This is Norway’s classical favorites – the NRK

This is: “the Plight of a classic”

• NRK Classic, Morgenbladet and the Oslo philharmonic orchestra in January, worked together to bill the people’s favorite work for orchestra.
• Readers and listeners have been able to vote up their favorite on Morgenbladets websites, and selected works have been played in the Ring the music on NRK Classic.
• the Judging happens in connection with that Morgenbladets fagjurie have selected the 20 premier orkesterverkene in the story.

It was of course Beethoven. The grumpy, hard-of-hearing composer with the big hair and the sail in to a smoothly the first place with his ninth symphony.

STRICT, BUT LOVED: He looks strict, but Beethoven has won the Norwegian people’s hearts with his 9. symphony.

Photo: Carl Schloesser / the Public Domain

– It contains the whole life in many ways, writing one of them who have voted.

the Symphony is perhaps primarily known for the anthem “Ode to joy”, which has become one of the most iconic works in the classic musikklitteraturen. And now it has also gone to the top in the ranking of the Norwegian people’s orkesterfavoritt, more skilengder in front of Stravinskij and Mozart.

From Bach to the Beatles

the Judging of the people’s orkesterfavoritt – or the Plight of a classic is a cooperation between NRK, Classic, Morgenbladet and the Oslo Philharmonic orchestra.

the Span in the nominated work for orchestra, stretching from the Beatles’ “A day in the life” of Bach.

But after 650 nominations are counted up watching the top 10 list is as follows:

1. Beethoven: Symphony no.. 9

“Beautiful”, “stunning”, “powerful”. There are some top and readers ‘ descriptions of Beethoven’s ninth symphony. But the work also has a political dimension.

– There is an outbreak of despair, of struggle and oppression, ” says conductor Thomas Rimul. He believes that Beethoven expresses how it is to live in a police state, so Austria became after the napoleonic wars.

But in the last rate wins the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity.

2. Stravinskij: Vårofferet

Stravinskijs ballet created the scandal in the theater when it was first launched, but have gone from being reviled to be a’s the crowd favourite. The music popped up in the Disney movie Fantasia in 1940. Stravinskij was a long in a close fight about Mozart in this award, and finally there was only one vote that separated Vårofferet from …

3. Mozart: Requiem

the World’s most famous choirs and orchestras performing this work, and it also makes the local blandakoret. Mozart’s very last piece, as he died before he got finished, has been a part of the myth about the man.”Divine” is one of the descriptions is used.

4. Mahler: Symphony no.. 2

“It has everything!”, there are more who write about Mahler’s second symphony. Despite the fact that Mahler was based on a poem with the gloomy name “over its demise” (Totenfeier) has been known as the “oppstandelsessymfonien”. Mahler is also regarded as the composer who finish the romantic period – after him came the more atonal and modernist music.

5. Beethoven: Symphony no.. 3

“The biggest leap in orkestermusikkens history” and “A timeless work” with a political message, type those who is fan of Beethoven’s 3. symphony. It was originally dedicated to Napoleon, but after that he appointed himself emperor renamed a disillusioned Beethoven work, the “Eroica”, with the subtitle: to celebrate the memory of a great man.

6. Messiaen: Turangalila

“A work that initially seems difficult, but hits like a hammer when one listens to it.” Turangalila-symphony arises not often up on the easy-listening discs with classical music, but several readers and listeners have been fascinated by this work. “The music holds a strange and beautiful universe,” writes one.

7. Dvořák: Symphony no.. 9

“The rock”, “beautiful and raw” and “delicious klisjefull”. Dvořák’s ninth symphony, with the subtitle the new world, is inspired by his stay in the united STATES and meeting with, among others, african-american spirituals.

8. Vivaldi: the Seasons

“It need not be more difficult than it is here. This is music that is beautiful and uncomplicated, without being trite.” Vivaldi’s description of the changing seasons is obvious to most, but many people write that if you just listen, then there is much more to take in this barokkstykket.

9. Beethoven: Symphony no.. 5

“This is the symphony you can’t get outside”. We dare to say that everyone knows the main theme from “Skjebnesymfonien” (dadada-daaa, dadada-daaa!), not least because it often appears in the guise of other genres. Beethoven’s fifth symphony has inspired musicians in both rock and disko.

10. Giuseppe Verdi: “Requiem

Value really wanted to write a dødsmesse to the memory of Rossini, together with the other Italian composers. But when this project fell together, he ended up writing a rekviem on your own. After Mozart’s is enough, this is one of the most performed dødsmessene in the early works. As one of those who has voiced writes: “This work has it all, even for a gentile.”