The Fifteen Minute Concert

[mn dave]

You are programming a fifteen minute classical music concert consisting of a single work or multiple works; it doesn't matter how many, as long as the piece(s) are whole works unto themselves. No pieces or parts; no single movements or sections of a larger work. Get it?

What's on the program?

[imperfection]

John Cage's 4'33 played in various ways. First, period instruments, second, solo piano, then string quartet, then full orchestra, then concerto grosso, then a virtuosic cadenza by solo violin. That should fit it. If it doesn't, I'll direct the performers to play at presto.

[mn dave]

John Cage's 4'33 played in various ways. First, period instruments, second, solo piano, then string quartet, then full orchestra, then concerto grosso, then a virtuosic cadenza by solo violin. That should fit it. If it doesn't, I'll direct the performers to play at presto.

Very entertaining, watching the various groups perform the same piece. But then again, it's never the same piece.

[bhodges]

Mosolov: Iron Foundry (4')
*intermission* (1') 
Stravinsky: Fireworks (4')
R. Strauss: Befreit (6')

--Bruce

[mn dave]

Mosolov: Iron Foundry (4')
*intermission* (1') 
Stravinsky: Fireworks (4')
R. Strauss: Befreit (6')

I don't own any of those. 

[bhodges]

I don't own any of those. 

We gotta fix that!  (I think you'd probably love the Strauss song...has a very beautiful long melodic line.)

--Bruce

[Kullervo]

Scriabin - Rêverie (4')
Ravel - Menuet Antique (6')
Tubin - Elegy For Strings (4')
Encore: Elgar - Smoking Cantata (1') 

[mn dave]

Scriabin - Rêverie (4')
Ravel - Menuet Antique (6')
Tubin - Elegy For Strings (4')
Encore: Elgar - Smoking Cantata (1') 

I have the Ravel in this one.

[hornteacher]

Marriage of Figaro Overture - Mozart (I guess that can count as it is often played as a stand alone piece)
Down A Country Lane - Copland
Gretchen and the Spinning Wheel - Schubert
Slavonic Dance #8 - Dvorak

[greg]

The Prelude to Tristan und Isolde and then the next 5 minutes to make out..... and if you can't finish in five minutes, you'll be kicked out anyway! 

[mn dave]

Marriage of Figaro Overture - Mozart (I guess that can count as it is often played as a stand alone piece)
Down A Country Lane - Copland
Gretchen and the Spinning Wheel - Schubert
Slavonic Dance #8 - Dvorak

That's a pretty darn exciting concert (I don't have the Copland in that one).

[mn dave]

The Prelude to Tristan und Isolde and then the next 5 minutes to make out..... and if you can't finish in five minutes, you'll be kicked out anyway! 

How does one finish making out? 

[Kullervo]

I have the Ravel in this one.

The Scriabin I found on Järvi's set of the symphonies — little more than a flourish, but it's a tasty morsel.

The Tubin elegy I have on a disc of Estonian chamber music played by the Talinn Quartet. On the disc it's played by string quartet, but I assume since it's labeled "for strings", that an arrangement for larger ensemble exists.

[mn dave]

Here's one:

Trio Elegiaque No. 1 in G Minor

Rachmaninoff

[Szykneij]

Faure Pavane

The Typewriter - Leroy Anderson

Barber's Adagio for Strings

[Keemun]

Bruckner: Overture in G Minor

Scriabin: Prelude No. 4 in E minor

[Lethevich]

Vaughan Williams - The Lake on the Mountains
Vaughan Williams - Six Studies in English Folksong

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Poulenc - Exultate Deo
Faure - Ave Maria
Poulenc - Salve Regina
Durufle - Notre Pere

The times of the latter are from memory, so may be a minute or so too long, depending on recording.

Edit: and if I cheated like other people I would've done something with valse triste 0:)

[hornteacher]

How about the Minute Waltz played 15 times?

[Kullervo]

15 times too many.

[mn dave]

Faure Pavane

The Typewriter - Leroy Anderson

Barber's Adagio for Strings

Creamy on the ends with nuts in the middle.