Sibelius: Symphony 7
Robin Orr: Symphony in One Movement
Barber: Symphony 1
Miaskovsky: Symphony 21
Tubin: Symphony 10
Havergal Brian: Symphony 10
Roy Harris: Symphony 3
8)
What, no Harris Third?! 0:) 8) :)
Why six?
Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on June 04, 2015, 11:07:21 AM
Why six?
A lot of the persons guilty of spreading the "top five poll" craze also found it very hard to stop at five.
Quote from: Brian on June 04, 2015, 11:08:48 AM
A lot of the persons guilty of spreading the "top five poll" craze also found it very hard to stop at five.
But then a lot of the persons guilty of spreading the "top six poll" craze will find it very hard to stop at six.
Guys - you need to look again at the thread title. ::)
I got my dad to join the local record library so that I could use his tickets when I was in my 20s. You could take out 3 LPs hence I could now choose 6. Karl's Roy Harris comment meant that I had to go for seven. :)
Quote from: vandermolen on June 04, 2015, 11:26:08 AM
Guys - you need to look again at the thread title. ::)
What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?
Google search 'one movement symphonies' yields e.g. this result 8)
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?topic=14741.0
Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on June 04, 2015, 11:29:19 AM
What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?
No, definitely will not go beyond seven.
Quote from: North Star on June 04, 2015, 11:36:55 AM
Google search 'one movement symphonies' yields e.g. this result 8)
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?topic=14741.0
Amazing that I ended up choosing seven then - but not all the same ones. It was quite a few years back so I hope you'll forgive me for forgetting. Maybe I am caught in a time warp and doomed to repeat these threads forever. ???
Quote from: vandermolen on June 04, 2015, 11:00:15 AM
Sibelius: Symphony 7
Robin Orr: Symphony in One Movement
Barber: Symphony 1
Miaskovsky: Symphony 21
Tubin: Symphony 10
Havergal Brian: Symphony 10
Roy Harris: Symphony 3
8)
Clearly I need to seek out Robin Orr and that Brian person's 10th as this come close to being my list. I'd have Harris a bit higher.
There are only two one-movement-symphonies I am aware of having heard more than once: Sibelius 7 and Schoenberg's first chamber symphony (the second is in two). They are both very good but I cannot do a ranking, I am afraid, with only two.
Samuel Barber, Symphony No. 1
Lennox Berkeley, Symphony No. 3
Havergal Brian, Symphony No. 8
Vagn Holmboe, Symphony No. 7
John Kinsella, Symphony No. 7 for orchestra and wordless chorus
Léon Orthel, Symphony No. 2 'Piccola'
Eduard Tubin, Symphony No. 10
What exactly is a one-movement symphony? Immediately answering my own question, I'd say it's one which plays continuously (obviously) and, if the structure shows signs of being in a number of conjoined movements (which they nearly always are, even Sibelius 7 or Harris 3), one where the different movements aren't numbered I, II, III etc. This would admit a clear 4-movement piece such as Nielsen 4 - which is a long way round of introducing my list:
Nielsen 4 (well, it's his birthday)
Sibelius 7
Tippett 4
Mozart 32
Brian 16
Schoenberg Op.9
Simpson 1
Once again, no place for the first true 4-in-1, Schumann 4.
Scriabin's Fourth and Fifth
Hartmann's Second
Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony I
Sibelius' Seventh
Harris' Third
Barber's First
Quote from: Cato on June 09, 2015, 06:44:34 AM
Scriabin's Fourth and Fifth
Hartmann's Second
Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony I
Sibelius' Seventh
Harris' Third
Barber's First
Well, that hero thing didn't last long. >:D ;)
Quote from: Ken B on June 09, 2015, 07:35:57 AM
Well, that hero thing didn't last long. >:D ;)
Which one(s) did me in?! ;)
Quote from: Cato on June 09, 2015, 08:07:33 AM
Which one(s) did me in?! ;)
Surely it's the
Harris.
Simpson 9
Harris 3
Schuman 6
Sibelius 7
Lutoslawski 4
Pettersson 6
Pettersson 7
Quote from: Ken B on June 08, 2015, 08:15:32 PM
Clearly I need to seek out Robin Orr and that Brian person's 10th as this come close to being my list. I'd have Harris a bit higher.
They're not really in order. The Orr and Brian works are terrific so do look them out. The Brian is on Dutton.
Quote from: Christo on June 09, 2015, 12:58:34 AM
Samuel Barber, Symphony No. 1
Lennox Berkeley, Symphony No. 3
Havergal Brian, Symphony No. 8
Vagn Holmboe, Symphony No. 7
John Kinsella, Symphony No. 7 for orchestra and wordless chorus
Léon Orthel, Symphony No. 2 'Piccola'
Eduard Tubin, Symphony No. 10
Great choices - must revisit the Orthel.
Quote from: vandermolen on June 09, 2015, 01:24:31 PMGreat choices - must revisit the Orthel.
Must revisit the Orr. ;) And oversaw that technically the Simpson Ninth is in one movement too (I think in his spoken explanation on the Hyperion CD he says he 'telescoped' the original second movement into the first and continued to expand it from there on).
Quote from: Christo on June 10, 2015, 09:55:19 AM
Must revisit the Orr. ;) And oversaw that technically the Simpson Ninth is in one movement too (I think in his spoken explanation on the Hyperion CD he says he 'telescoped' the original second movement into the first and continued to expand it from there on).
One of my aims is to get my head round Simpson's Ninth which I have never got on with so far - clearly I am missing out. I do like his First and Third symphonies however.
Quote from: vandermolen on June 10, 2015, 11:18:42 AM
One of my aims is to get my head round Simpson's Ninth which I have never got on with so far - clearly I am missing out. I do like his First and Third symphonies however.
If it really counts as 1 movement then my list is:
Sibelius 7
Simpson 9
Barber (only)
Harris 3
with a few contenders for the remaining spots, which have been mentioned by others, but these 4 are clear.
Quote from: Christo on June 10, 2015, 09:55:19 AM
Must revisit the Orr. ;) And oversaw that technically the Simpson Ninth is in one movement too (I think in his spoken explanation on the Hyperion CD he says he 'telescoped' the original second movement into the first and continued to expand it from there on).
Yes, the Robin Orr work is very fine indeed on an interesting old EMI CD with Fricker's powerful Second Symphony ( the last few minutes are very exciting) and Simpson's Symphony 1 which is my favourite of his at the moment - although I will persevere with No. 9.
Quote from: vandermolen on June 11, 2015, 11:42:09 AMYes, the Robin Orr work is very fine indeed on an interesting old EMI CD with Fricker's powerful Second Symphony ( the last few minutes are very exciting) and Simpson's Symphony 1 which is my favourite of his at the moment - although I will persevere with No. 9.
Have it, played it. #butnotoftenenough :)
Some of my choices are divided in sections, but not in movements as such:
Bantock A Celtic Symphony
Langgaard 4 (or the 6th)
Myaskovsky 22 Symphony-Ballad
Pettersson 6
Schmidt 4
Simpson 9
Vasks 2
I could have included Orthel 2 (recently discovered thank Christo), Schuman 6 (today I listened to it again and I was mightily impressed), Barber 1, Harris 3, or Vine 3.
Quote from: SymphonicAddict on April 01, 2019, 12:49:32 PM
Some of my choices are divided in sections, but not in movements as such:
Bantock A Celtic Symphony
Langgaard 4 (or the 6th)
Myaskovsky 22 Symphony-Ballad
Pettersson 6
Schmidt 4
Simpson 9
Vasks 2
I could have included Orthel 2 (recently discovered thank Christo), Schuman 6 (today I listened to it again and I was mightily impressed), Barber 1, Harris 3, or Vine 3.
Great choices Cesar ( mainly because I could have chosen the same ones 8)). I must listen again to the Simpson and the Orthel. Schuman's 6th is terrific, described somewhere as 'a Requiem for the 20th Century'.
I wonder if anyone will ever write a 'Brexit Symphony' with turbulent themes, going round and round in circles before crashing into chaos and ending with an extended mournful lament?
Quote from: vandermolen on April 02, 2019, 05:22:45 AM
I wonder if anyone will ever write a 'Brexit Symphony' with turbulent themes, going round and round in circles before crashing into chaos and ending with an extended mournful lament?
Ah! Mahler did that one already, even a couple of times. >:D
Quote from: vandermolen on April 02, 2019, 05:22:45 AM
Great choices Cesar ( mainly because I could have chosen the same ones 8)). I must listen again to the Simpson and the Orthel. Schuman's 6th is terrific, described somewhere as 'a Requiem for the 20th Century'.
I wonder if anyone will ever write a 'Brexit Symphony' with turbulent themes, going round and round in circles before crashing into chaos and ending with an extended mournful lament?
Thanks!
I'd be eager to hear that alluring prospect of symphony! Let's hope some modern composer will take the challenge ;D
Penderecki: Symphony No. 5
MacMillan: Symphony No. 3 ("Silence")
Lloyd: Symphony No. 12
Brian: Symphony No. 10
Tippett: Symphony No. 4
Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
Haglund Symphony
Premiered by Royal Stockholm Philharmonic a week ago..... full concert streamed here:
https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1258425https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1258425
remarkable work.......
I don't listen to symphonies much these days and haven't for the past year, so I wouldn't know where to begin with my own list.
Quote from: vandermolen on April 02, 2019, 05:22:45 AM
Great choices Cesar ( mainly because I could have chosen the same ones 8)). I must listen again to the Simpson and the Orthel. Schuman's 6th is terrific, described somewhere as 'a Requiem for the 20th Century'.
I wonder if anyone will ever write a 'Brexit Symphony' with turbulent themes, going round and round in circles before crashing into chaos and ending with an extended mournful lament?
The Brexit symphony is likely to be a multiple movement work, more like an extended Suite :D.
Just a mention of Webern and Zimmermann. And of Nørholm's ninth and Myaskovsky's tenth as well.
For the record.
Quote from: Maestro267 on April 04, 2019, 05:18:26 AM
Penderecki: Symphony No. 5
MacMillan: Symphony No. 3 ("Silence")
Lloyd: Symphony No. 12
Brian: Symphony No. 10
Tippett: Symphony No. 4
Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
Nice to see a plug for Lloyd's 12th Symphony which I also rate highly. I've just discovered, on the recommendation of a colleague, MacMillan's 4th Symphony which I thought was terrific so must investigate No.3 as well. Brian's 10th is one of his best I think.