One hit wonders

[NatBalance]

In fact, they've broadcast the Sorcerer's Apprentice once this year, on Essential Classics; and the Villanelle for horn and piano 4 times (Lunchtime Concert twice, including the repeat, and twice on TTN - once for horn and piano and once in a later arrangement for horn and orchestra).

Good heavens, you amaze me. Well I can't be listening all the time. Feel sure I've heard Sorcerer's Apprentice more than once this year but if you know the details then so be it.

[french frank]

Good heavens, you amaze me. Well I can't be listening all the time. Feel sure I've heard Sorcerer's Apprentice more than once this year but if you know the details then so be it.

It is only since January, not the last 12 months.

[oddoneout]

Good heavens, you amaze me. Well I can't be listening all the time. Feel sure I've heard Sorcerer's Apprentice more than once this year but if you know the details then so be it.

It was recent as I remember getting up to go and do something else for a while - I do not like the piece at all!

[french frank]

It was recent as I remember getting up to go and do something else for a while - I do not like the piece at all!

March 16, if Andrew's database is correct.

[ardcarp]

Probably an organist comes across Pachelbel quite a bit. So maybe not as much a 'one-hit' composer as some of the others. Bur your post, ff, emphasises what a good idea This Week's Composers programme is...bringing to light some hidden or half-hidden treasures.

[Serial_Apologist]

It was recent as I remember getting up to go and do something else for a while - I do not like the piece at all!

It has quite a few near-successors!

[Serial_Apologist]

A pity poor old Litolff doesn't get a look in.

They played some of his other pieces a few years ago, and I was left thinking that a Litolff goes a long way!

[french frank]

I was left thinking that a Litolff goes a long way!

Far be it from me to take offence at that comment

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Hamish MacCunn is another, whereas Albinoni shouldn’t even be in the list.

[gurnemanz]

A pity poor old Litolff doesn't get a look in. Hyperion did him justice by recording some of his other works.
I'm sure there are enough examples to fill a second week of programmes on the same theme.

Lalo with his one hit Symphonie Espagnole would be a candidate. They could include a couple of his songs from baritone Tassis Christoyannis and pianist Jeff Cohen which appeared on an admirable 2CD survey issued under the auspices of Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française. https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...complete-songs

I acquired the discs having read several enthusiastic reviews and have greatly enjoyed discovering their delights.

[Stanfordian]

Gustav Holst is my nomination as a 'one hit wonder'.

[Barbirollians]

Well, this thread has caused me to dig out my only Dukas-only CD for a spin later on (I think I have only one other recording of L'Apprenti sorcier, in a BBC MM compilation; but I have another version of La Péri – Fanfare and Poème dansé – in the big Sony Boulez box):

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8160658--dukas-orchestral-works

Edit: The Decca OSR/Ansermet box also contains the apprentice and La Péri.

Silvestri is sensational in the Sorcerer's Apprentice if you have his Icon box.

[Pulcinella]

Gustav Holst is my nomination as a 'one hit wonder'.

RichardB mentioned Holst in post #19, but the case was roundly dismissed in post #21.

And in addition to those works SA mentioned, I'd add The Perfect Fool and Egdon Heath.
I could live without the St Paul's Suite (has that gone out of fashion?), which surely made him at least a two-hit wonder in BBC playlist terms.
There's a 6CD EMI/Warner Collector's Edition box for anyone interested in some extra-planetary listening/investigation.
His setting of Whitman's Dirge for two veterans is as haunting and evocative as RVW's in Dona Nobis Pacem, imho.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8007283--holst-collectors-edition

[french frank]

Gustav Holst is my nomination as a 'one hit wonder'.

Quite an interplanetary selection played on R3 in the last 100 days, including 22 mins of the Hymns from the Rig Veda, 15 minutes of Beni Mora, 11 mins of the Suite no.1 in Eb major. And more.

[Petrushka]

Quite an interplanetary selection played on R3 in the last 100 days, including 22 mins of the Hymns from the Rig Veda, 15 minutes of Beni Mora, 11 mins of the Suite no.1 in Eb major. And more.

For a real Holstian earworm, try the opening March from the Suite No 2 in F for Military Band. The euphonium solo will stick in your mind for ever. I've not heard it for many years but recalled it instantly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nz7tvRdL94