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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