Works you would love to hear performed live.

[teamsaint]

I thought there must be things that even the most experienced concert hall veterans must have somehow missed out on.
I was thinking primarily of works, really, rather than performers.

Perhaps it may yet happen, if you think positive !

I'm an utter newbie at this stuff really, but here are 3 that would be high on my list.

Arnold # 9.

Rouse Symphony #1

Any Robert Simpson symphony

Mine are chosen on the basis that they might be a struggle to see performed, since performances are so rare.

[amateur51]

Alistair Hinton: String quintet

[Simon B]

Khachaturian's 3rd symphony at the RAH (as nowhere else has an organ capable of making the kind of tooth-dislodging racket required to compete with the racket already going on around it). Preferably with a doubling of the 18 trumpets up to 36 to match the scale of the venue. In fact, why not 72? . Yes, ok, it's a right din (albeit in the pursuit of furious anger to my ears rather than the empty bombast K manages elsewhere) so once might be enough. It'd go down a storm at the end of the right sort of Prom...

Arnold's 5th symphony in a performance by the first rank (e.g. LSO/LPO).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Alistair Hinton: String quintet

So many! Stevenson's Passacaglia on DCSH; Simpson; Licht; The Mask of Orpheus; etc, etc, etc ...

But, most of all

Ferneyhough: Carceri d'Invenzione

[Nick Armstrong]

Arnold's 5th symphony in a performance by the first rank (e.g. LSO/LPO).

Very very good call!

an organ capable of making the kind of tooth-dislodging racket

[Petrushka]

Two English works that would make a rather good concert coupling:

Dyson: Violin Concerto
Arnold: Symphony No 9

[EdgeleyRob]

Two English works that would make a rather good concert coupling:

Dyson: Violin Concerto
Arnold: Symphony No 9

You don't fancy being concert planner for the Halle or BBC Phil do you Pet?

I'd walk over broken glass to be at that concert.

[Alison]

Believe it or not the first professional concert my father ever went to consisted of Arnold's Fifth Symphony !

We were talking about it only the other day. Other works on the programme: Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet and Prokofiev's Fifth piano Concerto in G. New Philharmonia under Sir Malcolm himself.

Quite a good start, really.

[Petrushka]

You don't fancy being concert planner for the Halle or BBC Phil do you Pet?

I'd walk over broken glass to be at that concert.

If a vacancy exists I'd seriously love to do something like that. It's great fun compiling my own CD programmes and the Dyson/Arnold one came straight into my head when I saw the thread title.

[Alison]

Bung in an overture though, Pet, please.

[EdgeleyRob]

Bung in an overture though, Pet, please.

May I suggest Parry's Overture to an Unwritten Tragedy ?

[Alison]

May I suggest Parry's Overture to an Unwritten Tragedy ?

[teamsaint]

I would also love to see one of the Bliss Ballet scores performed as a Ballet.
Or even as a concert piece.
Adam Zero for preference.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Rutland Boughton's "Glastonbury Ring". Much of it has never been performed at all, but it would be truly wonderful to experience the British equivalent of Wagner's Ring.

[EdgeleyRob]

As well as numerous neglected British Symphonies I'd love to hear the following live.

Weinberg,Symphony no 8 'Polish Flowers'.

Myaskovsky,Symphony no 6 (the version WITH the singing).

Alkan,Grande Sonate 'Les Quatre Ages'.