Your Top 20 Favorite 20th Century Orchestral Works

arpeggio · March 15, 2021, 07:46:47 PM

Quote from: kyjo on March 14, 2021, 07:55:49 PM
Time for me to come out of GMG hibernation and update my list!

Symphonies:
Alfvén: Symphony no. 3
Arnold: Symphony no. 5
Atterberg: Symphony no. 2
Braga Santos: Symphony no. 4
Casella: Symphony no. 3
Damase: Symphonie
Elgar: Symphony no. 2
Honegger: Symphony no. 3 "Liturgique"
Korngold: Symphony in F-sharp
Lloyd: Symphony no. 4 "Arctic"
Magnard: Symphony no. 4
Peterson-Berger: Symphony no. 3 "Same Ätnam"
Prokofiev: Symphony no. 5
Rachmaninoff: Symphony no. 2
Nielsen: Symphony no. 5
Schmidt: Symphony no. 4
Sibelius: Symphony no. 2
Tubin: Symphony no. 2 "Legendary"
Vaughan Williams: Symphony no. 6
Walton: Symphony no. 1

Concerti:
Alnaes: Piano Concerto
Alwyn: Harp Concerto "Lyra Angelica"
Arnold: Guitar Concerto
Atterberg: Cello Concerto
Barber: Violin Concerto
Bartók: Piano Concerto no. 3
Britten: Piano Concerto
Finzi: Cello Concerto
Honegger: Cello Concerto
Khachaturian: Violin Concerto
Nielsen: Flute Concerto
Peterson-Berger: Violin Concerto
Poulenc: Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no. 3
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G (since Cesar chose the left-hand )
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
Tcherepnin: Piano Concerto no. 4 "Fantaisie"
Walton: Cello Concerto
Weinberg: Cello Concerto

Anything else involving orchestra:
Barber: Second Essay
Bax: November Woods
Bliss: Meditations on a Theme of John Blow
Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne
Carreño: Margariteña
Dvořák: Rusalka
Falla: El Sombrero de Tres Picos
Janáček: Taras Bulba
Klami: Kalevala Suite
Lloyd: A Symphonic Mass
Martinů: Double Concerto for 2 String Orchestras, Piano, and Timpani
Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
Poulenc: Stabat Mater
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
Respighi: Metamorphoseon
Schmidt: Das Buch mit dem Sieben Siegeln
Sibelius: Tapiola
Vaughan Williams: Job

Most of these works would be on my list. This would be shorter than my list. This is why I do not play games like these. I have a lot more that just twenty.

Heck. I could come up with 20 works by William Schuman.

New England Triptych
Violin Concerto
Song on Orpheus
American Festival Orchestra
Concerto on Old English Rounds
Credendum
In Praise of Shahn
Judith
Night Journey
Prayer in the Time of War
Umdertow
To Thee Old Cause
3 Colloquies for Horn & Orchestra
Symphonies 3-8 (Not that crazy about 9 & 10)

OK. We will throw in the 9th to make it twenty.

vandermolen · March 20, 2021, 02:26:23 AM

Quote from: arpeggio on March 15, 2021, 07:46:47 PM
Most of these works would be on my list. This would be shorter than my list. This is why I do not play games like these. I have a lot more that just twenty.

Heck. I could come up with 20 works by William Schuman.

New England Triptych
Violin Concerto
Song on Orpheus
American Festival Orchestra
Concerto on Old English Rounds
Credendum
In Praise of Shahn
Judith
Night Journey
Prayer in the Time of War
Umdertow
To Thee Old Cause
3 Colloquies for Horn & Orchestra
Symphonies 3-8 (Not that crazy about 9 & 10)

OK. We will throw in the 9th of make it twenty.

Interesting! I've increasingly come to appreciate William Schuman's music, especially symphonies 3 and 6, Prayer in Time of War and the New England Triptych. I must look out for the others.

I guess I could do 20 favourites by Vaughan Williams

Nine symphonies
Job
Double Piano Concerto
Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus
Tuba Concerto
Three Portraits from the England of Elizabeth
In the Fen Country
Norfolk Rhapsody
Old King Cole
Concerto Grosso
Harmonica Romance
49th Parallel

arpeggio · March 20, 2021, 06:46:45 AM

Quote from: vandermolen on March 20, 2021, 02:26:23 AM
Interesting! I've increasingly come to appreciate William Schuman's music, especially symphonies 3 and 6, Prayer in Time of War and the New England Triptych. I must look out for the others.

I guess I could do 20 favourites by Vaughan Williams

Nine symphonies
Job
Double Piano Concerto
Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus
Tuba Concerto
Three Portraits from the England of Elizabeth
In the Fen Country
Norfolk Rhapsody
Old King Cole
Concerto Grosso
Harmonica Romance
49th Parallel

How dare you!!!! That is my list as well.

vandermolen · March 20, 2021, 02:51:31 PM

Quote from: arpeggio on March 20, 2021, 06:46:45 AM
How dare you!!!! That is my list as well.

Haha

Karl Henning · March 21, 2021, 11:34:01 AM

A new list for a new day. How do we keep it down to 20?

Prokofiev L'enfant prodigue
Shostakovich Symphony № 10 in e minor, Op. 93
Mennin Symphony № 5
Langgaard Sfærernes Musik
Stravinsky, Le baiser de la fée
Barber Symphony № 1
Nielsen Symphony № 3, « Sinfonia espansiva »
Britten Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20
Vaughan Williams, Job: A Masque for Dancing
Debussy, Images
Sibelius, Tapiola, Op. 112
Ravel La valse
Schuman Symphony № 9, « Le fosse Ardeatine »
Schnittke Symphony № 4
Schoenberg Variations, Op.31
Hartmann Miserae
Berg Three Pieces from the Lyric Suite
Hanson Symphony № 6
Martinů Memorial to Lidice
Bartók The Wooden Prince, Op. 13

Symphonic Addict · March 21, 2021, 01:01:33 PM

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on March 21, 2021, 11:34:01 AM
A new list for a new day. How do we keep it down to 20?

Prokofiev L'enfant prodigue
Shostakovich Symphony № 10 in e minor, Op. 93
Mennin Variations Symphony № 5
Langgaard Sfærernes Musik
Stravinsky, Le baiser de la fée
Barber Symphony № 1
Nielsen Symphony № 3, « Sinfonia espansiva »
Britten Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20
Vaughan Williams, Job: A Masque for Dancing
Debussy, Images
Sibelius, Tapiola, Op. 112
Ravel La valse
Schuman Symphony № 9, « Le fosse Ardeatine »
Schnittke Symphony № 4
Schoenberg Variations, Op.31
Hartmann Miserae
Berg Three Pieces from the Lyric Suite
Hanson Symphony № 6
Martinů Memorial to Lidice
Bartók The Wooden Prince, Op. 13

The Mennin Variations Symphony is the No. 7, though.

Karl Henning · March 21, 2021, 05:02:49 PM

Quote from: Symphonic Addict on March 21, 2021, 01:01:33 PM
The Mennin Variations Symphony is the No. 7, though.

Aye, typo.

arpeggio · March 21, 2021, 08:13:30 PM

The Mennin Seventh is my favorite Mennin work.

Karl Henning · March 21, 2021, 08:16:21 PM

Quote from: arpeggio on March 21, 2021, 08:13:30 PM
The Mennin Seventh is my favorite Mennin work.

Great piece!

Symphonic Addict · May 04, 2024, 03:06:10 PM

Quote from: Symphonic Addict on February 26, 2021, 06:18:51 PMBax - Tintagel
Falla - El Sombrero de Tres Picos
Hindemith - Symphonische Metamorphosen über Themen von Weber
Holst - The Planets
Janáček - Glagolitic Mass
Langgaard - Music of the Spheres
Lutoslawski - Concerto for orchestra (not concerto for solo instrument)
Kabeláč - Mystery of Time
Martinů - The Parables (or Estampes)
Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet
Puccini - Turandot
Ravel - Daphnis et Chloé
Reger - Hiller Variations
Schmitt - Psaume XLVII
Shostakovich - The Execution of Stepan Razin
Sibelius - Tapiola
Strauss - Don Quixote or Also sprach Zarathustra
Vaughan Williams - Fantasy on a theme by Tallis (if applies)
Tubin - Kratt
Villa-Lobos - Floresta do Amazonas

Updating and only including purely orchestral works apart from symphonies and concertos:

Sibelius: Tapiola
Tubin: Kratt
Lutoslawski: Concerto for orchestra
Bridge: Enter Spring
Respighi: Vetrate di Chiesa
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances
Bloch: Évocations
Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
Reger: Variations and Fugue on a theme by Hiller
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Janacek: Sinfonietta
Martinu: Les Fresques de Piero della Francesca
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau
Koechlin: Le Livre de la Jungle
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin
Hartmann: Symphonische Hymnen
Kodály: Peacock Variations
Xenakis: Jonchaies
Holst: The Planets

kyjo · May 13, 2024, 06:09:20 AM

Time for an update on my part too! I'm excluding symphonies and concerti as well:

Barber: Second Essay for Orchestra
Bax: November Woods
Bliss: Meditations on a Theme of John Blow
Carreño, Inocente: Margariteña (Symphonic Variations)
Casella: Concerto for Orchestra
Falla: El Sombrero de Tres Picos
Freitas Branco: Vathek, Symphonic Poem in the form of variations on an Oriental Theme
Janáček: Taras Bulba
Jones, Samuel: Roundings: Meditations and Musings on Texas New Deal Murals
Jurowski, Vladimir: Russian Painters, Symphonic Suite
Klami: Kalevala Suite
Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
Poulenc: Les Animaux modèles
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
Respighi: Metamorphoseon modi XII
Sibelius: The Tempest (Suites 1 and 2)
Vaughan Williams: Job (A Masque for Dancing)
Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau

San Antone · May 13, 2024, 07:27:43 AM

Bartók   Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
Bernstein   Mass
Bernstein   Symphony No. 2 "Age of Aniety"
Boulez   Sur incises
Cage   Number Pieces (any/all)
Carter   String Quartet (any/all)
Debussy   Pelléas et Mélisande
Debussy   Late sonatas (any/all)
Duruflé   Requiem
Falla   El amor brujo
Golijov   Ainadamar
Golijov   The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
Poulenc   Aubade
Ravel   Piano Concerto in G
Ravel   Piano Trio
Schoeck   Elegie
Schoeck   Notturno
Shostakovich   String Quartet (any/all)
Stravinsky   Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Stravinsky   Symphony of Psalms

Symphonic Addict · May 13, 2024, 10:06:25 AM

Quote from: kyjo on May 13, 2024, 06:09:20 AMTime for an update on my part too! I'm excluding symphonies and concerti as well:

Barber: Second Essay for Orchestra
Bax: November Woods
Bliss: Meditations on a Theme of John Blow
Carreño, Inocente: Margariteña (Symphonic Variations)
Casella: Concerto for Orchestra
Falla: El Sombrero de Tres Picos
Freitas Branco: Vathek, Symphonic Poem in the form of variations on an Oriental Theme
Janáček: Taras Bulba
Jones, Samuel: Roundings: Meditations and Musings on Texas New Deal Murals
Jurowski, Vladimir: Russian Painters, Symphonic Suite
Klami: Kalevala Suite
Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
Poulenc: Les Animaux modèles
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
Respighi: Metamorphoseon modi XII
Sibelius: The Tempest (Suites 1 and 2)
Vaughan Williams: Job (A Masque for Dancing)
Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau

Really good choices there, and good to see no chamber piece slipped in.

Lisztianwagner · May 15, 2024, 11:52:00 AM

Let's see:

Mahler: Symphony No.6
Schönberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
Holst: The Planets
Nielsen: Symphony No.4
Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau
Debussy: La Mer
Sibelius: Symphony No.5
Bartók: Music for String, Percussion and Celesta
Shostakovich: Symphony No.7
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.7
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Respighi: Pini di Roma
Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra
Honegger: Symphony No.3
Bantock: Celtic Symphony
Berg: Three Pieces from the Lyric Suite

Daverz · May 15, 2024, 03:15:16 PM

Quote from: North Star on April 11, 2017, 07:11:01 AMUmmm.... 20th century? 0:)

The Loooong 20th Century, from the French Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Karl Henning · May 15, 2024, 03:49:30 PM

Quote from: North Star on April 11, 2017, 07:11:01 AMUmmm.... 20th century? 0:)

Well, that was magnificent dullness on the part of my wit.

San Antone · May 15, 2024, 06:27:56 PM

My favorite symphonists of the 20th century are:

Shostakovich
Weinberg
Rautavaara
Frankel
Wellesz

Pick any 4 from each and it would produce a list I could live with.

foxandpeng · May 16, 2024, 05:53:28 AM

Quote from: San Antone on May 15, 2024, 06:27:56 PMMy favorite symphonists of the 20th century are:

Shostakovich
Weinberg
Rautavaara
Frankel
Wellesz

Pick any 4 from each and it would produce a list I could live with.

Nice.