Six symphonies where the final movement is the best.

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July 18, 2021, 04:37:10 PM
Let's see...

Raid 1
Braga Santos 4
Hindemith Mathis der Maler
Atterberg 3
Glière 3
Brahms 4
The current annihilation of a people on this planet (you know which one it is) is the most documented and at the same time the most preposterously denied.

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July 19, 2021, 01:14:22 PM
Quote from: relm1 on July 18, 2021, 06:12:52 AM
One thing I am struggling with from your list is RVW Sea Symphony.  Not because the final movement isn't wonderful but part of what makes it so wonderful is it's the powerful and transcendent culmination of what preceded it. It's such a natural and mature transition from the other works that I see it as the culmination of the other movements, something very rare.  Not that it isn't the best but it's even greater when heard in its contextual totality.
I see what you mean - it's just that I think that the finale contains the best music and I wouldn't want to hear it out of context. Very much agree with Cesar about Gliere's Third Symphony.
"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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