Eight Great Eighth Symphonies

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vandermolen

March 09, 2017, 12:51:35 PM Last Edit: March 09, 2017, 01:52:16 PM by vandermolen
Greatest/Favourite - up to you.

Greatest:

Bruckner: favourite recording: Horenstein Vox/Turnabout or BBC Legends
Shostakovich: favourite recording: Previn, LSO (EMI version)

Favourites:

Rubbra: a magical score: favourite recording, Del Mar (Lyrita)
Havergal Brian (Groves RLPO)
Glazunov (many good recordings)
Vagn Holmboe (Semkow: Vox/Turnabout - not on CD  >:()
Rautavaara (Naxos but Ondine and BIS versions are all fine)
Pettersson: Commissiona Baltimore SO DGG LP - not on CD  >:(
"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).

Brian

#1
March 09, 2017, 01:03:09 PM Last Edit: March 09, 2017, 01:12:20 PM by Brian
I currently only have 6 and a quarter.

Beethoven!
Schubert! (C Major)
Dvorak!
Rautavaara
Atterberg
Shostakovich
Bruckner (adagio only)

EDIT: added Atterberg

Mahlerian

#2
March 09, 2017, 01:08:25 PM
Hmm...eight eighths in relative order of preference...

Bruckner
Mahler
Beethoven
Haydn
Shostakovich
Dvorak
Sessions
Vaughan Williams
"l do not consider my music as atonal, but rather as non-tonal. I feel the unity of all keys. Atonal music by modern composers admits of no key at all, no feeling of any definite center." - Arnold Schoenberg

Sergeant Rock

#3
March 09, 2017, 01:09:17 PM Last Edit: March 10, 2017, 02:12:35 PM by Sergeant Rock
Havergal Brian (Groves)
Mahler (Chailly)
Bruckner (Maazel/Berlin)
Dvorak (Giulini/Chicago)
Arnold (Gamba)
Beethoven (Norrington/LCP)
Vaughan Williams (Haitink)
Atterberg (Rasilainen)
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"

Brian

#4
March 09, 2017, 01:12:03 PM

vandermolen

#5
March 09, 2017, 01:53:25 PM
Quote from: Brian on March 09, 2017, 01:03:09 PM
I currently only have 6 and a quarter.

Beethoven!
Schubert! (C Major)
Dvorak!
Rautavaara
Atterberg
Shostakovich
Bruckner (adagio only)

EDIT: added Atterberg
I would choose the slow movement of the Atterberg which is wonderful.
"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).

TheGSMoeller

#6
March 09, 2017, 04:37:04 PM
Not a very adventurous list, but these are some real classics...

Haydn Kijken/La Petite Bande
Beethoven Vanska/Minn
Schubert Either Unfinished or Great C Major, whichever one works  ;) Harnoncourt/RPO
Dvorak Kubelik/BPO
Bruckner Wand/BPO
Glass Davies/Bruckner Linz
Mahler Boulez/Staat.Berlin

Too bad Sibelius and Prokofiev didn't make it to 8.

Cato

#7
March 09, 2017, 05:04:39 PM
Excellent lists, mine would be similar, but here is someone whose 8th Symphony, one of the greatest 20th century masterpieces, has not been chosen:

KARL AMADEUS HARTMANN!

https://www.youtube.com/v/U6MbSmJH4xQ

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

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

Todd

#8
March 09, 2017, 05:40:17 PM
Bruckner (Giulini, DG)
Schubert (Giulini, DG if Unfinished; Hengelbrock if Great C Major)
Dvorak (Giulini, EMI)
Beethoven (Chailly)
Shostakovich (Mravinsky)
Mahler (Nagano)
Vaughn Williams (Previn)
Rautavaara (Franck)
The universe is change; life is opinion. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

People would rather believe than know - E.O. Wilson

Propaganda death ensemble - Tom Araya

springrite

#9
March 09, 2017, 05:51:49 PM
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on March 09, 2017, 04:37:04 PM


Too bad Sibelius and Prokofiev didn't make it to 8.

No worries. One day someone will find a page and half of sketches and complete them.



Pettersson
Beethoven
Dvorak
Bruckner
Schubert
Atterberg
Aho
Rubbra

Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

amw

#10
March 09, 2017, 06:46:34 PM
Beethoven - Krivine
Schubert C major - Bernstein NYPO, apparently
Dvořák - anyone
Bruckner - Jochum St Florian
Hartmann - Kubelík

I guess Mahler and RVW and Nørgård for the remainder but wow, there aren't really that many eighth symphonies >_>

SymphonicAddict

#11
March 09, 2017, 08:00:30 PM Last Edit: March 09, 2017, 08:03:32 PM by SymphonicAddict
These lists have become a classic :P

There aren't many options, so...

Dvorák
Shostakovich
Bruckner
Vaughan Williams
Rautavaara
Arnold
Schubert (B minor)
Glazunov

Mahler didn't blow me here  :(
I need to listen to some of your favorites (Holmboe, Pettersson, Atterberg, Glass, Rubbra and possibly Miaskovsky)

Mirror Image

#12
March 09, 2017, 08:04:51 PM
Only Bruckner, RVW, Shostakovich, and Dvořák come to mind immediately, but that's about it. There's really not much to choose from here.

vandermolen

#13
March 09, 2017, 11:03:14 PM Last Edit: March 09, 2017, 11:04:58 PM by vandermolen
Quote from: SymphonicAddict on March 09, 2017, 08:00:30 PM
These lists have become a classic :P

There aren't many options, so...

Dvorák
Shostakovich
Bruckner
Vaughan Williams
Rautavaara
Arnold
Schubert (B minor)
Glazunov

Mahler didn't blow me here  :(
I need to listen to some of your favorites (Holmboe, Pettersson, Atterberg, Glass, Rubbra and possibly Miaskovsky)
The slow movement of the Miaskovsky is very fine - once described as the music of 'A Russian Delius of the Steppes'.  :)
Must listen to the Aho and Glass.
Thanks for all the replies - read with much interest.
"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).

Christo

#14
March 10, 2017, 12:48:15 AM
Another variation on a familiar theme. Agree with many of you, but think nobody mentioned Tournemire and Tubin so far:

Arnold (Handley)
Brian (Groves)
Bruckner (Kubelik)
Holmboe (Hughes)
Shostakovich (Haitink)
Tournemire (Bartholomée)
Tubin (Järvi père)
Vaughan Williams (Thomson)

Wild card: Röntgen (Porcelijn)

... 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

Karl Henning

#15
March 10, 2017, 01:04:08 AM
Dvořák | Giulini, CSO (was listening to this just a couple of days ago — coincidence?_?_?)  8)
Bruckner | Wand, Berliner Philharmoniker
Langgaard « Minder ved Amalienborg » | Dausgaard, Danish Radio
Hartmann | Metzmacher, Bamberger
Schuman | Lenny, NY Phil
Wuorinen « Theologoumena » | Levine, BSO  8)
Shostakovich | Jansons, Pbgh
Vaughan Williams | Bakels, Bournemouth

Honorable Mention:

Mennin | Columbus Symphony
Tubin | Järvi, Swedish Radio
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

Christo

#16
March 10, 2017, 02:28:52 AM
For those who hold there's little choice - not mentioned so far, AFAIK:

Englund
Sallinen
Rosenberg
Piston
Frankel
Søderlind
Tüur
Sæverud
Wellesz
Tansman
Kinsella
Schuman
Panufnik
Hoddinott
Marttinen
Schnittke
Simpson
Diamond
Malipiero
Villa-Lobos
Moyzes
Josephs
Fernström
Hill
Lloyd
Nørholm
Milhaud
Harris
Santoro
Meulemans
Badings
Douglas
Langgaard
Coates
Weinberg
Cowell
Ivanovs
Bentzon
Kozeluch
Mozart
Fordell
Hovhaness
Bourgeois
Haydn
Dittersdorf
Segerstam
... 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

Karl Henning

#17
March 10, 2017, 02:43:45 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on March 10, 2017, 01:04:08 AM
Langgaard « Minder ved Amalienborg » | Dausgaard, Danish Radio
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

Karl Henning

#18
March 10, 2017, 02:44:10 AM
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

Karl Henning

#19
March 10, 2017, 02:44:44 AM
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
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