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Symphonic Addict

#240
June 11, 2022, 04:27:09 PM
Quite likely in this order:


1-5

Brahms, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Dvorák and Nielsen


6-10

Sibelius, Strauss, Martinu, Prokofiev and Vaughan Williams


11-15

Respighi, Saint-Saëns, Tubin, Langgaard and Schubert


16-20

Mahler, Bruckner, Hindemith, Villa-Lobos and Walton


21-25

Poulenc, Alwyn, Bax, Holmboe and Atterberg
Part of the tragedy of the Palestinians is that they have essentially no international support for a good reason: they've no wealth, they've no power, so they've no rights.

Noam Chomsky

kyjo

#241
June 12, 2022, 08:15:20 AM
Quote from: kyjo on August 02, 2021, 07:33:23 AM
It's been a few years since I've made a list, so here goes! ;)

Dvořák
Sibelius
Atterberg
Rachmaninoff
Prokofiev

Poulenc
Saint-Saëns
Lloyd
Vaughan Williams
Nielsen

Brahms
Casella
Mendelssohn
Braga Santos
Barber

Respighi
Andreae
Beethoven
Arnold
Damase

Bax
Janáček
Elgar
Kabalevsky
Suk

I'm still quite content with this list, though I think I'll take Damase off (I still love his Symphonie dearly, though) and replace him with someone slightly more famous, like uh.....Schubert. :D
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

kyjo

#242
March 22, 2023, 08:05:45 PM
Quote from: kyjo on August 02, 2021, 07:33:23 AMIt's been a few years since I've made a list, so here goes! ;)

Dvořák
Sibelius
Atterberg
Rachmaninoff
Prokofiev

Poulenc
Saint-Saëns
Lloyd
Vaughan Williams
Nielsen

Brahms
Casella
Mendelssohn
Braga Santos
Barber

Respighi
Andreae
Beethoven
Arnold
Damase

Bax
Janáček
Elgar
Kabalevsky
Suk

A few minor changes since last time:

Antonín Dvořák
Sergei Prokofiev
George Lloyd
Jean Sibelius
Sergei Rachmaninoff

Kurt Atterberg
Johannes Brahms
Carl Nielsen
Francis Poulenc
Ralph Vaughan Williams

Camille Saint-Saëns
Ottorino Respighi
Alfredo Casella
Joly Braga Santos
Franz Schubert

Samuel Barber
Sir Malcolm Arnold
Gerald Finzi
Ludwig van Beethoven
Richard Strauss

Felix Mendelssohn
Volkmar Andreae
Maurice Ravel
Sir Edward Elgar
Josef Suk
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Florestan

#243
March 23, 2023, 12:19:37 AM
Quote from: Florestan on June 10, 2022, 07:34:33 AMCurrently:

Top 3, chronologically

Mozart
Schubert
Chopin

4-10, ditto

Haydn
Beethoven
Mendelssohn
Schumann
Brahms
Tchaikovsky
Rachmaninoff

11-25, ditto

Vivaldi
Telemann
Domenico Scarlatti
CPE Bach
Joh. Chr. Bach
Boccherini
Cimarosa
Auber
Rossini
Donizetti
Bellini
Verdi
Camille Saint-Saens
Massenet
Faure

And 5 runners-up: the (Viennese) Strauss family (cheating, I know, but I can't help it), Offenbach, Sibelius, Medtner,, Bortkiewicz.

Make it 50 and I could probably come up with a definitive list.  ;D


 

I'm still perfectly happy with this list.
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. — Claude Debussy

kyjo

#244
March 25, 2023, 05:30:56 PM
Quote from: Florestan on March 23, 2023, 12:19:37 AMI'm still perfectly happy with this list.

Rather surprised to see Dvořák absent from your list, Andrei! Considering your love for unfailingly melodic Romantic music. ;)
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Symphonic Addict

#245
March 25, 2023, 08:52:35 PM
Quote from: kyjo on March 22, 2023, 08:05:45 PMA few minor changes since last time:

Antonín Dvořák
Sergei Prokofiev
George Lloyd
Jean Sibelius
Sergei Rachmaninoff

Kurt Atterberg
Johannes Brahms
Carl Nielsen
Francis Poulenc
Ralph Vaughan Williams

Camille Saint-Saëns
Ottorino Respighi
Alfredo Casella
Joly Braga Santos
Franz Schubert

Samuel Barber
Sir Malcolm Arnold
Gerald Finzi
Ludwig van Beethoven
Richard Strauss

Felix Mendelssohn
Volkmar Andreae
Maurice Ravel
Sir Edward Elgar
Josef Suk

And I'm surprised to see Strauss in your list and Bax out of it.  ;)
Part of the tragedy of the Palestinians is that they have essentially no international support for a good reason: they've no wealth, they've no power, so they've no rights.

Noam Chomsky

Florestan

#246
March 27, 2023, 01:04:31 AM
Quote from: kyjo on March 25, 2023, 05:30:56 PMRather surprised to see Dvořák absent from your list, Andrei! Considering your love for unfailingly melodic Romantic music. ;)

Inadvertent omission.  :D
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. — Claude Debussy

kyjo

#247
April 17, 2023, 08:10:41 PM
Quote from: Løvfald on March 25, 2023, 08:52:35 PMAnd I'm surprised to see Strauss in your list and Bax out of it.  ;)

A difficult choice for sure! In hindsight, I should have kept Bax since I love a greater percentage of his output that I do Strauss'. But recently I've been so enamored with a select few works by Strauss (mostly Don Quixote and the suite from Der Rosenkavalier) that I found it difficult to exclude him from my list. ;)
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

vers la flamme

#248
April 23, 2023, 08:07:24 AM
Let's see;

Johannes Brahms
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Gustav Mahler
Franz Schubert

Ludwig van Beethoven
Robert Schumann
Anton Bruckner
George Frideric Handel
Maurice Ravel

Jean Sibelius
Claude Debussy
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Malcolm Arnold
Joseph Haydn

Anton Webern
Pierre Boulez
Arvo Pärt
Felix Mendelssohn
Dmitri Shostakovich

Camille Saint-Saëns
Alfred Schnittke
Antonio Vivaldi
Gabriel Fauré
Edward Elgar

No order, and those groups of five are not tiers in terms of my favoritism of them, though the first two groups, being the first ones that came to mind, are more easily accessible as being very close to my heart. This list omits many great composers who in the past have been major obsessions, but have been less in my orbit in recent years: people like my namesake Alexander Scriabin, as well as Frédéric Chopin, Erik Satie, Morton Feldman etc.

I might delete this list as I look at it later and find it not satisfactorily to my taste  ;D

Symphonic Addict

#249
April 23, 2023, 11:08:17 AM Last Edit: April 23, 2023, 11:10:31 AM by Løvfald
Quote from: Løvfald on June 11, 2022, 04:27:09 PMQuite likely in this order:


1-5

Brahms, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Dvorák and Nielsen


6-10

Sibelius, Strauss, Martinu, Prokofiev and Vaughan Williams


11-15

Respighi, Saint-Saëns, Tubin, Langgaard and Schubert


16-20

Mahler, Bruckner, Hindemith, Villa-Lobos and Walton


21-25

Poulenc, Alwyn, Bax, Holmboe and Atterberg

Some slight changes for now:

Top 3



The next 7:



The next 15:

Leoš Janáček, Malcolm Arnold, Camille Saint-Saëns, Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, Franz Schubert, Ottorino Respighi, Paul Hindemith, Rued Langgaard, Eduard Tubin, Sergei Rachmaninov, Arnold Bax, Francis Poulenc, Heitor Villa-Lobos, William Alwyn and Maurice Ravel.
Part of the tragedy of the Palestinians is that they have essentially no international support for a good reason: they've no wealth, they've no power, so they've no rights.

Noam Chomsky

Lisztianwagner

#250
April 23, 2023, 11:39:44 AM Last Edit: April 24, 2023, 02:42:34 AM by Lisztianwagner
Currently, after some little changes:

1. Wagner
2. Mahler
3. Liszt
4. Beethoven
5. Rachmaninov
6. Tchaikovsky
7. R. Strauss
8. Ravel
9. Schönberg
10. Holst
11. J. Strauss II
12. Mozart
13. Debussy
14. Chopin
15. Sibelius
16. Nielsen
17. Zemlinsky
18. Shostakovich
19. Brahms
20. Bruckner
21. Dvorak
22. Prokofiev
23. Berg
24. Bartók
25. Vaughan Williams
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." - Gustav Mahler

Franco_Manitobain

#251
April 25, 2023, 07:10:03 AM
Current, roughly grouped in tiers:

Shostakovich
Bruckner
Dvořák

Tchaikovsky
Sibelius

Brahms
Schubert
Penderecki
Taneyev
Bacewicz

Franck
Berlioz
Strauss, R.
Schumann
Nielsen

Prokofiev
Stravinsky
Mahler
Mendelssohn
Rimsky-Korsakov

de Falla
Kodaly
Bartók
Gorecki
Bach

Florestan

#252
April 26, 2023, 11:20:39 AM Last Edit: April 27, 2023, 08:08:00 AM by Florestan
My current list, in chronological batches of five (first batch top five, the rest in no particular preference order)

Haydn, Mozart, Rossini, Schubert, Chopin

Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Massenet, Puccini

Mendelssohn, Schumann, Saint-Saens, Dvorak, Faure

Vivaldi, D. Scarlatti, Boccherini, Wolf-Ferrari, Nino Rota

Telemann, Handel, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Poulenc

Five runner-ups:  Beethoven, Meyerbeer, Brahms, Medtner, Reynaldo Hahn
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. — Claude Debussy
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