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Wed 14 Apr, 2004 11:00 am
We've gotten posts on symphonic poems and suites qualify as, for instance, "Daphnes and Chloe," my favorite suite/symphonic poem. To further qualify music that is based on another source you may also choose programmatic works which would include pieces like Elgar's "Enigma Variations." Complete ballet music can also be construed as programmatic.
In tone poems I suppose the Ibert "Escales" is my favorite although I feel that the Ravel "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" is my second favorite (it's really a bridge between the piano concerto and a tone poem).
Jan Sibelius, The Swans of Tuonela
Liszt, Bartok...does Satie count?
Strauss' "Don Juan" and "Till Eulenspiegel".
As to the Struass repetoire, the most enthralling for me is "Don Quixote" and the voluptous romanticism of "Der Rosenkavalier."
Fourth on my list, however, is the Kodaly "Hary Janos."
"La Mer," "Pines and Fountains of Rome," "The Rite of Spring" are all top of my list.
Mendelssohn- Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Liszt- Les Preludes
I don't know if this counts as a tone poem, but I think that Puccini's "Chrysanthemums" is way up there with the greats in terms of sheer beauty.
"Der Rosenkavalier" is my favorite opera, not only because of the overall lush score and the beautiful waltz which I consider better than any of the waltzes of Johann, but also because I empathize so much with the Marschallin. Alas, time marches on. But is there a tone poem version?
This necessarily combined tone poems with suites (or even full length ballets that have become recognized as musical pieces standing alone even if that could be a seperate category). For instance, "The Rite of Spring" was a failure in its premiere as a ballet and a huge hit when it was performed as a symphonic piece. It really identifies with being a tone poem (in "Fantasia" being interpreted as the early evolution of the Earth).
I guess my brain was not fully engaged. I forgot we were speaking of tone poems and suites.
I've never heard that piece of music, "Post Deleted."
Just another instance of the disengaged brain.
No need, thanks, I'm a big Sousa fan.
You all have to stop honking your own horn.
Strauss "Also Sprach Zarathustra." I thought that was everyone's favorite since "2001." It's a real roller coaster of a ride.
I do like "Also Sprach" and especially with the sub-woofer cranked up to capture that 40Hz opening organ chord.
Howzabout the Peer Gynt Suite, by Grieg. The Hall of the Mountain King will knock those woofers right out the box . . .
Yeah, man, you're right. You can make your clorthes flutter with that one. Ditto Hindemith's
"Symphonic Metamorphosis."
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