Favorite Symphony by a 1-Symphony Composer

Started by Archaic Torso of Apollo, April 15, 2011, 07:10:35 AM

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Which is your favorite?

Bizet
2 (4.3%)
Franck
6 (12.8%)
Vorisek
1 (2.1%)
Korngold
4 (8.5%)
Shapero
2 (4.3%)
Webern
9 (19.1%)
Moeran
5 (10.6%)
Rott
2 (4.3%)
Chausson
5 (10.6%)
Messiaen
4 (8.5%)
Other
7 (14.9%)

Total Members Voted: 38

Daverz

Vorisek gets my vote in absence of the Bliss Colour Symphony and the Dukas Symphony in C.  And the Lalo is a delightful work.

No one seems to have remembered Cherubini or Grieg.

Looking on Wikipedia, some other one symphony composers of note:

Karlowicz
Hamilton Harty
Ildebrando Pizzetti
Arthur Benjamin
Bernard Herrmann
George Barati
Norman Dello Joio
Irving Fine
Julian Orbon
Michael Torke



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Bulldog

Franck gets my vote with Chausson a close second.

Daverz

Quote from: Velimir on April 15, 2011, 09:04:13 AM
My personal vote goes to that lovable anachronism, Shapero's Symphony for Classical Orchestra.

I'm very fond of the Shapero.  It really needs a modern recording.  Bernstein's is mono, and Previn's is a little boxy sounding.

Brahmsian

Quote from: Bulldog on April 15, 2011, 03:33:41 PM
Franck gets my vote with Chausson a close second.

Ditto.  Franck, and Chausson a close second.

Scarpia

Quote from: Daverz on April 15, 2011, 02:40:45 PMNo one seems to have remembered Cherubini or Grieg.

Grieg wrote a symphony?  I assumed that Cherubini wrote a few dozen at least.


Daverz

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Quote from: Il Barone Scarpia on April 15, 2011, 04:20:11 PM
Grieg wrote a symphony?  I assumed that Cherubini wrote a few dozen at least.

Grieg supressed it.  Which hasn't stopped anyone from recording it, of course.

Cherubini's lone symphony is very good, one of the more memorable Classical symphonies not by Mozart, Haydn, or Beethoven.

PaulR

i accidentally voted for "other" because on first glance, I failed to see Franck.  But, at least as of now, Franck's Symphony in D minor is my favorite.   

Archaic Torso of Apollo

I'm a little surprised at the results. I expected Franck to run away with it, since he's standard rep and well known, unlike the others. Instead, Korngold edges him.
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Lethevich

Quote from: Velimir on April 16, 2011, 01:43:58 AM
I'm a little surprised at the results. I expected Franck to run away with it, since he's standard rep and well known, unlike the others. Instead, Korngold edges him.

One thing I've noticed about the standard rep is that some of the LP favourites (such as the Franck) seem to be very gradually dropping in popularity nowdays. Other works I tend to see on LP a lot and slightly less so nowadays are Rossini/Respighi's Boutique Fantastique, various pieces by Chausson, and possibly Borodin's 2nd and Rimsky's Scheherazade.

Not saying that these pieces aren't still popular, but they appear to have found wider currency in the past.
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Archaic Torso of Apollo

I've thought so too, especially with reference to the Borodin 2nd, which seems to have dropped off the map of live performance.
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val

My choice was Webern, but I must say that Chausson's Symphonie is a very beautiful work.

val

And I remember now, there is the great Symphony of Paul Dukas, probably the best French Symphony after Berlioz.

Grazioso

Another one-off: Resphigi's Sinfonia Drammatica
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Brahmsian

Question:  Is R. Strauss' 'Eine Alpensinfonie' consider a symphonic/tone poem, or a symphony?

If it was and was his only symphony, then I'd change my vote to 'Other' for that work.

vandermolen

From the list I'd have voted for Moeran, Korngold and Rott (never heard Shapero's). As for others mentioned, a supporting vote for Arthur Benjamin and Bernard Herrmann - others include symphonies by Hurum, Dyson and Clifford's 'Symphony 1940'.
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Scarpia

Quote from: ChamberNut on April 16, 2011, 05:30:25 AM
Question:  Is R. Strauss' 'Eine Alpensinfonie' consider a symphonic/tone poem, or a symphony?

If it was and was his only symphony, then I'd change my vote to 'Other' for that work.

If Alpine is a symphony so is the Sinfonia Domestica.

Grazioso

Quote from: ChamberNut on April 16, 2011, 05:30:25 AM
Question:  Is R. Strauss' 'Eine Alpensinfonie' consider a symphonic/tone poem, or a symphony?

If it was and was his only symphony, then I'd change my vote to 'Other' for that work.
Quote from: Il Barone Scarpia on April 16, 2011, 05:50:03 AM
If Alpine is a symphony so is the Sinfonia Domestica.


He wrote two conventional symphonies in his teens, as well, in D minor and F minor.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Brahmsian

Quote from: Il Barone Scarpia on April 16, 2011, 05:50:03 AM
If Alpine is a symphony so is the Sinfonia Domestica.

Ah yes, true enough.  Yuck, that is the one piece of Strauss' tone/symphonic poem output that I just cannot stomach, the Sinfonia Domestica.  ???  I pretty much love all his other orchestral works.