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Ever get tired of listening to Warsaw Concerto, Dream of Olwen or Cornish Rhapsody? Here is a rarely heard Piano Concerto called "El Alamein", composed by t...
Is everything on youTube? I'd never heard of it until 5 minutes ago.
"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
Talking of Youtube, here's a replacement for my emm - John Mackey: Kingfishers Catch Fire. I'm just 'getting into wind bands because my 'ex' is asking for more and more (I've done three pieces already!).
This movement, the second half of "Kingfishers Catch Fire", could not be more different than the first. This movement is designed to represent the Kingfisher...
Talking of Youtube, here's a replacement for my emm - John Mackey: Kingfishers Catch Fire. I'm just 'getting into wind bands because my 'ex' is asking for more and more (I've done three pieces already!).
Odd title that piece (Kingfisher one) - seems similar to that of a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem - but I doubt whether there is a connection. http://www.bartleby.com/122/34.html
Bach: The "48"
Bax: Dream in Exile
Field: Nocturnes
Franck: Violin Sonata
Janacek: Piano Sonata
Kapustin: Piano Sonata No. 2
Korngold: Violin Concerto
Liszt: Annes de Pelerinage
Marx, J: Piano Concerto
Messiaen: Vingt Regards
Rachmaninov: Corelli Variations
Schumann: Dichterliebe
Scriabin: Piano Concerto
Strauss: Four Last Songs
Villa-Lobos: Five Preludes
Wagner: Tristan & Isolde
Weill: One Touch of Venus
My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)
Free association style—first thing that came to mind
AntonÃn Dvořák - Symphony No. 6
Bohuslav Martinů - Double Concerto
Charles Ives - Three Places in New England
Denis Smalley - Tides
Edmund Rubbra - Symphony No. 7
Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto
George Enescu - Chamber Symphony
Hanna Kulenty - Harmonium
Ib Nørholm - Symphony No. 2 'Isola Bella'
Johann Sebastian Bach - Das Wohltempierte Klavier
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Michaels Reise um der Erde
Lou Harrison - Piano Concerto
Michael Finnissy - Verdi Transcriptions
Norbert Burgmüller - Piano Sonata
Oliver Knussen - Ophelia Dances
Peter Ilyich Chaikovsky - Serenade for Strings
Quincy Porter - Suite for Viola Alone
Robert Schumann - Kreisleriana
Steve Reich - Tehilim
Theodor Kirchner - Nachtbilder
Uuno Klami - Piano Concerto No. 2
Valentin Silvestrov - Kitsch-musik
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 27
Xavier Montsalvatge - Quartet
Yann Robin - Vulcano
Zygmunt Krauze - Aus aller Welt stammende
Free association style—first thing that came to mind
AntonÃn Dvořák - Symphony No. 6
Bohuslav Martinů - Double Concerto
Charles Ives - Three Places in New England
Denis Smalley - Tides
Edmund Rubbra - Symphony No. 7
Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto
George Enescu - Chamber Symphony
Hanna Kulenty - Harmonium
Ib Nørholm - Symphony No. 2 'Isola Bella'
Johann Sebastian Bach - Das Wohltempierte Klavier
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Michaels Reise um der Erde
Lou Harrison - Piano Concerto
Michael Finnissy - Verdi Transcriptions
Norbert Burgmüller - Piano Sonata
Oliver Knussen - Ophelia Dances
Peter Ilyich Chaikovsky - Serenade for Strings
Quincy Porter - Suite for Viola Alone
Robert Schumann - Kreisleriana
Steve Reich - Tehilim
Theodor Kirchner - Nachtbilder
Uuno Klami - Piano Concerto No. 2
Valentin Silvestrov - Kitsch-musik
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 27
Xavier Montsalvatge - Quartet
Yann Robin - Vulcano
Zygmunt Krauze - Aus aller Welt stammende
Fascinating list, kea - apart, that is, from the Chaikovsky (sic).
Alkan - Grande Sonate 'Les Quatre Ages'
Beethoven - String Quartet 0p 131
Cooke - Clarinet Sonata
Dyson - The Canterbury Pilgrims
Elgar - Symphony No 2
Ferguson - Octet
Glazunov - String Quintet
Howells - Hymnus Paradisi
Ireland - Cello Sonata
Joubert -String Quartet No 3
Kalinnikov - Symphony No 1
Lloyd - Symphony No 4
Mendelssohn - String Quartet Op 80
Nares - Voluntary and Fugue in A minor
Orr- Symphony in one movement
Parry - Piano Quartet
Quilter - 6 Songs Op 25
Rubbra - Symphony No 4
Stanford - Clarinet Concerto
Taneyev - Piano Quintet
U- Pass
Vaughan Williams - Symphony No 9
Weinberg - Symphony No 8
X - Pass
Ysaye - Sonata for solo Cello Op 28
Zemlinsky - Cello Sonata
Alkan - Grande Sonate 'Les Quatre Ages'
Beethoven - String Quartet 0p 131
Cooke - Clarinet Sonata
Dyson - The Canterbury Pilgrims
Elgar - Symphony No 2
Ferguson - Octet
Glazunov - String Quintet
Howells - Hymnus Paradisi
Ireland - Cello Sonata
Joubert -String Quartet No 3
Kalinnikov - Symphony No 1
Lloyd - Symphony No 4
Mendelssohn - String Quartet Op 80
Nares - Voluntary and Fugue in A minor
Orr- Symphony in one movement
Parry - Piano Quartet
Quilter - 6 Songs Op 25
Rubbra - Symphony No 4
Stanford - Clarinet Concerto
Taneyev - Piano Quintet
U- Pass
Vaughan Williams - Symphony No 9
Weinberg - Symphony No 8
X - Pass
Ysaye - Sonata for solo Cello Op 28
Zemlinsky - Cello Sonata
Arnold: Symphony no 7
Barber: Knoxville Summer of 1915
Copland: Nonet
Diamond: Symphony No 3
Englund: symphony No 2 'Blackbird'
Finzi: Cello Concerto
Glazunov: Symphony No 7
G Holst: Egdon Heath
Ireland: These things shall be
Janacek: On the overgrown path
Kodaly: Dances of Galanta
Lilburn: Symphony No 2
Martinu: The Greek Passion
Nielsen: Symphony No 5
Onslow: Symphony No 1
Piston: Piano Quintet
Quilter: To Julia
Rubbra: Symphony No 6
Stanford: Songs of the Fleet
Tippett: King Priam
Ustvolskaya: Symphony No 5 'Amen'
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5
Walton: String Quartet in A minor
Xenakis: Pleiades
Yoshimatsu: Symphony No 2 'a terra'
Zwilich: Symphony No 4 'The Gardens'
Really interesting which composer comes into your head first as you reach each letter of the alphabet, not always what you expect, nor is the work. If i did it again in an hour I'd probably get completely different composers and works.
ANIMALS House of the Rising Sun
BEATLES In my life
CREAM Tales of Brave Ulysses
DEEP PURPLE Hush
ELO 10538 Overture
FLEETWOOD MAC Albatross
GUN Race with the devil
HOLLIES I'm alive
IDLE RACE Skeleton and the roundabout
JETHRO TULL Living in the past
KING CRIMSON Moonchild
LINDISFARNE Meet me on the corner
MANFRED MANN Do wah diddy diddy
NASHVILLE TEENS This little bird
OUTLAWS Swinging low
PROCOL HARUM A Salty Dog
QUEEN Killer Queen
ROLLING STONES Sympathy for the Devil
SEARCHERS When you walk in the room
THEM Baby please don't go
UNIT FOUR PLUS TWO Concrete and Clay
VANILLA FUDGE You keep me hanging on
WHO I can see for miles
XTC Making plans for Nigel
YARDBIRDS For your love
ZOMBIES She's not there
Really interesting which composer comes into your head first as you reach each letter of the alphabet, not always what you expect, nor is the work. If i did it again in an hour I'd probably get completely different composers and works.
This is going better than I expected, and all because I was listening to a work by Holst.
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