Favorite Symphonies Quiz
When you speak of emotion in Mozart, it cannot be measured by 19th century standards. He was, to me, the most “human” of all composers. *eye roll* I get it, you like Mozart. Whatever. Calling him the most "human" is like calling the number 5 the most "5" of all numbers. Were the others part cyborg? Oh please. |
Mod 10 symphony list: Symphony No. (4)0 Mozart Symphony No. 1: Copland Symphony No. 2: Hovaness (although I still like Hanson) Symphony No. 3: Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 4: Bruckner Symphony No. 5: Shostakovich Symphony No. 6: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 7: Sibelius Symphony No. 8: Mahler Symphony No. 9: Beethoven |
1. Brahms 2.Haydn 3.Mozart 4.Schubert 5.Beethoven 6.Schumann 7.Dvorak. 8. Sibelius 9. Vaughan Williams Hard to live Tchaikovsky out but Vaughan Williams (or Elgar) wrote the best of modern English Symphonies . IMO he wrote the most just plain beautiful piece ever written . https://youtu.be/-mHgucSz1hs?t=1 |
It seems not possible to me to make such a marriage of pure love between a violin and the sublime winds . In the over 8,000 recordings I owned and 2,000 live Classic concerts I’ve been to in the last 60 years this is the Zenith for me . I’ve heard it live 3 times and many tears flew in all .Listen to it every day and will in the little time I have left.God Willing .Vaughan Williams started this just before WW I started and though he was to old to be a soldier , he spent the entire war as a ambulance man and saw many thousands of wounded and dead British and Canadian soldiers. He finished it when he came back and as a combat soldier myself I am sure was not the same man. A lark takes off in a long , high spiral , I think of the piece as the soul of a soldier wending his way to heaven . |
