Make A Wish: another idiotic poll

[not edward]

- a Brahms Horn Concerto, Clarinet Concerto and Cello Concerto (what he does with those instruments in his symphonies is just marvelous);

Great idea: very much seconded. I might even withdraw my suggestion in favour of this.

[MishaK]

Great idea: very much seconded. I might even withdraw my suggestion in favour of this.

I don't think your withdrawing your original makes a difference. I don't think Brahms is about to jump out of his grave if we can get a few more votes. 

[Steve]

- a Messiaen opera cycle.

Now, that would be interesting.

[david johnson]

i went for the gm requiem and a make-a-wish mozart trumpet concerto...both dedicated to me, of course!! 

dj

[MishaK]

i went for the gm requiem and a make-a-wish mozart trumpet concerto...both dedicated to me, of course!! 

You know that Mozart hated that instrument, right?

[david johnson]

...how very, very backward!  obviously too much time trifling with keyboards and fiddles 

dj

[Papy Oli]

My wished ideal piece most likely exists but i have yet to discover it ...

Voted for Mahler requiem in the meantime.... (also because i have never heard Webern, Bruckner, Janacek, Bartok, so i have no idea what those wished pieces would sound like at all    )

[Lilas Pastia]

how come you can't select "Make your own wish" twice?

Your wish has been granted!

[Gurn Blanston]

You know that Mozart hated that instrument, right?

Well, yes and no. As a child, they hurt his ears. Particularly since they were natural trumpets and if they weren't perfectly in tune with each other the dissonance could be bad. But later, he always and happily included them, usually writing the parts for them (and timpani) as extra parts on their own score so that orchestras that didn't have access could choose to do without.

[Maciek]

- Mussorgsky's own orchestration of Pictures; 

Yes!

(But hopefully we'd still get to keep Ravel's...?)

[BachQ]

Yes!

(But hopefully we'd still get to keep Ravel's...?)

Seconded ........

[Ten thumbs]

- Mussorgsky's own orchestration of Pictures; 

Why not appreciate this brilliant piece of piano writing as it stands?
I'm not hoping for a piano arrangement of Ravel's orchestration. Maybe that's already been done.
I'd like Tchaikowsky's version of the Ballet of the Unhatched Chickens.

[Maciek]

Why not appreciate this brilliant piece of piano writing as it stands?

Who says we don't?

[MishaK]

Who says we don't?

Exactly.

[Catison]

Prokofiev Concerto for Two PIanos, a work he planned by never got around to.

[Ten thumbs]

Who says we don't?

Excellent, so we don't need the Catacombae orchestrated by Wagner.

[gomro]

2 Wishes are allowed.
Feel free to fantasize and make your own,  original proposal: choose a work that's never been composed but that would excite all music lovers' interest! hint: try to imagine something the composer is not known for (not a Brahms 5th symphony for example )

I wish Varese had written the opera he proposed: The Firmament Is Gone. Varese wrote little for the voice, but what he did write is absolutely enthralling, and the eerie plot of TFIG, coupled with Varese's supercharged music, would have undoubtedly have been one of his masterworks. Alas, not to be...