Top 5 Favorite Britten Works

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North Star

June 03, 2015, 03:20:22 AM
Serenade for tenor, horn & strings
String Quartet no. 3
Peter Grimes
Violin Concerto
Death in Venice
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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TheGSMoeller

#1
June 03, 2015, 03:40:57 AM
War Requiem
Violin Concerto
Death in Venice
String Quartet 3

Pick any of these for 5th  ???...
Midsummer's Nights Dream
Gloriana
Lachrimae (with string orchestra)
Ceremony of Carols
Curlew River

Sergeant Rock

#2
June 03, 2015, 03:44:48 AM
Passacaglia and Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
War Requiem
Sinfonia de Requiem
Les Illuminations
Suite on English Folk Tunes "A Time There Was..."



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"

North Star

#3
June 03, 2015, 03:46:16 AM
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on June 03, 2015, 03:40:57 AM
Violin Concerto
Death in Venice
String Quartet 3
A few correct answers there, Greg. ;)

QuotePick any of these for 5th  ???...
I know the feeling - Britten certainly composed enough of quality to not make this an easy task and all the ones you name could easily be on my list as well.
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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San Antone

#4
June 03, 2015, 04:05:13 AM
Cello Suites
Nocturnal after John Dowland for guitar
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Phaedra
Death in Venice, opera

... and many more ...

Mirror Image

#5
June 03, 2015, 06:28:08 AM
Let's see (in no particular order)...

Sinfonia da Requiem
Diversions
Death in Venice
Suite on English Folk Tunes "A Time There Was..."
Nocturne

Karl Henning

#6
June 03, 2015, 06:30:21 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on June 03, 2015, 03:44:48 AM
Suite on English Folk Tunes "A Time There Was..."

I need to listen to this.  I barefacedly copped this by dubbing my own Op.4 Time Was.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
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[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

Wanderer

#7
June 03, 2015, 06:41:09 AM
Violin Concerto
Sinfonia da Requiem
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
War Requiem
Festival Te Deum

Luke

#8
June 03, 2015, 08:45:03 AM
Curlew River
War Requiem
Serenade
Nocturne

lastly a wild card - could be Nocturnal, could be Cello Suite 3, could be Lachrymae - all of these, btw, happen to be in Britten's own invented form the Hidden Variation, which holds a really sweet sort of poetry, I think.

Christo

#9
June 03, 2015, 09:42:53 AM
War Requiem
Four Sea Interludes & Passacaglia from Peter Grimes
Sinfonia de Requiem
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
Festival Te Deum

... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Mandryka

#10
June 03, 2015, 09:51:46 AM
Turn of the Screw
Third quartet
Nocturnal
Nocturne for tenor, 7 instruments and strings
Songs from the chinese
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Mr Bloom

#11
June 03, 2015, 10:17:47 AM
The five canticles
Cello symphony
Sinfonia da Requiem
Death in Venice
Nocturne

vandermolen

#12
June 03, 2015, 12:00:46 PM
War Requiem
Sinfonia da Requiem
Gloriana Suite
Violin Concerto
Cantata Misericordium
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TheGSMoeller

#13
June 03, 2015, 12:45:24 PM
Quote from: North Star on June 03, 2015, 03:46:16 AM
A few correct answers there, Greg. ;)
I know the feeling - Britten certainly composed enough of quality to not make this an easy task and all the ones you name could easily be on my list as well.

Yep. And I could have a completely different list of works as early as say, well, tonight!  ;D

Ken B

#14
June 03, 2015, 12:59:24 PM
Curlew River
Violin Concerto
Quartet 3
Serenade THS

I cede my final choice to Monkey Greg.

TheGSMoeller

#15
June 03, 2015, 05:03:57 PM
Quote from: Ken B on June 03, 2015, 12:59:24 PM
Curlew River
Violin Concerto
Quartet 3
Serenade THS

I cede my final choice to Monkey Greg.

Canticle II: Abraham and Issac

Dancing Divertimentian

#16
June 03, 2015, 05:07:17 PM
Diversions
Billy Budd
The Canticles
Introduction and Rondo alla Burlesca for two pianos
String quartet #1

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

(poco) Sforzando

#17
June 03, 2015, 05:12:44 PM
Going through our family's old LPs some years ago, I found an Ormandy Young Person's Guide on which a 14-year-old me had written on the label, "Larry's Favorite Piece." So plainly some guy named Larry liked it. (Wes Anderson likes it too, judging from his "Moonrise Kingdom.")

I will not mention some of the moments in Britten that I find positively cringe-inducing . . . .
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

Ken B

#18
June 03, 2015, 05:44:08 PM
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on June 03, 2015, 05:03:57 PM
Canticle II: Abraham and Issac
Yay! That was one I was thinking of for my fifth spot! I was obsessed by that for a while when I was about 25.

Ken B

#19
June 03, 2015, 05:45:50 PM
Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on June 03, 2015, 05:12:44 PM

I will not mention some of the moments in Britten that I find positively cringe-inducing . . . .

Is everyone going to mention Death in Venice?
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