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Author: rbell96
Date: 2006-04-03 22:15
Just a moment of idle time wasting but what are people's favourite symphonies?
In no particular order, here are my top 10:
Dvorak 8
Tchaik 5
Mahler 1
Beethoven 6
Beethoven 9
Brahms 1
Sibelius 1
Mendelssohn 3
Shostakovich 5
Rach 2
Dannyboy - Sibelius 2?! (Private joke!)
Rob
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Author: bufclar
Date: 2006-04-03 22:30
In no particular order:
Dvorak 7
Rach 2
Nielsen 5
Mahler 4
Brahms 1 and 3
Beethoven 7 and 9
Prokofiev 5
Tchaikovsky 4
It's hard to just list 10
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Author: clarinetist04
Date: 2006-04-03 22:41
Brahms 1st
Beethoven 9th
William Henry Fry's Christmas Symphony
Tchaikovsky 4th
Sibelius 2nd
Mendelssohn 3rd
Mozart 40th
Corigliano's Gazebo Dances (does this count?)
Persichetti 6th
Ives' Holidays Symphony
That's all I can come up with off the top of my head...as mundane as it may be, a very intriguing question, really. I'd be interested to see how many repeats there are and who is blatantly left off of everyone's list...Bruckner maybe? We'll see, I suppose.
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Author: Danny Boy
Date: 2006-04-03 23:23
You can't post a private joke on a web forum Rob. lol
For anyone interested, Rob is referring to a recent performance of Sibelius 2 where I reached to change clarinets at the end of the third movement and couldn't get the barrell off my new clarinets...
Cue quick semitone transposition, the ONE wrong note I played happened to be in one of the few solos in the movement.
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Author: Morrigan
Date: 2006-04-03 23:32
That change in Sibelius 2 is WAY too short, annoys the hell outta me when we do that bit over and over: not only do you have to change during the movement, you have to change back when the conductor wants to go back!
Well done on transposition...
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Author: Danny Boy
Date: 2006-04-03 23:36
I seem to remember Morrigan that you can change in a longer break just before the written change and transpose for the phrase in between. Wasn't a problem in any of the rehearsals...of course the concert was just different somehow. <sigh>
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Author: clarinetist04
Date: 2006-04-04 00:14
And a particularly interesting symphony that wasn't mentioned in either post is John Corigliano's Symphony No. 1. It is a fabulously difficult work that is very modern and very stylistically and technically complex.
(I accidentally put David Zinman-- It was conducted by him...surprised no one picked up on this and made a note of it)
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Author: DHsu87
Date: 2006-04-04 00:58
In no order:
Tchaikovsky 4 and 5
Mahler 1
Shostakovich 5
Mendelssohn 3
Sibelius 1
Dvorak 7
Brahms 1 and 3
Schubert 8
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Author: Tony Beck
Date: 2006-04-04 13:12
In no special order,
Mendelssohn 2 and 3
Beethoven 6
Schubert 9
Bizet Symphony in C
Mozart 39 and 40
Saint Sean Organ Symphony
Brahms 1
Dvorak 7
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Author: rbell96
Date: 2006-04-04 13:26
Dan,
The berg Chamber Concerto on friday night definitely made up for it not to mention your Mozart Quintet!
Rob
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Author: William
Date: 2006-04-04 14:21
Dvorak 3 just made it to the top of my favorites because at the conclusion of both last weeks performances, both me and my principal clarinet got to take a bow for our "work" in the 2nd movt. Just how often does the 2nd clarinet get to take credit for making the principal sound good?? YeeHaaaaaaaa!!!! Power to the Seconds.............(peace)
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Author: HautboisJJ
Date: 2006-04-04 15:48
The early Dvorak symphonies are crazy, CRAZY!
My picks (not in order of preference):
Early Dvorak Symphonies
Tchaikovsky 4th
Schubert 8 and 9
Beethoven 6 and 9
Saint Saens Organ
Mahler 3 and 5
Franck D minor
Shostakovich 7
Brahms 3
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2006-04-04 17:06
You didn't say we had to list as many as ten, so I'll be lazy:
Faves:
Mahler 4
Sibelius 7 (especially the trombone solo)
Beethoven 3
Least fave:
Mahler 3 (not even the trombone solo) it just goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on
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If there are so many people on this board unwilling or unable to have a civil and balanced discussion about important issues, then I shan't bother to post here any more.
To the great relief of many of you, no doubt.
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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2006-04-04 20:34
And, you'll note that Bruckner appears in none of the lists. Another victory (if limited) for good taste!
There should be some sort of rule that requires composers to be able to play an instrument that isn't pitched in C...
leader of Houston's Sounds Of The South Dance Orchestra
info@sotsdo.com
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Author: bob49t
Date: 2006-04-04 20:49
I take it then, very few of you have played William Grant Still's Symphony No 1 "Afro- American Symphony".
Check it out on CD.......It's just wonderful for ww especially bass clarinet. Thank the Lord I played it two years ago.
BobT cant't wait for the next time
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Author: Merlin
Date: 2006-04-04 20:54
Shostakovich 5
Prokofiev 5
Mahler 1
Mahler 5
Prokofiev 1
Tchaikovsky 4
Brahms 4
Rachmaninov 2
Beethoven 6
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Author: robertgh
Date: 2006-04-05 05:35
Also in no particular order:
Vaughan Williams 5
Mahler 4
Shostakovich 5
Simpson 9
Tchaikovsky 4
Brahms 3
Walton 1
Mozart 38
Sibelius 4
Rachmaninoff 2
. . . and dare I say it—my matched pair of Leblanc Symphonies ;-)
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Author: JessKateDD
Date: 2006-04-05 06:35
Mozart - #40
Beethoven - #9
Schubert - #8
Schumann - #3
Brahms - #4
Bruckner - #7
Tchaikovsky - #6
Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde
Rachmaninoff - #2
Sibelius - #5
Shostakovich - #10
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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2006-04-05 13:12
Well, it figures that there would be one Philistine in the bunch of you...
Years and years ago, I had to fill in on second clarinet for a group that was doing a mixed program, including one work by Bruckner. I don't recall the symphony number, but it was pretty pedestrian overall until the last movement, whereupon I was surprised to see a solo coming up in the second part.
Nothing drastic, but it did kinda catch me by surprise. Sneaky so and so...
leader of Houston's Sounds Of The South Dance Orchestra
info@sotsdo.com
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Author: HautboisJJ
Date: 2006-04-05 14:16
Is Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde considered as a symphony? If so what number it is? The oboe solos are beautiful.
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Author: JessKateDD
Date: 2006-04-05 15:18
Mahler considered Das Lied to be a symphony. He was obsessed with death and convinced if he titled it number 9, he would die - like Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorak, and Bruckner. Thinking he had cheated death with this slight of hand, he proceeded to write his 9th symphony, then died.
And yes, I do love Bruckner - especially his last three symphonies. Wagner tubas sound so wonderful, and they only exist in these three symphonies and the Ring cycle.
I've never performed a Bruckner symphony, though I think I would love to play the eighth, given the key clarinet solos in the Adagio. However, some pieces are great to listen to, and others are great to play. I once played "Ride of the Valkyries" in an orchestra. Great piece for the audience and brass, but the clarinet part is several pages of written out trills. Yuck.
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