Top 5 Favorite R. Strauss Works

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June 06, 2015, 07:24:20 AM


Time for another poll! Yes, another one. ::) ;D Anyway, let's have some fun! There are no stipulations for this poll.

My Top 5 (in no particular order):

Tod und Verklärung
Eine Alpensinfonie
Vier letzte Lieder
Metamorphosen
Elektra

Sergeant Rock

#1
June 06, 2015, 07:35:09 AM
Also sprach Zarathustra
Alpensinfonie
Duet-Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon and String Orchestra
Josephslegende
Vier letzte Lieder

No operas because that would take all five spots.

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Mirror Image

#2
June 06, 2015, 07:37:48 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on June 06, 2015, 07:35:09 AM
Also sprach Zarathustra
Alpensinfonie
Duet-Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon and String Orchestra
Josephslegende
Vier letzte Lieder

No operas because that would take all five spots.

Sarge

:) Nice list, Sarge. Of the ones you listed, Duet-Concertino is the one I know the least, although I have heard it several times. Should refresh my memory of that work soon.

Lisztianwagner

#3
June 06, 2015, 10:29:26 AM
I'll try not to include too many Strauss' tone poems......

Eine Alpensinfonie
Tod und Verklärung
Also sprach Zarathustra
Der Rosenkavalier, Suite
Salomè
"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

Moonfish

#4
June 06, 2015, 12:35:18 PM
I'm a tone poem addict!


*********Eine Alpensinfonie ********
Also sprach Zarathustra
Vier letzte Lieder
Metamorphosen
Tod und Verklärung
"Every time you spend money you are casting a vote for the kind of world you want...."
Anna Lappé

Jaakko Keskinen

#5
June 06, 2015, 01:47:09 PM
Okay, I'll try to be varied in genres:

Tod und Verklärung
Die Liebe der Danae
Violin concerto
Op 49 lieder
Metamorphosen

Chose less obvious examples from opera and lieder. Old Strauss himself considered the act 3 of Danae among the best music he ever wrote. I am inclined to agree. Libretto is poor, although I do feel bad at ridiculing it, after reading how often Strauss mocked poor Gregor's literary skills, often hurting his feelings.
"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo

aligreto

#6
June 06, 2015, 02:02:29 PM
Eine Alpensinfonie
Vier letzte Lieder
Metamorphosen
Tod und Verklärung
Der Rosenkavalier [opera]


[Honourable mention for the oboe concerto and the 2 horn concertos]

Wanderer

#7
June 06, 2015, 02:07:57 PM
Salome
Elektra
Don Quixote
Vier letzte Lieder
Deutsche Motette

Ken B

#8
June 06, 2015, 02:35:15 PM
Quote from: Moonfish on June 06, 2015, 12:35:18 PM
I'm a tone poem addict!


*********Eine Alpensinfonie ********


Scientists have debated for decades if the brontosaurus is real, or if it is really the same as the apatosaurus. Recent opinion is swinging back to bronto's side. But it is widely agreed that both these beasts pale in size next to the bloatasaurus. "It can take nearly an hour to lumber through the pit, filling a space the size of a large concert hall" said one expert, shuddering. "It's almost as oversized as the Gurresaurus."

Moonfish

#9
June 06, 2015, 02:37:51 PM
Quote from: Ken B on June 06, 2015, 02:35:15 PM
Scientists have debated for decades if the brontosaurus is real, or if it is really the same as the apatosaurus. Recent opinion is swinging back to bronto's side. But it is widely agreed that both these beasts pale in size next to the bloatasaurus. "It can take nearly an hour to lumber through the pit, filling a space the size of a large concert hall" said one expert, shuddering. "It's almost as oversized as the Gurresaurus."

"Every time you spend money you are casting a vote for the kind of world you want...."
Anna Lappé

Dancing Divertimentian

#10
June 06, 2015, 06:01:36 PM
Die Frau ohne Schatten
Elektra
Capriccio
Salome
Ariadne Auf Naxos


Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

Jo498

#11
June 06, 2015, 11:22:09 PM
Don Juan
Burleske
Salome
4 letzte Lieder
Metamorphosen.

I am not a big fan, though, and can easily do without most of the big tone poems (except Don Juan and Till) and most of Rosenkavalier. I do not know the later operas, admittedly.
Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
- Blaise Pascal

Dax

#12
June 07, 2015, 02:28:19 AM
1st horn concerto
Till Eulenspiegel
Alpine Symphony
Parergon
Duet-Concertino

Jaakko Keskinen

#13
June 07, 2015, 08:35:35 AM
Top 5 tone poems (in no particular order):

Tod und Verklärung
Alpensinfonie
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Heldenleben
Till Eulenspiegel

top 4 operas (in no particular order):

Salome
Elektra
Danae
Rosenkavalier

top 2 lieder (in no particular order):

Vier letzte Lieder
op. 49

Top 2 chamber music works (in no particular order):

Violin sonata
String quartet

Top 2 other (in no particular order):

Violin concerto
Metamorphosen

However, I haven't heard nearly all of his works, so the list may change in the future.


"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo

Mirror Image

#14
June 07, 2015, 07:30:56 PM
Quote from: Alberich on June 07, 2015, 08:35:35 AM
Top 5 tone poems (in no particular order):

Tod und Verklärung
Alpensinfonie
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Heldenleben
Till Eulenspiegel

top 4 operas (in no particular order):

Salome
Elektra
Danae
Rosenkavalier

top 2 lieder (in no particular order):

Vier letzte Lieder
op. 49

Top 2 chamber music works (in no particular order):

Violin sonata
String quartet

Top 2 other (in no particular order):

Violin concerto
Metamorphosen

However, I haven't heard nearly all of his works, so the list may change in the future.

Hardly a Top 5 list, Alberich. :) Let's try to narrow it down to 5.

Jaakko Keskinen

#15
June 08, 2015, 05:02:50 AM
I did, in my first post.
"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo

Mirror Image

#16
June 08, 2015, 06:30:01 AM
Quote from: Alberich on June 08, 2015, 05:02:50 AM
I did, in my first post.

So you did. Nice list, BTW. 8)

Jaakko Keskinen

#17
June 08, 2015, 06:49:54 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 08, 2015, 06:30:01 AM
So you did. Nice list, BTW. 8)

Thank you. Likewise.
"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo

springrite

#18
June 08, 2015, 08:14:39 AM
Salome

Vier letzte Lieder
Death and Transfiguration
Ein Heldenleben
Capriccio
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Ken B

#19
June 08, 2015, 10:06:45 AM
Four Last Songs
Metamorphosen
Death & Transfiguration
Two of the late concertos.

Late stuff mostly.
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