I decided to start my own poll (kyjo copyrights to poll creation be damned!) :laugh:
What are your some of your favourite works in terms of their combined awesomeness for their 1st and Final movements "book ends"?
No rules: can be a symphonic work, solo instrumental work, chamber work, etc.
A couple of favourites for me include two Tchaikovsky works:
Symphony No. 3 and Symphony No. 6
Das Reingold and Gotterdamerung?
Prokofiev 2nd Symphony!
Quote from: ChamberNut on September 15, 2013, 12:34:25 PM
I decided to start my own poll (kyjo copyrights to poll creation be damned!) :laugh:
Lol :P......
Well, I'll probably just end up listing some of my very favorite works, but some symphonies with especially awesome "bookend" movements that come to mind are: Mahler 2, 6 and 7, Bruckner 9, Sibelius 2, Shostakovich 5 and Nielsen 4. There's so many to choose from! :D
Beethoven Piano Sonata #32, op.111. I know, only two movements, but that does qualify as "Book Ends", does it not?
Quote from: springrite on September 15, 2013, 01:00:18 PM
Beethoven Piano Sonata #32, op.111. I know, only two movements, but that does qualify as "Book Ends", does it not?
Yes, there are no rules. It counts! :)
Quote from: springrite on September 15, 2013, 12:35:58 PM
Das Reingold and Gotterdamerung?
I hope you are serious, and not actually using these as literal book ends! :laugh: :o 8) ;)
Quote from: ChamberNut on September 15, 2013, 01:04:38 PM
I hope you are serious, and not actually using these as literal book ends! :laugh: :o 8) ;)
Well, they can! That's the beauty of it!
Quote from: North Star on September 15, 2013, 12:52:02 PM
Prokofiev 2nd Symphony!
;) :D ;D ;) :D ;D Wise guy!
Quote from: springrite on September 15, 2013, 01:00:18 PM
Beethoven Piano Sonata #32, op.111. I know, only two movements, but that does qualify as "Book Ends", does it not?
Following
North Star, sure, why not? 0:)
Both of these works are perfect book-ends!
Quote from: springrite on September 15, 2013, 12:35:58 PM
Das Reingold and Gotterdamerung?
+1Ravel's
Daphnis et Chloé, Tchaikovsky No.4, Mahler No.1, 6and 9, Beethoven No.9 and Debussy's
La Mer.
Quote from: Cato on September 15, 2013, 01:22:26 PM
;) :D ;D ;) :D ;D Wise guy!
Following North Star, sure, why not? 0:)
Both of these works are perfect book-ends!
I truly am liberator of the GMG folk, aren't I! 8)
Quote from: North Star on September 15, 2013, 02:07:04 PM
I truly am liberator of the GMG folk, aren't I! 8)
They should air drop T-shirts with your name and photos on them over Syria!
Now back to bookends: Mahler 6, 7, 9.
Bach Goldberg Variations.
Another dandy one I enjoy:
Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 107 "Reformation"
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Strauss: Ein Heldenleben - Gave this a spin yesterday...
01 : "Der Held"
06 : "Des Helden Weltflucht und Vollendung"
Hero came, Hero left...the rest in the middle ain't bad either...two fine bookends :D
....perhaps,everything Strauss wrote 8)
Mozart's Symphony 35
Brahms Symphony 3
Orff's Carmina Burana 8)
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on September 16, 2013, 10:45:30 AM
Orff's Carmina Burana 8)
Hah! ...or should I chortle instead? :D
Sarge
Mozart's string quartet K.387.
Shostakovich's 15th symphony with the familiar (yet zany) exhortations of the first movement juxtaposed with the extreme novelty of the closing pages of the finale (right up till the end).
Ravel's piano concerto, but damn if the middle doesn't make for some fine cream filling.
I love this Symphony No. 3, just the top! ;)
Rubbra: Symphony 7
Vaughan Williams: Symphony 6
Vaughan Williams: Symphony 9
Mahler: Symphony 9
Brahms 1st symphony comes immediately to mind... it's all good of course, but the opening and the finale, if done with sufficient drama, are the best parts IMO...
Janacek's Sinfonietta ;)
Three that come immediately to mind:
- Pli selon pli
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
- L'Orfeo
Debussy - String Quartet
I like both, top just :D but it would be nice for readers to describe the main points in a few phrases, so it would turn out to be cooler discussion. I'm just learning so far, for example, I want to mention studydriver.com/isaac-newton-essay/ (https://studydriver.com/isaac-newton-essay/) works about the well-known Isaac Newton in Essays. A dozen of essays describe shortly and interestingly his life, activities, achievements, influence, his eternal contribution and many more interesting ones, go on and study additionally.
Vaughan Williams - A Sea Symphony
Bruckner - Symphony No. 5