Your top 13 works in 5 movements

[Larry Rinkel]

I'll be counting. . . .

[bhodges]

I'll be counting. . . .

Let's see..."top 5 works in 13 movements"...oh wait, different list. 



--Bruce

[PerfectWagnerite]

1) Mahler 2nd
2) Mahler 5th
3) Mahler 7th
4) Schumann 3rd
5) Shostakovich 13th
6) Shostakovich 9th
7) Shostakovich 8th
Shostakovich 3rd Quartet
9) Shostakovich 8th Quartet
10) Shostakovich 9th Quartet
11) Mahler Kindertotenlieder
12) Mahler Rueckert Lieder
13) Bartok String Quartet #4

[Larry Rinkel]

At last, somebody can count! Mine:

1) Beethoven, Pastorale Symphony
2) Beethoven, Missa Solemnis
3) Beethoven, Op. 132 quartet
4) Schumann, Rhenish Symphony
5) Berio, Sinfonia (revised version, of course)
6) Boulez, Pli selon pli
7-9) Mahler, Symphonies 2, 5, 7
10) Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique
11) Brahms, Piano Sonata 3
12) Bartok, Quartet 5
13) Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra

See? 13 works, 5 movements each. No cheating.

[marvinbrown]

I'll be counting. . . .

 Larry I am surprised you started this thread...knowing how you feel about lists......or did I misunderstand?...hey is this one of those trick questions by the way??


  marvin
 
 

[PerfectWagnerite]

At last, somebody can count! Mine:

1) Beethoven, Pastorale Symphony
2) Beethoven, Missa Solemnis
3) Beethoven, Op. 132 quartet
4) Schumann, Rhenish Symphony
5) Berio, Sinfonia (revised version, of course)
6) Boulez, Pli selon pli
7-9) Mahler, Symphonies 2, 5, 7
10) Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique
11) Brahms, Piano Sonata 3
12) Bartok, Quartet 5
13) Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra

See? 13 works, 5 movements each. No cheating.

Your list is more correct than mine. I cheated a little with the two Mahler Song Cycles.

[Todd]

I can't count to 13, so I can't participate.  

[Larry Rinkel]

Your list is more correct than mine. I cheated a little with the two Mahler Song Cycles.

I accept the Mahler cycles. They are works in 5 movements. You pass.

[karlhenning]

See? 13 works, 5 movements each. No cheating.

Beauty & symmetry!

[Larry Rinkel]

I can't count to 13, so I can't participate.  

Then you will have to wait for a poll that does not reach double digits.

[Scriptavolant]

At last, somebody can count! Mine:

1) Beethoven, Pastorale Symphony
2) Beethoven, Missa Solemnis
3) Beethoven, Op. 132 quartet
4) Schumann, Rhenish Symphony
5) Berio, Sinfonia (revised version, of course)
6) Boulez, Pli selon pli
7-9) Mahler, Symphonies 2, 5, 7
10) Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique
11) Brahms, Piano Sonata 3
12) Bartok, Quartet 5
13) Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra

See? 13 works, 5 movements each. No cheating.

Yes, but it looks like those games in which you must guess the intruder in a serie. I vote for number 4.

[bhodges]

Mahler: Symphony No. 2
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Mahler: Symphony No. 7
Berio: Sinfonia
Hindemith: Five Pieces for Strings
Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra
Dvořák: Serenade for Strings
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8
Suk: A Summer's Tale
Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Ligeti: Piano Concerto
Ligeti: String Quartet No. 2

--Bruce

[PSmith08]

Let's see if we can do this.

Not necessarily in exact order of preference, but they are my top 13 in 5.

1. Mahler 2
2. Mahler 7
3. Mahler 5
4. Ligeti, Violin Concerto
5. Ligeti, Piano Concerto
6. Ligeti, String quartet no. 2
7. Boulez, Pli selon pli
8. Bach, Violin partita no. 2
9. Bartók, String quartet no. 4
10. Bartók, String quartet no. 5
11. Handel, Music for the Royal Fireworks
12. Beethoven, 6th
13. Bach, "Ich habe genug"

Mahler: Symphony No. 2
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Mahler: Symphony No. 7
Berio: Sinfonia
Hindemith: Five Pieces for Strings
Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra
Dvořák: Serenade for Strings
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8
Suk: A Summer's Tale
Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Ligeti: Piano Concerto
Ligeti: String Quartet No. 2

--Bruce

Consarn it! Beat me to the Ligeti will you? 

[karlhenning]

You're still a winner in our book, Patrick!

[bhodges]

Consarn it! Beat me to the Ligeti will you? 

*[runs off with some sort of tattered trophy]*



--Bruce

[PSmith08]

You're still a winner in our book, Patrick!

Thanks, Karl. As long as I'm a winner somewhere. 

*[runs off with some sort of tattered trophy]*



--Bruce

Ah! The ignominy of defeat! Just take thine harpoon and put it through my heart, why don't you? 

[bhodges]

Ah! The ignominy of defeat! Just take thine harpoon and put it through my heart, why don't you? 

Never, never...anyone whose list has those Ligeti pieces on it is a winner in my book...

--Bruce

[PSmith08]

Never, never...anyone whose list has those Ligeti pieces on it is a winner in my book...

--Bruce

I thought about Three Pieces for Two Pianos or the Six Bagatelles for Wind Quartet, but decided that a gentleman is never that obvious about his skulduggery.

[bhodges]

I thought about Three Pieces for Two Pianos or the Six Bagatelles for Wind Quartet, but decided that a gentleman is never that obvious about his skulduggery.

--Bruce

[orbital]

That was hard  I could think of these titles that I enjoy, but I am not sure if all are in 5 movements

Beethoven op 132
Bach Toccata in D
DEbussy Images Pour L'Orchestre
Grieg - From Holberg's Time
Schubert - Trout Quintet
Liszt - Dante Sonata
Schumann - Faschingsschwank
Scriabin op15 preludes
Scriabin op16 preludes
Ravel - Miroirs
Shostakovich Violin concerto no1
Shostakovich SQ #8

and as a filler
Glass - Metamorphosis