Are ya cyclic listener I shawl explain further on?

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Are you a marathon man,,, if you're hearing Hosokawa's it's is hole symphony 1-3, Carlo Gesualdo liber 1-6 try me I have done it once and I'm proud.

Are you cyclic when? it's about Scelsi works your need to hear his hole trilogy same for Orff Carmina Burana 1-3 acts.

Here an original post dont you think, are you a Marathonian  listeners.

Your an old dude whom listen to 10 hours straight of Gregorian during x-mas, I fully Respect you

[ChopinBroccoli]

I think you're asking something along the lines of "do you sit there and listen to all 15 Shostakovich symphonies in a row?"

The answer is absolutely not, lol

One symphony? Sure... two? Maybe... a movement from this one, a movement from that one? Sure (I once made a playlist of Scherzos... very enjoyable)

But to sit there and listen to 9 Beethovens back to back?  I suppose I could do that but I've never actually done that

[Gurn Blanston]

I don't know, I've listened to 104 Haydn symphonies in succession. Twice. I've listened to Beethoven's 32 keyboard sonatas back-to-back, several times, actually. Not to say I sit down and listen from beginning to end non-stop, but since I play music from my computer, I can make a playlist that is nearly infinite and that will play whenever I am in my computer/music/reading/writing room. Or sometimes I will put my player in random mode on a long playlist and listen to several dozens of different movements ranging from Biber to Bloch.

So yes, I can be; but no, I'm not exclusively one.

[ChopinBroccoli]

I don't know, I've listened to 104 Haydn symphonies in succession. Twice. I've listened to Beethoven's 32 keyboard sonatas back-to-back, several times, actually. Not to say I sit down and listen from beginning to end non-stop, but since I play music from my computer, I can make a playlist that is nearly infinite and that will play whenever I am in my computer/music/reading/writing room. Or sometimes I will put my player in random mode on a long playlist and listen to several dozens of different movements ranging from Biber to Bloch.

So yes, I can be; but no, I'm not exclusively one.

[steve ridgway]

Not with classical (yet) although I have listened to albums by a favourite non-classical group in sequence over a number of days or weeks. It can be interesting to follow the development over time.

[ChopinBroccoli]

Not with classical (yet) although I have listened to albums by a favourite non-classical group in sequence over a number of days or weeks. It can be interesting to follow the development over time.

I have also done this; very true

[Maestro267]

I've wanted to try going through a complete cycle in order many times. But then the size of the challenge daunts me sometimes. Plus I have this thing where I feel I *have* to complete the cycle before I can listen to anything by any other composer, otherwise I break the momentum and the thread is lost.

[j winter]

I've wanted to try going through a complete cycle in order many times. But then the size of the challenge daunts me sometimes. Plus I have this thing where I feel I *have* to complete the cycle before I can listen to anything by any other composer, otherwise I break the momentum and the thread is lost.

I suppose it's a matter of picking one's cycles... 104 Haydn symphonies is not for the faint of heart, but for instance I've listened to Brahms' four symphonies back to back more times than I could count. 

I very much agree that you can get insights with chronological listening... outside classical, without a doubt my most-played playlist is the one I made years ago of the Beatles, with all of their albums and singles arranged in date order.  I almost always listen to them that way, and the clear development from year to year is still both refreshing and astonishing.

[ChopinBroccoli]

I suppose it's a matter of picking one's cycles... 104 Haydn symphonies is not for the faint of heart, but for instance I've listened to Brahms' four symphonies back to back more times than I could count. 

I very much agree that you can get insights with chronological listening... outside classical, without a doubt my most-played playlist is the one I made years ago of the Beatles, with all of their albums and singles arranged in date order.  I almost always listen to them that way, and the clear development from year to year is still both refreshing and astonishing.

I'd program out all the Ringo tracks except "With A Little Help From My Friends" 

[Maestro267]

In my early days of listening, I did listen to the 9 Beethoven symphonies in a day, and I did the same with the Vaughan Williams symphonies on the 50th anniversary of his death in 2008.

[Florestan]

A few years ago I tried listening to all of Mahler's symphonies in a row on the same day.

After the Third I become impatiently bored.

After the Fourth I solemnly said to myself that Mozart is way and far better than Mahler (today I firmly believe this is actually true  )

After halfway through the Fifth, I cancelled the whole project and promised myself never to listen to Mahler again. (I broke my promise, of course, but only after a few years.  )

[ChopinBroccoli]

A few years ago I tried listening to all of Mahler's symphonies in a row on the same day.

After the Third I become impatiently bored.

After the Fourth I solemnly said to myself that Mozart is way and far better than Mahler (today I firmly believe this is actually true  )

After halfway through the Fifth, I cancelled the whole project and promised myself never to listen to Mahler again. (I broke my promise, of course, but only after a few years.  )

I have enough trouble getting through one Mahler symphony

[Daverz]

I'm amazed you guys were able to translate this one.  Something about  shawl?  I prefer an old sweater during long Winter listening sessions.  A hole trilogy <blush>?  Did the Marathonians prevail at Thermopylae?

[pjme]

Here an original post dont you think, are you a Marathonian  listeners.

Never ever tried to listen to symphonic cycles/Lieder-collections/stringquartet bundles or binge-listened complete Sibelius/Verdi/Orff(!!)/Monteverdi/Mahler stampedes.
A fragment, a movement can touch me enough to re-listen several times. Be it Janequin or Dutilleux.

How's life in Canada, mr. Carlo Gesualdo?  Over here, in Belgium it is really nasty: wind, rain, the last leaves whirl in the air...

[aukhawk]

I very much agree that you can get insights with chronological listening... outside classical, without a doubt my most-played playlist is the one I made years ago of the Beatles, with all of their albums and singles arranged in date order.  I almost always listen to them that way, and the clear development from year to year is still both refreshing and astonishing.

You had to be there.  Waiting and wondering, for the next Beatles single or album.  The wait was never very long.  I remember when about 20 of us kids packed into one room to watch the premiere of Magical Mystery Tour on TV.   I am the walrus, Goo goo g'joob.

[mszczuj]

Definitely. Years passed since the time I could find something really inspiring in the single work. So I have listened many times to all composer works of the same kind or to all his work chronologically or to all available works of the same kind of some period or to discography of rock band or jazz leader.

But there are two modes of my listening. With or withtout repeats of the last heard work. Then there is one cycle I'm not able to accomplish. Haydn quartets. I always start it and finish repeatidly listening to the first record because of its pure unbelivable beauty. I try to start with op. 1, or with op. 9 (real quartets), or with op. 20 (mature quartets). It always ends the same way.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Never ever tried to listen to symphonic cycles/Lieder-collections/stringquartet bundles or binge-listened complete Sibelius/Verdi/Orff(!!)/Monteverdi/Mahler stampedes.
A fragment, a movement can touch me enough to re-listen several times. Be it Janequin or Dutilleux.

How's life in Canada, mr. Carlo Gesualdo?  Over here, in Belgium it is really nasty: wind, rain, the last leaves whirl in the air...

. Well Kind sir yes my nose a bit kind dry To this point the hair feel poisonous, i wear a mask most of the time but pollution is even worst  even whit a mask. Jesus holy mother (pardon me saying) but this is awful, I'm still very Cyclical these days like a Lot of Lassus life depressing here but I'm pasty , I,m beyond this, I most take care of my parent's there old, but heck let not stop living, greeting to belgie  (flandra an Wallonia), thank fior joining in the post.