Voted Verklärte Nacht and if I'm to be honest my vote was decided by the lack of vote-splitting from the same composer, otherwise I might've gone for a Scriabin, Debussy, or Tchaikovsky. Saving my Ravel vote for the next decade.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 14:15 (four years ago) link
Incredible choices, but Mahler 1 is the way to go
― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 14:16 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
voted more or less randomly
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 03:15 (four years ago) link
Listened to Verklärte Nacht (Boulez) for the first time last night. Not to go overboard but it was - at times - transcending. I lack classical music literacy, but what I loved was that it swept me up and dropped me into a story straight away. It was only afterwards that I read the poem it's based on - which allowed me to see where my own dream-like narrative took me. A wonderful experience to be frank.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 09:16 (four years ago) link
It is truly magical. I also recommend checking out the string sextet original, which is how I was first swept away by the piece. Recording-wise, the Arditti and Artemis Quartets (both with Thomas Kakuska and Valentin Erben of the Alban Berg Quartett, incidentally) are each wonderful in their own way.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 09:33 (four years ago) link
This hasn't got any easier. *dons blindfold; throws rubber dart at monitor*
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 23:35 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 23 January 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
I was the Grieg vote in the end. Narrowed it down to my most striking new discovery to overcome choice paralysis. I think I said in a previous decade that I hadn't knowingly heard his solo piano works before. Whoever observed that he sometimes Debussy'd it up was totes onto something.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 23 January 2020 07:09 (four years ago) link
I also recommend checking out the string sextet original, which is how I was first swept away by the piece. Recording-wise, the Arditti and Artemis Quartets (both with Thomas Kakuska and Valentin Erben of the Alban Berg Quartett, incidentally) are each wonderful in their own way.
Noted, merci!
Love the three-way tie for the top spot.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 23 January 2020 08:34 (four years ago) link
Glad, albeit not surprised, to see the Gnossiennes get some love. Probably my favourite Satie pieces, along with the late Nocturnes.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 23 January 2020 09:07 (four years ago) link
Not a single vote for the so-called 'Resurrection', though? Now that's surprising.
I failed to really bloviate on this one!Good results- I ended up crowning Brahms op. 118 (along with another ilxor!?!) largely because like the grieg set its concluding piece is just so staggering. And though my core trinity are all present now (Debussy Sibelius Mahler) they will all be getting votes from me in the ensuing decades. For Mahler I would have gone with the 3rd. The first Mahler to catch my imagination - I spent like half a year comparing as many versions as I could afford back when there was no such thing as free listening Lemminkainen is indeed the top Sibelius choice this decade. Late Tchaikovsky is great but tbrr my favorite of his symphonies is the first! It’s the most Sibelian sucthing as
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 23 January 2020 14:02 (four years ago) link