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Neil McGowan
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« Reply #15 on: January 12, 2015, 10:03:12 am » |
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Perhaps another version of the game would be to list your runners-up for each position - and others have to guess who you finally intend to nominate?
I agonised between at least five contenders for the Symphony No 2 position, for example! And I'm still not sure I got my own intentions right? ;)
The 'earlier' numbers are more interesting - because few composers hit their 'mature' style so early in their career? As mentioned above, I would happily list all of Tchaikovsky's symphonies! But for all my love of the rest of them, especially No 4, the gentle charm and beautiful orchestration of No 1 is something he never managed again later... due, I feel, to the incessant antagonism of the 'Mighty Handful' to write more pompous and patriotic music? (See the whole debacle concerning his withdrawal of THE OPRICHNIK for more salient details).
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