dunno if i'll get round to listening to all the ones i don't know so well from this list but i have to point out that Beethoven's Violin Concerto is fucking amazing
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 November 2019 13:49 (four years ago) link
Hell yes. The prick who sneeringly dismissed it as a 'tympani concerto' or whatever after its premiere can go fuck himself.
― pomenitul, Friday, 1 November 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
The central movement is transcendent, I like to think he was just too out there to be appreciated by his cloth-eared contemporaries on this one
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 November 2019 13:55 (four years ago) link
LVB, Op 131, C#min — my favourite late quartet; an opening Adagio that feels like darkness descending, a bonkers Scherzo where the wheels seem always about to fall off, and that amazing galloping final movement with its almost Eastern-sounding passages and the soaring trill at the end that's the high point of the whole piece. I haven't listened to it in a while — thanks for reminding me how much I love it!
― dinnerboat, Friday, 1 November 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
We're not quite there but it will be among the strongest 1820s contenders, no doubt about it!
― pomenitul, Friday, 1 November 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
*there yet
Shit, sorry — I misread the title. A vote for Pastoral, then.
― dinnerboat, Friday, 1 November 2019 14:21 (four years ago) link
Yeah, my instinct is to go Pastoral as well
― Frederik B, Friday, 1 November 2019 14:24 (four years ago) link
No love for the piano trios? The so-called 'Ghost Trio' features an appropriately spooky middle movement that inspired Samuel Beckett to write (compose?) a television play.
― pomenitul, Friday, 1 November 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
Pastoral is the most vividly cinematic music for me - it creates an entire film in my head.
― jmm, Friday, 1 November 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
I'll take a listen to the piano trios :)
― Frederik B, Friday, 1 November 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
I'm partial to the Trio Wanderer set fwiw.
― pomenitul, Friday, 1 November 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
Top 5 here are waldstein sonata, eroica, pastoral, 5th, op. 59 #1Why’d you leave out op. 27#1? I love that piece best of all the “opus twentysomething” sonatas
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 1 November 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
No idea tbh, maybe because I assumed no one would vote for it anyway (in which case I should have excluded far more than I did). I agree that it holds up better than the Moonlight Sonata.
― pomenitul, Friday, 1 November 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
I also love the designation 'Quasi una fantasia', which Sibelius later took up in his 1st Symphony.
― pomenitul, Friday, 1 November 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
pom thank you in advance for this project which will be truly educational for me
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
My pleasure, silby! I hope one decade per week isn't too rapid a pace.
― pomenitul, Friday, 1 November 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
Didn't we all play Clementi when we took piano lessons? I sure did. I went back and listened to some of it recently and honestly I think it holds up well.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
a decade a week is definitely too rapid but I love lists and I'll file these away
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
I like this thread idea. I'm not voting but I look forward to the discussion and results.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Friday, 1 November 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
I'll mainly be listening and reading during this period, but I don't need much excuse to make a playlist and hurriedly created this one before bed last night. (pomenitul's recommendations where I could find them, but kinda arbitrary otherwise.)
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2EYlQf53HQG7HmGpmCwmw0
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 2 November 2019 02:41 (four years ago) link
Thanks, Nag! Much appreciated.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 2 November 2019 09:38 (four years ago) link
Btw what are everyone's favourite recordings of the Beethoven picks?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 2 November 2019 09:39 (four years ago) link
Op.27 “Moonlight” Sonata: Rudolf Serkin, Ivan Moravec, Ronald BrautigamOp. 53 “Waldstein” Sonata: Alfred Brendel (his first one, on Vox), Pollini, Stephen Kovacevich, ArrauOp. 57 “Appassionata” Sonata: Sviatoslav Richter, Ivan Moravec[for the ones you should have included: Alfred Brendel’s 90s recordings of Op. 27 #1 and the almighty Op. 32 trilogy.]3rd, 5th and 6th symphonies: I always come back to Pierre Monteux on London Decca. The most satisfying cycle I know. For a recent fast and stinging approach, Mackerras. 4th piano concerto: Ivan Moravec or Stephen KovacevichViolin Concerto: Isabelle FaustString Quartets: Vegh Quartet (their stereo ones on London Decca), Takacs Quartet Trios: I have several I like but no resounding favorite Cello Sonatas: Richter/Rostropovich [you should have included the awesome Op.30 trilogy of Violin Sonatas! Here I like kremer/argerich and dumay/pires. Not sure if Faust/Melnikov have recorded these but if they have it probably slays).
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 2 November 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
I love the Op. 30 trilogy, but I tried my best to preempt Beethoven overkill. And Faust/Melnikov have indeed recorded it – by far one of my favourite violin/piano duos, alongside the other two pairs you mention!
― pomenitul, Saturday, 2 November 2019 14:36 (four years ago) link
Waldstein vs Symphony 5 atm
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Sunday, 3 November 2019 11:43 (four years ago) link
I've been listening to the 1954 Stokowski recording of Pastoral on NML. A really pleasant listen.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:10 (four years ago) link
will give these a fair listen but I gotta say symphony no 5 is gonna be hard to beat
― esempio (crüt), Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
I ended up going with the so-called 'Kreutzer' sonata (with Kremer/Argerich in mind) because it, too, deserves our love.
― pomenitul, Monday, 4 November 2019 09:05 (four years ago) link
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, November 2, 2019 3:41 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Thankig u! <3
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 4 November 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
Would you prefer two weeks instead of one for the remaining polls or is the current pace fine? Let me know.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link
I think this poll series is absolutely awesome but I just don’t have the time to seriously listen to even a tenth of this list or of the rock/metal tracks poll going on :(
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 11:04 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Ludwig van Beethoven - Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69 (1808)
this is really good - thanks, Spotify playlist
― Josefa, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 7 November 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
aw man i forgot to vote. Symphony No. 5 for me.
― esempio (crüt), Thursday, 7 November 2019 00:35 (four years ago) link
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 (1807-1808) 2Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 (1805) 1Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27/2 (1801) 1
c'mon y'all!!
― esempio (crüt), Thursday, 7 November 2019 00:37 (four years ago) link
I did vote for Symphony 5 in the end. As much of a cliché as it has become, it is a perfect composition imo.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Thursday, 7 November 2019 02:40 (four years ago) link
Heh, I didn't expect Hummel to make a dent out of all the non-Beethoven selections, but I'm glad there was at least one exception to the rule.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 7 November 2019 08:40 (four years ago) link
Onwards to part 2:
Wherein We Vote for Our Favourite Classical Compositions of… the 1810s
― pomenitul, Thursday, 7 November 2019 08:54 (four years ago) link