The All-Time Symphony Orchestra
Fri, Mar 23 2012, 2:20AM
Hey Gramophone folks,
I am very new to this site and am happy to join! I am an avid classical music fan and an orchestral trumpet player.
For my first forum topic I decided to see what you thought of this list I made a while back: The all-time symphony orchestra, consisting of the best musicians from the 19th-century to the present day. I have edited many of the sections to include the best orchestral musicians instead of the best solo players, perhaps with the exception of the strings.
Boy, I'd sell my soul to see these guys play together!
Conductor: I have selected several candidates for the conductor, but am having trouble picking the very best. Post some opinions if you would like. Here are some conductor candidates.
Igor Markevitch, Leonard Bernstein, Andre Previn, Zubin Mehta, Leopold Stokowski, Claudio Abbado and Fritz Reiner.
Here is the All-Time Symphony Orchestra!
Violin 1: Itzhak Perlman, Jascha Heifetz, Giuseppe Tartini, Fritz Kreisler, Ivan Galamian, David Oistrakh, Mischa Elman, Tono Milicenic, Pablo de Sarasate
Violin 2: Philippe Quint, Jacques Thibaud, Isaac Stern, Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Arthur Grimaux, Zino Francescatti, Robert McDuffie, Ida Haendel, Georges Enesco
Viola: Yuri Bashmet, Nobuko Imai, Lionel Tertis, William Primrose, Lawrence Power
Cello: Yo-Yo Ma, Pablo Casals, Jacqueline du Pre, Gregor Piatagorsky, Emanuel Fuerman, Pierre Fournier, Mstialav Rostropovich
Bass: HELP! I can't find any!
Flute: Marcel Moyse, Paul Taffanel, Robert Dick, Frans Vester
Oboe: John Mack, Alex Klein
Clarinet: Richard Stoltzman, Larry Combs
Bassoon: Bernard Garfield, Archie Camden, Sherman Walt, Sol Schoenbach
Horn: Dennis Brain, John Cerminaro, Peter Damm, Hermann Baumann
Trumpet: Adolph Herseth, Phillip Collins, Andrew McAndless
Trombone: Joseph Alessi, Denis Wick, Ian Bousfield, Christian Lindberg
Tuba: John Fletcher
Timpani: Edward Harrison
Percussion: Howard van Hyning, James Blades, Antonio Buonomo
Well, I hope you like it! Please don't hesitate to post suggestions, I'm always trying to improve it. Thanks for reading!
Fri, Mar 23 2012, 11:45AM
#2
RE: The All-Time Symphony Orchestra
That is a nice list. Do you spend your time producing other lists such as this. Favourite drain covers has always been my favourite. But I can never find a suitable light weight 6 x 6, any suggestions.
You've spelt Cant wrong.
Fri, Mar 23 2012, 12:22PM
#3
RE: The All-Time Symphony Orchestra
That is a nice list. Do you spend your time producing other lists such as this. Favourite drain covers has always been my favourite. But I can never find a suitable light weight 6 x 6, any suggestions.
You've spelt Cant wrong.
I have a hospital appointment shortly and hope I've stopped laughing by then.
Fri, Mar 23 2012, 3:19PM
#4
RE: The All-Time Symphony Orchestra
That is a nice list. Do you spend your time producing other lists such as this. Favourite drain covers has always been my favourite. But I can never find a suitable light weight 6 x 6, any suggestions.
You've spelt Cant wrong.
I have a hospital appointment shortly and hope I've stopped laughing by then.
Don't tell me: you're in stitches.
Fri, Mar 23 2012, 4:47PM
#5
RE: The All-Time Symphony Orchestra
What a wonderful way to welcome a new member to the forum. What's wrong with you people?
To the conductor list, add Toscanini and Boult for starters.
Fri, Mar 23 2012, 5:33PM
#6
RE: The All-Time Symphony Orchestra
As I wishful thinking (or maybe wishful exercise), it's original. However, since it can never happen, not because some of them are deceased or in bad health or retired, but because orchestras are not built that way, anyway, in any part of the world, why bother?
Fri, Mar 23 2012, 6:14PM
#7
RE: The All-Time Symphony Orchestra
Here are some conductor candidates.
Igor Markevich, Leonard Bernstein, Andre Previn, Zubin Mehta, Leopold Stokowski
Do you really expect a list that suggests the greatest conductor of all time might be any of the above to be taken seriously.
Fri, Mar 23 2012, 6:58PM
#8
RE: The All-Time Symphony Orchestra
I give up. Parla and Vic: Why not take over this thread too and completely alienate TchaikovskyTrumpet24 from contributing again to this so-called Forum?
Fri, Mar 23 2012, 8:20PM
#9
RE: The All-Time Symphony Orchestra
I give up.
If it has really taken this long, I compliment you on your fortitude
Fri, Mar 23 2012, 8:28PM
#10
RE: The All-Time Symphony Orchestra
There are many very fine musicians in the list ... but I wonder how many of them would make good orchestral musicians?
Fri, Mar 23 2012, 10:01PM
#11
RE: The All-Time Symphony Orchestra
Exactly! Very pertinent point, CW.
By the way, who is going to be the first violin? Perlman (maybe, as the only alive to lead the departed ones). Intriguing.
Next subject: The All-Time Symphony!
Parla
Fri, Mar 23 2012, 10:40PM
#12
RE: The All-Time Symphony Orchestra
The National Philharmonic Orchestra, which made many fine recordings under Stokowski, Gerhardt, Herrmann and others, was made up of a lot of first chairs from other orchestras and so was an orchestra that Solti put together for a tour, but it would be interesting to learn how many soloists, some of whom may have started in an orchestra, would jump at the idea. Lots of egos there.
Sat, Mar 24 2012, 12:18AM
#13
RE: The All-Time Symphony Orchestra
What a wonderful way to welcome a new member to the forum. What's wrong with you people? To the conductor list, add Toscanini and Boult for starters.
New member?
What are you on?
Sat, Mar 24 2012, 12:33AM
#14
RE: The All-Time Symphony Orchestra
He joined on March 23, 2012. That's today (or where you live, yesterday). It is his first post. Do you know something the rest of us don't? And what are you on? I do not think snide comments you make speak well of you as a person. Now I'm sure you'll have something to say about that, but please keep it under 2,000 words so we don't fall asleep from boredom.
Sat, Mar 24 2012, 12:39AM
#15
RE: The A Team
I do not think snide comments you make speak well of you as a person.
Have to agree with you there Bliss, Troll one seems like a fairly nasty piece of work.
That is a nice list. Do you spend your time producing other lists such as this. Favourite drain covers has always been my favourite. But I can never find a suitable light weight 6 x 6, any suggestions.