Five favourite works inspired by the place depicted in the music

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vandermolen

March 28, 2022, 03:14:28 AM
Vaughan Williams: 'A London Symphony' (1920 or 1913 version)
Patrick Hadley: Kinder Scout
Holst: Hammersmith
Suk: Prague
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge
"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).

Florestan

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March 28, 2022, 03:25:52 AM
Mendelssohn: Scottish Symphony, Italian Synphony, The Hebrides
Chabrier: España
Respighi: Pines of Rome

"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. ." — Claude Debussy

Biffo

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March 28, 2022, 03:27:32 AM
Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony

I would like to say Bax:Tintagel but we were so frazzled by narrow Cornish roads and the generally dismal weather we never got there.

Delius: North Country Sketches
Holst: Egdon Heath - not a real place as such but Hartland Moor is an area of heathland we like to visit; superb view of Corfe Castle in the distance

Jo498

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March 28, 2022, 03:47:37 AM
Smetana: Vysehrad (also the rest of Ma Vlast to the extent connected with places)
Schumann: "Cologne Cathedral" movement (4) from 3rd symphony
Ives: Concord, Massachusetts - Sonata
Strauss: G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald
Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
- Blaise Pascal

vandermolen

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March 28, 2022, 04:57:01 AM Last Edit: March 28, 2022, 05:00:24 AM by vandermolen
Most interesting replies!
Thanks guys  :)

+1 for 'Tintagel', 'Portsmouth Point', 'Egdon Heath' (even though it's not a real place) and 'Pines of Rome'.

I liked the Griffes and Ives choices as well.

I could have added Novak's 'South Bohemian Suite' or 'In the Tatras'.
"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).

Jo498

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March 28, 2022, 05:01:56 AM
Quote from: absolutelybaching on March 28, 2022, 04:30:33 AM
I did also wonder whether I'd be allowed Wagner's Das Rheingold, but 'the Rhine' is probably a bit too amorphous a place for it to be meaningful.
;)
Better localizable Wagner but also not clearly inspired by the place would be Meistersinger (Nuremberg) and Tannhäuser (Wartburg in Thuringia)
Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
- Blaise Pascal

foxandpeng

#6
March 28, 2022, 06:03:36 AM
Interesting.

Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony
Shostakovich 7  'Leningrad'
Hovhaness 50 'Mount St Helen'
Johan De Meij 2 'The Big Apple'
Peter Maxwell Davies 'Farewell to Stromness'
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy

Brian

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March 28, 2022, 07:54:59 AM
Vaughan Williams "A London Symphony"
Gershwin "An American in Paris"
Frank "Leyendas, An Andean Walkabout"
Borodin "In the Steppes of Central Asia"
Castellanos "Santa Cruz de Pacairigua"

This is a fun one. It's hard to leave out a number of Debussy piano places like "La puerta del viño" or "Pagodes" which are, perhaps, not specific enough to one location.

vandermolen

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March 28, 2022, 08:16:42 AM
More wonderful choices!
"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

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March 28, 2022, 08:49:08 AM
Lots of good ones. I subtract anything Baxian and add Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony.
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

Mandryka

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March 28, 2022, 08:52:04 AM Last Edit: March 28, 2022, 08:59:50 AM by Mandryka
Stewart Dempster, In the Great Abbey of Clement VI
Cage, Ryoanji
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Karl Henning

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March 28, 2022, 08:58:26 AM
Ives: Three Places in New England
Ives: Concord Sonata
Ives: Central Park in the Dark
Schuman: Symphony № 9, « Le fosse ardeatine »
Shostakovich: Symphony № 7, « Leningrad »
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

foxandpeng

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March 28, 2022, 09:31:49 AM
Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on March 28, 2022, 08:49:08 AM
Lots of good ones. I subtract anything Baxian and add Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony.

Bax - November Woods
Bax - Tintagel
Bax - Walsinghame
Bax - The Garden of Fand
Bax - London Pageant

:P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy

Mandryka

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March 28, 2022, 10:23:01 AM Last Edit: March 28, 2022, 10:30:23 AM by Mandryka
Finnissy, Red Earth.
David Tudor, Rainforest.
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Mandryka

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March 28, 2022, 10:32:23 AM
And a fifth and that's me done -

Malcolm Goldstein, The Seasons: Vermont.
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Iota

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March 28, 2022, 12:34:22 PM Last Edit: March 28, 2022, 12:38:51 PM by Iota
Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde  (>:D)
Tippett - The Rose Lake
Liszt - Au lac de Wallenstadt
Debussy - Danseuses de Delphes
Debussy -  Les collines d'Anacapri:
Ives - Central Park in the Dark

The Debussy are both from the Preludes Book I, so I hope I'm permitted the solecism of counting them as one. Many others (Holst's Planets, Ives Concord Sonata, Mozart Prague Symphony etc) I could have added.

(poco) Sforzando

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March 28, 2022, 12:35:31 PM
Quote from: foxandpeng on March 28, 2022, 09:31:49 AM
Bax - November Woods
Bax - Tintagel
Bax - Walsinghame
Bax - The Garden of Fand
Bax - London Pageant

:P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P

You have my sympathies.
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

Karl Henning

#17
March 28, 2022, 12:48:59 PM
(* chortle *)

Not a fan of Fand, myself ....
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

kyjo

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March 28, 2022, 01:24:18 PM
Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on March 28, 2022, 12:35:31 PM
You have my sympathies.

...and you have mine for being so offended at the prospect that anyone would enjoy Bax's music. ::)
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff
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