Here's a link to an article about the new movement in the suite, "Pluto:"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/679827.stm
The Berstein I assume is lost (if was a TV performance which was never recorded).
GW,
Is there someway we cuuld have those producers hurt, for not saving such a fine program. Maybe we could chip in and hire some thugs
If you mean completing an unfinished work by a great composer, Holst may have been the easiest to compose a "Pluto" conclusion. The problem is that the "Neptune" section drifts off with that ethereal women's and/or boy's choir (the Utah Symphony version) as if one is drifting off into deep space, beyond our Solar System. It would be jarring to me to all of a sudden have another piece of music spoil it and it would be anti-climatic. Besides, now astronomers are not that sure that Pluto is really a bonefide planet being an irregular little rock hanging out there beyond the gas giants. A planetoid or even an asteroid? Anyway, the review of the first recording I remember was not happy with the addition.
favorite symphonies
LW and Joanne: violin.
I've been away from the computer since, I think, last Wednesday, and I must leave again this afternoon. But when I return I'll enjoy enlarging my list. BTW the sixth was among Tchaikovsky's favorites.
Effen you like fiddle symphonies, check out La Symphonie Espagnol by Eduard Lalo, five movements, glorified violin concerto . . . you'll love it . . .
The sixth was amazing, in the first movement alone, there are eight changes of tempo . . .
favorite symphonies
Yes, Setanta. The Lalo is georgeous. I've always had a special appreciation for it, in part because my father performed it sometime in the 60s. Recently a violin teacher at our university performed it (wonderfully I might add) with a local community orchestra. It was a night to remember.
I have the Perlman version of "Symphonie Espagnol" -- it has somewhat of a symphonic form, but with the violen solos and tone poem quality, I'd more likely put in into a tone poem category.
Bach- Tocata in D-Minor
Ravel- Bolero
Holst The Planets
Dvorak From the New World
etc etc etc
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By all means, Dys: Dvorak's 9th. Satt_F, I like Beethoven's odd numbered symphonies best, particularly the 3rd, 7th, and 9th--altlhough the Pastoral (6th) has a special charm.
I heard our local symphony play Mozart's 40th and Haydn's London Symphony (140?). I treasure them both, always have.
JLNobody..
Among Beethoven's symphonies, I like no.4 and no.8, and I exceptionally love Toscanini's no.3 (eroica).
I love Mozart's music of course, but I prefer his operas and concertos to symphonies.
Actually, the "London" or "Salomon" were a series of symphonies, numbers 93 to 104, and refers to Haydn's sojourn in England. This includes the "Surprise" (no. 94--an extended musical joke), the "Miracle" (no. 96), the "Military" (no. 100), the "Clock" (no. 101), the "Drum-roll" (no. 103) and Symphony no. 104, which is usually referred to as the London symphony (due to its great popularity in that city)--which is probably to what you refer. When Prince Esterhazy (sp?) died in 1790, an empresario in London, Herr Salomon, went to Vienna to try to convince Mozart and Haydn to come to London, where he had organized a very successful marketing of concerts in the Hanover Square Rooms. Mozart was apparently uninterested, even though his wealthy patron was now dead. But Haydn took him up on his offer, and arrived in 1791.
Mahler: #1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, Das Lied...
Nielson: #5
Prokofiev: #5
Shostakovitch: #3, 10, 13, 14.
Sibelius: #1, 2, 3, 5.
Piffka wrote:I prefer Beethoven's Sixth, the Pastoral.
For suites, I think, Handel's Water Music.
Beethovens sixth is my favourite symphony.
Since you like Handels water music you might want to listen to the eight symphonies of William Boyce one of Handels contemporaries.
dvoraks 9th and beethovens 9th would be faves
Beethoven is one of the tops on my list, but I'll have to think about the rest, although Tchaikovsky and Sibelius would follow pretty closely.
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C.I., IMO Sebilius's violin concerto is one of the greatest.
The Pines of Rome - Respighi
This is "Favorite Symphonies," although I do have my favorite tone poems and concertos. Perhaps I should start a thread on those?
