Five favourite works inspired by the place depicted in the music

[vandermolen]

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.

[Karl Henning]

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

Then allow me to suggest a substitution:
Karel Husa, Music for Prague 1968

https://www.youtube.com/v/kp9K2JphLmI

[foxandpeng]

Alas no.   I would prefer that programme to the one we're actually hearing (Emperor Concerto ... again.)

[relm1]

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!

[kyjo]

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

[kyjo]

I forgot two works from the great Swede: Atterberg's Symphony no. 3 Västkustbilder (West Coast Pictures) and A Varmland Rhapsody.

[relm1]

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.

[vandermolen]

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.

[relm1]

+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"?

[vandermolen]

I love those as well.  Speaking of Island, did anyone mention Philip Sainton's "The Island"?

I should have mentioned that excellent Baxian score!

[Mandryka]

Walter Zimmermann's Lokale Musik.

[steve ridgway]

Xenakis: Persepolis

[Mandryka]

Annea Lockwood's soundmap of the Hudson River

[vandermolen]

I forgot two works from the great Swede: Atterberg's Symphony no. 3 Västkustbilder (West Coast Pictures) and A Varmland Rhapsody.

+1 to that 

[ritter]

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 

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, 

[Symphonic Addict]

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 

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.

[Florestan]

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 

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.

[Lisztianwagner]

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

[André]

Love Hekla !

Heard Geysir in concert. What a blast (literally) !

[vandermolen]

Love Hekla !

Heard Geysir in concert. What a blast (literally) !

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