Vote for your favorite Mahler Symphony

[DavidMahler]

And your favorite Mahler Symphony is....

 

[lionel marechal]

Second here
Bruno Walter & Forrester.
That's simply the version I am listening the most to !
Lionel

 

[Tyson]

6

 

[Agent Kang]

Another vote for the 2nd.

 

[kerelybonto]

The second should run away with it, but today I'm voiting with Tyson for the sixth.

 

[augustwest]

Can't pick a favorite, I like them all.

- augustwest

 

[Masonjar]

it's like picking your favorite child.

though I went with the 9th.

hope the others aren't too jealous.

#1 - you always remember your "first" - what it was like when you were the only one..
#2 - you took things to a higher level, and demonstrated the special connection we have...
#3 - you're sprawling and enormous, but with a beauty all your own. sometimes I can't believe you exist.
#4 - we love you for your (relative) simplicity and your child-like wonder.
#5 - you came along at just the right time and opened up new worlds to us..
#6 - you provided the soundtrack to our lives as dark, poetic youth, contemplating the kinds of struggles that may lie ahead..
#7 - you'd never given us any music quite like this before, you seem to exist separate from the others.
#8 - I visit you when I get the chance...
Das Lied - you came close to giving me a sense of what heaven might be like
#9 - though I didn't understand you at first, your cynical, bitter nature crossed with your existential beauty kept drawing me back..
#10 - though what you are is an amazing force of beauty that is unequalled in the world of music, we still wonder what you could have been...

 

[DavidMahler]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Masonjar /img/forum/go_quote.gif #8 - I visit you when I get the chance... ...

LOL, poor number 8

 

[Masonjar]

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavidMahler /img/forum/go_quote.gif LOL, poor number 8

yea, I feel kind of bad about that..

I think now that I have the Bertini on CD (my first version EVER on cd, believe it or not!) I'll listen to it more..

-jar

 

[Jubei]

I voted for No. 2 but am having doubts now that I am listening to No. 9 . . .

 

[Facade19]

Ah a tough choice for me.
I really love the 9th, but Bertini's 5th just outdoes it for me a little.
Shame we could not pick more than one.

 

[mbhaub]

7. I sometimes go for long periods without it, but everytime I come back I remember why. Even Lenny thought it was special. Read his book "Findings". He loved the 7th.

 

[scompton]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Masonjar /img/forum/go_quote.gif #1 - you always remember your "first" - what it was like when you were the only one..

x2. No. 1 with the Prague Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pavel Urbanek was my first Mahler, and only Mahler for a year or so. I listened to it enough that it's still what I'm the most familiar with. My second was the Robert Shaw No. 8, which I like quite a bit. A couple of months after that I went a little crazy, not unlike some people on this thread

I have to think about it a little before voting. My favorites are Nos. 1, 6, 9 and Das Lied.

 

[Pars]

#2 here, Abbado/CSO. Tough choice though.

 

[Raptor34]

The sublimely beautiful 9th.