Your Top 20 Favorite 20th Century Orchestral Works

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#80
April 24, 2017, 11:51:21 AM
Quote from: Christo on April 24, 2017, 11:40:10 AM
Thanx! Found it on Spotify and will listen to it here (a stay in the German mountains). ;-)

No problem! Enjoy your mountain getaway. :)

brooklyn

#81
April 24, 2017, 03:25:21 PM
Perhaps something like this:

Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe
Mahler: Lied von der Erde
Berg: Violin Concerto
Sibelius: Symphony No.5
John Adams: Harmonielehre
Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra
Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
Boulez: Notations
Lutosławski: Piano Concerto
Vasks: Violin Concerto "Distant Light"
Dutilleux Violin Concerto, "L'arbre des songes"
Strauss: Metamorphosen
Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Copland: Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra
Haas: limited approximations
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis
Norgard: Violin Concerto #2, Borderlines
Schnittke: Symphony No. 5 (Concerto Grosso No, 4)
Webern: Passacaglia

SymphonicAddict

#82
April 24, 2017, 04:01:42 PM
Quote from: brooklyn on April 24, 2017, 03:25:21 PM
Perhaps something like this:

Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe
Mahler: Lied von der Erde
Berg: Violin Concerto
Sibelius: Symphony No.5
John Adams: Harmonielehre
Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra
Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
Boulez: Notations
Lutosławski: Piano Concerto
Vasks: Violin Concerto "Distant Light"
Dutilleux Violin Concerto, "L'arbre des songes"
Strauss: Metamorphosen
Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Copland: Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra
Haas: limited approximations
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis
Norgard: Violin Concerto #2, Borderlines
Schnittke: Symphony No. 5 (Concerto Grosso No, 4)
Webern: Passacaglia

I very much agree with these ones!

Christo

#83
April 30, 2017, 05:38:45 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on April 22, 2017, 03:58:38 AMAnd don't forget Bax  8)
Ah! You mean this one:
... 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

vandermolen

#84
April 30, 2017, 02:04:32 PM
"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).

Rons_talking

#85
May 01, 2017, 03:35:06 AM
Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
RVW Symphony 5
Copland: Music for a Great City
Barber: Piano Concerto
Hindemith: Mathis Der Maler..Symphony or Opera.
Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe
Prokofiev: PC #3
Stravinsky: Persephone
Diamond: Symphony 4
Villa-Lobos:Uirapuru
Hanson: Requiem Symphony (4)
Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra
Honneger: Symphony #3
Berg: Violin Concerto
Rautaavera: Symphony 7
Tippitt: Symphony 4
Bartok: The Miraculous Manderin
Piston: Symphony 3



Christo

#86
May 01, 2017, 10:21:01 AM
Quote from: Rons_talking on May 01, 2017, 03:35:06 AM
Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
RVW Symphony 5
Copland: Music for a Great City
Barber: Piano Concerto
Hindemith: Mathis Der Maler..Symphony or Opera.
Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe
Prokofiev: PC #3
Stravinsky: Persephone
Diamond: Symphony 4
Villa-Lobos:Uirapuru
Hanson: Requiem Symphony (4)
Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra
Honneger: Symphony #3
Berg: Violin Concerto
Rautaavera: Symphony 7
Tippitt: Symphony 4
Bartok: The Miraculous Manderin
Piston: Symphony 3

Again, no complaints whatsoever and over half of them personal favourites of mine, too. Howcome we seem to share so much fine music here?  :D
... 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

bwv 1080

#87
May 01, 2017, 11:11:55 AM
One per composer, Excluding Mahler's later works and solo instrument concertos

Rite of spring
Webern 5 pieces for orch
Bartok music for strings, percussion, celeste
Debussy Nocturnes
Hindemith Mathis der Maler
Stravinsky symphony in C
Boulez Derive 2
Carter Concerto for Orch
Henze Symphony no 2
Lutoslawski - Livre pour Orchestra
Ligeti - Lontano
Schnittke - Symph no 5
Takemitsu - From me flows what you call time
Xenakis -metastasis
Dutilleux - Metaboles
Ferneyhough La terre est un home
Messiaen - Chronochromie
Feldman - Orchestra

Mirror Image

#88
May 01, 2017, 11:37:04 AM
Quote from: Rons_talking on May 01, 2017, 03:35:06 AM
Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
RVW Symphony 5
Copland: Music for a Great City
Barber: Piano Concerto
Hindemith: Mathis Der Maler..Symphony or Opera.
Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe
Prokofiev: PC #3
Stravinsky: Persephone
Diamond: Symphony 4
Villa-Lobos:Uirapuru
Hanson: Requiem Symphony (4)
Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra
Honneger: Symphony #3
Berg: Violin Concerto
Rautaavera: Symphony 7
Tippitt: Symphony 4
Bartok: The Miraculous Manderin
Piston: Symphony 3

A very nice list indeed. I will say that given that your avatar is Copland, I was a bit surprised to see his Music for a Great City on your list considering this is a work that is seldom mentioned (not that this belies how fine of a work it indeed is). The second movement Night Thoughts is one of Copland's most exquisite utterances IMHO.

vandermolen

#89
May 01, 2017, 02:56:55 PM
Quote from: Christo on May 01, 2017, 10:21:01 AM
Again, no complaints whatsoever and over half of them personal favourites of mine, too. Howcome we seem to share so much fine music here?  :D
+1
"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).

arpeggio

#90
May 01, 2017, 09:09:16 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on April 22, 2017, 06:05:46 AM
I highly recommending this recording:



Big Rouse fan.  Just added to my wish list.  Thanks  :)

ComposerOfAvantGarde

#91
May 01, 2017, 11:06:48 PM
I am yet to find a Christopher Rouse recording I am particularly moved by, but I will keep up the search.....I would be interested to hear more interpretations of his music and I think I have only heard that one NY Phil recording.

relm1

#92
May 02, 2017, 06:03:25 AM
Another Rouse fan here.  I absolutely loved the west coast premiere of his Organ Concerto last week.  I am hoping for a recording.

Overtones

#93
May 02, 2017, 08:11:10 AM
I'll go in chronological order:

1904, Johan Sibelius - Violin concerto in D minor, op.47
1906, Gustav Mahler - Sinfonie 6 a-Moll "Tragische"
1906, Gustav Mahler - Sinfonie 9
1908, Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question
1910, Maurice Ravel - Pavane pour une infante défunte
1911, Sergej Prokofiev - Piano concerto no.1 in D-flat major, op.10
1913, Igor Stravinskij - Le sacre du printemps
1917, Sergej Prokofiev - Violin concerto no.1 in D major, op.19
1923, Sergej Prokofiev - Piano concerto no.2 in G minor, op.16
1924, Béla Bartók - A csodálatos mandarin, Suite
1935, Alban Berg - Violinkonzert "Dem Andenken eines Engels"
1937, Dmitrij Šostakovič - Symphony 5 in D minor, op.47
1938, Béla Bartók - Violin concerto 2
1940, Aram Khačaturian - Violin concerto in D minor, op.46
1942, Arnold Schoenberg - Piano concerto, op.42
1945, Richard Strauss - Metamorphosen, für 23 Solostreicher
1948, Dmitrij Šostakovič - Violin concerto 1 in A minor, op.77
1957, Igor Stravinskij - Agon
1985, Alfred Šnitke - Viola concerto
1995, Giya Kancheli - V&V

Mirror Image

#94
May 02, 2017, 06:42:21 PM
Quote from: Overtones on May 02, 2017, 08:11:10 AM
I'll go in chronological order:

1904, Johan Sibelius - Violin concerto in D minor, op.47
1906, Gustav Mahler - Sinfonie 6 a-Moll "Tragische"
1906, Gustav Mahler - Sinfonie 9
1908, Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question
1910, Maurice Ravel - Pavane pour une infante défunte
1911, Sergej Prokofiev - Piano concerto no.1 in D-flat major, op.10
1913, Igor Stravinskij - Le sacre du printemps
1917, Sergej Prokofiev - Violin concerto no.1 in D major, op.19
1923, Sergej Prokofiev - Piano concerto no.2 in G minor, op.16
1924, Béla Bartók - A csodálatos mandarin, Suite
1935, Alban Berg - Violinkonzert "Dem Andenken eines Engels"
1937, Dmitrij Šostakovič - Symphony 5 in D minor, op.47
1938, Béla Bartók - Violin concerto 2
1940, Aram Khačaturian - Violin concerto in D minor, op.46
1942, Arnold Schoenberg - Piano concerto, op.42
1945, Richard Strauss - Metamorphosen, für 23 Solostreicher
1948, Dmitrij Šostakovič - Violin concerto 1 in A minor, op.77
1957, Igor Stravinskij - Agon
1985, Alfred Šnitke - Viola concerto
1995, Giya Kancheli - V&V

You only like Bartók's Miraculous Mandarin Suite and not the complete ballet? ???

springrite

#95
May 02, 2017, 06:47:03 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on May 02, 2017, 06:42:21 PM
You only like Bartók's Miraculous Mandarin Suite and not the complete ballet? ???

Let's skip the foreplay and get to the main course!
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Mirror Image

#96
May 02, 2017, 07:19:44 PM
Quote from: springrite on May 02, 2017, 06:47:03 PM
Let's skip the foreplay and get to the main course!

Precisely! Plus, I just love that wordless chorus.

Christo

#97
May 04, 2017, 12:12:22 PM
20 short pieces:

1897 Frederick Delius: La Calinda, from Koanga
1903 Claude Debussy: Danse (Tarantelle styrienne)
1910 Igor Stravinsky: Berceuse and Finale, from The Firebird
1914 Frank Bridge: Summer
1917 Béla Bartók: Rumanian Folk Dances
1918 Carl Nielsen: Pan og Syrinx
1920 Leoš Janáček: Balada Blanická
1924 Ottorino Respighi: Belfagor Overture
1930 Joaquin Rodrigo: Sarabanda lejana e Villancico
1931 Ernest John Moeran, Lonely Waters, from Two pieces for small orchestra
1932 Gustav Holst: Capriccio (Jazz-Band Piece; Mr. Shilkret's Maggot)
1937 George Gershwin: Walking the Dog
1938 Silvestre Revueltas: Sensemayá
1940 Eduard Tubin: Prélude Solennel
1944 Sergei Prokoviev: March Op. 99
1946 Camargo Guarnieri: Três danças brasileiras
1955 Malcolm Arnold: Serenade for guitar and strings
1955 Ralph Vaughan Williams: Prelude on Three Welsh Hymn Tunes
1963 Samuel Barber: Night Flight
1986 Vagn Holmboe: To a Dolphin
... 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

North Star

#98
May 04, 2017, 12:40:04 PM
I don't think 1897 is a part of the 20th century. ;)
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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Christo

#99
May 04, 2017, 01:04:43 PM
Quote from: North Star on May 04, 2017, 12:40:04 PMI don't think 1897 is a part of the 20th century. ;)
:D Neither is 1900. But Delius is.
... 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
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