Favorite E Minor Symphony

Started by kyjo, August 20, 2013, 07:43:47 PM

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What is your favorite symphony in the key of E minor?

Tchaikovsky 5
8 (17.8%)
Rachmaninov 2
1 (2.2%)
Mahler 7
5 (11.1%)
Shostakovich 10
8 (17.8%)
Vaughan Williams 6
4 (8.9%)
Sibelius 1
1 (2.2%)
Hanson 1
1 (2.2%)
Thompson 2
0 (0%)
Braga Santos 4
1 (2.2%)
Bax 2
0 (0%)
Myaskovsky 4
0 (0%)
Myaskovsky 9
0 (0%)
Raff 9
0 (0%)
Draeseke 4
0 (0%)
Karlowicz "Rebirth"
0 (0%)
Ippolitov-Ivanov 1
0 (0%)
Dvorak 9
4 (8.9%)
Brahms 4
6 (13.3%)
Beach "Gaelic"
0 (0%)
Brian 2
0 (0%)
Fibich 3
0 (0%)
Furtwangler 2
1 (2.2%)
Haydn 44
4 (8.9%)
Khachaturian 1
0 (0%)
Khachaturian 2
0 (0%)
Parry 4
0 (0%)
Rimsky-Korsakov 1
0 (0%)
Vaughan Williams 9
1 (2.2%)

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Lisztianwagner

#20
August 26, 2013, 05:14:09 AM
It is a difficult choice among Tchaikovsky No.5, Mahler No.7 and Rachmaninov No.2. :-\
"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

kyjo

#21
August 26, 2013, 05:25:35 PM
Quote from: Lisztianwagner on August 26, 2013, 05:14:09 AM
It is a difficult choice among Tchaikovsky No.5, Mahler No.7 and Rachmaninov No.2. :-\

I say be cool and vote for Rach 2. 8) Poor Sergei needs a vote!

Lisztianwagner

#22
August 27, 2013, 01:37:25 PM
Quote from: kyjo on August 26, 2013, 05:25:35 PM
I say be cool and vote for Rach 2. 8) Poor Sergei needs a vote!

Very well. :D
"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

madaboutmahler

#23
September 07, 2013, 01:25:32 PM
So many of my favourites there, but of course it has to be Mahler 7 for me! :D Not that toooo much of it is in E Minor anyway.. ;)
"Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy"
— Ludwig van Beethoven

Jaakko Keskinen

#24
May 25, 2014, 08:51:09 AM
Having to choose between Sibelius, Dvorak and Brahms I finally chose Brahms. Scherzo of that symphony is just overwhelming!
"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo

Archaic Torso of Apollo

#25
May 26, 2014, 03:31:55 PM
I voted for the Hanson Nordic, not because I think it's the best, but just to give it some exposure.  :)
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jochanaan

#26
May 26, 2014, 03:50:12 PM
So many choices and all of them right! :)
Imagination + discipline = creativity

Moonfish

#27
May 26, 2014, 11:27:49 PM
Sibelius 1     
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Karl Henning

#28
May 27, 2014, 07:36:33 AM
Had to vote for ДШ X
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springrite

#29
May 27, 2014, 07:39:40 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on May 27, 2014, 07:36:33 AM
Had to vote for ДШ X

Awx is good!
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Brahmsian

#30
May 27, 2014, 07:54:30 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on May 27, 2014, 07:36:33 AM
Had to vote for ДШ X

It's leading in the poll.  Not bad for a symphony with a pointless opening movement.  :-X :D

springrite

#31
May 27, 2014, 07:57:56 AM
Quote from: ChamberNut on May 27, 2014, 07:54:30 AM
It's leading in the poll.  Not bad for a symphony with a pointless opening movement.  :-X :D

It was perfectly designed to keep you off-guard. Seems like it worked on you as well!
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

jochanaan

#32
May 28, 2014, 03:41:42 PM
Quote from: springrite on May 27, 2014, 07:57:56 AM
It was perfectly designed to keep you off-guard. Seems like it worked on you as well!
DSCH is good at that. :)
Imagination + discipline = creativity

vandermolen

#33
May 29, 2014, 12:45:02 AM
Never saw this thread. Definitely VW No. 6 for me which is actually one of my favourite symphonies of all time.
"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

#34
May 29, 2014, 04:15:31 AM
Quote from: madaboutmahler on September 07, 2013, 01:25:32 PM
So many of my favourites there, but of course it has to be Mahler 7 for me! :D Not that toooo much of it is in E Minor anyway.. ;)

That was my first thought!

Too many Platinum choices: The Rach, Dvorak, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, etc.

I am reminded - especially by the latter two - of the recordings which introduced me to the works.

Karajan's epic Shostakovich Tenth with the Berlin Philharmonic, and Koussevitzky's Tchaikovsky Fifth with of course the Boston Symphony.

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Jo498

#35
June 24, 2014, 03:23:01 AM
O dear, I overlooked Brahms 4, so I voted for Haydn's 44.
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