Top seven one movement symphonies

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vandermolen

Sibelius: Symphony 7
Robin Orr: Symphony in One Movement
Barber: Symphony 1
Miaskovsky: Symphony 21
Tubin: Symphony 10
Havergal Brian: Symphony 10
Roy Harris: Symphony 3
8)
"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

What, no Harris Third?!  0:)  8)  :)
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(poco) Sforzando

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Brian

Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on June 04, 2015, 11:07:21 AM
Why six?
A lot of the persons guilty of spreading the "top five poll" craze also found it very hard to stop at five.

(poco) Sforzando

Quote from: Brian on June 04, 2015, 11:08:48 AM
A lot of the persons guilty of spreading the "top five poll" craze also found it very hard to stop at five.

But then a lot of the persons guilty of spreading the "top six poll" craze will find it very hard to stop at six.
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

vandermolen

Guys - you need to look again at the thread title.  ::)
"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).

vandermolen

I got my dad to join the local record library so that I could use his tickets when I was in my 20s. You could take out 3 LPs hence I could now choose 6.  Karl's Roy Harris comment meant that I had to go for seven.  :)
"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).

(poco) Sforzando

Quote from: vandermolen on June 04, 2015, 11:26:08 AM
Guys - you need to look again at the thread title.  ::)

What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?
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North Star

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vandermolen

Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on June 04, 2015, 11:29:19 AM
What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?
No, definitely will not go beyond seven.
"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).

vandermolen

Quote from: North Star on June 04, 2015, 11:36:55 AM
Google search 'one movement symphonies' yields e.g. this result 8)
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?topic=14741.0
Amazing that I ended up choosing seven then - but not all the same ones. It was quite a few years back so I hope you'll forgive me for forgetting. Maybe I am caught in a time warp and doomed to repeat these threads forever.  ???
"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).

Ken B

Quote from: vandermolen on June 04, 2015, 11:00:15 AM
Sibelius: Symphony 7
Robin Orr: Symphony in One Movement
Barber: Symphony 1
Miaskovsky: Symphony 21
Tubin: Symphony 10
Havergal Brian: Symphony 10
Roy Harris: Symphony 3
8)

Clearly I need to seek out Robin Orr and that Brian person's 10th as this come close to being my list. I'd have Harris a bit higher.

Jo498

There are only two one-movement-symphonies I am aware of having heard more than once: Sibelius 7 and Schoenberg's first chamber symphony (the second is in two). They are both very good but I cannot do a ranking, I am afraid, with only two.
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- Blaise Pascal

Christo

Samuel Barber, Symphony No. 1
Lennox Berkeley, Symphony No. 3
Havergal Brian, Symphony No. 8
Vagn Holmboe, Symphony No. 7
John Kinsella, Symphony No. 7 for orchestra and wordless chorus
Léon Orthel, Symphony No. 2 'Piccola'
Eduard Tubin, Symphony No. 10
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DaveF

What exactly is a one-movement symphony?  Immediately answering my own question, I'd say it's one which plays continuously (obviously) and, if the structure shows signs of being in a number of conjoined movements (which they nearly always are, even Sibelius 7 or Harris 3), one where the different movements aren't numbered I, II, III etc.  This would admit a clear 4-movement piece such as Nielsen 4 - which is a long way round of introducing my list:

Nielsen 4 (well, it's his birthday)
Sibelius 7
Tippett 4
Mozart 32
Brian 16
Schoenberg Op.9
Simpson 1

Once again, no place for the first true 4-in-1, Schumann 4.
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Cato

Scriabin's Fourth and Fifth

Hartmann's Second

Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony I

Sibelius' Seventh

Harris' Third

Barber's  First
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Ken B

Quote from: Cato on June 09, 2015, 06:44:34 AM
Scriabin's Fourth and Fifth

Hartmann's Second

Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony I

Sibelius' Seventh

Harris' Third

Barber's  First

Well, that hero thing didn't last long.  >:D ;)

Cato

Quote from: Ken B on June 09, 2015, 07:35:57 AM
Well, that hero thing didn't last long.  >:D ;)

Which one(s) did me in?!   ;)
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North Star

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Archaic Torso of Apollo

Simpson 9
Harris 3
Schuman 6
Sibelius 7
Lutoslawski 4
Pettersson 6
Pettersson 7
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