Favourite Symphony 2

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Karl Henning

#80
November 08, 2016, 10:20:45 AM
Quote from: Ken B on November 08, 2016, 10:20:03 AM
I buy Cabot Extra Old regularly as easily the best available in these parts.

Ah, very good.
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

Ghost Sonata

#81
November 10, 2016, 01:21:02 PM
Quote from: Ken B on November 08, 2016, 10:20:03 AM
I buy Cabot Extra Old regularly as easily the best available in these parts.

+1.
I like Conor71's "I  like old Music" signature.

Maestro267

#82
November 10, 2016, 01:23:33 PM
When I saw the thread title, I thought it was just a sequel to a Favourite Symphony thread.

My favourite Symphony No. 2 is Mahler's, followed by Elgar's. Other favourites include Bax, Vaughan Williams (1913 version), Bernstein and Mathias.

Ken B

#83
November 10, 2016, 01:27:11 PM
Quote from: Maestro267 on November 10, 2016, 01:23:33 PM
When I saw the thread title, I thought it was just a sequel to a Favourite Symphony thread.

My favourite Symphony No. 2 is Mahler's, followed by Elgar's. Other favourites include Bax, Vaughan Williams (1913 version), Bernstein and Mathias.
Ah, but what's your favourite cheese?

Karl Henning

#84
November 10, 2016, 01:33:38 PM
We've become Manchego addicts of late.
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

Ken B

#85
November 10, 2016, 03:13:14 PM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on November 10, 2016, 01:33:38 PM
We've become Manchego addicts of late.
I prefer his Third, to be honest.

ComposerOfAvantGarde

#86
November 12, 2016, 06:46:08 PM Last Edit: November 12, 2016, 06:47:50 PM by jessop
Hmmmm

Mahler
Shostakovich
Sibelius
Maxwell Davies
Lutosławski
Beethoven
Honegger
Schubert
Knussen
Glass
Stravinsky

I was thinking about including Henze but it isn't really one of my favourites from him anyway

vandermolen

#88
November 14, 2016, 02:35:30 AM Last Edit: November 14, 2016, 02:38:47 AM by vandermolen
Today's list.

I agree with The new erato and Grace Williams's Second Symphony is a great choice - her teacher was Vaughan Williams whose Symphony 6 is echoed in the fine G.Williams score.

Ben Haim

Piston

Khachaturian 'The Bell'

Glazunov (the best of his eight I think)

Havergal Brian

Wensleydale - whose 104 minute Symphony 2 makes the 'Gothic' of Havergal Brian sound like Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony.

8)
"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).

SharpEleventh

#89
November 14, 2016, 04:49:53 AM
Rachmaninoff and Scriabin.

Wanderer

#90
November 14, 2016, 05:48:24 AM
Quote from: SharpEleventh on November 14, 2016, 04:49:53 AM
Scriabin

Yes!

My 2015 list still stands. I seem to have forgotten Beethoven, probably because he's a given in nos. 1-9.

Quote from: Wanderer on April 18, 2015, 02:12:38 PM
Not in order of preference:

Schumann
Brahms
Mendelssohn
Mahler
Elgar
Schmidt
Sibelius

mc ukrneal

#91
November 14, 2016, 06:09:24 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on November 14, 2016, 02:35:30 AM

Wensleydale - whose 104 minute Symphony 2 makes the 'Gothic' of Havergal Brian sound like Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony.

8)
A bit of a ....cheesy choice don't you think?! :)
Be kind to your fellow posters!!

Karl Henning

#92
November 14, 2016, 06:15:50 AM
Quote from: mc ukrneal on November 14, 2016, 06:09:24 AM
A bit of a ....cheesy choice don't you think?! :)

Thank you!
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

Cato

#93
November 14, 2016, 06:29:19 AM
Quote from: mc ukrneal on November 14, 2016, 06:09:24 AM
A bit of a ....cheesy choice don't you think?! :)

No, absolutely not!

Marcel Camembert's Second Symphony would be the cheesy choice!  ??? :o

Written in a cottage outside of Limburg while the composer was on vacation trying to soothe his curdled nerves, the symphony goes whey beyond his First Symphony, which was simply krafted as an imitation of the works of Dutch composer and part-time dairy farmer Val Veeta.

"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

vandermolen

#94
November 14, 2016, 06:58:54 AM
Quote from: Cato on November 14, 2016, 06:29:19 AM
No, absolutely not!

Marcel Camembert's Second Symphony would be the cheesy choice!  ??? :o

Written in a cottage outside of Limburg while the composer was on vacation trying to soothe his curdled nerves, the symphony goes whey beyond his First Symphony, which was simply krafted as an imitation of the works of Dutch composer and part-time dairy farmer Val Veeta.

An excellent choice I think. I wonder if anyone here knows of a good recording of Sibelius's 'Tapioca pudding suite' conducted by Charles Munch (choral version with the Ambrosian Singers).

And to think that I started this thread.  ::)

Oh yes, Scriabin is a good choice although his No.1 (minus the last movement) is my favourite.
"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).

vandermolen

#95
November 14, 2016, 06:59:19 AM
Quote from: mc ukrneal on November 14, 2016, 06:09:24 AM
A bit of a ....cheesy choice don't you think?! :)

:)
"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).

Cato

#96
November 14, 2016, 07:11:52 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on November 14, 2016, 06:58:54 AM
An excellent choice I think. I wonder if anyone here knows of a good recording of Sibelius's 'Tapioca pudding suite' conducted by Charles Munch (choral version with the Ambrosian Singers).

And to think that I started this thread.  ::)

Who knew it would become such dangerous territory? 0:)

To quote my list from 2015:

Quote from: Cato on May 28, 2015, 10:43:12 AM

Bruckner, Hartmann, Ives, Krenek, Mahler, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schumann, Scriabin, Taneyev, Toch, Vermeulen
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

Ken B

#97
November 14, 2016, 07:55:36 AM
James Rennet "Red" Leicester, Symphony 2

vandermolen

#98
November 14, 2016, 09:59:56 AM
Quote from: Ken B on November 14, 2016, 07:55:36 AM
James Rennet "Red" Leicester, Symphony 2

Great choice, to which I add:

Jarlsberg's Symphony 2 'The Cheshire'.
"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).

Androcles

#99
November 20, 2016, 04:26:01 AM
Elgar for me.
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.
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