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Alan Howe

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #45 on: Wednesday 09 November 2011, 11:43 »
...that'd be Bizet's Symphony in C, then? Perhaps?

JimL

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #46 on: Wednesday 09 November 2011, 12:45 »
The same.  A work which the composer couldn't have known.
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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #47 on: Wednesday 09 November 2011, 13:27 »
oh, I was just thinking of the "Singular" (symphony) connection. But, good point. (hence the reference to Beecham specifically of conductors.)
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JimL

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #48 on: Wednesday 09 November 2011, 23:46 »
No, it's the Blodek.  The trio of the scherzo is particularly reminiscent (to me) of trios from the minuets of early Schubert symphonies.  The finale has some spots that recall the "chattering" finale of the Bizet.
"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 #49 on: Friday 11 November 2011, 22:26 »
Prokofiev 6th, Moeran 1st, Bax 6th, Sibelius 4 through 7, Klami 1st, Kokkonen 3 and 4, Shostakovich 4th, Walton 1st, Rubbra 6th, that's just off the top of my head.

I am delighted to see another fan of Kokkonen on here ;D ;D  (oh...and Rubbra OF COURSE :) :))

eschiss1

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #50 on: Friday 11 November 2011, 23:28 »
me too though I've only heard a few works of his (Kokkonen's).

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #51 on: Thursday 17 November 2011, 21:19 »
Hard to choose just one. But Ok. Sung: Bruckner 7  Unsung: Kalliwoda 6.  (For the Andante).

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #52 on: Friday 18 November 2011, 22:22 »
Even Kokkonen's 1st and 2nd Symphonies (after years of listening) now touch me deeply. Of course, "Last Temptations" is my favorite opera of all time!

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #53 on: Saturday 24 December 2011, 04:52 »
Asahi mentioned two I love and didn;t even know anyone esle did: Vermeulen 1st and Perpessa "Christus Symphony."  I am not alone!  Mal

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #54 on: Sunday 25 December 2011, 15:21 »
Beethoven Sixth
Braga Santos Fourth
Sibelius Fifth
Strauss Eine Alpensinfonie
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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #55 on: Saturday 14 January 2012, 23:33 »
Nice to see a plug for the early Bloch Symphony in C minor with its great valedictory ending and for Braga Santos Symphony No 4 too - a wonderful work in every sense.

For me:

Sung: Shostakovich Symphony 4, Bruckner Symphony 9, Vaughan Williams Symphony No 6 and the 1913 version of A London Symphony + Walton Symphony 1.

Unsung: Tubin Symphony 2 'Legendary', Lilburn Symphony 1, Miaskovsky Symphonies 6 and 15, Bax Symphony 3 and 5, Stanley Bate symphonies 3 and 4, Richard Arnell symphonies 3 and 5, Moeran's Symphony, Rubbra No 5, Eshpai No 5, Kinsella No 3, Lyatoshinsky No 3, Ivanovs No 11, Diamond No 3, Hanson No 3 and 4.

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #56 on: Sunday 15 January 2012, 00:07 »
Unsung: Tubin Symphony 2 'Legendary', Lilburn Symphony 1, Miaskovsky Symphonies 6 and 15, Bax Symphony 3 and 5, Stanley Bate symphonies 3 and 4, Richard Arnell symphonies 3 and 5, Moeran's Symphony, Rubbra No 5, Eshpai No 5, Kinsella No 3, Lyatoshinsky No 3, Ivanovs No 11, Diamond No 3, Hanson No 3 and 4.

Ah, interesting to see a Lilburn symphony named in this context .... unusual, I think. 

Anyone else prize the Lilburn symphonies?

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #57 on: Sunday 15 January 2012, 04:38 »
I prize all of Lilburn's work. Except the electronic stuff.  His music is so fresh and invigorating to me. If I feel really down aLilburn piece will always lift me up.

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #58 on: Sunday 15 January 2012, 07:45 »
Sung: Vaughan Williams 3 5 6 8 9, Nielsen 3 4 5 6, Shosta 6 8 10, Bliss Colour, Rubbra 10, Martinů 5 6, Mahler 6 7, Bruckner 9, Tchaikovsky 6, Dvořák 1 9

Unsung: Tubin 4 6 8, Raid 1, Vasks 2, Holmboe 5  6 7  8  9 10, Brian 1 6 7 8 10 16, Berkeley 1 2, Cooke 1 3 5, Bate 3 4, Arnold 5 9, Simpson 9, Kinsella 3, Diamond 3, Barber 2, Still 1, Braga Santos 3 4, Guarnieri 2 3, Madetoja 3, Englund 4, Langgaard 4, Orthel 2, Vermeulen 2, Lilburn 2 - and so many more.  ;)
… 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

Alan Howe

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Re: What symphony can you not live without?
« Reply #59 on: Sunday 15 January 2012, 09:39 »
Before this thread becomes an opportunity for further list-making, may I gently nudge forum members back towards the whole point of it - i.e. what symphony (SINGULAR >:() can you not live without? Thanks!