What is currently stuck in your head?

[kyjo]

What classical piece is currently stuck in your head (if any)? For me, it's the Gavotte from Prokofiev's Classical Symphony. Someone please help me!

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The first movement from Hartmann's Symphonische Hymnen right now! Ughhh....!!!

[TheGSMoeller]

What classical piece is currently stuck in your head (if any)? For me, it's the Gavotte from Prokofiev's Classical Symphony. Someone please help me!

No, my friend. Soak it in, let that Gavotte take control. 

[kyjo]

The first movement from Hartmann's Symphonische Hymnen right now! Ughhh....!!!

I haven't heard that work for a long time, probably because it's not included in that magnificent Wergo set, which I revisit with regularity. I'll have to break out that Orfeo disc which contains the only recording of the Symphonische Hymnen as well as the Piano Concerto and Concerto funebre. I recall it being a very strong work.

[kyjo]

let that Gavotte take control. 

It already has!

[Mirror Image]

I haven't heard that work for a long time, probably because it's not included in that magnificent Wergo set, which I revisit with regularity. I'll have to break out that Orfeo disc which contains the only recording of the Symphonische Hymnen as well as the Piano Concerto and Concerto funebre. I recall it being a very strong work.

Outside of Hartmann's symphonic cycle, it's one of his best IMHO. I don't care much for the Piano Concerto, but LOVE the Concerto Funebre. Gorgeous work.

Have you heard his Sinfonia Tragica? This is a fine work as well:

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[kyjo]

Outside of Hartmann's symphonic cycle, it's one of his best IMHO. I don't care much for the Piano Concerto, but LOVE the Concerto Funebre. Gorgeous work.

Have you heard his Sinfonia Tragica? This is a fine work as well:

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I agree with you about the PC. A rather dry work that's not very personal or memorable. Yes, I have heard Sinfonia Tragica, the first movement of which was reused in Symphony no. 3 (Hartmann had a habit of reusing and recycling a lot of his music). What do you think of the Viola Concerto (on the same disc as Sinfonia Tragica)? I find a really unsettling work, sort of like a crazed mixture of Berg and Bartok.

[Mirror Image]

I agree with you about the PC. A rather dry work that's not very personal or memorable. Yes, I have heard Sinfonia Tragica, the first movement of which was reused in Symphony no. 3 (Hartmann had a habit of reusing and recycling a lot of his music). What do you think of the Viola Concerto (on the same disc as Sinfonia Tragica)? I find a really unsettling work, sort of like a crazed mixture of Berg and Bartok.

Yes, I particularly loved the last movement of Sinfonia Tragica. Some incredible orchestration and counterpoint happening in this movement. I don't think much of the Viola Concerto. I tend to focus on Hartmann's symphonies more than anything, although, as I mentioned, I do love the Concerto Funebre.

[kyjo]

BUMP!!!

[DavidW]

For obvious reasons the opening theme of Nielsen's clarinet concerto.

[Holden]

Why not just get rid of them with some anagrams or sudoku

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9950143/Get-that-tune-out-of-your-head-scientists-find-how-to-get-rid-of-earworms.html

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The opening of the third movement of Sibelius's 'Four Legends for Orchestra'

[North Star]

The opening of the third movement of Sibelius's 'Four Legends for Orchestra'

aka Lemminkäinen Tuonelassa (or Lemminkäinen in Tuonela [in the Underworld].

[vandermolen]

aka Lemminkäinen Tuonelassa (or Lemminkäinen in Tuonela [in the Underworld].

Thank you - yes, that's the one. It has a wonderfully atmospheric opening, especially in Thomas Jensen's Royal Danish SO recording.

[kyjo]

Now: the secondary theme from the first movement of Schubert's Symphony no. 5.

[mc ukrneal]

I rarely get classical stuck in my head. Broadway, on the other hand, can stick like glue for weeks. I listened to the show Into the Woods (which I hadn't heard in ages) and I remembered only later why I stopped listening to it. I keep singing the bloody lyrics (which are terribly clever)!

[Pat B]

Schubert's Fantasy in C, D.934. It's been in my head for about a week.

[eumyang]

I rarely get classical stuck in my head. Broadway, on the other hand, can stick like glue for weeks.

I'm the opposite, but rarely is any piece stuck in my head for over a week. 

Right now, I have had Brahms' Op. 116/1 in my head the past few days.  (I recently listened to a CD of Brahms' Opp. 116-119.)  Before that was Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazde, 3rd movement (my favorite of the four).

[classicalgeek]

Not classical per se, but right now it's the opening theme from Batman (1960s TV series) - my daughter and I have been watching the first season on YouTube.  Campy, cheesy, over-the-top, but somehow lots of fun!

I need to get a classical 'earworm' going - the end of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto was probably my most recent one.

[DavidW]

Guess what?  Still the first movement of Nielsen's clarinet concerto!