Velo
          Full Member
          • Oct 2012
          • 3225

          #34
          Breaking the rules somewhat (I was always the naughty schoolboy):

          1. Berlioz
          2. Vaughan Williams
          3. Zemlinsky
          4. Brahms
          5. Nielsen
          6. Haydn
          7. Sibelius
          8. Schubert
          9. Bruckner
          10. Shostakovich

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          • amateur51

            #35
            Originally posted by salymap View Post
            More fun than a croose with some I could mention
            Now where's that 'hand-on-hip' emoticon

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            • Beef Oven

              #36
              Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post
              Breaking the rules somewhat (I was always the naughty schoolboy):

              1. Berlioz
              2. Vaughan Williams
              3. Zemlinsky
              4. Brahms
              5. Nielsen
              6. Haydn
              7. Sibelius
              8. Schubert
              9. Bruckner
              10. Shostakovich
              No Beethoven!!!?? Have you lost your mind sir!!?

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              • scottycelt

                #37
                I rather share ferney's expression of utter certainty in such matters, but here goes, anyway ...

                1) Messiaen (if disqualified by Saly .. Sibelius)
                2) Borodin
                3) Gliere
                4) Tchaikovsky
                5) Bruckner (by a musical country mile)
                6) Prokofiev
                7) Dvorak
                8) Shostakovich
                9) Mahler

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                • teamsaint
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 25190

                  #38
                  OK. Here is my list. I hope Salymap will forgive me, I thought I would do a list where each symphony is special to me in some way, even if it's not my absolute favourite for that number. And I cheated on no 4.

                  1. Sibelius.
                  2.Schubert
                  3. Alwyn
                  4. Bliss. Ok its not no 4 , but it has 4 colours, and I love it, and its new year.
                  5 DSCH
                  6 RVW
                  7 Rubbra
                  8 Bruckner.
                  9. Arnold.
                  I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                  I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                  • Boilk
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 976

                    #39
                    1. Searle
                    2. Maxwell Davies
                    3. Tippett
                    4. Shostakovich
                    5. Mahler
                    6. Rubbra
                    7. Beethoven
                    8. Bruckner (actually his 10th)
                    9. Hovhaness

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                    • salymap
                      Late member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 5969

                      #40
                      Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                      OK. Here is my list. I hope Salymap will forgive me, I thought I would do a list where each symphony is special to me in some way, even if it's not my absolute favourite for that number. And I cheated on no 4.

                      1. Sibelius.
                      2.Schubert
                      3. Alwyn
                      4. Bliss. Ok its not no 4 , but it has 4 colours, and I love it, and its new year.
                      5 DSCH
                      6 RVW
                      7 Rubbra
                      8 Bruckner.
                      9. Arnold.
                      That's okay, I cheated on no 9. Fed up with Beethoven Choral but wanted to get on with something else.

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                      • Sir Velo
                        Full Member
                        • Oct 2012
                        • 3225

                        #41
                        Originally posted by Beef Oven View Post
                        No Beethoven!!!?? Have you lost your mind sir!!?
                        Many years ago - too much youthful excess!

                        Tricky one this. Beethoven could easily fill slots 3 -9 (well maybe not 4, 6 & 8). Stupid game really.

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                        • Sir Velo
                          Full Member
                          • Oct 2012
                          • 3225

                          #42
                          Originally posted by scottycelt View Post
                          1) Messiaen
                          Like your thinking!
                          Originally posted by scottycelt View Post

                          5) Bruckner (by a musical country mile)
                          Beethoven? Sibelius? VW? Country mile? A centimetre maybe!

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26516

                            #43
                            Originally posted by salymap View Post
                            More fun than a croose with some I could mention
                            "...the isle is full of noises,
                            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163

                              #44
                              Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                              Ferney, did you used to be indecisive but now you're not so sure?
                              Um, well, possibly.


                              EDIT: AND I forgot to add Mendelssohn in the "Fourths"!
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • Beef Oven

                                #45
                                Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post
                                Many years ago - too much youthful excess!

                                Tricky one this. Beethoven could easily fill slots 3 -9 (well maybe not 4, 6 & 8). Stupid game really.
                                Yes, Lvb could legitimately rock through 3-9, no question! Youthful excess? We're all paying for it now

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