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3 hours ago, Disco Stu said:

Beethoven Schmaytoven

 

There amasses a critical degree of skepticism whenever anyone with some experience respams Beethoven or Bach or whoever popular composer on a thread about greatest achievements. Certainly extant greatness among the commonplace, but nothing of a pinnacle consequence.

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On 01/05/2021 at 3:40 PM, TheUlyssesian said:

I have no doubt if you did a serious poll the result would be the 9th as a whole and maybe the last movement as a movement.

 

My suspicion was right. This is a poll of a classical station based out of NYC.

 

10. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73, "Emperor"
9. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
8. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, "Resurrection"
7. J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos
6. Holst: The Planets
5. Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
4. Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
3. Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, "From the New World"
2. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
1. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral"

 

This is an annual poll. The #1 is always the same every single year.

Reference: https://www.quora.com/Clearly-open-to-interpretation-what-is-the-greatest-piece-of-classical-music-ever-written

It is kinda like the Citizen Kane of classical music. It is a respectable answer. It is an excellent answer. And it is a popular answer.

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Nice to see the MAHLER #2 sneak in there!

Surprise d!😄

Some great pieces not mentioned;

Ravel : Pavanne.

Brahms: Requiem

Liszt : Piano Concerto #1 and Totentanz.

Bach" Wachet Auf"

Wagner: Rienzi overture

Gorecki; Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

Part: Fratres for Cellos

Stravinsky: Firebird Suite

 

 

 

 

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8 minutes ago, bruce marshall said:

Nice to see the MAHLER #2 sneak in there!

Surprise d!😄

Might that not be one of those works that people who like classical music would claim to love to show how much they know about classical music?! Although maybe I'm being cynical... Mahler is pretty popular and I guess the second is his most popular work overall. I mean, I have 8 recordings of it... although 14 of the fifth, three of which are with the Berlin Philharmonic, which beats out the 9 recordings of The Rite of Spring, which I assume is the second greatest number of versions of a single work in my collection. Classical music is... surprisingly cheap (as a collecting hobby I mean).

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32 minutes ago, bruce marshall said:

I thought Mahler's Fifth was his most popular; certainly the Adagietta is the only piece the general public knows

I think that movement probably is (Death in Venice and all that) but not necessarily the whole work. The Rattle conducted performance of the 5th with the Berlin Philharmonic is the first Mahler I ever bought having randomly switched on BBC2 one Saturday afternoon and watching the broadcast of the concert. The album is taken from that performance I believe (and I think it’s sounds better than the JW Berlin album). 

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On 17/02/2022 at 11:40 PM, bruce marshall said:

Nice to see the MAHLER #2 sneak in there!

Surprise d!😄

Some great pieces not mentioned;

Ravel : Pavanne.

Brahms: Requiem

Liszt : Piano Concerto #1 and Totentanz.

Bach" Wachet Auf"

Wagner: Rienzi overture

Gorecki; Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

Part: Fratres for Cellos

Stravinsky: Firebird Suite

 

Holst: Jupiter! I'll add you to the pro PRO list, for honesty and for being correct.

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On 17/02/2022 at 9:41 AM, TheUlyssesian said:

I might actually pick the second movement of the 9th.

 

 

There is something so grandiose so stunning so magnificent about it. A sense of bigness - that makes it seem like a huge piece of music.

He was deaf when he wrote this.

What a guy!😍

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