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  • teamsaint
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 25250

    Favourite Tone Poems

    so we haven't had one of these threads for a few weeks......
    just wondered what peoples fave tone poems are.
    3 each ?

    3 I like...
    Dvorak . Water Goblin
    Schoenberg. Verklarte Nacht.
    And , for the sake of discussion, and also the fact that despite endless exposure it is still wonderful...
    Tchaikovsky. Romeo and Juliet fantasy-overture.
    (I expect someone to prove to me that it isn't a tone poem !)

    Hoping the thread will give me a few wise ideas to add to my 68 page list of "Stuff To Buy" !!
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  • salymap
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 5969

    #2
    Balakirev - Tamara

    Strauss - Til Eulenspiegel

    Dvorak - The Golden Spinning Wheel

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    • Rolmill
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 637

      #3
      Strauss - Don Juan

      Sibelius - Tapiola

      Bax - Tintagel

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      • Eine Alpensinfonie
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 20578

        #4
        Tchaikovsky: The Tempest
        Elgar: Falstaff
        Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie

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        • LeMartinPecheur
          Full Member
          • Apr 2007
          • 4717

          #5
          Dispensing with those already picked (just to narrow the field a bit!):

          Elgar: In the South

          Sibelius: Swan of Tuonela (not to mention a fair few more of his)

          Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini (or shall I have Hamlet?)
          I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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          • johncorrigan
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 10466

            #6
            Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View Post
            Dispensing with those already picked (just to narrow the field a bit!):

            Elgar: In the South

            Sibelius: Swan of Tuonela (not to mention a fair few more of his)

            Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini (or shall I have Hamlet?)
            Is this a game of Mornington Crescent going on here?

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            • antongould
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8852

              #7
              Elgar Cockaigne

              Holst Hammersmith

              Rachmaninoff Isle of the Dead

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              • Bryn
                Banned
                • Mar 2007
                • 24688

                #8
                Sibelius: Pohjola's Daughter

                Mahler: Symphonic Poem in Two Parts, 'Titan'

                Janacek: Sinfonietta (which gets named as a symphonic poem in the Wikipedia article on Janacek).

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                • AjAjAjH
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 209

                  #9
                  Strauss: Death and Transfiguration.

                  Sibelius: Tapiola.

                  Suk: Praga.

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                  • Tapiola
                    Full Member
                    • Jan 2011
                    • 1690

                    #10
                    Originally posted by AjAjAjH View Post
                    Strauss: Death and Transfiguration.

                    Sibelius: Tapiola.

                    Suk: Praga.
                    Wonderful selection.

                    Though perhaps I should choose another three:

                    Also Sprach Zarathustra

                    Les Preludes

                    Orpheus

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                    • AmpH
                      Guest
                      • Feb 2012
                      • 1318

                      #11
                      R. Strauss - Ein Heldenleben

                      G. Gershwin - An American in Paris

                      E. Elgar - In the South

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                      • Serial_Apologist
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 37993

                        #12
                        Vaughan Williams - In the Fen Country (1904)

                        Suk - Zrani (1917)

                        Bridge - Enter Spring (1927)

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                        • Northender

                          #13
                          Any three by Sibelius. At the time of posting: The Bard, Pohjola's Daughter, and the last of the Lemminkainen Legends.

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                          • Petrushka
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 12389

                            #14
                            Strauss: Don Juan (first piece I ever heard at a live concert - RPO/Kempe)

                            Sibelius: En Saga

                            Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

                            Surely some selections here are not tone poems?
                            "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                            • gurnemanz
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 7445

                              #15
                              Wagner - Siegfried Idyll
                              Elgar - In the South
                              Strauss - Metamorphosen

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