Top Ten Septets of all time

[Guest]

What are YOUR top ten Septets of all time? Works must have 7 instruments in them and be your own choice and your decision must not be influenced by other message boarders, unless their list happens to be better than yours.

Here’s my list.

1. Stravinsky. Septet
2. Erm, that’s the only one I know!

3VS

[rauschwerk]

Surely you know the Beethoven? There's also Saint-Saens's Op.65 for trumpet, string quartet, double-bass and piano, a very entertaining work.

[Suffolkcoastal]

There are also the two Hummel Septets and a delightful one by Berwald and Janacek's Mladi is for Wind Septet.

[amateur51]

There's your actual Spohr Septet too, innit

[salymap]

The Berwald was on TTN at 5.58am today and was indeed a lovely work,worth Iplayer treatment.

[Norfolk Born]

What are YOUR top ten Septets of all time?

I may have misread the tone and intent of your message, but even if it is meant to be taken seriously, surely you should be asking for a top 7 Septets, to be followed by the inevitable requests for:
Top 2 Duos
Top 3 Trios
Top 4 Quartets
Top 5 Quintets
Top 6 Sextets
Top 8 Octets
Top 9 Nonets
Top 10 Decets (Decaets?).

[salymap]

And a partridge in a pear tree?

[Norfolk Born]

Text in your Top Ten Pieces featuring animals in trees. (Peter and the Wolf etc.)

[3rd Viennese School]

Might have to cheat and wikapedia some of them. Surely Schnittke must have done one?

3VS

[rubbernecker]

I may have misread the tone and intent of your message

Ofca, I think your irony radar just had a momentary (and, let it be said, uncharacteristic) failure

[visualnickmos]

Dectet, surely?

[3rd Viennese School]

Works for 12 instruments. Dodectet.

But wot about 11 instruments?

[Norfolk Born]

Undectet (by analogy with undecenoic acid)?

[3rd Viennese School]

Found a Decet work!

Tchaikovsky Russian Scherzo. For wind Decet.

(Okay. So I cheated. I googled it.)

3VS

[Norfolk Born]

There's also one (Op. 18) by somebody called Gustav Helset. Who knows? They might be a couple of really quite decent decets.