Your six Favourite Overtures......all by different composers please.

[cloughie]

I read into this - its up to you - when you think the time is right with enough data, close the poll and do the count. These boards are bit like ideas being hatched in a pub. Stated off with overtures to brighten Saly's day - we end up with a Breakfast petition - great stuff!

[Pabmusic]

Well, here's my ten:

Lilburn: Aotearoa
Kalinnikov: Tsar Boris
Kabalevsky: Colas Breugnon
Barber: School for Scandal
Wagner: Die Meistersinger
Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture
Borodin: Prince Igor
Bernstein: Candide
Ansell: Plymouth Hoe
Beethoven: King Stephen

[Lateralthinking1]

Biggin: A Sussex Overture
Chabrier: Gwendoline
Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha
Copland: An Outdoor Overture
Fenby: Rossini on Ilkla Moor
Gershwin: Cuban Overture
Ginastera: Creole Faust
Kodaly: Theatre
Lilburn: Aotearoa
Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas

[EdgeleyRob]

Ah I see I misunderstood the rules,we need to nominate 10 by different composers.
Please then ignore my post # 124, and please accept my top 10.

Vaughan Williams / The Poisoned Kiss.
Alwyn / Derby Day.
Arnold / A Sussex Overture.
Elgar / Cockaigne.
Dyson / At The Tabard Inn .
Mendelssohn / Calm Sea And Prosperous Voyage.
Lloyd / John Socman.
Brahms / Tragic Overture.
Walton / Johannesburg Festival Overture.
Parry / Overture to an Unwritten Tragedy.

[antongould]

Cheers gents I think on this thread we have now reached the position where the only rule is that there..........................

[antongould]

Votes posted on behalf of an owner


Ov.Yeomen of the Guard -Sullivan

Humperdinck -Prelude/overture to Hansel and Gretel

Dvorak Carnival

Elgar - Cockaigne

Arnold - A grand,grand overture

Mozart Marriage of Figaro

Geoffrey Bush - overture The Rehearsal

Adam Carse -Overture Holiday

Francis Chagrin - Helter Skelter, a comedy overture

Adrian Cruft - Overture Tamburlaine

John Ireland -overture Satyricon

Remo Lauricella - Overture Fleet Street

[salymap]

what's the final list Anton? We are all waiting eagerly.......

[antongould]

what's the final list Anton? We are all waiting eagerly.......

If I may be so bold my leader I feel we need a few more votes to reach a quorum and/or Cloughie's statistical significance. I doubt if SMP will respond if we are insignificant

[antongould]

Official notification that the polling station closes at 20.30 today or when I have finished the dishes whichever comes earlier. If we do not have a clear top ten by votes original suggestions will be used (scientifically) to arrive at a top ten.

[Roslynmuse]

With less than an hour to go:

Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night's Dream (or Hebrides - can't choose)
Weber - Freischutz
Berlioz - Carnaval Romain
Lalo - Roi d'Ys
Wagner - Meistersinger (or Parsifal - can't choose)
Barber - School for Scandal
Beethoven - Fidelio
Rimsky-Korsakov - May Night (or Maid of Pskov - can't choose!)
Walton - Scapino
Brahms - Academic Festival

There are a couple of new ones in there - and apologies for my indecision. It would probably be a completely different selection yesterday or tomorrow.

[antongould]

With less than an hour to go:

Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night's Dream (or Hebrides - can't choose)
Weber - Freischutz
Berlioz - Carnaval Romain
Lalo - Roi d'Ys
Wagner - Meistersinger (or Parsifal - can't choose)
Barber - School for Scandal
Beethoven - Fidelio
Rimsky-Korsakov - May Night (or Maid of Pskov - can't choose!)
Walton - Scapino
Brahms - Academic Festival

There are a couple of new ones in there - and apologies for my indecision. It would probably be a completely different selection yesterday or tomorrow.

Many thanks Roslynmuse your late entry had a considerable impact on the final result which is shown on the Breakfast Recommendations thread......

[Alison]

My own and then I really must leave here - Lady Gould's breakfast tray was 13 minutes late this morning - unlucky for me!

Alwyn:Derby Day
Bax:Rogues Comedy
Berlioz :Roman Carnival
Bush:The Rehearsal
Elgar:Cockaigne
Ireland:Satyricon
MCCunn :The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Moeran:To a Masque
Pitfield : Overture on Northern Tunes
Rossini :The Thieving Magpie

I’m reminded I was going to investigate the Pitfield piece then Christmas got in the way!

[pastoralguy]

Berlioz. Le Corsair. RPO Beecham.

Weber. Oberon. A real test for the 1st violin section!

Mendelssohn. Ruy Blas. A piece I've always loved since my dad had an Lp of The Philharmonia under Nicolai Malko on MfP.

Dvorak. Carnival Overture. Wonderful piece to play!

Barber. School for Scandal Overture. Another great piece to play.

Sibelius. Karelia Overture. I had the Gibson/SNO Lp and almost wore it out.

Alas, if I never heard

DSCH's Festive Overture or Bernstein's Candide overtures again it would be too soon. Mainly due to lazy programming by BBC Radio3. It seemed that these two works were played every bloody morning!

[Serial_Apologist]

Alas, if I never heard

DSCH's Festive Overture or Bernstein's Candide overtures again it would be too soon. Mainly due to lazy programming by BBC Radio3. It seemed that these two works were played every bloody morning!

Ironic in view of the fact that the Shostakovitch overture was a product of the Zhdanov clamp-down on anything smacking of "modernism" or "formalism", or that didn't conform to the so-called Socialist Realist doctrine of "music accessible to the masses" - a condescending notion, then and now, to say the least!

[Barbirollians]

Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mozart Marriage of Figaro
Beethoven Egmont
Berlioz Roman Carnival
Glinka Russlan and Ludmila
Wagner Rienzi