Favorite name for a musical work

[DavidW]

Sinfonia Domestica

The Apocalyptic Symphony

The Rake's Progress

Black Angels

The Helicopter Quartet

Quartet for the End of Time

The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

[Todd]

Life With an Idiot.

[Gurn Blanston]

That's very surprising. I thought your favorite name was Opus 125 

Sarge

Favorite work, yes. But Opus 111 rolls so trippingly off the tongue, it just sounds great! 

[vandermolen]

Interesting thread.

Pettersson: 'The Dead in the Marketplace' (always puts me in a good mood)

Atterberg: Sinfonia Funebre

Dello Joio: Meditations on Ecclesiastes

Bernstein: Jeremiah Symphony

Birtwistle: The Triumph of Time (which I have never heard)

Sibelius: Tapiola

Novak: The Storm

Kabelac: Mystery of Time

Bax: Nympholept

Sainton: Nadir

[North Star]

Le Sacre du printemps

[Sergeant Rock]

Dello Joio: Meditations on Ecclesiastes

Dello Joio! One of my favorites: Final Alice.

Sarge

[kyjo]

Dello Joio! One of my favorites: Final Alice.

Sarge

No, Sarge, that's Del Tredici who composed Final Alice (a magical work BTW). Don't worry, I get the two mixed up sometimes.

[kyjo]

Kabelac: Mystery of Time

I agree. Such a fitting name for this masterpiece.

[kyjo]

Some more that come to mind:

Bernstein: Symphony no. 2 The Age of Anxiety
Rautavaara: Symphony no. 7 Angel of Light
Villa-Lobos: Symphony no. 2 Ascension
Holmboe: Symphony no. 8 Sinfonia Boreale
Williamson: Symphony no. 1 Elevamini
Alwyn: Harp Concerto Lyra Angelica
Karlowicz: Symphony in E minor Rebirth
Berwald: Symphony no. 3 Singulière
Szymanowski: Symphony no. 3 Song of the Night
Hartmann: Symphony no. 1 Versuch eines Requiem
Brian: Symphony no. 5 The Wine of Summer

[vandermolen]

Nielsen: 'The Inextinguishable'

'Helios'

[vandermolen]

Some more that come to mind:

Bernstein: Symphony no. 2 The Age of Anxiety
Rautavaara: Symphony no. 7 Angel of Light
Villa-Lobos: Symphony no. 2 Ascension
Holmboe: Symphony no. 8 Sinfonia Boreale
Williamson: Symphony no. 1 Elevamini
Alwyn: Harp Concerto Lyra Angelica
Karlowicz: Symphony in E minor Rebirth
Berwald: Symphony no. 3 Singulière
Szymanowski: Symphony no. 3 Song of the Night
Hartmann: Symphony no. 1 Versuch eines Requiem
Brian: Symphony no. 5 The Wine of Summer

I certainly agree with the Berwald, Holmboe and Williamson selections.

Sauguet: Expiatoire Symphony.

Parsadanian: Symphony No 2: 'To the Memory of the 26 Commissars of Baku'

Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf

Sparky's Magic Piano

[Papy Oli]

Gymnopédies
Gnossiennes

0:)

[DaveF]

Birtwistle: The Triumph of Time (which I have never heard)

Birtwistle's generally hard to beat, title-wise:

Carmen Arcadiæ Mechanicæ Perpetuum
The Axe Manual
... agm ...
On the Sheer Threshold of the Night (stand well clear of anyone trying to say that one)
Five Distances

I also like Josquin's Missa L'Homme Armé super voces musicales for doing exactly what it says on the tin.

[Sergeant Rock]

No, Sarge, that's Del Tredici who composed Final Alice (a magical work BTW). Don't worry, I get the two mixed up sometimes.

Of course it's Del Tredici, d'oh! One bottle of great Barbera and two gin and tonics = mental confusion 

Sarge

[Brian]

Of course it's Del Tredici, d'oh! One bottle of great Barbera and two gin and tonics = mental confusion 

Sarge

[Klaze]

Nas - I Delayed People's Flights By Walking Slowly In Narrow Hallways

[mc ukrneal]

Dance of an Ostricized Imp (Frederic Curzon)

[Karl Henning]

Langgaard: "Yon Hall of Thunder" (the 10th Symphony)

Henning: "Irreplaceable Doodles"

Sarge

I've made the Big Time, and in the company of Rued!

[The new erato]

I've made the Big Time, and in the company of Rued!

But in your credit you're not as rude.

[Karl Henning]

Quite a few Zappa titles suit this thread....

"Dance of the Just Plain Folks"
"My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama"
"Seven Types of Industrial Pollution"
"The Voice of Cheese"
"The Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression"
"Canard du Jour"
"It Ain't Necessarily the St James Infirmary"
"The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue"
"Amnesia vivace"