Top 10 Favorite Works Under Ten Minutes

[North Star]

Sibelius – Luonnotar
Chopin – Ballade No. 4
Debussy – Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Ravel – Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques
Stravinsky – Élégie for solo Viola (in memoriam Alphonse Onnou)
Bartók – Rhapsody no. 1 for piano & violin
Martinu - Czech Rhapsody for violin & piano, H. 307 (1945)
Janacek – Elegy on the death of my daughter Olga, cantata for tenor, four-part choir, & piano
Monteverdi – Lamento della Ninfa
Takemitsu – All in Twilight

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Sibelius – Luonnotar
Chopin – Ballade No. 4
Debussy – Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Ravel – Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques
Stravinsky – Élégie for solo Viola (in memoriam Alphonse Onnou)
Bartók – Rhapsody no. 1 for piano & violin
Martinu - Czech Rhapsody for violin & piano, H. 307 (1945)
Janacek – Elegy on the death of my daughter Olga, cantata for tenor, four-part choir, & piano
Monteverdi – Lamento della Ninfa
Takemitsu – All in Twilight

Nice list, Karlo. I love all these pieces except for the Monteverdi, which I don't know.

Edit: I hate to do this, but the Takemitsu work is over 10 minutes. Pick another one.

[Jo498]

o.k., revision with only one piece per composer and I'll skip romantic solo songs because there are too many and they are usually much shorter, I am trying to get mostly 5-10 min pieces:

Monteverdi: Zefiro torna
Purcell: In guilty night (Saul and the Witch of Endor)
Bach: Prelude & Fugue C major BWV 547
Händel: Zadok the priest
Beethoven: Coriolan Ouverture
Schubert: Nachtgesang im Walde
Chopin: Ballade #4
Schumann: Toccata
Brahms: op.117,1
Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs

[North Star]

Nice list, Karlo. I love all these pieces except for the Monteverdi, which I don't know.

Edit: I hate to do this, but the Takemitsu work is over 10 minutes. Pick another one.

Fine...
Poulenc: Litanies à la Vierge noire

[Brian]

My list is more skewed towards fun stuff.

Nielsen - Maskarade overture
Chabrier - Espana
Liszt - Petrarch sonnet 123 (second nomination for this piece in the thread)
Chopin - Barcarolle (also second nomination)
Dvorak - Carnival overture
Kalliwoda - Overture No. 10
Schubert - Hungarian Melody
Schubert - Notturno D. 897 (another second mention)
and probably a couple Scarlatti sonatas to round it out

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Fine...
Poulenc: Litanies à la Vierge noire

Good boy. One of my favorites from Poulenc.

[Sergeant Rock]

Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves
Tchaikovsky Marche Slav
Suppé Light Cavalry Overture
Satie Gnossiennes No.4
Fauré Pavane, Op.50
Reznicek Donna Diana Overture
Chopin Polonaise F sharp minor op.44
Matteis Diverse bizzarie sopra la vecchia sarabanda ò pur ciaccona
Strauss J. II Frülingsstimmen (Voices of Spring)
Bantock The Sea Reivers: Hebridean Sea Poem No. 2

Bonus pick: Dvorak Othello Overture


Sarge

[André]

Haydn: Te Deum in C
Beethoven: Egmont Overture. Or maybe Coriolan ?
Chopin: Barcarolle
Mozart: Fantasia in d minor K 397
Soler: sonata no 90
Schubert: Erlkönig
Leifs: Requiem
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Canteloube: Bailero
Arnold: Tam O'Shanter

[Rinaldo]

Maybe I should make a new rule, it can't be any movements and parts of larger works. Like, for example, Debussy's La Cathédrale engloutie is a part of Préludes, so it can't be chosen. It has to be a work that stands alone and is meant to stand alone.

My bad. I've intended to go for standalone pieces only and somehow always imagined The Engulfed Cathedral as, uhm, standing on its own.

Fixed:

Claude Debussy – La Cathédrale engloutie
Lili Boulanger – Vieille prière bouddhique

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My bad. I've intended to go for standalone pieces only and somehow always imagined The Engulfed Cathedral as, uhm, standing on its own.

Fixed:

Claude Debussy – La Cathédrale engloutie
Lili Boulanger – Vieille prière bouddhique

Yeah, I hated making this call (I sound like an NFL official) , but, yes, while the piece is gorgeous, and agree that it does sound remarkably good out-of-context of the whole work, I have to say for the sake of this particular thread, I felt that individual movements shouldn't be a part of this thread.

[SymphonicAddict]

One out of a thousand lists:

Britten - Young Apollo
Nielsen - An Imaginary Trip to the Faroe Islands
Kabalevsky - Pathetic Overture
Finzi - A Severn Rhapsody
Sibelius - Spring Song
Schmidt - Intermezzo from 'Notre Dame'
Shostakovich - Festive Overture
Langgaard - Fra Dybet
Honegger - Pacific 231
Saint-Saëns - Le rouet d'Omphale

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One out of a thousand lists:

Britten - Young Apollo
Nielsen - An Imaginary Trip to the Faroe Islands
Kabalevsky - Pathetic Overture
Finzi - A Severn Rhapsody
Sibelius - Spring Song
Schmidt - Intermezzo from 'Notre Dame'
Shostakovich - Festive Overture
Langgaard - Fra Dybet
Honegger - Pacific 231
Saint-Saëns - Le rouet d'Omphale

No chamber works?

[SymphonicAddict]

No chamber works?

Actually I was thinking of it, but it was easier to me to pick orchestral pieces. I focused on individual works (except the Schmidt), and most of works I thought of chamber works were movements from larger works, hence I opted for orchestral ones.

[Rinaldo]

Langgaard - Fra Dybet

Are tables still being pounded around here? Great pick. And I'm glad to see some Busoni love in this thread as well.

[amw]

Josquin Ave Maria
Scarlatti F minor sonata K481
Schubert Notturno D897
Palestrina Stabat Mater
Fauré Barcarolle No. 3, Op. 42
Cage A Valentine Out Of Season
Kurtág ...quasi una fantasia... Op. 27
Chopin Nocturne Op. 32 no. 2
Xenakis Evryali
Liszt Fünf klavierstücke S192
Janáček A Recollection (Vzpomínka)

I could probably keep going lol

[Cato]

The first work that came to mind...and it comes in at around Seven Minutes  (I usually ignore the rules in such lists     ).

https://www.youtube.com/v/3imEtW-4v80

[Christo]

No chamber works?

Frederick Delius: La Calinda, from Koanga (1897)
Claude Debussy: Danse (Tarantelle styrienne) (1903)
Béla Bartók: Romanian Dances (1916)
Ottorino Respighi: Belfagor Overture (1924)
Gustav Holst: Capriccio (Jazz-Band Piece; Mr. Shilkret's Maggot) (1932)
George Gershwin: Walking the Dog (1937)
Zoltán Kodály: Minuetto serio (1953)
Malcolm Arnold: Serenade for guitar and strings (1955)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Prelude on Three Welsh Hymn Tunes (1955)
Veljo Tormis: Overture No. 2 (1956)

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Frederick Delius: La Calinda, from Koanga (1897)
Claude Debussy: Danse (Tarantelle styrienne) (1903)
Béla Bartók: Romanian Dances (1916)
Ottorino Respighi: Belfagor Overture (1924)
Gustav Holst: Capriccio (Jazz-Band Piece; Mr. Shilkret's Maggot) (1932)
George Gershwin: Walking the Dog (1937)
Zoltán Kodály: Minuetto serio (1953)
Malcolm Arnold: Serenade for guitar and strings (1955)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Prelude on Three Welsh Hymn Tunes (1955)
Veljo Tormis: Overture No. 2 (1956)

Very cool.

[Mirror Image]

The first work that came to mind...and it comes in at around Seven Minutes  (I usually ignore the rules in such lists     ).

https://www.youtube.com/v/3imEtW-4v80

Hah! I love that work.

[Brian]

Reznicek Donna Diana Overture

Sarge

Oh goodness what an inspired choice! It reminds me I should bump something off my list to make way for the Bartered Bride overture.