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

[Nick Armstrong]

And six from Augener/Galliard, my old job.

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

Coo.... some new names and titles to me, there, saly!

[teamsaint]

Coo.... some new names and titles to me, there, saly!

new to you(and me) maybe...there will be folks on this board with at least a dozen recorded versions of each of those....

[amateur51]

new to you(and me) maybe...there will be folks on this board with at least a dozen recorded versions of each of those....

[Lateralthinking1]

Tchaikovsky: The Tempest
McCunn: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Elgar: Froissart
Vaughan Williams: The Wasps
Quilter: A Children's Overture
Biggin: A Sussex Overture

I made a very early detour. You've definitely found a new supporter of number six.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQYq2-8z3l8

Thanks Eine.

[AjAjAjH]

Beethoven: Leonora No.2.
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture. (Studied it for O level)
Wagner: Tannhauser.
Rossini: Il Senor Brushino.
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet.
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel.

[Tony Halstead]

Hmmmm...it looks like we are allowed ANOTHER SIX...!
So, here goes:

Cherubini / Anacreon
Mendelssohn / Elijah
MCCunn / Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Brahms/ Academic Festival
Walton/ Johannesburg Festival
Vaughan Williams / The Wasps

[antongould]

Ireland - Satyricon
Bush - Yorick
Alwyn - Derby Day
Bax - Rogues Comedy
Moeran - To a Masque
Elgar Cockaigne

[AmpH]

Dvorak - In Nature's Realm
Nielsen - Helios
Nielsen - Maskarade
Suppe - Light Cavalry
Wagner - Die Meistersinger
Sibelius - Karelia (overture)

[antongould]

Dvorak - In Nature's Realm
Nielsen - Helios
Nielsen - Maskarade
Suppe - Light Cavalry
Wagner - Die Meistersinger
Sibelius - Karelia (overture)

Miss, Miss he only has five different composers!

[AmpH]

Miss, Miss he only has five different composers!

Oops, Oops ! As I won't do without any of my beloved Neilsen, I'm adding another ...

Bridge - Rebus Overture

[cloughie]

new to you(and me) maybe...there will be folks on this board with at least a dozen recorded versions of each of those....

ts I'm sometimes guilty of multi versions but in this case I am of the Cali persuasion and there are new ones there - I have one version each of the Chagrin and the Ireland and the others are new to me. When I put my six together a I heeded Saly's words and went for the musical equivalent of comfort food to brighten up what was a miserable day!

[EdgeleyRob]

Hmmmm...it looks like we are allowed ANOTHER SIX...!

OK then -

RVW / The Poisoned Kiss.
Lloyd / John Socman.
Brahms / Tragic Overture.
Mendelssohn / A Midsummer Night's Dream
Walton / Portsmouth Point.
Parry / Overture to an Unwritten Tragedy

[Lateralthinking1]

I have been enjoying listening to several of the recommendations, focussing on the British composers, and also the following:

Villa-Lobos - Floresta do Amazonas
Ginastera - Creole Faust
Gershwin - Cuban
Coleridge-Taylor - Hiawatha
Chabrier - Gwendoline
Kodaly - Theatre

I also like Copland's 'An Outdoor Overture' and - these are unlikely to be well-received - Gliere's 'Shakh-Senem' and 'Gyul'sara'.

[Pabmusic]

Six overtures that sparkle from beginning to end:

Wolf-Ferrari - Suzanna's Secret
Bernstein - Candide
Glinka - Russlan & Lyudmila
Mozart - Der Schauspieldirektor
Rezsnicek - Donna Diana
Kabalevsky - Colas Breugnon


Six that are packed with good tunes:

Nicolai - Merry Wives of Windsor
Kalinnikov - Tsar Boris
Schubert - Die Zauberharfe
Herold - Zampa
RVW - The Wasps
Barber - A School for Scandal

[cloughie]

I feel another six coming on:

Rossini:Semiramide
Reznicek:Donna Diana
Heuberger:Der Opernbal
Auric:Ouverture
Szymanowski:Concert Overture
Arnold:Tam O'Shanter