Vaughan Williams: 'A London Symphony' (1920 or 1913 version)
Patrick Hadley: Kinder Scout
Holst: Hammersmith
Suk: Prague
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge
Mendelssohn: Scottish Symphony, Italian Synphony, The Hebrides
Chabrier: España
Respighi: Pines of Rome
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
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
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'.
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)
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'
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.
More wonderful choices!
Lots of good ones. I subtract anything Baxian and add Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony.
Stewart Dempster, In the Great Abbey of Clement VI
Cage, Ryoanji
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 »
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
Finnissy, Red Earth.
David Tudor, Rainforest.
And a fifth and that's me done -
Malcolm Goldstein, The Seasons: Vermont.
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.
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.
(* chortle *)
Not a fan of Fand, myself ....
La Mer
Ma Vlast
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. ::)
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
Quote from: kyjo on March 28, 2022, 01:37:44 PM
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!
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 :D
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on March 28, 2022, 12:48:59 PM
(* chortle *)
Not a fan of Fand, myself ....
I'm not much of a fan of Walsinghame, tbh.
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
Quote from: kyjo on March 28, 2022, 01:24:18 PM
...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? ;D
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on March 28, 2022, 03:25:35 PM
Strauss: An Alpine Symphony (a sort of obvious choice to me)
Oh! Of course.
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 could have added 'Morning Song - Maytime in Sussex' ;D
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on March 28, 2022, 03:25:35 PM
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.
Quote from: André on March 28, 2022, 02:02:35 PM
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 :D
I think your the second one to choose 'Mount St Helens' - possibly my favourite of the Hovhaness symphonies.
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).
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on March 28, 2022, 12:48:59 PM
(* chortle *)
Not a fan of Fand, myself ....
+1 Much as I like Bax.
Quote from: ultralinear on March 29, 2022, 01:10:00 AM
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....
Quote from: vandermolen on March 28, 2022, 10:41:55 PM
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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.
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" OvertureRespighi:
Pini di Roma,
Fontane di Roma &
Feste romaneR. 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 Quote from: André on March 28, 2022, 02:02:35 PM
Mozart: Prague symphony - although it's not about Prague :D
Who cares. 8)
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
Quote from: Florestan on March 29, 2022, 04:53:23 AM
Sibelius - Karelia Suite, Finlandia Overture
Oh, very nice, forgot about those.
Quote from: Wanderer on March 29, 2022, 06:19:45 AM
Oh, very nice, forgot about those.
Frankly I'm greatly surprised / shocked nobody mentioned them until now.
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. ;)
Quote from: ultralinear on March 29, 2022, 01:10:00 AM
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.
Quote from: MusicTurner on March 29, 2022, 02:43:07 AM
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.
I love that Falla work - great choice MT + 1 for Ciurlionis as well.
Ok, new list
Armstrong Gibbs: Symphony 3 'Westmorland' (very moving, in memory of his son killed in WW2)
Novak: South Bohemian Suite
Novak: In the Tatras
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes
Bliss: Overture 'Edinburgh' (seems appropriate in view of today's Service of Remembrance for the Duke of Edinburgh in Westminster Abbey).
Thanks for all responses - read with great interest.
Quote from: André on March 28, 2022, 02:02:35 PM
Mozart: Prague symphony - although it's not about Prague :D
Then allow me to suggest a substitution:
Karel Husa, Music for Prague 1968https://www.youtube.com/v/kp9K2JphLmI
Quote from: ultralinear on March 29, 2022, 04:40:42 AM
Alas no. :( I would prefer that programme to the one we're actually hearing (Emperor Concerto ... again.)
:( :(
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on March 29, 2022, 07:38:09 AM
Then allow me to suggest a substitution:
Karel Husa, Music for Prague 1968
https://www.youtube.com/v/kp9K2JphLmI
Ahh man! This piece had a tremendous impact on me as a kid as did Apotheosis of the Earth. Fabulous works!
Quote from: Brian on March 28, 2022, 05:55:38 PM
He's not offended, he's joking. What are you, Will Smith? ;D
:laugh:
I forgot two works from the great Swede: Atterberg's Symphony no. 3 Västkustbilder (West Coast Pictures) and A Varmland Rhapsody.
Guillaume Connesson "The Cities of Lovecraft"
John Williams "Harry's Wonderous World" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD7AwddO5EQ
George Crumb's "Haunted Landscape" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V46XhO3h8Qc
Thomas Ades' Inferno (based on the Divine Comedy so the place are the circles of hell)
(no one said the places have to be real)
and RVW Sinfonia Antarctica.
Quote from: relm1 on March 31, 2022, 05:41:55 AM
Guillaume Connesson "The Cities of Lovecraft"
John Williams "Harry's Wonderous World" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD7AwddO5EQ
George Crumb's "Haunted Landscape" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V46XhO3h8Qc
Thomas Ades' Inferno (based on the Divine Comedy so the place are the circles of hell)
(no one said the places have to be real)
and RVW Sinfonia Antarctica.
+1 for RVW - great choice!
No, I didn't say that it had to be a real location, so William Alwyn's 'The Magic Island' (after Shakespeare's 'The Tempest') comes to mind as well. Also Chisholm's 'Pictures from Dante' which is my favourite of his compositions.
Quote from: vandermolen on March 31, 2022, 11:29:57 PM
+1 for RVW - great choice!
No, I didn't say that it had to be a real location, so William Alwyn's 'The Magic Island' (after Shakespeare's 'The Tempest') comes to mind as well. Also Chisholm's 'Pictures from Dante' which is my favourite of his compositions.
I love those as well. Speaking of Island, did anyone mention Philip Sainton's "The Island"?
Quote from: relm1 on April 01, 2022, 05:37:47 AM
I love those as well. Speaking of Island, did anyone mention Philip Sainton's "The Island"?
I should have mentioned that excellent Baxian score!
Walter Zimmermann's Lokale Musik.
Xenakis: Persepolis
Annea Lockwood's soundmap of the Hudson River
Quote from: kyjo on March 30, 2022, 07:16:03 PM
I forgot two works from the great Swede: Atterberg's Symphony no. 3 Västkustbilder (West Coast Pictures) and A Varmland Rhapsody.
+1 to that :)
Isaac Albéniz surely deserves mention in this thread!
As we're asked for five works, here go mine:
From Albéniz's Iberia:
1) Rondeña: the city of Ronda in the province of Málaga.
2) Almería: the city of the same name in Andalusia. IMHO, along with the above, the high point of the whole suite.
3) Lavapiés: not my favourite section of the suite, but it's my neighbourhood here in Madrid 8)
From Manuel de Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain (already mentioned by MusicTurner above):
4) The first movement, En el Generalife (the superb gardens next to the Alhambra In Granada)
And last but not least (and already mentioned by Jo498):
5) Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (the town, or more specifically its people, plays a leading rôle in this miraculous score).
Runner up: Debussy's La Puerta del Vino, from the second book of Préludes. The man was never there, but wow!, what a piece. I actually felt elated when I walked through this gate in the Alhambra, thinking of this music, :)
Quote from: ritter on April 06, 2022, 06:29:05 AM
Isaac Albéniz surely deserves mention in this thread!
As we're asked for five works, here go mine:
From Albéniz's Iberia:
1) Rondeña: the city of Ronda in the province of Málaga.
2) Almería: the city of the same name in Andalusia. IMHO, along with the above, the high point of the whole suite.
3) Lavapiés: not my favourite section of the suite, but it's my neighbourhood here in Madrid 8)
From Manuel de Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain (already mentioned by MusicTurner above):
4) The first movement, En el Generalife (the superb gardens next to the Alhambra In Granada)
And last but not least (and already mentioned by Jo498):
5) Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (the town, or more specifically its people, plays a leading rôle in this miraculous score).
Runner up: Debussy's La Puerta del Vino, from the second book of Préludes. The man was never there, but wow!, what a piece. I actually felt elated when I walked through this gate in the Alhambra, thinking of this music, :)
Very interesting to read, Rafael.
Quote from: ritter on April 06, 2022, 06:29:05 AM
Isaac Albéniz surely deserves mention in this thread!
As we're asked for five works, here go mine:
From Albéniz's Iberia:
1) Rondeña: the city of Ronda in the province of Málaga.
2) Almería: the city of the same name in Andalusia. IMHO, along with the above, the high point of the whole suite.
3) Lavapiés: not my favourite section of the suite, but it's my neighbourhood here in Madrid 8)
From Manuel de Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain (already mentioned by MusicTurner above):
4) The first movement, En el Generalife (the superb gardens next to the Alhambra In Granada)
And last but not least (and already mentioned by Jo498):
5) Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (the town, or more specifically its people, plays a leading rôle in this miraculous score).
Runner up: Debussy's La Puerta del Vino, from the second book of Préludes. The man was never there, but wow!, what a piece. I actually felt elated when I walked through this gate in the Alhambra, thinking of this music, :)
Very nice,
Rafael.
Only five, difficult, but they may be:
Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Franz Liszt: Années de pèlerinage
Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
Gustav Holst: A Somerset Rhapsody
Jón Leifs: Hekla
Love Hekla !
Heard Geysir in concert. What a blast (literally) !
Quote from: André on May 22, 2022, 11:36:35 PM
Love Hekla !
Heard Geysir in concert. What a blast (literally) !
+1 8)