The greatest Richard Strauss tone poems not written by Richard Strauss?

[eyeresist]

Someone in another thread recently suggested Elgar's In the South (Alassio).

Vaughan Williams' Sinfonia Antartica might also fit this category.

Any other suggestions?


The LIST: (why not?)

Bartok: Kossuth
Bax: Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
Bax: Tintagel
Brian: Doctor Merryheart
Delius: Paris
Elgar: In the South (Alassio)
Elgar: Falstaff
Gliere: Symphony no. 3
Janacek: Taras Bulba
Karlowicz: Stanislaw and Anna
Novak: In the Tatra Mountains
Novak: Lady Godiva
Reznicek: Schlemihl
Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande
Suk: A Summer's Tale
Suk: Ripening
Suk: Epilogue
Szymanowski: Concert Overture
Szymanowski: Symphony No. 2
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 7 "Sinfonia Antartica"
Webern: Im Sommerwind
Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid)

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Delius, Paris
Karlowicz, Stanislaw and Anna

[Grazioso]

Zemlinsky Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid)
Novak Lady Godiva or In the Tatra Mountains (a bit of that Alpine Symphony vibe)

[The new erato]

Zemlinsky Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid)

You stole my post.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

I nominate Elgar's Falstaff; it's almost like his answer to Strauss' Don Quixote (personality portrait of a literary character, both characters created at approximately the same time, around 1600).

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I nominate Elgar's Falstaff; it's almost like his answer to Strauss' Don Quixote (personality portrait of a literary character, both characters created at approximately the same time, around 1600).

Brian, Doctor Merryheart, a funny Strauss-meets-Elgar tone poem about a character of Brian's own invention (detailed programme notes exist).

[Daverz]

Reznicek's Schlemihl, though Reznicek himself was more of a schlimazel.

[Mirror Image]

Delius, Paris

Now there's a work I haven't revisited in awhile. I remember liking this one very much.

[Mirror Image]

An obvious choice: Webern's Im Sommerwind

A more obscure choice: Szymanowski's Concert Overture

[not edward]

I'll second Die Seejungfrau and Falstaff.

Add Szymanowski's 2nd symphony if we can overlook it being in two movements.

[hafod]

Bax: There are quite few to chose from but I will go for Tintagel.

[eyeresist]

I have made a List of all suggestion in the original post.

Re Bax, I don't know how Straussian Tintagel actually is. I'd say the obvious candidate is the Overture to a Picaresque Overture. Thoughts on this?

[listener]

GLIÈRE  Symphony no. 3   'Ilya Murometz'  and JANÁCEK  Taras Bulba
more than one movement each, but all of the movements have narrative programs.

[Daverz]

I have made a List of all suggestion in the original post.

Re Bax, I don't know how Straussian Tintagel actually is.

I do!  I do!  Not Straussian in the least!  Whado I win?

The same goes for Ilya Murometz and Taras Bulba.

[eyeresist]

Well, once the list fills up, we can have another thread to vote them down again

[Brian]

I clicked on this thread thinking Rob Newman had made an exciting new discovery.

[eyeresist]

LOL!!!


EDIT: Okay, we're not allowed to do lolposts? Then I will add something else... All my posts are written by a secret committee of freemasons, in order to bring about the dreaded ZOG.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I clicked on this thread thinking Rob Newman had made an exciting new discovery.

LOL!!!


EDIT: Okay, we're not allowed to do lolposts? Then I will add something else... All my posts are written by a secret committee of freemasons, in order to bring about the dreaded ZOG.

[mc ukrneal]

How can this be? Dvorak and Smetana, perhaps the other two greatest tone poem composers ever, are not even MENTIONED! 1 whip with a wet noodle for all of you! 

[eyeresist]

How can this be? Dvorak and Smetana, perhaps the other two greatest tone poem composers ever, are not even MENTIONED!

As much as I love both of them, are they Straussian?

And what exactly do we mean by that?