What is your favorite Martinů symphony?

Started by Mirror Image, October 21, 2013, 07:45:16 PM

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Pick your favorite Martinů symphony

Symphony No. 1
1 (11.1%)
Symphony No. 2
1 (11.1%)
Symphony No. 3
2 (22.2%)
Symphony No. 4
2 (22.2%)
Symphony No. 5
0 (0%)
Symphony No. 6
3 (33.3%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: December 05, 2013, 06:45:16 PM

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amw

#20
October 25, 2013, 04:12:06 AM
Whichever one I listened to the most recently ;)

(currently that's No. 1)

not edward

#21
October 25, 2013, 05:02:58 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on October 25, 2013, 03:58:22 AM
A decent interval having passed . . . .


Is this a reference to the Banana Field Mass, so memorably evoked in Alain Robbe-Grillet's novel Jealousy?
"I don't at all mind actively disliking a piece of contemporary music, but in order to feel happy about it I must consciously understand why I dislike it. Otherwise it remains in my mind as unfinished business."
-- Aaron Copland, The Pleasures of Music

vandermolen

#22
October 25, 2013, 06:41:32 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on October 25, 2013, 04:01:18 AM
No love for my favorites (1, 2, 5) ...at least not enough love  :(

Sarge

I think that they are all great works - No 2 in particular.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Archaic Torso of Apollo

#23
October 25, 2013, 06:52:01 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on October 25, 2013, 04:01:18 AM
No love for my favorites (1, 2, 5) ...at least not enough love  :(

The 5th is an intriguing piece structurally, and I think its finale is his single greatest symphonic movement.

But there are no duds among any of the symphonies - I love 'em all  :)
formerly VELIMIR (before that, Spitvalve)

"Who knows not strict counterpoint, lives and dies an ignoramus" - CPE Bach

Brian

#24
October 25, 2013, 07:04:51 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on October 25, 2013, 04:01:18 AM
No love for my favorites (1, 2, 5) ...at least not enough love  :(

Sarge
Just at long last cast my vote. I picked 2.

Mirror Image

#25
October 25, 2013, 07:22:42 AM
For me, picking a favorite Martinu symphony is like picking from 6 of my favored shirts. I love them all and couldn't be without any of them.

DavidW

#26
October 25, 2013, 09:12:32 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on October 25, 2013, 07:22:42 AM
For me, picking a favorite Martinu symphony is like picking from 6 of my favored shirts. I love them all and couldn't be without any of them.

Ah... but you still choose what you wear to work! or to the party etc  So pick one now and say it's just for today. 8)

Mirror Image

#27
October 25, 2013, 05:41:13 PM
Quote from: DavidW on October 25, 2013, 09:12:32 AM
Ah... but you still choose what you wear to work! or to the party etc  So pick one now and say it's just for today. 8)

Good point, but the only problem with picking one is the guilt I feel afterwards for not picking one of the others. :)
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