Your Four Favorite Shostakovich Symphonies

Started by karlhenning, May 16, 2007, 05:20:08 AM

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Which four could you absolutely, positively not go on, without?

№ 1 in F Minor, Opus 10
4 (14.8%)
№ 2 in B Major 'To October', Opus 14
3 (11.1%)
№ 3 in E-flat Major 'First of May', Opus 20
2 (7.4%)
№ 4 in C Minor, Opus 43
12 (44.4%)
№ 5 in D Minor, Opus 47
24 (88.9%)
№ 6 in B Minor, Opus 54
6 (22.2%)
№ 7 in C Major 'Leningrad', Opus 60
10 (37%)
№ 8 in C Minor, Opus 65
17 (63%)
№ 9 in E-flat Major, Opus 70
2 (7.4%)
№ 10 in E Minor, Opus 93
20 (74.1%)
№ 11 in G Minor '1905', Opus 103
10 (37%)
№ 12 in D Minor '1917', Opus 112
4 (14.8%)
№ 13 in B-flat Minor 'Babi Yar', Opus 113
10 (37%)
№ 14 for soprano, bass, strings & percussion, Opus 135
11 (40.7%)
№ 15 in A Major, Opus 141
10 (37%)

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Voting closed: May 31, 2007, 05:20:08 AM

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BachQ

#60
May 17, 2007, 11:07:50 AM
Quote from: greg on May 17, 2007, 05:46:47 AM
and make custom symphonies, that'd be cool 

You can . . . . . . It's called "composing" . . . . . . . Customize to your heart's content . . . . . . .

greg

#61
May 17, 2007, 12:10:13 PM
Quote from: D Minor on May 17, 2007, 11:07:50 AM
You can . . . . . . It's called "composing" . . . . . . . Customize to your heart's content . . . . . . .
it's a new art-form "Customposing".
My first masterpiece was a little something I entitled "Into the Light", a symphony by Mahler consisting of the 3 movements :
I. 1st from the 2nd
II. 3rd from the 6th
III. finale from the 2nd

and it worked so perfectly- the keys are Eb maj, C min, Eb maj.



my next project might be something that mixes fragments of song cycles by Schubert and Schoenberg  >:D

karlhenning

#62
May 17, 2007, 12:13:34 PM
The Book of the Hanging Mill-Girl

greg

#63
May 17, 2007, 12:14:38 PM
Quote from: karlhenning on May 17, 2007, 12:13:34 PM
The Book of the Hanging Mill-Girl
Hey, if PDQ Bach were reading this......


i wouldn't be surprised to find out what his next album will be called

PaulR

#64
May 17, 2007, 05:51:03 PM
1. 10
2. 5
3. 13
4. 15

Dancing Divertimentian

#65
May 17, 2007, 07:03:47 PM Last Edit: May 17, 2007, 07:08:58 PM by donwyn
Quote from: erato on May 17, 2007, 10:37:09 AM
I like "The Nose" a lot myself and think it strange we don't get more recordings of it.

Indeed, The Nose is a very fine work!

And as far as I know there are only two complete recordings (on CD) in existence: Rozhdestvensky on Melodiya and Jordan on Cascavelle.

Only two...

Jordan's is actually quite recent (2004) yet the gap between it and Rozhd is something like 30 years!! (mid 70's)

Unfortunately, recent though it is, the Jordan is already doing the disappearing act. Getting harder and harder to track down. It's bad enough that Rozhd's is long gone but for Jordan's to disappear so soon...there's little chance for future generations to get acquainted with this work.

Maybe some enterprising opera house will pull up its knickers and feature it...perhaps the Met.....................






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

val

#66
May 18, 2007, 01:10:10 AM
My five favorites:

14th

8th

2nd

First

15th


But I never heard the 3, 11 and 12

greg

#67
May 18, 2007, 05:44:05 AM
man, those are some creepy covers........

BachQ

#68
May 18, 2007, 09:22:37 AM
Quote from: greg on May 18, 2007, 05:44:05 AM
man, those are some creepy covers........

creepy . . . . . . yes . . . . . .

rubio

#69
May 19, 2007, 06:41:59 AM
After completing the Barshai box set I must say that 8, 5, 4 and 10 are my favourite symphonies in that order (13 is close to the top as well).
"One good thing about music, when it hits- you feel no pain" Bob Marley
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