A New Year List of favourites, symphonies 1 to 9

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  • cloughie
    Full Member
    • Dec 2011
    • 22127

    Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View Post
    Welcome, 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?
    Weber always full of good tunes

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    • Lateralthinking1

      Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View Post
      Welcome, 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?
      I believe it is, yes. If I'm not mistaken.

      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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        • Boilk
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 976

          Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View Post
          A really interesting selection, especially Beethoven at 2 and Shostakovich 4.
          Actually, Shostakovich at 4 seems quite popular (and might be his best symphony according to the Sunday Sport's chief musical correspondent); in fact the composer is exceeded here only by his 8th I think.

          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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          • Op. XXXIX
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 189

            Originally posted by scottycelt View Post
            If 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.
            Well then try the Schmidt 3rd, it is quite more optimistic.

            Otherwise, I never have met any educated musician who loves Shostakovich 7. (But I love 6 & 8!)

            Happy New Year!

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            • Op. XXXIX
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 189

              Originally posted by Boilk View Post
              As for Beethoven at 2 ...
              So problematic for me, and the finale is as tedious (if not as remotely stupid) as the finale of Schumann's 1st. Considering how often the latter comes up on the radio -more so than the Beethoven- one wonders what either 'they' have been smoking, or what 'I' have been.

              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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              • Vile Consort
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 696

                1. Walton
                2. Vaughan Williams
                3. Pärt
                4. Nielsen
                5. Sibelius
                6. Mahler
                7. Tournemire
                8. Bruckner
                9. Simpson

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                • BBMmk2
                  Late Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 20908

                  If 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!
                  Don’t cry for me
                  I go where music was born

                  J S Bach 1685-1750

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                  • Bryn
                    Banned
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 24688

                    Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                    If 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!
                    You could have both Walton and Brian by going back to the original numbering of 'The Gothic', i.e. number 2.

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                    • Hornspieler
                      Late Member
                      • Sep 2012
                      • 1847

                      1) Walton
                      2) Brahms
                      3) Beethoven
                      4) Vaughan Williams
                      5) Sibelius
                      6) Tchaikowsky
                      7) Bruckner
                      8) Shostakovitch
                      9) Schubert


                      HS

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                      • Thropplenoggin

                        Originally posted by Hornspieler View Post
                        1) Walton
                        2) Brahms
                        3) Beethoven
                        4) Vaughan Williams
                        5) Sibelius
                        6) Tchaikowsky
                        7) Bruckner
                        8) Shostakovitch
                        9) Schubert


                        HS
                        Neophyte 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

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                        • teamsaint
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 25210

                          Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View Post
                          Neophyte 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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                          • Thropplenoggin

                            Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
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                            your resistance finally broken 'Noggin? well nobody can say you didn't give it everything. An example to us all.

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26538

                              Originally posted by teamsaint View Post

                              your resistance finally broken 'Noggin?
                              "...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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                              • makropulos
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 1674

                                Originally posted by salymap View Post
                                As 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.
                                Lovely idea - here are tonight's choices...

                                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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