Nominate a little known work for an imaginary Prom

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

On this one aside from Liza Lim, Mary Finsterer would get my vote and as a counterweight Michael Smetanin.

I've just done a cummings ist der dichter and searched on youTube for a piece called On this one aside by Liza Lim.

It's a lovely title for a piece.

[Pulcinella]

The liner notes for the RLPO/Mackerras recording of Brian's Symphony 31 say: the focus is on musical essentials,....

With a running time of only 13.23, it would appear to be an ideal candidate for Essential Classics!

[Tom Audustus]

Mauro Giuliani Guitar Concerto Op 30

[Barbirollians]

Mauro Giuliani Guitar Concerto Op 30

A hard place for guitar concertos the Royal Albert Hall .

[Serial_Apologist]

My choice would be the easily programmable, 12-minute long second symphony from 1960 of the Israeli composer Josef Tal, which knocked me out when I first heard it about 40 years ago in a broadcast. A sort of Israeli Revueltas, Tal's music comes across as a marvellous blend of Debussy (from the Jeux period), Stravinsky (Rite period), free atonal Schoenberg and Varese (Ameriques):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHExq6erO2I

[Roehre]

My choice would be the easily programmable, 12-minute long second symphony from 1960 of the Israeli composer Josef Tal, which knocked me out when I first heard it about 40 years ago in a broadcast. A sort of Israeli Revueltas, Tal's music comes across as a marvellous blend of Debussy (from the Jeux period), Stravinsky (Rite period), free atonal Schoenberg and Varese (Ameriques):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHExq6erO2I

Btw, his other symphonies are not overlong either

[Suffolkcoastal]

As I've just finally heard his 6th Symphony, I will nominate Malcolm Williamson's 4th Symphony, written for the Queen's Silver Jubilee and never performed.

[Bryn]

In this year, commemorating the 1914-18 war, I think a semi-staged production of Havergal Brian's. "The Tigers" would be just the thing.

[edashtav]

Looking at my copy of the score, I reckon it will cost you a great deal to programme, Bryn. Will it really fill the RAH?
I doubt that. But, if folk were inveigled to attend, I reckon they'd feel it to have been very worthwhile.

[Beef Oven!]

Based on previous discussions in this forum, on the whole, little is 'known' about John Cage's 4'33.

So it gets a Beefmeister nomination.

[Ferretfancy]

Dreamsongs by Gordon Crosse, a beautiful orchestral elegy for Benjamin Britten, and how about Holst's Choral Symphony, or The Morning of the Year ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Based on previous discussions in this forum, on the whole, little is 'known' about John Cage's 4'33.

So it gets a Beefmeister nomination.

And a fine nomination, too, BeefO - but it doesn't meet the criterion of the OP having been programmed twice already at the Proms.

[Beef Oven!]

And a fine nomination, too, BeefO - but it doesn't meet the criterion of the OP having been programmed twice already at the Proms.

Rules are for ninnies!

[Bryn]

And a fine nomination, too, BeefO - but it doesn't meet the criterion of the OP having been programmed twice already at the Proms.

Indeed, and I heard both, in the Hall in 2012 and via the radio in 1999. Good that it was included in a concert aimed at children. "Happy New Ears", what?

[Beef Oven!]

Indeed, and I heard both, in the Hall in 2012 and via the radio in 1999. Good that it was included in a concert aimed at children. "Happy New Ears", what?

Two utterly different performances.