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

[salymap]

It's good to see Malcolm Arnold so well represented as he always 'put himself down' and seemed permanently depressed about the future of his music.
I had a short spell at Breitkopf London office and MA would drop in to see my boss with Lawrence Leonard and Stefan Wolpe's daughter.

They weren't talking to me but sat around my desk discussing various things. Fascinating stuff
This would be the late 1960s

[Tony Halstead]

Final six; after these I'd be barrel-scraping:
Bach / Suite no 3 in D
Telemann / Alster
Beethoven / Coriolan
Weber / Der Freischutz
Berlioz / King Lear
Bernstein / Candide

[aeolium]

Another six:

Gluck: Alceste
Weber: Euryanthe
Rossini: Barber of Seville (surprised that hasn't been mentioned)
Berlioz: Les Francs-Juges
Tchaikovsky: 1812 (why not?)
Dvorak: Carnival (though I'd rather have Scherzo Capriccioso if that counted)

[salymap]

Perhaps if we ask nicely antongould will make up a list of the favourites and choose some for his Breakfast list?

[cloughie]

It's good to see Malcolm Arnold so well represented as he always 'put himself down' and seemed permanently depressed about the future of his music.
I had a short spell at Breitkopf London office and MA would drop in to see my boss with Lawrence Leonard and Stefan Wolpe's daughter.

They weren't talking to me but sat around my desk discussing various things. Fascinating stuff
This would be the late 1960s

For me your restriction to one per composer had me wrestling between Tam and Peterloo. I love the way his overtures illustrate the story!

[amateur51]

Perhaps if we ask nicely antongould will make up a list of the favourites and choose some for his Breakfast list?

A-ha! There's method in her wossername!

[cloughie]

A-ha! There's method in her wossername!

You mean suggest a few alternatives to the excellent but overdone Egmont and Candide.

[ahinton]

Beethoven: Egmont
Wagner: Tannhauser
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Szymanowski: Concert Overture
Carter: Holiday Overture

The fifth of these never fails to raise a smile, given that it's more like Richard Strauss than Richard Strauss ever quite managed to be! Oh - and by the way - admiring Elgar's best work as I do, I am inclined to put in a plea for Cockaigne (to be erased from the memory - do I get banned for this?)...

[cloughie]

Beethoven: Egmont
Wagner: Tannhauser
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Szymanowski: Concert Overture
Carter: Holiday Overture

The fifth of these never fails to raise a smile, given that it's more like Richard Strauss than Richard Strauss ever quite managed to be! Oh - and by the way - admiring Elgar's best work as I do, I am inclined to put in a plea for Cockaigne (to be erased from the memory - do I get banned for this?)...

Stretching it a bit far but I know what you mean - a lovely work - I first heard it on R3 CD Masters - Oh for the days when Rob had a proper programme.

[Bryn]

Top of the list has to be that masterpiece by Beethoven, Die Weihe des Hauses, then there's:

Ives: Robert Browning
Tchaikovsky: Hamlet
Berlioz: Le Corsair
Bach: Number 2 (sometimes know as 'suite')
Beethoven: Leonore No.4 (Arnold Beethoven that is).

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Beethoven: Leonore No.4 (Arnold Beethoven that is).

Who did put this one together? It appears to be uncredited on the Hoffnung Astronautical Festival CD.

[teamsaint]

It's good to see Malcolm Arnold so well represented as he always 'put himself down' and seemed permanently depressed about the future of his music.
I had a short spell at Breitkopf London office and MA would drop in to see my boss with Lawrence Leonard and Stefan Wolpe's daughter.

They weren't talking to me but sat around my desk discussing various things. Fascinating stuff
This would be the late 1960s

Sad that he felt like this. Was listening to Arnold 6 today. Just fantastic stuff.

[Bryn]

Who did put this one together? It appears to be uncredited on the Hoffnung Astronautical Festival CD.

As I wrote, "Arnold Beethoven", or Beethoven arr., with additional material, Malcolm Arnold.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I was a bit slow there.

[Madame Suggia]

Wagner - das liebesverbot
Weber - der freischutz
Rameau - Les Indes Galantes
Nielsen - Helios
Rameau - Platee
Cherubini - Medea