Symphonies in one movement

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Rons_talking

Valentine Silvestrov's Symphony #5 is a good one.

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Quote from: Rons_talking on June 23, 2015, 04:14:30 AM
Valentine Silvestrov's Symphony #5 is a good one.

It certainly is. For some, it may be too much, but this symphony is like a long lament or a requiem of sorts. That Andante section is some of the most moving music I know. Such heartfelt beauty.

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Quote from: schweitzeralan on March 24, 2010, 03:37:23 AM
Indeed.  Perhaps Scriabin himself claimed these two works as symphonies.  They are more like symphonic poems.

To clarify this point - both The Poem of Ecstasy and Prometheus are, basically, in sonata form. Why therefore are they more like symphonic poems than symphonies?
A day may be a destiny; for life
Lives in but little—but that little teems
With some one chance, the balance of all time:
A look—a word—and we are wholly changed.

amw

Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1, Lutosławski 3 and 4, and four of Ustvolskaya's five.

Maestro267

Seeing as I haven't seen them mentioned in the thread:

Tippett 4
Maxwell Davies 5
Penderecki 2, 4 & 5
Lloyd 1 & 12
MacMillan 4
Rubbra 11

Androcles

Tippett 4 is excellent, as is Simpson 9. While we're on the subject of British composers, perhaps Hoddinott 4 and 6 count.

And does Miaskovsky 10 have any takers?
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.