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

[gradus]

Tristan
Roman Carnival
Candide
Freischutz
Marriage of Figaro
Force of Destiny

[Serial_Apologist]

Bridge: Rebus
Rawsthorne: Street Corner
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini
Glinka: Russlan & Ludmilla
Zemlinsky: Es War Einmal
Zemlinsky: Der Zwerg

[Maclintick]

Beethoven Leonore No 3
Mozart Magic Flute
Bizet Carmen
Wagner Die Meistersinger
Borodin Prince Igor
RVW The Wasps

[Rolmill]

Beethoven Egmont
Mozart Marriage of Figaro
Mendelssohn Hebrides
Rossini Thieving Magpie
Suppe Light Cavalry
Weber Oberon

B side:
Herold Zampa
Thomas Mignon
Reznicek Donna Diana
Tchaikovsky Romeo & Juliet
Schubert Rosamunde
Smetana Bartered Bride

[Stanfordian]

Verdi – La forza del destino, overture
Wagner – Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Prelude to act 1
Weber – Der Freischütz, overture
Wagner – Lohengrin Prelude to act 1
Bantock – Comedy Overture, The Pierrot of the Minute
Glinka – Ruslan and Lyudmila, overture


Can't do just one composer, sorry. But if I must then put in:
Beethoven – Fidelio, overture for the Bantock

[kernelbogey]

Don Giovanni
Coriolan
La Forza del Destino
Fledermaus
Bartered Bride
Ruslan and Ludmilla

Edit*: substitute Freischuetz for Fledermaus
(* now I've allowed myself a peek at others' selections)

[LMcD]

McCunn: Land Of The Mountain And The Flood
Elgar: Cockaigne
Rawsthorne: A London Overture
Verdi: La Forza del Destino
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
Hoffnung: A Grand Grand Overture

[kernelbogey]

Not sure if anyone has mentioned Mignon (Thomas), but Petroc has just played it and revealed that it was played at the first ever Last Night.

Hearing it reminded me that it featured in a pre-1960 film (can't be more precise) which followed the career of a soldier. It might have been The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - but I think not. I recall that 'they' had a windup gramophone at the front, and this one record of the Mignon overture. It then reappeared in subsequent eras.

Anyone remember this film?

[LMcD]

It's available for 26 days on the iPlayer following its showing on BBC2 earlier this week.
The Mignon you mention is 'Je suis Tatiana'.

[kernelbogey]

It's available for 26 days on the iPlayer following its showing on BBC2 earlier this week.
The Mignon you mention is 'Je suis Tatiana'.

Oh you mean it was in the Life and Death of Colonel Blimp...?

[LMcD]

Oh you mean it was in the Life and Death of Colonel Blimp...?

Yes, according to imdb.

[LMcD]

Oh you mean it was in the Life and Death of Colonel Blimp...?

Apologies - it should of course be 'Je suis Titania'.

[Rolmill]

Not sure if anyone has mentioned Mignon (Thomas)

Yep, #169 - listed on my B team. I have a soft spot for those French romantic opera overtures by Thomas, Herold, Auber and the like - tuneful, adeptly orchestrated and good fun.

[Edgy 2]

McCunn: Land Of The Mountain And The Flood
Elgar: Cockaigne
Rawsthorne: A London Overture
Verdi: La Forza del Destino
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
Hoffnung: A Grand Grand Overture

? John Ireland ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

? John Ireland ?

Or Street Corner?