This was actually the second symphony Mendelssohn wrote, but it wasn’t published until a year after its composer’s death, so it got numbered last. Recommended recording: David Alan Miller and the Albany Symphony Orchestraġ0) Symphony no. It’s like Baby Bear’s porridge…just the right amount of pretty much everything.
I can’t figure out why this piece is performed so never.
#NO SOUND IN SIBELIUS 5 FULL#
Gillis has that stereotypically “American” sound down to a science, and his flair for rhythm is on full display. He even satirized the symphonic form in the movements’ titles: Perpetual emotion, Spiritual?, Scherzophrenia, and Conclusion! This is as un-serious as music gets, but PDQ Bach it is not. Originally intended to be his Sixth Symphony, Gillis ended up going halfway because of the light-hearted nature of the work. Think of me as a cult leader and classical music as the cyanide Kool-Aid. Even better, listen to the music and rate for yourself.
It probably seems like a ridiculous idea, and it is, but it still gets you thinking about great music, and ultimately that’s good. It is with that same general spirit in mind that I invite you into my world of randomly ranking things like best symphonies based solely on their number. Just because they’re correct doesn’t mean it still can’t have benefits talking about music, no matter how unusually, is far from pointless. The overwhelming majority of humans would likely declare that arguing over who was better/more important between Ravel and Schoenberg is a pointless waste of time. A few years ago, some friends and I devised an NCAA-style bracket tournament to determine the greatest composer of all-time through a rigorous series of discussions.
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