Your Top 10 Nordic Works

[aesthetic]

For Einojuhani

Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 7 'Angel of Light'
Symphony No. 8 'The Journey'
Vigilia
Cantus Arcticus
Cello Concerto No. 2 'Towards the Horizon'
Flute Concerto 'Dances with the Winds'
Violin Concerto
Piano Concerto No. 1

[Mirror Image]

Wow. Ask for 10 Nordic works, get 70 entire composers.

Yeah, I'm not about to start understanding the psychology there.

[ritter]

Well, Nordic composers are a bit off my perosnal radar screen, but here goes:

Karl-Birger Blohmdahl: Aniara
Edvard Grieg: Lyric pieces
Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 4 ("The Inextinguishable")
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
Kaija Saariaho: Château de l'âme
Hugo Alfvén: Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 ("Midsummer Vigil")

That's only 6...I'd have to repeat composers to make it to 10 

[kyjo]

So much great Nordic music out there

Sibelius: Symphony no. 2 (I know it's "cooler" to choose one of his later works but Symphony 2 will always have a special place in my heart)
Nielsen: Symphony no. 5
Grieg: Piano Concerto (overplayed though it is)
Atterberg: Symphony no. 3
Berwald: Symphony no. 3 Singulière
Merikanto: Piano Concerto no. 3
von Koch: Impulsi Trilogy
Klami: Kalevala Suite
Melartin: Symphony no. 3
Tveitt: Piano Concerto no. 4

Honorable mentions: Sallinen: Songs of Life and Death, Englund: Piano Concerto no. 2, Tubin: Symphony no. 4, Holmboe: Symphony no. 8, Rangstrom: Symphony no. 3, Peterson-Berger: Symphony no. 2, Wirén: Symphony no. 4

[musicrom]

The 1 work per composer makes this way harder.

Sibelius - Violin Concerto
Lindberg - Clarinet Concerto
Holmboe - Viola Concerto
Englund - Symphony No. 4
Grieg - Peer Gynt
Wiren - Serenade for Strings
Halvorsen - Passacaglia for Violin and Viola (this feels a little cheap, since it's basically Handel, but this is difficult)
Rautavaara - Cantus Arcticus
Salonen - Violin Concerto
Larsson - A Winter's Tale

[Trout]

Abrahamsen: Schnee
Atterberg: Symphony No. 3 "West Coast Pictures"
Buxtehude: Jubilate Domino
Kraus: Symphony in C minor, VB 142
Langgaard: Music of the Spheres
Pettersson: Symphony No. 7
Saariaho: L'Amour de loin
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
Steen-Andersen: Piano Concerto
Tveitt: Piano Concerto No. 4 "Aurora Borealis"

[amw]

I'm not like, a mathematician or anything, but this is basically 10.

Berwald - Sinfonie naïve (No. 4)
Svendsen - Symphony No. 1
Stenhammar - Serenade
Grieg - Violin Sonata No. 1
Sibelius - 2 Humoresques, Op. 87
Langgaard - Vanvidsfantasi
Nielsen - Wind Quintet
Holmboe - Symphony No. 13
Nordheim - Colorazione
Tiensuu - Arsenic and Old Lace
Moe - Litt
Holmen - Oort Cloud
Abrahamsen - Schnee
Ruders - Symphony No. 2

I don't know the Steen-Andersen piano concerto but will soon.

[vandermolen]

List No.2:

Peterson-Berger: Symphony 3, 'Lapland'
Alf Hurum: Symphony
Sibelius: Symphony 2 (I love the last movement in particular)
Kokkonen: Symphony 4
Madetoja: Symphony 1
Pettersson: Symphony 7
Pingoud: 'Prophet'
Rosenberg: Symphony 2 'Sinfonia Grave'
Wiren: Symphony 4
Langgaard: Symphony 4 'Fall of the Leaf'

[kyjo]

Ugh...I forgot one of my favorites - Berwald's Symphony no. 3 Singulière.

[vandermolen]

Ugh...I forgot one of my favorites - Berwald's Symphony no. 3 Singulière.

Great work - way ahead of its time.

[Mirror Image]

I did a little bit of an edit to my initial list: instead of Leif's Hafis, I substituted Réminiscence du nord, which may actually be my favorite work of his:

https://www.youtube.com/v/DE7e8TE8XZI

[kyjo]

Great work - way ahead of its time.

+1 With the Singulière, Berwald almost single-handedly invented the "Nordic sound" and the work's influence on the music of Sibelius and Nielsen can be audibly felt.

[bwv 1080]

Darkthrone - Panzerfaust
Burzum - Dunkelheit
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Opeth - Deliverance
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Satyricon - Age of Nero

[André]

My collection is filed by country/region, and all the scandinavian/nordic/baltic countries follow one another. After them there is Poland (its whole northern boundary is the Baltic Sea) - but I won't include Poland here  . I'll go through my collection tonight and list those works I find really special (1 composer at a time). There will be more than 10, that's for sure !

[SymphonicAddict]

Almost all the choices are symphonies:

Nielsen Symphony 5
Sibelius Kullervo
Holmboe Symphony 8
Stenhammar Symphony 2
Melartin Symphony 3
Peterson-Berger Last Summer
Madetoja Symphony 2
Atterberg Symphony 3
Langgaard Symphony 10
Rangström Symphony 1

[vandermolen]

Almost all the choices are symphonies:

Nielsen Symphony 5
Sibelius Kullervo
Holmboe Symphony 8
Stenhammar Symphony 2
Melartin Symphony 3
Peterson-Berger Last Summer
Madetoja Symphony 2
Atterberg Symphony 3
Langgaard Symphony 10
Rangström Symphony 1

Great choices Caesar (mainly because I agree with them all!  )
Must listen to the Melartin - I have a set of the symphonies.

[schnittkease]

Bentzon, The Tempered Piano
Holmboe, Symphony 8 "Sinfonia Boreale"
Langgaard, Music of the Spheres
Leifs, Symphony 1 ''Saga Symphony''
Nørgård, Symphony 3
Pettersson, Symphony 7
Rautavaara, Cantus Arcticus
Saariaho, L'Amour de Loin
Sibelius, Violin Concerto
Wirén, Serenade for Strings

[Turner]

Bentzon, The Tempered Piano
Holmboe, Symphony 8 "Sinfonia Boreale"
Langgaard, Music of the Spheres
Leifs, Symphony 1 ''Saga Symphony''
Novák, Pan
Nørgård, Symphony 3
Pettersson, Symphony 7
Saariaho, L'Amour de Loin
Sibelius, Violin Concerto
Wirén, Serenade for Strings

Some nice works - but maybe you mean Nielsen´s Pan & Syrinx, though the Czech composer Novak wrote a Pan for piano or orchestra?

[SymphonicAddict]

Great choices Caesar (mainly because I agree with them all!  )
Must listen to the Melartin - I have a set of the symphonies.

They are lofty, above all the 3rd and 4th. You won't be disappointed.

[vandermolen]

I'm just enjoying No.3 (Melartin) now - a very nice discovery.