Top 5 most powerful symphony openings

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SymphonicAddict

#20
October 23, 2017, 08:22:20 PM
How I could forget the astounding beginning of Langgaard's Symphony 10. It's like the birth of something transcendent involving mystical forces. I can't get enough of this impressive piece!

springrite

#21
October 23, 2017, 08:35:54 PM
Brian 10

Mahler 6

Mahler 3

Brahms 1

Prokofiev 3
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

vandermolen

#22
November 03, 2017, 05:41:27 AM
Bax: Symphony 6
"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

#23
November 03, 2017, 06:41:45 AM
Dudes!  Put down those hookahs!  ??? 8)

I scroll through all the candidates and the  0:) BRUCKNER  0:) NINTH SYMPHONY  0:)  is nowhere to be found???!!!

C'mon!  Get with the program!  :D
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

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

André

#24
November 03, 2017, 07:39:37 AM
I would categorize the Bruckner 9th's opening as fitting to belong to a list of « most sinister », « most portentous » or « most ominous » openings!

Cato

#25
November 03, 2017, 08:14:29 AM
Quote from: André on November 03, 2017, 07:39:37 AM
I would categorize the Bruckner 9th's opening as fitting to belong to a list of « most sinister », « most portentous » or « most ominous » openings!

AMEN!  0:)   

Another candidate not yet mentioned:

Scriabin: Mysterium

https://www.youtube.com/v/g2WYFb0_l6w

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

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