Ultimate Bruckner Symphony Showdown, Zweiter Teil

Started by Mirror Image, June 27, 2016, 07:11:21 PM

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May the better symphony win!

Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major
5 (29.4%)
Symphony No. 6 in A major
12 (70.6%)

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Voting closed: November 24, 2016, 06:11:21 PM

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Mirror Image

June 27, 2016, 07:11:21 PM


It's time for another poll. Now, here are two symphonies that I love to pieces, but choosing which one I believe is my favorite is a bit tougher to decide. I'm going to just go ahead and vote for the 6th, because this is one symphony that took me the longest to 'get' in comparison with the others. The Adagio and Scherzo alone get my vote straight away. There's just something inherently different about the 6th than all of its predecessors and what he would go on to do in the 7th, 8th, and 9th.

Dancing Divertimentian

#2
June 27, 2016, 07:59:08 PM
Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

Cato

#4
June 28, 2016, 06:22:27 AM
WHY must you torture us like this?!   $:)

"Die Sechste ist die Keckste!"   ;) 

Ah, Starbuck, the Fifth, the Fifth!  It is a mild, wild wind!  ;)

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Mirror Image

#5
June 28, 2016, 06:26:30 AM
Quote from: Cato on June 28, 2016, 06:22:27 AM
WHY must you torture us like this?!   $:)

"Die Sechste ist die Keckste!"   ;) 

Ah, Starbuck, the Fifth, the Fifth!  It is a mild, wild wind!  ;)

Oh, but torture is so much fun! ;D

Sergeant Rock

#6
June 28, 2016, 12:26:56 PM
Tough choice. 5 is the greater symphony. 6 I just enjoy more...

Thinking...

I'll vote for the latter.

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

DaveF

#7
June 28, 2016, 12:44:49 PM
If there were one piece of music in the entire world that I could forget completely, so as to have the pleasure of rediscovering it, it would be no.5.  Although the beginning of the finale remains surprising however many times you hear it, I would just like to be surprised by it for the first time again.  I love the humour and humility of it - it's as though he is saying, "Beethoven shook his fist at heaven to dismiss the themes from his earlier movements; I, a simple Austrian peasant, can only make a rude noise on a clarinet."  And then the rude noise turns into the subject of one of the great symphonic fugues -

Love no.6 too.
"All the world is birthday cake" - George Harrison

Jo498

#8
June 28, 2016, 01:11:24 PM
Bruckner's 5th was not the first Bruckner symphony I heard, but the first I bought on CD (Wand/Cologne). I am not sure if I really love the piece (the finale is somewhat overblown) but it is, together with the 9th the most interesting and fascinating Bruckner symphony for me.
But 6th is more lovely, so I refuse to make a decision.
Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
- Blaise Pascal
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