Top 5 Favorite Copland Works

Started by Mirror Image, June 01, 2015, 06:56:04 PM

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zamyrabyrd

Quote from: Monsieur Croche on February 14, 2017, 06:08:44 AM
...in the composer's full orchestral concert suite version, with one of the more brilliant and effective photo montages set to classical I've seen!
https://www.youtube.com/v/oLVyRvp2Qbg

Thanks, very beautiful and nostalgic, too.
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one."

― Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Karl Henning

I could really go for a Lincoln Portrait narrated by Darth Vader.

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His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Mirror Image

Quote from: Monsieur Croche on February 15, 2017, 01:04:23 AM
I forgot to mention these, too.  I know them in the piano and voice setting (don't even know if he orchestrated them.*)  They really are fine.
Voice & piano: Barbara Bonney, sop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Cao1tsgBE
*Just checked... orchestrated, Yep. Barbara Hendricks, LSO; Tilson-Thomas
https://www.youtube.com/v/TiZgLZgUR18

That is a fine work as well. I know the orchestrated version. That very Hendricks/MTT performance you linked above is the first recording I heard of the work.

Monsieur Croche

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on February 15, 2017, 02:07:12 AM
I could really go for a Lincoln Portrait narrated by Darth Vader.

It will never happen, but I would be very interested in A Lincoln Portrait without the narration.

Either way, it makes for an excessively long ring-tone ;-)
~ I'm all for personal expression; it just has to express something to me. ~

James

What to Listen for in Music
Appalachian Spring Suite
Action is the only truth

vandermolen

Quote from: Monsieur Croche on February 15, 2017, 10:10:07 AM
It will never happen, but I would be very interested in A Lincoln Portrait without the narration.

Either way, it makes for an excessively long ring-tone ;-)

That's a great idea! Then I could do the narration myself:

'Abe Lincoln was a quiet and a melancholy man and this is what he said....'

Wonderful suggestion.  :) :)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Karl Henning

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

Rons_talking

#47
So many candidates...

for today:

Appalachian Spring
Music for a Great City
Nonet for Strings
Symphonic Ode
Dance Panels



Mirror Image

#48
Quote from: Rons_talking on February 17, 2017, 06:56:05 AM
So many candidates...

for today:

Appalachian Spring
Music for a Great City
Nonet for Strings
Symphonic Ode
Dance Panels


So happy to see Dance Panels get some love. I feel this is such an underrated work in Copland's oeuvre. I was just listening to Music for a Great City a night or two ago and I still get chills whenever I heard the Night Thoughts movement. It's such a picturesque nocturne.

ComposerOfAvantGarde

After thinking long and hard for a few days about what my list will be now that I am familiar with more of his works..........

Connotations
Night Thoughts
Short Symphony
Appalachian Spring (honestly, any version will do!)
Sextet

Mirror Image

Quote from: jessop on February 17, 2017, 07:05:42 PM
After thinking long and hard for a few days about what my list will be now that I am familiar with more of his works..........

Connotations
Night Thoughts
Short Symphony
Appalachian Spring (honestly, any version will do!)
Sextet

The only work I'm not familiar with the solo piano work, Night Thoughts, but since this isn't a genre I'm particular interested in, it's no surprise that I haven't heard it before.

Mirror Image

I definitely have to change my list again as there's just so many great Copland works...

(In no particular order)

Violin Sonata
Sextet
Appalachian Spring (original version for 13 instruments)
12 Poems of Emily Dickinson
Symphony No. 3

Mahlerian

Hmm...so I haven't posted here yet.  Here goes, in alphabetical order:

Appalachian Spring (any version that includes all of the music)
Inscape
Piano Fantasy
12 Poems of Emily Dickinson
Short Symphony
"l do not consider my music as atonal, but rather as non-tonal. I feel the unity of all keys. Atonal music by modern composers admits of no key at all, no feeling of any definite center." - Arnold Schoenberg

Daverz


arpeggio

Now this is one I think I can keep at five:

Orchestral Variations
Appalachian Spring
Billy the Kid
Rodeo
Outdoor Overture


Wow! I did it.  There are a few others like El Salon Mexico and The Red Pony but I am happy with the above five.

Sergeant Rock

Quote from: Daverz on May 08, 2018, 08:37:03 PM
I use alternative counting.

So does Mirror Image. Here's his list of "five"  ;D

Appalachian Spring (doesn't matter which version as the music is beautiful regardless IMHO)
Appalachian Spring (original version for 13 instruments)
Clarinet Concerto
Dance Panels
Music for a Great City
Billy the Kid
Rodeo
Symphony No. 3
Short Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
Symphonic Ode
Quiet City
Violin Sonata
Sextet
12 Poems of Emily Dickinson

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"

Mirror Image

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 09, 2018, 03:20:18 AM
So does Mirror Image. Here's his list of "five"  ;D

Appalachian Spring (doesn't matter which version as the music is beautiful regardless IMHO)
Appalachian Spring (original version for 13 instruments)
Clarinet Concerto
Dance Panels
Music for a Great City
Billy the Kid
Rodeo
Symphony No. 3
Short Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
Symphonic Ode
Quiet City
Violin Sonata
Sextet
12 Poems of Emily Dickinson

Sarge

:P

SymphonicAddict

Symphony No. 3
Symphony for organ and orchestra
Four Dances from 'Rodeo', especially the Saturday Night Waltz. It's thoroughly enchanting, almost touching.
El Salon Mexico
Symphonic Ode or Appalachian Spring (incredibly I don't know the latter that much!)

vandermolen

Quote from: SymphonicAddict on March 26, 2019, 06:21:46 PM
Symphony No. 3
Symphony for organ and orchestra
Four Dances from 'Rodeo', especially the Saturday Night Waltz. It's thoroughly enchanting, almost touching.
El Salon Mexico
Symphonic Ode or Appalachian Spring (incredibly I don't know the latter that much!)

Very much agree with this list Cesar although I'd probably include the Tender Land Suite rather than El Salon Mexico, much as I enjoy that work and definitely the Symphonic Ode rather that Appalachian Spring.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

amw

Piano Fantasy
Piano Variations
Piano Sonata
Piano Concerto
Last spot intentionally left blank although there are probably several pieces that could go there....