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  • Petrushka
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12245

    Top 10 Overtures

    Another pointless chart thread (as suggested on the symphonies thread) for a harmless bit of fun. I've moved my list over from there listing only one overture per composer

    Why don't we get these as often in concert programmes as we once did? They are all superb openers.

    Wagner: Die Meistersinger
    Strauss: Die Fledermaus
    Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
    Herold: Zampa
    Suppe: Light Cavalry
    Rossini: William Tell
    Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmilla
    Berlioz: The Corsair
    Shostakovich: Festive Overture
    Borodin: Prince Igor
    "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
  • salymap
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 5969

    #2
    Pointless but fun, in moderation. No one has to answer.

    Is anyone clever/kind enough to add my list of Overtures from the middle of the 10 symphonies thread or do I have to type them all over again in the morning?

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    • salymap
      Late member
      • Nov 2010
      • 5969

      #3
      My list of overtures,previously on Symphonies thread, more interesting than concertos imho, all those beautiful varied pieces.

      Arnold Beckus the Dandypratt
      Balakirev Overture on 3 Russian Themes
      Berlioz King Lear
      Dvorak In Nature's Realm
      Elgar Froissart
      Ireland London Overture
      Mendelssohn Fair Melusine
      Mozart MagicFlute
      Sullivan Patience
      Wagner Das Liebesverbot

      I mean more interesting as a list. Obviously I like/love many concertos and will join that thread if it is still there.
      Last edited by salymap; 13-03-11, 07:43. Reason: To clarify thoughts on concertos

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      • antongould
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8782

        #4
        Beethoven Leonore
        Elgar Cockaigne
        Glinka Ruslan and Ludmilla
        Mendelssohn Hebdides
        Rossini Thieving Magpie
        Schumann Manfred
        Suppe Light Cavalry
        Tchaikovsky 1812
        Vin Reznicek Donna Diana
        Wagner Rienzi

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        • Op. XXXIX
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          • Nov 2010
          • 189

          #5
          Originally posted by antongould View Post
          Elgar Cockaigne
          +1. Awesome.

          Wouldn't want it to open a concert, though. It might tend to dwarf everything following!

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          • BBMmk2
            Late Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 20908

            #6
            In no partivcular order(personally,I love these lists!! or Liszt's)

            Wagner Die Mesitersinger
            Suppe Light Cavalry
            Elgar Cockiagne
            Beethoven: Egmont & Fidelio
            Shostakovich: Festive Overture
            Brahms: Academic Festival
            Berlioz: Benveuto Cellini; Carnaval Romain

            (Have to get my thinking cap on)
            Don’t cry for me
            I go where music was born

            J S Bach 1685-1750

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            • Eine Alpensinfonie
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 20570

              #7
              Elgar: Cockaigne
              Mendelssohn: The Hebrides
              Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
              Handel: Messiah
              Wagner: Tannhauser (but it's a close-run thing with Die Meistersinger)
              Rossini: William Tell
              Beethoven: Coriolan
              Weber: Der Freischutz
              Mozart: Don Giovanni
              Sullivan: The Yeoman of the Guard

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              • Norfolk Born

                #8
                Although I wasn't paying that much attention, I think Petroc Trelawney just played 'Le Corsaire'. Just out of interest, does anybody know anything about his 'tautological reference' of yesterday, to which he referred earlier on this morning?

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                • MickyD
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 4756

                  #9
                  Originally posted by OFCACHAP View Post
                  Although I wasn't paying that much attention, I think Petroc Trelawney just played 'Le Corsaire'. Just out of interest, does anybody know anything about his 'tautological reference' of yesterday, to which he referred earlier on this morning?
                  I was mystified by this reference, too, not having heard yesterday's programme - very irritating for those of us who didn't have a clue what he meant!

                  For a really thrilling but rather neglected overture, what about Cherubini's "Anacréon"?

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                  • Petrushka
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 12245

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Op. XXXIX View Post
                    +1. Awesome.

                    Wouldn't want it to open a concert, though. It might tend to dwarf everything following!
                    Elgar himself said that Cockaigne was ideally placed to close a first half. The way concert planners work these days I'm not sure you'll find that happening.
                    "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                    • makropulos
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 1673

                      #11
                      Beethoven Leonore No. 3
                      Berlioz Roman Carnival
                      Borodin Prince Igor
                      Brahms Tragic
                      Glinka Ruslan and Ludmila
                      Kabalevsky Colas Breugnon
                      Mendelssohn Fair Melusine
                      Sullivan Yeomen of the Guard
                      Verdi Forza del Destino
                      Wagner Meistersinger

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                      • Eine Alpensinfonie
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 20570

                        #12
                        I've always thought of Cockaigne as the 15th Enigma Variation, having first got to know it on the Philharmonia/Barbirolli LP.

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                        • Op. XXXIX
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 189

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
                          Elgar himself said that Cockaigne was ideally placed to close a first half.
                          I've always thought that's the best place for it, and delighted to know that I am in agreement with Elgar! (The last time I heard Cockaigne in concert, it closed the first half.)

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                          • Mahlerei

                            #14
                            Arnold: A Grand, Grand Overture
                            Boito: Mefistofele
                            Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
                            Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
                            Dvorak: Hussite Overture
                            Korngold: Overture to Captain Blood
                            Rossini: Thieving Magpie
                            Strauss: Rosenkavalier
                            Taneyev: Oresteia
                            Tchaikovsky: Festive Overture on the Danish National Anthem

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                            • Roehre

                              #15
                              Today's list of 10:

                              Beethoven: Leonore III
                              Beyerman-Walraven: concertoverture
                              Brahms: Tragic
                              Bridge: Rebus
                              Ives: Robert Browning
                              Mahler(?): symphonic Prelude
                              Pfitzner: Kätchen von Heilbronn
                              von Reznicek: Donna Diana
                              Tormis: overture no.2
                              Wagner: Tannhäuser (with Venusberg-musik!)

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