6 favourite works for string orchestra

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prémont

#20
July 16, 2015, 09:23:39 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on July 16, 2015, 09:10:28 AM
Hah!  You know he meant № 3  8)

Is there a string orchestra version of this??  ??? ???
Reality trumps our fantasy far beyond imagination.

Karl Henning

#21
July 16, 2015, 09:28:21 AM
Quote from: (: premont :) on July 16, 2015, 09:23:39 AM
Is there a string orchestra version of this??  ??? ???

Are we splitting hairs?  :)
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

Sergeant Rock

#22
July 16, 2015, 09:37:36 AM
Quote from: (: premont :) on July 16, 2015, 09:23:39 AM
Is there a string orchestra version of this??  ??? ???

Sure!  ;D

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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"

prémont

#23
July 16, 2015, 09:39:13 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on July 16, 2015, 09:28:21 AM
Are we splitting hairs?  :)

Well, it is about the concept of an orchestra.

Are Brahms´ string sextets orchestral music?
Reality trumps our fantasy far beyond imagination.

Christo

#24
July 16, 2015, 10:01:09 AM
Good Summer Poll!  :)

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (1910)
Paul Hindemith: Fünf Stücke für Streichorchester (1927)
Michael Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra (1939)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Partita for double string orchestra (1938/47)
Arnold Cooke: Concerto in D major for string orchestra (1948)
Eduard Tubin: Music for Strings (1963)
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kishnevi

#25
July 16, 2015, 10:26:03 AM Last Edit: July 16, 2015, 10:27:50 AM by Jeffrey Smith
Strauss Metamorphosen
Schonberg Verklarte Nacht
Part Fratres
Grieg Holberg Suite
RVW Tallis Fantasia
Taverner Protecting Veil

mc ukrneal

#26
July 16, 2015, 10:36:49 AM
Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on July 16, 2015, 10:26:03 AM
Grieg Holberg Suite
This one...great choice...
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vandermolen

#27
July 16, 2015, 11:00:09 AM Last Edit: July 17, 2015, 12:30:57 AM by vandermolen
The Vaughan Williams 'Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus' has a harp in it but I will let Paul and Drasko off due to my magnanimous nature.  8)

I would have chosen Part's 'Cantus in Memory of Britten' too but it has a bell in it.

Very interested in the choices of the 'Partita' by Vaughan Williams. I hadn't made much of it before but John (Mirror Image) had recommended the Bryden Thomson recording of Vaughan Williams's Symphony 8, which is indeed terrific. Coupled with it on my CD is the Partita which, coincidentally, I listened to in the car today. Whether it was the performance or the work itself I don't know (presumably a combination of the two) but I now have a much higher opinion of this work. So many thanks for the recommendations here and to John as well.  :)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

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Karl Henning

#28
July 16, 2015, 11:02:56 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on July 16, 2015, 09:37:36 AM
Sure!  ;D

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Knew I could rely on you!  8)

Quote from: (: premont :) on July 16, 2015, 09:39:13 AM
Well, it is about the concept of an orchestra.

Are Brahms´ string sextets orchestral music?

Neither Brahms's sextets nor Bach's trio sonatas are orchestral music.  But concerti by both composers, yes, I should say so.
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

prémont

#29
July 16, 2015, 11:06:22 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on July 16, 2015, 11:02:56 AM
Knew I could rely on you!  8)

Neither Brahms's sextets nor Bach's trio sonatas are orchestral music.  But concerti by both composers, yes, I should say so.

But the Brandenburg concertos are not concertos in the modern sense. They are chamber music, just as much as his triosonatas.
Reality trumps our fantasy far beyond imagination.

Brian

#30
July 16, 2015, 11:43:10 AM
Tchaikovsky - Serenade
RVW - Tallis Fantasia
Grieg - Holberg Suite
Glass - Symphony No. 3
Kernis - Musica Celestis
Piazzolla/Desyatnikov - Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

Does Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto count?

Honorable mentions:
Wiren - Serenade
Janacek - Idyll
Suk - Serenade
Rautavaara - Canto IV

Sergeant Rock

#31
July 16, 2015, 11:47:35 AM
Quote from: Brian on July 16, 2015, 11:43:10 AM
Does Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto count?

Only if you can pluck a trumpet  :D

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"

pjme

#32
July 16, 2015, 11:55:54 AM Last Edit: July 16, 2015, 11:59:20 AM by pjme
Thomas Canning: Fantasy on a Hymn Tune by Justin Morgan !!

https://www.youtube.com/v/CnpC0vfHMnw

the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra / Raymond Leppard, on Decca.

Guillaume Lekeu: Adagio pour cordes  : https://youtu.be/TtA3uURUEfI

Hendrik Andriessen - Variations and fugue on a theme by Johann Kuhnau: https://youtu.be/vLPQfWGwK5I

Frank Martin: Pavane couleur du temps : https://youtu.be/GfNz8iufO14

Kurt Atterberg (1887-1974) : Suite n°3 pour violon, alto et cordes (1917): https://youtu.be/sjHAexK4lLU

Joly Braga Santos (1924-1988) : Concerto pour cordes en ré majeur (1951) : https://youtu.be/lMjZ8hUctVw

Warning: tears can erupt spontaneously!

P.

Brian

#33
July 16, 2015, 11:56:48 AM
Quote from: pjme on July 16, 2015, 11:55:54 AM
Kurt Atterberg (1887-1974) : Suite n°3 pour violon, alto et cordes (1917): https://youtu.be/sjHAexK4lLU
Oh, what a great choice!!

pjme

#34
July 16, 2015, 12:02:11 PM Last Edit: July 16, 2015, 12:12:07 PM by pjme
Thanks - very lovely indeed!

Slightly spikier...:
Paul Hindemith: Fünf Stücke für Streicher (1927): https://youtu.be/kEqh1Y7zIGY


P.

Sergeant Rock

#35
July 16, 2015, 12:03:38 PM
Quote from: (: premont :) on July 16, 2015, 11:06:22 AMThey are chamber music, just as much as his triosonatas.

Certainly not in the modern sense of chamber music. No chamber groups tackle the Brandenburgs (the Mosaiques could not perform the 3rd or 6th ;) ) Chamber orchestras, and even full orchestras perform the Brandenburgs, just like they do the Bach orchestral suites and the keyboard concertos. The Brandenburgs are nothing like the triosonatas.

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"

Cato

#36
July 16, 2015, 12:49:25 PM
Dudes!  No love (much) for Schoenberg here?



He seems not to appreciate your error!   0:)

Schoenberg: Suite im alten Stile in G for String Orchestra, Verklaerte Nacht, String Quartet #2 (for String Orchestra)

Otherwise many fine choices already mentioned!  Allow me to echo the Dvorak: Serenade for Strings, Hartmann: Sym. IV, Honegger: Sym. #2, and the Shostakovich: String Quartet #8 (for String Orchestra)
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

Christo

#37
July 16, 2015, 01:58:35 PM
Quote from: pjme on July 16, 2015, 12:02:11 PMSlightly spikier...: Paul Hindemith: Fünf Stücke für Streicher (1927): https://youtu.be/kEqh1Y7zIGY

Quote from: Christo on July 16, 2015, 10:01:09 AMPaul Hindemith: Fünf Stücke für Streichorchester (1927)

:)
... 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

Brahmsian

#38
July 16, 2015, 02:12:34 PM
Very difficult to narrow down to six:

Bartok - Divertimento
Penderecki - Polymorphia
Strauss - Metamorphosen
Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings
Schoenberg - Verklarte Nacht
Mahler - Adagietto from Symphony No. 5

Honorable no need to mention (like Sarge): Vaughan Williams - Tallis Fantasia - no need to mention it in a list.  It should be automatic # 1.  :)

Another honorable mention:  Elgar - Serenade for Strings and Berg - Lyric Suite

Cato

#39
July 16, 2015, 02:16:30 PM
Quote from: ChamberNut on July 16, 2015, 02:12:34 PM
Very difficult to narrow down to six:

Bartok - Divertimento
Penderecki - Polymorphia
Strauss - Metamorphosen
Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings
Schoenberg - Verklarte Nacht
Mahler - Adagietto from Symphony No. 5

Honorable no need to mention (like Sarge): Vaughan Williams - Tallis Fantasia - no need to mention it in a list.  It should be automatic # 1.  :)

Another honorable mention:  Elgar - Serenade for Strings and Berg - Lyric Suite

True, and all are excellent suggestions, especially the Berg !
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)
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