Your Favorite Symphonies

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Christo

#40
August 21, 2016, 11:07:18 PM
Quote from: orfeo on August 19, 2016, 05:27:02 AMHolmboe - 8 and 10, and 2 and 5 and 6 and 9 and...
.. 7, 8, 11, 13?  8)
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

vandermolen

#41
August 21, 2016, 11:19:42 PM
Quote from: Christo on August 21, 2016, 10:35:39 PM
Raid is safely rescued in my long-list, see below. In return: what made you betray your love for Suk's Asrael Symphony? Or Gibbs' 3 Westmorland? 8)
OMG How could I have excluded those great scores!? :o :( ::)
"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).

Mister Sharpe

#42
August 22, 2016, 04:03:30 AM
The good showing here for Honegger and Martinů warms the cockles of my heart!
"We need great performances of lesser works more than we need lesser performances of great ones." Alex Ross

Karl Henning

#43
August 22, 2016, 05:41:30 AM
Now of course, I think of Woody Allen's great quip in Love and Death:  That's just great — hot cockles.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Mister Sharpe

#44
August 22, 2016, 05:54:20 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on August 22, 2016, 05:41:30 AM
Now of course, I think of Woody Allen's great quip in Love and Death:  That's just great — hot cockles.

Sure wish you hadn't  :laugh:  That film just overflows with wit and wisdom - "To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down."
"We need great performances of lesser works more than we need lesser performances of great ones." Alex Ross

Christo

#45
August 22, 2016, 06:07:35 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on August 19, 2016, 07:15:29 AMas well as Bloch's early 'Symphony in C sharp minor':
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Okay, I succumb. This being about the umptiest time you've recommended it, I now finally ordered a copy. Of the Naxos recording, not the earlier BIS. Hope you're contented.  8)
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

vandermolen

#46
August 22, 2016, 12:54:50 PM Last Edit: August 22, 2016, 12:57:34 PM by vandermolen
Quote from: Christo on August 22, 2016, 06:07:35 AM
Okay, I succumb. This being about the umptiest time you've recommended it, I now finally ordered a copy. Of the Naxos recording, not the earlier BIS. Hope you're contented.  8)
Yes, delighted. I'm annoyed at having missed a live performance of it in London a few years ago (Dalia Atlas). The redemptive (IMHO) ending of the symphony is a great moment. It is an early work and I look forward to hearing your views, unless, of course, you are at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, down the road, facing CD smuggling charges. 8)
"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).

Jaakko Keskinen

#47
August 26, 2016, 01:57:17 AM
Mozart: Symphonies 25, 29, 38, 40
Haydn: Symphony 46
Beethoven: Symphonies 3, 5, 6, 7, 9
Schubert: "Unfinished"
Berlioz: Harold en Italie
Liszt: Faust Symphony
Sibelius: Symphonies 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
Debussy: La Mer
Shostakovich: Symphony 3
Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
Rachmaninov: Symphony 1
Bruckner: Symphonies 6 and 7
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde, Symphony 1, 3, 4, 6, 9
Mendelssohn: Italian Symphony
Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Brahms: Symphonies 1, 2, 4

I'm sure I forgot someone but this'll do for now.
"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

Christo

#48
August 26, 2016, 02:15:09 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on August 22, 2016, 12:54:50 PMYes, delighted. I'm annoyed at having missed a live performance of it in London a few years ago (Dalia Atlas). The redemptive (IMHO) ending of the symphony is a great moment. It is an early work and I look forward to hearing your views, unless, of course, you are at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, down the road, facing CD smuggling charges. 8)
I protest, the smuggling takes place in international waters; I'll invoke Grotius~! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Liberum
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Karl Henning

#49
August 26, 2016, 02:56:21 AM
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Madiel

#50
August 26, 2016, 04:10:05 AM
Nobody has to apologise for using their brain.

Karl Henning

#51
August 26, 2016, 04:18:12 AM
Maybe it was a typo for 13  8)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Cato

#52
August 26, 2016, 04:20:38 AM
Quote from: Alberich on August 26, 2016, 01:57:17 AM

Rachmaninov: Symphony 1


Quote from: karlhenning on August 26, 2016, 02:56:21 AM
YES!

AMEN!!!  0:) 0:) 0:) 0:)   Talk about under-rated!
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North Star

#53
August 26, 2016, 04:34:44 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on August 26, 2016, 04:18:12 AM
Maybe it was a typo for 13  8)
Or 4..
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Jaakko Keskinen

#54
August 26, 2016, 07:13:40 AM
I would probably like Shostakovich more were it not for his excessive use of eardrum-piercing dissonances...
"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

Karl Henning

#55
August 26, 2016, 07:25:58 AM
Well, you really did mean 3, then  8)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

vandermolen

#56
August 27, 2016, 12:06:45 AM
Quote from: Christo on August 26, 2016, 02:15:09 AM
I protest, the smuggling takes place in international waters; I'll invoke Grotius~! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Liberum
:)
"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).

vandermolen

#57
August 27, 2016, 12:09:46 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on August 26, 2016, 02:56:21 AM
YES!
+1

My favourite Rachmaninov symphony. I love the opening of the last movement (once a TV signature theme in Britain) and the way in which the symphony, having threatened to do so for some time, finally topples into the abyss at the end - wonderful!
"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).
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