May include film versions of plays or ballets but not opera.
Walton: Henry V
Sibelius: The Tempest
David Diamond: Romeo and Juliet
Walton: As You Like It
Rozsa: Julius Caesar.
These are all Shakespeare I notice but no need for you to do the same.
Prokofiev: «Египетские ночи»
Shostakovich: Hamlet (for the Kozintsev film)
Shostakovich: King Lear
Nielsen: Aladdin
Sibelius: The Tempest
Quote from: karlhenning on August 06, 2015, 10:16:29 AM
Prokofiev: «Египетские ночи»
Shostakovich: Hamlet (for the Kozintsev film)
Shostakovich: King Lear
Nielsen: Aladdin
Sibelius: The Tempest
Thanks
Karl. I can always rely on you to respond to my crackpot threads :)
Nielsen's 'Aladdin' is a great choice - I love that score.
Lully - Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Bizet - L'Arlésienne
de Falla - El corregidor y la molinera
Tchaikovsky - The Snow Maiden
Faure - Pelléas et Mélisande
Beethoven Egmont
Schubert Rosamunde
Grieg Peer Gynt
Strauss Der Bürger als Edelmann
Fauré Pelléas et Mélisande
Sarge
Very interesting choices with not much overlap so far. Thanks for the responses :)
Nobody has mentioned the most famous of all:
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
I'd name this one, and Egmont and Peer Gynt.
I have Aladin on disc but I do not remember much about it, same with Fauré's and Sibelius' Pelleas.
Not sure which of Purcell's I'd count. The two big semi-operas are more than mere incidental music.
Those that come to my mind just now :
- Claude Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint-Sébastien.
- Darius Milhaud: Les Choéphores (the first part--Agamemnon--of Milhaud's setting of Claudel's translation of the Oresteia, and this second part, are both "incidental music"...only the third section, Les Euménides, is a full-fledged opera)
- Ildebrando Pizzetti: La Pisanella
- Arnold Schoenberg: Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielszene
- Gabriel Fauré (orch. Koechlin): Pélléas et Mélisande (definitely including the lovely Melisande's song).
EDIT: How coud I forget this one? ???:
Sergei Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
SECOND EDIT: The Schoenberg and the Prokofiev are incidental music for films--in one case, an "imaginary film"--not emanating from plays. It's up to vandermolen to decide if I am applying the definition too broadly :-[ ;)
Cheers,
Quote from: ritter on August 07, 2015, 12:21:40 AM
Those that come to my mind just now :
EDIT: How coud I forget this one? ???:
Sergei Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
SECOND EDIT: The Schoenberg and the Prokofiev are incidental music for films--in one case, an "imaginary film"--not emanating from plays. It's up to vandermolen to decide if I am applying the definition too broadly :-[ ;)
Cheers,
Well, I was thinking more of music for plays but I'll let you get away with it for taking the trouble to respond :).
Maybe we should have a separate 'favourite film/movie scores by classical composers'. Actually I much prefer Prokofiev's 'Ivan the Terrible' film music to 'Alexander Nevsky' although I do enjoy that too.
Shostakovitch - Hypothetically Murdered
Even though it is not "classical" it is very entertaining. 0:)
8)
Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint-Sébastien
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sibelius: Pelléas et Mélisande
Korngold: Much Ado About Nothing
Beethoven: Egmont
Quote from: Wanderer on August 08, 2015, 01:14:30 AM
Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint-Sébastien
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sibelius: Pelléas et Mélisande
Korngold: Much Ado About Nothing
Beethoven: Egmont
Interesting choices - I especially like the Debussy and Egmont, which I can remember watching on TV played live as a tribute to the athletes killed at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
Only two works can count as favorites in terms of incidental music:
Sibelius: The Tempest
Nielsen: Aladdin
Quote from: Mirror Image on August 08, 2015, 06:32:04 AM
Only two works can count as favorites in terms of incidental music:
Sibelius: The Tempest
Nielsen: Aladdin
Both great ones though John.