Originally posted by Thropplenoggin
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A New Year List of favourites, symphonies 1 to 9
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Lateralthinking1
Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View PostWelcome, Sifaka. A really interesting selection, especially Beethoven at 2 and Shostakovich 4. I wonder if Lateralthinking1 can tell us whether this is the first outing for Weber in the thread?
Welcome Sifaka. A very sensible selection at 6.
Some might describe it as a Cinderella. In truth, all of the forum's most reliable statisticians have chosen it.
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sifaka
Thank you all very much for your comments and support. Salymap, it will take me a while to
work out all the options/tags/photos etc.
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Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View PostA really interesting selection, especially Beethoven at 2 and Shostakovich 4.
As for Beethoven at 2 ... it's difficult to know how people have approached this list. Some may have been left with a few blanks, and therefore paid homage to great symphonists not listed elsewhere, due to the "one composer" rule.
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Originally posted by scottycelt View PostIf I had to pick ONE work that might make me give up altogether and shoot myself it would be Franz Schmidt's 4th Symphony.
Isn't it rather humbling our (my) frequent inability to even begin to grasp a piece of music that others have long loved and appreciated?
Back to the drawing-board ... and, as a NY resolution, I shall give FS4 another spin.
Otherwise, I never have met any educated musician who loves Shostakovich 7. (But I love 6 & 8!)
Happy New Year!
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Originally posted by Boilk View PostAs for Beethoven at 2 ...
If I have read silly claims for Schumann's 1st, I have read plenty about Beethoven's 2nd (including frat-boy interpretations of the finale), but I just don't think it matches the spontaneity and freshness of the 1st. IMO of course.
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Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View PostIf I wereto do this again I forgot about Tippett's 3rd, Simpson ofcourse the 9th and Walton's 1. But I was toprn between him and Havergal Brian!
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Thropplenoggin
Originally posted by Hornspieler View Post1) Walton
2) Brahms
3) Beethoven
4) Vaughan Williams
5) Sibelius
6) Tchaikowsky
7) Bruckner
8) Shostakovitch
9) Schubert
HS
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Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View PostNeophyte that I am to 20th Century classical, I only heard DSCH's 8th today (Haitink/Concertgebouw). After a single listen, I think it could easily slip into my list now. An astonishing symphony and a worthy work with which to break my January purchase hiatus
your resistance finally broken 'Noggin? well nobody can say you didn't give it everything. An example to us all.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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Originally posted by salymap View PostAs Anton loves lists I thought this might work...
State your favourite Symphonies from one to nine. They must all be by different composers and that's about it.One for each number and no cheating...........
Best wishes to all.
1. Schumann No. 1
2. Elgar No. 2
3. Brahms No. 3
4. Beethoven No. 4
5. Vaughan Williams No. 5
6. Tchaikovsky No. 6
7. Dvorak No. 7
8. Bruckner No. 8
9. Mahler No. 9
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