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About LinkBacksMy list goes: 7, 3, 5, 9, 1, 6, 8
I'm going to admit I haven't heard 2 and 4.
Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55
Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68
Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
My list goes: 7, 3, 5, 9, 1, 6, 8
I'm going to admit I haven't heard 2 and 4.
That's pretty close to the way I feel. (Actually, it's more like 7-9-5-3, for me!)Originally Posted by mathetes1963
Heh, heh, heh... I just put 7 in the lead!
I really would not choose any as a favorite, they are fantastic works in which you can pick out various motifs which occur in his other works, even the sym that have become (dare I say) popular can be made to sound fresh when given subtle changes in emphasis and balance, you cant say that about Mahler and I love Mahler as well.
A wise man speaks because he has something to say a fool because he has to say something.
7th. but maybe i should start getting off of 'mainstream' classical music and listen to those 'nymphs'
The odd-numbered ones.
As to which one is my favorite: depends on my mood, who's playing it, or both.
Even the first?The odd-numbered ones.
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I voted for 7 thinking I would be entirely alone, I remember riding home from school, with a dover study score in front of me, listening to the first movement over and over again.
I have to say that 12th is my very favorite.
That figures
A few years past I heard the 5th at a concert by a new young conductor and it sounded so different to what is normal to hear, almost a new symphony.
We have a joke in Spanisk...Dad = Papá in Spanish. For = Para in Spanish
Then to whom did Beethoven write his 5th symphony? Well...for his DAD!!!
Yeah....Para Papá! Para Papá!.
Martin
*shakes head in disbelief at the stupidity of some*
That is a coincidence because I experienced the same sym with the NZSO with Pietari Inkinen coducting and Vesa-matti Leppanen leading they brought out instrument voices that were normally subdued or at least not easy to pick out, poetic licence perhaps
Colin - it is very difficult I think for an orchestra to bring off a new perspective to such a well known work as Beethoven's 5th. The NZSO is a fine ensemble, for sure.
David,
Inkinen comes from a rock background whether this influenced the work or not is hard for me to know as rock is a closed book to me, but the variations in tempi coupled with the emphasis on various sections/instruments made it sound so fresh, at the pre concert talk we were told to expect something different and it sure was.
A wise man speaks because he has something to say a fool because he has to say something.
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