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John H White

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What symphony can you not live without?
« on: Tuesday 08 March 2011, 17:23 »
That's what Rob Cowan has been asking listeners to his 3 Breakfast programme on BBC Radio 3 this week. So please get in quickly with your choice, e-mailing it to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. I went for Lachner 5, with Lachner 8 and Rufinatscha 6 as 2nd and 3rd choices but, so far, he seems to have ignored my e-mail.
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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 08 March 2011, 17:45 »
Cowen's 6th  ;D ;D ;D

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 08 March 2011, 18:06 »
... probably Beethoven 9 or Mahler 6 *gets thrown out of forum after being made to walk the plank* (though Stenhammar 2 would be somewhere on a high list...) (on re-thinking and cheating by editing, and regretting that the question isn't about quartets - my two favorite works being for that medium - no, still too difficult... there are so many wonderful ones I would miss terribly - Wellesz 2, Myaskovsky 2, Sibelius 3 4 6 7, Brian 31, Mahler 4&9 too of course, to start or continue, in probably the wrong order, a too-long list. one? no wonder my cd-cases were always so large before I got an iPod. anyway. :) )
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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 08 March 2011, 19:31 »
Alkan's for solo piano would get my vote!
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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 08 March 2011, 19:58 »
Schumann's 2nd - or 3rd.  Depends on my mood.

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 08 March 2011, 23:42 »
Mahler 7 and Bruckner 9.  Of the unsungs, I'm still partial to Alfred Hill's Symhony #2 in Eb - The Joy of Life......

Maybe I'm a lightweight......

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 09 March 2011, 00:35 »
Bruckner 5.  No, wait!  Dvorak 6! 

OK.  For unsungs, Rufinatscha 6 beyond a shadow of a doubt!
"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." - Blake

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 09 March 2011, 10:25 »
Beethoven 6, Schubert Unfinished.
Unsung : Dukas.

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 09 March 2011, 15:56 »
Raff's Lenore.

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 09 March 2011, 20:40 »
Draeseke 3.
Sung: Brahms 1.
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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 10 March 2011, 10:38 »
I trust, gentlemen, that you have all e-mailed 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk and registered your choices with Rob Cowan.
Cheers,
     John.

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 10 March 2011, 12:52 »
Havergal Brian's 'Gothic Symphony' with Boult or Schmidt conducting, (not the nasty Naxos!)
Well,life would have been allot duller without it!
Vaughan Wiliams: his 'London' or 'Fifth' with Barbirolli at the helm,but I'm afraid I can't decide which. They're both indispensable.

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 17 March 2011, 07:20 »
Berwald: Sinfonie Singuliere.

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 02 April 2011, 03:57 »
I am hard pressed on this topic, but I am particularly engulfed by Bruckner's 6th when I hear it. Of all symphonies, however, I have grown very weary of Tchaikovsky's 6th. Way overplayed, beat to death.

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #14 on: Saturday 02 April 2011, 07:45 »
Welcome, JK!