Favourite symphony no. 3

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The greates of all third symphonies ?

Beethoven's (Eroica)
Mendelssohn's (Scottish)
Schumann's (Rhenish)
Brahms's
Bruckner's
Tchaikovsky's (Polish)
Saint-Saëns's (Organ symphony)
Mahler's
Sibelius's
Scriabin's (Divine Poem)
Glière's (Ilya Muromets)
Prokofiev's
Rachmaninov's
Khachaturian's
Gorecki's (of Sorrowful Songs)
Other (which one ?)
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jochanaan

#60
April 17, 2015, 09:11:26 AM
Quote from: EigenUser on April 17, 2015, 12:18:29 AM
I can't believe I'm the only voter for Schumann's 3rd! No one cares about Rhineland?
Oh, I like it very much.  But the competition here is formidable! ;D
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Karl Henning

#61
April 17, 2015, 09:11:53 AM
Quote from: jochanaan on April 17, 2015, 09:11:26 AM
But the competition here is formidable! ;D

Oui.
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nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

North Star

#62
April 17, 2015, 10:02:32 AM
Composers should have just moved straight on to no. 4 after Beethoven wrote his 3rd.
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Karl Henning

#63
April 17, 2015, 10:03:38 AM
"Beethoven Anxiety"
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

vandermolen

#64
April 18, 2015, 01:21:24 AM
Quote from: Alberich on December 06, 2014, 06:40:56 AM
It was tough to choose between Bruckner, Beethoven and Sibelius but ultimately chose Sibelius. I don't understand why people don't like it more :( Oh well, each to his own.



+1
"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).

EigenUser

#65
April 18, 2015, 02:10:01 AM
Quote from: Jo498 on April 17, 2015, 12:37:33 AM
I like the symphony but I find it uneven. The first two movements and the 4th (Cologne Cathedral) are good or great but the little Andante in between and the actual finale seems kind of trite and almost superfluous to me.
The first two movements are the most memorable for me, by far. I definitely like the 2nd and 4th symphonies better, though.
Beethoven's Op. 133 -- A fugue so bad that even Beethoven himself called it "Grosse".

kyjo

#66
October 22, 2017, 02:52:40 PM Last Edit: October 23, 2017, 06:31:37 AM by kyjo
Top 10:

Saint-Saëns
Mahler
Sibelius
Brahms
Atterberg
Casella
Copland
Hanson
Honegger
Melartin

Honorable mentions:

Dvorak
Berwald
Yoshimatsu
Weinberg
Braga Santos
Holmboe
Nielsen
Roussel
Enescu
RVW
Schumann
Mendelssohn
Rachmaninoff
Prokofiev
Bax
Diamond
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Maestro267

#67
October 23, 2017, 10:50:34 AM
Tough call. Voted for Gliére. That's an extraordinary work! Others I like:

Penderecki
Corigliano (Circus Maximus, for antiphonal wind band forces)
Bantock (The Cyprian Goddess)
Brian
Lutoslawski

Christo

#68
October 23, 2017, 11:53:10 AM
I counted many votes for Vaughan Williams 3 'A Pastoral Symphony' here; can it still be added to the list?  ::)
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

SymphonicAddict

#69
October 23, 2017, 03:29:46 PM Last Edit: October 23, 2017, 05:10:27 PM by SymphonicAddict
Currently, they remain my favorites:

Nielsen
Atterberg
Melartin
Tubin
Holmboe
Braga Santos
Hanson
Martinu
Glière
Beethoven
Honegger (I listened to it recently, so powerful!)
Raff (unjustly neglected. The work is just ravishing!)
Casella
Rangström
Peterson-Berger
Szymanowski
Saint-Saëns
Brahms
Alfvén
Magnard
Copland
Norgard

vandermolen

#70
October 24, 2017, 03:39:38 AM Last Edit: October 24, 2017, 03:59:36 AM by vandermolen
If I had to narrow my list down to one I think I'd opt for Bax with Diamond, Arnell, Harris, Miaskovsky and Bate as close runners up. These are 'favourites' for 'greatest' I'd definitely choose Sibelius. Honegger would work for both lists.
"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).
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