Favourite 'Book Ends'

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Brahmsian

September 15, 2013, 12:34:25 PM
I decided to start my own poll (kyjo copyrights to poll creation be damned!)  :laugh:

What are your some of your favourite works in terms of their combined awesomeness for their 1st and Final movements "book ends"?

No rules:  can be a symphonic work, solo instrumental work, chamber work, etc.

A couple of favourites for me include two Tchaikovsky works:

Symphony No. 3 and Symphony No. 6

springrite

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September 15, 2013, 12:35:58 PM
Das Reingold and Gotterdamerung?
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

North Star

#2
September 15, 2013, 12:52:02 PM
Prokofiev 2nd Symphony!
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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kyjo

#3
September 15, 2013, 12:59:16 PM
Quote from: ChamberNut on September 15, 2013, 12:34:25 PM
I decided to start my own poll (kyjo copyrights to poll creation be damned!)  :laugh:

Lol :P......

Well, I'll probably just end up listing some of my very favorite works, but some symphonies with especially awesome "bookend" movements that come to mind are: Mahler 2, 6 and 7, Bruckner 9, Sibelius 2, Shostakovich 5 and Nielsen 4. There's so many to choose from! :D

springrite

#4
September 15, 2013, 01:00:18 PM
Beethoven Piano Sonata #32, op.111. I know, only two movements, but that does qualify as "Book Ends", does it not?
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Brahmsian

#5
September 15, 2013, 01:03:32 PM
Quote from: springrite on September 15, 2013, 01:00:18 PM
Beethoven Piano Sonata #32, op.111. I know, only two movements, but that does qualify as "Book Ends", does it not?

Yes, there are no rules.  It counts!  :)

Brahmsian

#6
September 15, 2013, 01:04:38 PM
Quote from: springrite on September 15, 2013, 12:35:58 PM
Das Reingold and Gotterdamerung?

I hope you are serious, and not actually using these as literal book ends!  :laugh: :o 8) ;)

springrite

#7
September 15, 2013, 01:06:18 PM
Quote from: ChamberNut on September 15, 2013, 01:04:38 PM
I hope you are serious, and not actually using these as literal book ends!  :laugh: :o 8) ;)

Well, they can! That's the beauty of it!
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Cato

#8
September 15, 2013, 01:22:26 PM
Quote from: North Star on September 15, 2013, 12:52:02 PM
Prokofiev 2nd Symphony!

;) :D ;D ;) :D ;D  Wise guy! 

Quote from: springrite on September 15, 2013, 01:00:18 PM
Beethoven Piano Sonata #32, op.111. I know, only two movements, but that does qualify as "Book Ends", does it not?

Following North Star, sure, why not?  0:) 

Both of these works are perfect book-ends!
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

Lisztianwagner

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September 15, 2013, 01:54:18 PM Last Edit: September 15, 2013, 02:21:34 PM by Lisztianwagner
Quote from: springrite on September 15, 2013, 12:35:58 PM
Das Reingold and Gotterdamerung?

+1
Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé, Tchaikovsky No.4, Mahler No.1, 6and 9, Beethoven No.9 and Debussy's La Mer.
"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

North Star

#10
September 15, 2013, 02:07:04 PM
Quote from: Cato on September 15, 2013, 01:22:26 PM
;) :D ;D ;) :D ;D  Wise guy! 

Following North Star, sure, why not?  0:) 

Both of these works are perfect book-ends!
I truly am liberator of the GMG folk, aren't I!  8)
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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springrite

#11
September 15, 2013, 02:14:45 PM
Quote from: North Star on September 15, 2013, 02:07:04 PM
I truly am liberator of the GMG folk, aren't I!  8)

They should air drop T-shirts with your name and photos on them over Syria!


Now back to bookends: Mahler 6, 7, 9.

Bach Goldberg Variations.
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Karl Henning

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September 16, 2013, 03:56:34 AM
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Brahmsian

#13
September 16, 2013, 05:14:23 AM
Another dandy one I enjoy:

Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 107 "Reformation"

AnthonyAthletic

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September 16, 2013, 05:39:50 AM
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Strauss: Ein Heldenleben - Gave this a spin yesterday...

01 : "Der Held"
06 : "Des Helden Weltflucht und Vollendung"

Hero came, Hero left...the rest in the middle ain't bad either...two fine bookends  :D

....perhaps,everything Strauss wrote 8)

"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying"      (Arthur C. Clarke)

DavidW

#15
September 16, 2013, 09:13:47 AM
Mozart's Symphony 35
Brahms Symphony 3

TheGSMoeller

#16
September 16, 2013, 10:45:30 AM
Orff's Carmina Burana  8)

Sergeant Rock

#17
September 16, 2013, 10:54:30 AM
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on September 16, 2013, 10:45:30 AM
Orff's Carmina Burana  8)

Hah! ...or should I chortle instead?  :D

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Dancing Divertimentian

#18
September 16, 2013, 06:05:46 PM
Mozart's string quartet K.387.

Shostakovich's 15th symphony with the familiar (yet zany) exhortations of the first movement juxtaposed with the extreme novelty of the closing pages of the finale (right up till the end).

Ravel's piano concerto, but damn if the middle doesn't make for some fine cream filling.

Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

Cody Savage

#19
July 30, 2020, 12:31:35 AM
I love this Symphony No. 3, just the top!  ;)
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