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[symphonybracket]

The symphony bracket is here!

This is how voting will proceed:

Beginning on September 1, one poll (2 symphonies) will be posted per day. The poll duration will be 7 days.

The reason for the slow posting will be to give voters time to listen, in case one or both symphonies is new to them!

There are 64 symphonies in the bracket, meaning 32 polls.

Happy voting!

Left Side:

Mahler 2 vs Prokofiev 5

Bruckner 8 vs Mozart 10

Mahler 10 vs Schubert 8

Pejačević 1 vs Beethoven 9

Shostakovich 7 vs Glière 3

Beethoven 5 vs Tchaikovsky 6

Mahler 1 vs Sibelius 2

Beethoven 8 vs Vaughan Williams 2

Copland 3 vs Beach Gaelic

Beethoven 6 vs Dvořák 7

Borodin 2 vs Saint-Saëns 3

Mendelssohn 4 vs Beethoven 3

Rachmaninoff 2 vs Kalinnikov 2

Prokofiev 1 vs Rachmaninoff 1

Emilie Mayer 2 vs Vaughan Williams 7

Haydn 75 vs Dvořák 8

Right Side:

Mahler 5 vs Polymath 1

Corigliano 1 vs Ives Universe

Price 1 vs Shostakovich 5

Mahler 6 vs Sibelius 5

Prokofiev 7 vs Mendelssohn 5

Shostakovich 11 vs Mahler 3

Shostakovich 9 vs Ives 4

Berlioz Symphony Fantastique vs Britten Simple Symphony

Vaughan Williams 1 vs Tchaikovsky 4

Shostakovich 10 vs Hovhaness 4

Beethoven 7 vs Grant Still 2

Dvořák 9 vs Brahms 1

Brahms 2 vs Maslanka 4

Brahms 3 vs Tchaikovsky 1

Tchaikovsky 5 vs Mozart 40

[salento]

Corigliano: il castello di notte da Cinzia A. Rizzo

[raucci]

“Diede fuoco alla mia Fabiana e adesso lo premiano”.

[gpapasergio]

#vistas desde el #castelo #ducale di #corigliano #calabro #calabria #iatalia #cityphotography #city_explore #viajes (en Castello di Corigliano Calabro)

[musicainextenso]

This week, we will be sampling works from different Contemporary Composers. I decided to kick off with one of my favorite contemporaries, John Corigliano. He has written for several genre, from chamber music to concertos to opera. His most notable composition is his first symphony, written while he was the composer-in-residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the late 80s. The symphony was somewhat of an orchestral requiem for his friends who had passed away from the horrifying time of the AIDS crisis. This fantasy was commissioned by the seventh International Van Cliburn Piano Competition, because they were looking for a piece for contestants to learn and play during one of the semi-final rounds. Instead of writing something virtuosic to show off technique, Corigliano chose to write something focusing on interpretation. The ostinato comes from the famous second movement of Beethoven’s seventh symphony, and in the score, Corigliano gives the player options for repeats and dynamic expression, focusing on the player more than the score itself. It is also Corigliano dabbling with minimalism, since Beethoven’s original was also a bit of a minimalist approach, only Corigliano doesn’t care much for contemporary American minimalism. In writing this fantasy, he hoped to have the best of “both worlds”: a sense of hypnotic repetition while also having an easy to comprehend structure. So, today on Musica in Extenso,

John Corigliano (b. 16 Feb 1938)

Fantasia on an ostinato

Piano: Emanual Ax

Stay tuned this week for more Random Contemporary Music, here on Musica in Extenso! - Nick O

[mikrokosmos]

Corigliano - Phantasmagoria

13 Pieces for Halloween, no.1. “Phantasmagoria” is the name Corgiliano gave to his orchestral suite based off his 1991 opera “The Ghosts of Versailles”. The opera is a bit of a comedy. It combines the choruses and fantastic effects of Grand Opera with the silliness and playfulness of Opera Buffa. It also takes time to satirize opera conventions and tropes. The story is about the ghosts of Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette. Marie is upset over her beheading, and so the polymath Pierre Beaumarchais tries to cheer her up by staging an opera out of his own plays. And so the work turns into an opera within the opera, and the music has an ethereal quality to it. Sure the afterlife is somewhat cheerful, but in the Tim Burton sense of black comedy. Through thick, dark orchestrations, we get a few glimpses and references of Mozart and Rossini, their ghosts in the hazy fog of the world beyond ours.

[symphonybracket]

Which symphony do you prefer?

Corigliano 1

Ives Universe Symphony

Voting ended onSep 25, 2023

YouTube Links: Corigliano 1, Ives Universe

Submitter's Comments:

Corigliano 1

IT'S SO GOOD IT MAKES ME SCREAM AND CRY AND THROW UP AND EAT DRYWALL but more seriously Corigliano uses atonality, extended techniques, and a variety of other modern strategies to convey the sheer anguish and rage that characterized the early period of the AIDS crisis within the traditional symphonic structure and also it has a lot of really excellent brass parts which is my baseline for if a symphony is really really good. Not very well known but it should be you should listen to it right now I am trapping everyone in the world in my little tiny room so that they can listen to this piece

Ives Universe

weird

[gpapasergio]

Entrada al #castello #ducale di #corigliano #calabro #calabria #italia #cityphotography #city_explore #castillos (en Castello di Corigliano Calabro)