Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies

Started by Don, May 15, 2007, 07:17:13 AM

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What are your three favorite Beethoven Symphonies

Sym. 1
4 (10.5%)
Sym. 2
3 (7.9%)
Sym. 3
26 (68.4%)
Sym. 4
18 (47.4%)
Sym. 5
23 (60.5%)
Sym. 6
20 (52.6%)
Sym. 7
30 (78.9%)
Sym. 8
9 (23.7%)
Sym. 9
32 (84.2%)

Total Members Voted: 38

Voting closed: May 18, 2007, 07:17:13 AM

Sergeant Rock

Quote from: D Minor on May 16, 2007, 07:09:56 AM
10 is my favorite . . . . .

Number? Volume control setting? Female rating?

Sarge
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"hey, they made a movie about
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Sergeant Rock

Quote from: Bruckner is God on May 16, 2007, 08:12:01 AM
7, 6 and 4 in that order.

Another vote for the Fourth! Unbelievable. We are now neck and neck with the Sixth and gaining fast on the Fifth. This is turning out to be quite a horse race, folks.

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"

Haffner

It's either the 1962 Herbert Von Karajan-conducted 3rd Symphony or the incredible performance of the 9th from that same cycle.


Cato


Quote from: D Minor on Today at 01:09:56 AM
Quote10 is my favorite . . . . .

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 16, 2007, 08:37:05 AM
Number? Volume control setting? Female rating?

Sarge

Obviously a reference to the Brahm... (whoops!) BRUCKNER First Symphony!!!
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Maciek

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 16, 2007, 08:38:57 AM
Another vote for the Fourth! Unbelievable. We are now neck and neck with the Sixth and gaining fast on the Fifth. This is turning out to be quite a horse race, folks.

Sarge

Since we're apparently about to start a fan club, I'd like to mention the recording that sold it to me:


(CD ACCORD, ACD 021, Sinfonia Varsovia conducted by Jan Krenz: Beethoven - 4th, Mozart - G Minor KV550, Bach/Krenz - Polyphonic Suite)

Maciek

Danny

Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth for me.   :)



Daidalos

4, 7 and 8.

I like all the others too, of course, but of those I am particularly fond.
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BachQ

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 16, 2007, 08:37:05 AM
Number? Volume control setting? Female rating?

Sarge

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Dancing Divertimentian

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Josquin des Prez

Quote from: D Minor on May 17, 2007, 07:09:15 AM
That's odd . . . . . .

Don't forget, some people here revel in being odd. They think it makes them clever, or something.  :-\

Dancing Divertimentian

Quote from: Josquin des Prez on May 17, 2007, 07:29:29 AM
Don't forget, some people here revel in being odd. They think it makes them clever, or something.  :-\

An answer like 1, 5, 7, strikes me as perfectly sane...not odd or 'clever'.

But yes, there is such a thing as thinly disguised immaturity passed off as clever. But I admit I don't see it here...



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

Scriptavolant

#78
Quote from: D Minor on May 17, 2007, 07:09:15 AM
That's odd . . . . . .

What's odd in my choice?
The fifth and seventh are some of the most popular and performed amongst Beethoven's symphonies (see the percentages?). I do love the first symphony, always considered its andante and menuetto extremely enjoyable.
I don't like the 2nd, cannot stand its larghetto. 3rd and 4th I don't know very much. The 6th I've listened too many times and so on.

All attempts at judging someone else's taste seems so futile to me.. ???

Scriptavolant

Quote from: Josquin des Prez on May 17, 2007, 07:29:29 AM
Don't forget, some people here revel in being odd. They think it makes them clever, or something.  :-\

And don't forget, being a ministry of the obvious is always more comfortable.