That One Symphony That You Never Get Tired Of....

[Mark]

One symphony I never tire of? Brahms' Third. Or Saint-Saens' Third. Or Beethoven's Third. Or ...

[beclemund]

While there are symphonies that I consider currently not to my liking, there are none that I am "tired" of. Given the right mood, there is nothing in my collection that I will not go back and listen to, sometimes with the repeat button on.

[mahlertitan]

Bruckner's 5th, for some reason, i keep listening to it over and over again.

[BachQ]

It's interesting that you like what doesn't exist.
Carlos Kleiber never recorded the Brahms 4th with the Berlin Philharmonic.

Prove to us that this recording doesn't exist ..........

[karlhenning]

Indeed, Mark: many a symphony I never tire of.

[Mahlered]

I'd have to say Mahler's Fourth. I love many pieces, and with Mahler's symphonies in particular I come and go in phases of which one I listen to most often. The Fourth, however, always puts me in a good mood and helps distract me from whatever stresses are in my own life. It's one I haven't gone through a phase of listening to a huge number of times in a short period, but it's one I listen to often in regular intervals.

[mahlertitan]

I'd have to say Mahler's Fourth. I love many pieces, and with Mahler's symphonies in particular I come and go in phases of which one I listen to most often. The Fourth, however, always puts me in a good mood and helps distract me from whatever stresses are in my own life. It's one I haven't gone through a phase of listening to a huge number of times in a short period, but it's one I listen to often in regular intervals.

I partially agree, the 4th is indeed the "lightest" of the 9, but the symphony that put me in a good mood is the first symphony, the ending is so powerful that it can bring you out of a depression.

[Bonehelm]

Mahler 1
Beethoven 5
Tchaikovsky 6
Mozart 40

The 2 in the middle are too emotionally overwhelming for repeated listening over a short period of time, however.

[matti]

Prokofiev 6th. Just listening to it: the SNO with one of the most gifted sight-readers in the world.   

[not edward]

Prokofiev 6th. Just listening to it: the SNO with one of the most gifted sight-readers in the world.   

Wait till you hear it under Mravinsky.

[karlhenning]

Prokofiev 6th. Just listening to it: the SNO with one of the most gifted sight-readers in the world.   

Ooh! You're wicked!

Welcome back, Matti! 

[matti]

Thank you, Karl. 

[jochanaan]

I can't reduce it to one.  I have to include at least nine; I won't mention the composer, but his initials are LvB. Or was that GM, or AB?

[BachQ]

Or was that GM

Giacomo Meyerbeer?

[BachQ]

I can't reduce it to one.   Or was that ..... AB?

Alban Berg?

[btpaul674]

Arnold Bax?

[Iago]

Quote from: Iago on April 19, 2007, 11:56:05 PM
"It's interesting that you like what doesn't exist.
Carlos Kleiber never recorded the Brahms 4th with the Berlin Philharmonic".

D Minor then said,
"Prove to us that this recording doesn't exist .........."
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Aren't you allowed to be wrong? You are in this case. The commercial recording on DG of Kleiber conducting the Brahms 4th is with the VIENNA PHILHARMONIC. If you have one with the BPO, it is certainly an unauthorized recording. And considering just how INfrequently Kleiber conducted the BPO, I doubt if it exists.

[jurajjak]

I would say (some have already been mentioned by others):

Barber 1
Prokofiev 6
Prokofiev 3 (esp. Riccardo Muti's)
Saint Saens 3
Dvorak 9
Myaskovsky 27
Hovhaness 50
Mahler 9
William Schuman 3
Vaughan Williams 6
Strauss Alpine Symphony
Antheil Jazz Symphony (not really a symphony, but...)
Schnittke #3



Andrew

[Solitary Wanderer]

Wagner ~ #1

[rw1883]

Aren't you allowed to be wrong? You are in this case. The commercial recording on DG of Kleiber conducting the Brahms 4th is with the VIENNA PHILHARMONIC. If you have one with the BPO, it is certainly an unauthorized recording. And considering just how INfrequently Kleiber conducted the BPO, I doubt if it exists.

An unauthorized recording does exist: 28 June 1994, Berlin Phil.

I have the Memories CD-ME 1013 (2004).