Popular works you never tire of

[ahinton]

I agree about the Bartok Concerto For Orchestra. Reinstated!

The late and much lamented Olly Knussen once (in my presence, years ago) called that work The Old Persons' Guide to the Orchestra...

[PJPJ]

I'd be happy with that - but please reinstate Concerto for Orchestra and delete numbers 2 and 3. I'd also need to give considerable thought to which ONE Beethoven sonata I'd take with me, Roy.

I thought nos 2 and 3 were the only popular works, ie on the top 20 or 30 of one of those CFM or BBCMM listicles.

May I have this one?

Bridge Adagio in E minor

and this was very popular during the middle and late 1930s

[Quarky]

Any Beethoven violin sonata, but especially the Spring Sonata.

I never tire of these, even when I tire of the rest ......

[doversoul1]

Chastened list:

Rite Of Spring
Bolero
The Lark Ascending
Sibelius 5
La Mer
Serenade For Tenor Horn & Strings
Hammerklavier
Turangalila
Concert For Orchestra - Bartok

No Le quattro stagioni? It must be THE most popular work of classical music.

[Petrushka]

For starters:

Turangalila
Concerto For Orchestra - Bartok
Bolero
Rite Of Spring
The Lark Ascending
Anything by The Second Viennese School
Parsifal
Bruckner 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 & 9
La Mer
Serenade For Tenor Horn & Strings
Sibelius 2, 4, 5, 6, & 7
Hammerklavier
Any Bartok string Quartet
Any DSCH string quartet

Depends on your definition of popularity but most of those are popular in the Petrushka listening room.

Sticking with more obvious targets:

1812 Overture
Bolero
Finlandia
Bruch VC 1
William Tell Overture
Dvorak New World
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch Ravel)
Enigma Variations
The Planets
Blue Danube
etc., etc.

Would never tire of any of them them.

[zola]

Rach 3.

[Nick Armstrong]

Rach 3.

Yes, very much so (assuming you mean the concerto).

And:

RVW Tallis Fantasia

Elgar Enigma Variations

Dvorak New World Symphony

[Belgrove]

Barber's Adagio for Strings
Schumann Piano Concerto
Goldberg Variations.

[zola]

[COLOR="#0000FF"]Yes, very much so (assuming you mean the concerto).

Yes, the concerto

[Wychwood]

Dvorak Sym 8
Schubert Fantasia D940

[jayne lee wilson]

Not sure about never tire of, but if we're talking true pop-classics...
My "these you have loved..." in days of innocence, perhaps... coming across them on Classic FM unexpectedly they'd still find a smile, maybe a sad one, maybe much more...

Bizet L'Arlesienne
Sibelius Valse Triste, Karelia Suite
Kodaly Harry Janos
Bruch Violin Concerto 1

Copland Rodeo - Saturday Night Waltz
Schubert Rosamunde
Gluck Dance of the Blessed Spirits
Prokofiev Cinderella Waltz....
Khachaturian Spartacus Adagio

Bach Brandenburgische Konzerte...

[Richard Tarleton]

Dvorak Cello Concerto
Smetana Vltava
Enescu Romanian Rhapsody no 1
Bruch Scottish Fantasy
Janacek Sinfonietta
Moore arr Flotow Last Rose of Summer
Donizetti arr Liszt Reminiscences de Lucia di Lammermoor
Verdi arr Liszt Rigoletto Paraphrase
Wagner arr Liszt Tannhauser Overture

[Flay]

I would be quite content with the majority of the works already mentioned, except for the dreaded Bolero.

Plus: Litolff - Scherzo from Concerto Symphonique No. 4 in D minor, Op. 102 - such happy music
Beethoven VC
Chopin Nocturne Op.9 No.2
Handel Firework Music
Britten Sea Interludes

[visualnickmos]

I would be quite content with the majority of the works already mentioned, except for the dreaded Bolero.

No way! I make no excuses in saying I love the Bolero. Other pieces I never tire of, are far to many to list, but it would include,
Dvorak New World, cello concerto,
Mozart Clarinet concerto and quintet
Saint Saens 'Organ' symphony
Vaughan Williams all his symphonies
ditto Mahler
and the list is almost endless;

[Beef Oven!]

No Le quattro stagioni? It must be THE most popular work of classical music.

OMG! What an oversight!

You are spot-on. It is THE most popular work, and one that I never tire of .........