Favorite Overture

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mn dave

July 08, 2014, 05:30:28 AM
You got one?

North Star

#1
July 08, 2014, 05:35:48 AM
Janáček's operas have some nice ones, like From the House of the Dead.
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Brahmsian

#2
July 08, 2014, 05:42:31 AM
Wow, very hard to chose just one.   ???

Perhaps Wagner's Parsifal - Prelude of Act I.

or Beethoven's Leonore Overture III

or Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Festival Overture

Drasko

#3
July 08, 2014, 06:43:51 AM
La forza del destino

also: Lohengrin, Egmont, Coriolan, Hebrides, Romeo and Juliet ...

Henk

#4
July 08, 2014, 06:44:45 AM
Handel - Riccardo Primo

Will come up with more.
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Gurn Blanston

#5
July 08, 2014, 07:12:51 AM
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro

Wagner: Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin

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Brahmsian

#6
July 08, 2014, 07:21:18 AM
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on July 08, 2014, 07:12:51 AM
Wagner: Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin

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Faints!  :o

Gurn Blanston

#7
July 08, 2014, 07:32:32 AM
Quote from: ChamberNut on July 08, 2014, 07:21:18 AM
Faints!  :o

I have far greater depth than given credit for... :)

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#8
July 08, 2014, 10:28:46 AM
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on July 08, 2014, 07:12:51 AM
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro

Wagner: Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin

8)

Waaaay belowe the green lemon! 8)
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Lisztianwagner

#9
July 08, 2014, 11:08:37 AM
Could the preludes count as overtures, although they would be different?
"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

Gurn Blanston

#10
July 08, 2014, 11:28:50 AM
Quote from: Lisztianwagner on July 08, 2014, 11:08:37 AM
Could the preludes count as overtures, although they would be different?

They are far more than entr'acte music, so might as well. To my ear, they are overtures in all but name... :)

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#11
July 08, 2014, 11:32:12 AM
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on July 08, 2014, 11:28:50 AM
They are far more than entr'acte music, so might as well. To my ear, they are overtures in all but name... :)

8)

Same here!  :)

Karl Henning

#12
July 08, 2014, 11:40:09 AM
Quote from: Lisztianwagner on July 08, 2014, 11:08:37 AM
Could the preludes count as overtures, although they would be different?

On a practical plane . . . that Prelude to Act III has been programmed on orchestral concerts as "the overture" :)
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EigenUser

#13
July 08, 2014, 11:59:04 AM
Some that I am fond of.
-Cuban
-Egmont
-Die Fledermaus
-Manfred (Schumann)
-"Midsummer Night's Dream"
Beethoven's Op. 133 -- A fugue so bad that even Beethoven himself called it "Grosse".

TheGSMoeller

#14
July 08, 2014, 12:01:05 PM
Berlioz: Rob Roy Overture
Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture; Midsummer Night's Dream Overture
Mozart: Magic Flute
Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Strauss: Overture to Le Bourgeois Gentlehomme

And for Preludes..
Wagner: Parsifal

Lisztianwagner

#15
July 08, 2014, 12:08:31 PM
Thank you for answering, gentlemen. :) Too difficult to choose just one; some of my favourites are all Wagner's overture/preludes (at least from Der fliegende Holländer to Parsifal), Strauss' Der Zigeunerbaron and Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.
"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

Brahmsian

#16
July 08, 2014, 12:20:15 PM
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on July 08, 2014, 12:01:05 PM
And for Preludes..
Wagner: Parsifal

+1 Georgian Grenouille!  :)

Sammy

#17
July 08, 2014, 12:38:28 PM
Since nobody mandated that an orchestra was required, I'll go with Bach's Overture in the French style.

johnshade

#18
July 08, 2014, 02:52:53 PM
The brief introduction to Act One of Der Rosenkavalier. What is the meaning of this exciting music?

..
The sun's a thief, and with her great attraction robs the vast sea, the moon's an arrant thief, and her pale fire she snatches from the sun  (Shakespeare)

trung224

#19
July 08, 2014, 03:36:41 PM
  Corolian overture
  Manfred overture
  Parsifal
  Herbrides overture
  and Orphée aux enfers
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