If you could only choose one?

[Peter]

Originally posted by Suzie:
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ps. It's only got a wee speck of Mozart and it's not Haydn's 80th Symphony. It is truly B. They also played Schubert's 6th. Why? Is it because he stole huge chunks from B?

I'd say Schubert's 6th was more Rossini than Beethoven! - I'd also say in Schubert's defence that nowhere does he sound anything like B, so plagiarism is an unfair charge !

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'Man know thyself'

[Suzie]

Originally posted by Peter:
I'd say Schubert's 6th was more Rossini than Beethoven! - I'd also say in Schubert's defence that nowhere does he sound anything like B, so plagiarism is an unfair charge !

As my memory is horrible, I will have to get my hands on Schubert's 6th and tell you exactly what I mean, which is not the overall feel of the piece, but a specific melody.

[sasha]

Wow - OK, my absolute favorite piece of all would easily be the 9th! But I also really love Piano Concerto #5 and totally agree with the person who named the 7th symphony as being one of their favorites. While I love the Pastoral, I do prefer the 7th.
Can't I just take my collection to the desert island?
I noticed other people submitted other faves to include, so mine would be:
Handel: Water Music
Bach: Double Violin Concerto, Air on G String
Haydn: Symph. 85
Khachaturian: Masquerade Suites
Vivaldi: Winter (from Four Seasons)
Rossini - Overture from Barber of Seville
Mascagni - Cavalleria rusticana
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto #2
Mozart: Piano Sonata #11 and #1
Chopin: Nocturne in Eb
Strauss: Kaiser-Walzer (Emperor Waltz)
Mendelssohn: Symph 4 (Italian)

....and that's narrowed down!
I certainly hope coconuts CAN be made into batteries. I KNEW I should have watched more Gilligan's Island episodes!

Wendy

[christophe]

For Beethoven, I must admit I have many favorites of his works. I have narrowed it down to favorite sonata, symphony, concerto.
For sonata, the 1st movement, which I can play on the piano, as Iam sure most of you could. Symohony you say? Probally the 2nd movement of the 7th. And finally, my real favorite, the Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, 2nd movement of the "Emperor" Adagio un poco moto.

Hope this helps.
C. van S.

[Roehre]

If I had got to go for a Desert Island, I would take with me:

-Beethoven: quartets op.59, 74, 130-135, symphony 6 + 8, missa solemnis, violin sonatas op.47 and 96;
-Mahler: Lied von der Erde (especially Der Abschied), 7, 9 + 10
-Brahms: violin concerto, symphony 3, "Thun" violin sonata
-Schoeck: violin concerto, horn concerto, string quartets; violin sonatas
-Kelterborn: symphony 4
-sibelius: symphony 4; nightride and sunrise;
-Martin: symphony, petite symphonie concertante, violin concerto;
-Wagner: Tristan prelude and Liebestod, Parsifal prelude and orchestral music mainly cococted from third act (BPO/Abbado);
-Shostakovich Symphonies 10 and 15, both cello concertos;
-Schumann: symphony 2;
-Webern: orchestral music (Passacaglia op.1, pieces opp.5, 6 and 10, symphony op.21, variations op.30)

[DavidO]

The one Beethoven composition I would be most miserable without is the Missa Solemnis, so I would take it. I have a powerful hunch that this -- more than any other Beethoven work -- will prove to be the most healing & revivifying to me in my years to come. For my soul, it is balm in Gilead.

[Peter]

If I had got to go for a Desert Island, I would take with me:

-Beethoven: quartets op.59, 74, 130-135, symphony 6 + 8, missa solemnis, violin sonatas op.47 and 96;
-Mahler: Lied von der Erde (especially Der Abschied), 7, 9 + 10
-Brahms: violin concerto, symphony 3, "Thun" violin sonata
-Schoeck: violin concerto, horn concerto, string quartets; violin sonatas
-Kelterborn: symphony 4
-sibelius: symphony 4; nightride and sunrise;
-Martin: symphony, petite symphonie concertante, violin concerto;
-Wagner: Tristan prelude and Liebestod, Parsifal prelude and orchestral music mainly cococted from third act (BPO/Abbado);
-Shostakovich Symphonies 10 and 15, both cello concertos;
-Schumann: symphony 2;
-Webern: orchestral music (Passacaglia op.1, pieces opp.5, 6 and 10, symphony op.21, variations op.30)

Welcome to the forum Roehre - an interesting selection and I confess one that contains two composers I'd not heard of before, Schoeck and Kelterborn.
Looking back on my own selection from 9 years ago, some would remain but I would change several.

My revised choice would include:

Beethoven Quartets Op.59 no.1, Op.74, Op.95 and Op.130,
Piano concerto no.4, 3rd and 8th symphonies.
Mozart Piano concerto in D minor and Eb
Handel Guilio Cesare
Bach B minor mass
Brahms Symphony no.3 and Bb sextet plus clarinet sonatas and piano quintet
Dvorak Cello concerto and 8th symphony
Tchaikovsky Symphony no.4
Sibelius symphony no.6
Mahler symphony no.6
Wagner Tristan prelude and Liebestod
Verdi Don Carlos
Bruckner symphony no.7

This could go on for ever, an impossible task!!!

[Roehre]

Thanks Peter and Philip for welcoming me here.
If I had to stick to the one work I would go for the Missa solemnis (at this moment that is, quite recently I would have answered: Grosse Fuge)

[Peter]

Well Peter, you can always come to me too for an additional list of composers you have never heard of. I also extend my tentative greetings to Roehre. Salute, both of you!

I dare say there are some on my list unknown to your encyclopedia gigantica brain!

[Peter]

Quite right, Roehre. Today for me it's Op 132. Tomorrow ... well, it changes, doesn't it?

Well you'll see from my original post 9 years ago that I chose the 9th as my Beethoven work, but I've been on this desert island a long time now and am desparate for a change - thankfully HMS Philip the Great passed by and they let me have the 4th piano concerto - till next time!

[Michael]

Beethoven Opus 59 No. 1. But, as Philip says, that's just today's choice.
Tomorrow it could be the first Razumovsky ... and the day after it could be his String Quartet No 7 in F major.

[Peter]

If HMS Philip the Great knew you were that solitary person on the desert island I would have thrown you a barrel of salt and some tinned anchovies to go with it! Hah!

And only a few weeks ago you were inviting me for a drink, I didn't realise you meant salt water!