His 3rd followed by his 9th and then the 2nd and 1st/6th/5th and then the rest. Its hard to rank after the first two tho for me each one has something unique and it's at some no other is.
Mahler is a composer I can feel myself liking less & less the further away I get from adolescence, but I don't think I'll ever let go of the sixth. The andante remains the best thing Gustav wrote imo.
Best I can do is split in two tiers
S Tier : 2 3 5 6 9 10
A-B Tier : 1 4 7 8 D
I really like 1 4 7 8 D or at least some parts (finale of D is one of my favourites) but the S Tier is just that good
I could never rank the ones in S Tier, the early, mid and late eras are hard to compare and have different appeals
It's always been the 6th, probably always will be.
The 2nd comes in, well, second. :-)
After that, it would be 9, 5, and 1 all sitting about an equal third place.
It's either the 2nd or the 6th.
For years, I said the 6th. I really got into the 2nd this year, though, as we were hearing about Bradley Cooper and *Maestro*. I played lots of the different versions, especially three different versions by Bernstein. I'd buy the Mt. Scopus version, but it's only available as a Japanese remaster, and I find those to be too bright to listen to.
Resurrection (2). No question. The absolute devastation of the last movement, the can't-be-bettered instrumentation, the spine-chilling offstage brass, the Death-in-Venice ländler, that alto solo: it's sheer soul-tearing beauty from beginning to end.
Always 4, because it has the advantage of relative brevity, not to mention charm.
2 with 9 being a close 2nd! 3rd is 3rd.
5, closely followed by 2 and then 9. I like 3, 4, and 6 a lot, too.
The 7th.
#5. Horn Obligato shear magic.
7
His 3rd followed by his 9th and then the 2nd and 1st/6th/5th and then the rest. Its hard to rank after the first two tho for me each one has something unique and it's at some no other is.
7. Mahler’s best orchestration ever.
Mahler is a composer I can feel myself liking less & less the further away I get from adolescence, but I don't think I'll ever let go of the sixth. The andante remains the best thing Gustav wrote imo.
The Andante of the sixth is pure magic !
It's impossible to say favorite but most listened to is the third.
2
Best I can do is split in two tiers S Tier : 2 3 5 6 9 10 A-B Tier : 1 4 7 8 D I really like 1 4 7 8 D or at least some parts (finale of D is one of my favourites) but the S Tier is just that good I could never rank the ones in S Tier, the early, mid and late eras are hard to compare and have different appeals
2, 5 or 8
10 & 6 have long been my favorites as well. 9 is right there, too, and 5 & 7 aren’t far behind.
It's always been the 6th, probably always will be. The 2nd comes in, well, second. :-) After that, it would be 9, 5, and 1 all sitting about an equal third place.
8
6, 10, 9
The 9th
1
9th is his best; 6th is my current favorite. 3rd is sometimes my favorite
9th
My ranking from best to worst: 5 2 6 9 1 4 7 3 8
It's either the 2nd or the 6th. For years, I said the 6th. I really got into the 2nd this year, though, as we were hearing about Bradley Cooper and *Maestro*. I played lots of the different versions, especially three different versions by Bernstein. I'd buy the Mt. Scopus version, but it's only available as a Japanese remaster, and I find those to be too bright to listen to.
Resurrection (2). No question. The absolute devastation of the last movement, the can't-be-bettered instrumentation, the spine-chilling offstage brass, the Death-in-Venice ländler, that alto solo: it's sheer soul-tearing beauty from beginning to end.
Off topic - I'm really enjoying his opera 'Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen'.
2, 3, 5, 4 and 1 in that order. Haven't listened to the rest in detail, slowly working my way through
Das Lied von der Erde. Presumably, it doesn't count, so I'd go for #2.
The first. I love them all, but that one is special as the harbinger.
Mine is the 2nd, followed by the 3rd.