Five favourite works inspired by the place depicted in the music

[kyjo]

Let's see....

Avshalomov: Hutungs of Peking
Delius: Florida Suite
Ireland: A Downland Suite
Peterson-Berger: Symphony no. 3 Same Ätnam (Lappland)
Fazil Say: Symphony no. 1 Istanbul

[vandermolen]

Let's see....

Avshalomov: Hutungs of Peking
Delius: Florida Suite
Ireland: A Downland Suite
Peterson-Berger: Symphony no. 3 Same Ätnam (Lappland)
Fazil Say: Symphony no. 1 Istanbul

Nice selection Kyle!

[foxandpeng]

You have my sympathies.

Can't go wrong with Bax 😁

[André]

Delius: Florida Suite
Hovhanness: symphony no 50 'Mount St-Helens'
Ketelbey: In a Persian Market
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides overture
Mozart: Prague symphony - although it's not about Prague 

[foxandpeng]

(* chortle *)

Not a fan of Fand, myself ....

I'm not much of a fan of Walsinghame, tbh.

[Symphonic Addict]

In no specific order:

B. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3 Sebastopol
Strauss: An Alpine Symphony (a sort of obvious choice to me)
Ciurlionis: The Sea
Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead
Koechlin: La Course de Printemps

[Brian]

...and you have mine for being so offended at the prospect that anyone would enjoy Bax's music.

He's not offended, he's joking. What are you, Will Smith? 

Strauss: An Alpine Symphony (a sort of obvious choice to me)

Oh! Of course.

[vandermolen]

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

You could have added 'Morning Song - Maytime in Sussex' 

[vandermolen]

In no specific order:

B. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3 Sebastopol
Strauss: An Alpine Symphony (a sort of obvious choice to me)
Ciurlionis: The Sea
Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead
Koechlin: La Course de Printemps

I was listening to the 'Sebastopol Symphony' yesterday - B. Tchaikovsky's masterpiece I think. Ciurlionis's The Sea is my favourite of his works and the Rachmaninov is an interesting choice - I like the idea of including 'fantasy' locations. I'm not a fan of 'An Alpine Symphony', much preferring the, much shorter, 'In the Tatras' by V. Novak.

[vandermolen]

Delius: Florida Suite
Hovhanness: symphony no 50 'Mount St-Helens'
Ketelbey: In a Persian Market
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides overture
Mozart: Prague symphony - although it's not about Prague 

I think your the second one to choose 'Mount St Helens' - possibly my favourite of the Hovhaness symphonies.

[vandermolen]

I was a bit surprised to see the popularity of 'A London Symphony' by Vaughan Williams.

No choices yet for Delius's 'Paris (The Song of a Great City).

[vandermolen]

(* chortle *)

Not a fan of Fand, myself ....

+1 Much as I like Bax.

[foxandpeng]

For some years I used to work in Senate House of London University in the corner of Russell Square, and - it being easy to drive around the city back then - would lodge my car in the double-helical underground car park in Bloomsbury Square, from which you emerge on foot through the garden in the middle.  So the second movement - which IMO conveys the feeling of the location very well - has a special resonance for me.

Going to a live performance next month.

I suspect we may be looking forward to the same #2 and #7 performance next month. Purchased tickets belatedly yesterday....

[MusicTurner]

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No choices yet for Delius's 'Paris (The Song of a Great City).

I would probably include that Delius work - it's one of the first that came to my mind, and among his more complicated or 'contemporarily' coloured pieces. But I find the task overall very difficult, because there are so many options ... with 'Ma Vlast' you'll surely get a lot of good, varied music too.

'Nights in the Gardens of Spain' would be a third one - a lovely, mysterious work.

Ciurlionis 'The Sea' very much under consideration too - it's a rich work, by far his best.

[Wanderer]

Excellent answers so far. No one has yet mentioned one of my greatest favourites, Vaughan Williams' Sinfonia antartica.

Others I'm very fond of:

Mendelssohn: "Die Hebriden" Overture
Respighi: Pini di Roma, Fontane di Roma & Feste romane
R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (although I consider this to be more philosophical than pictorial in nature; after all, its working title was Der Antichrist - after Nietsche) & Elektra (especially if one has also visited Mycenae and seen Kakogiannis' Electra)
Mozart: Symphony No. 38

Mozart: Prague symphony - although it's not about Prague 

Who cares. 

[Florestan]

Another take:

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 2 "Ukrainian" (this is how Malorossiyskaya should be translated from now on)
Glinka - Spanish Overture No. 2 'Summer Night in Madrid' (Souvenir d'une nuit d'été à Madrid)
Sibelius - Karelia Suite, Finlandia Overture

[Wanderer]

Sibelius - Karelia Suite, Finlandia Overture

Oh, very nice, forgot about those.

[Florestan]

Oh, very nice, forgot about those.

Frankly I'm greatly surprised / shocked nobody mentioned them until now.

[Mirror Image]

Okay...I'll play:

(In no particular order)

Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 "Leningrad"
Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden
Martinů: Memorial to Lidice
Schuman: Symphony No. 9, "Le Fosse Ardeatine"

Special mention: Copland's Appalachian Spring

A further note: If anyone is wondering (probably not), Delius' intermezzo The Walk to the Paradise Garden is actually about a hotel called Paradise Garden. It's not a real garden.

[vandermolen]

For some years I used to work in Senate House of London University in the corner of Russell Square, and - it being easy to drive around the city back then - would lodge my car in the double-helical underground car park in Bloomsbury Square, from which you emerge on foot through the garden in the middle.  So the second movement - which IMO conveys the feeling of the location very well - has a special resonance for me.

Going to a live performance next month.

Most interesting! I know that area well having studied at Birkbeck and UCL. I grew up in Earl's Court or 'South Kensington' as my parents used to say - not too far from the river and Cheyne Walk where VW lived for many years in London. A London Symphony has been very special to me for about 50 years.