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

[EdgeleyRob]

The Proms could usefully explore the overture.

And the British Symphony.

[Pabmusic]

Anton - thanks for the overview list - a shame that Pabmusic and Sir Velo were not a little more polite with their notifications of your errors and omissions. This thread was set up to brighten up a dull day for Saly - there has been a great response and has resulted in some suggestions for Breakfast, I guess some new ones for boarders to explore and a masterclass in EXCEL for Saly.

Oh dear! Your sensitivity is showing. I cannot speak for Sir Velo, but my post was not intended to be impolite at all. It was a little mischievous, I suppose, but all very good natured. Here it is:

...
Elgar:Egmont
Elgar:Egmont
...

I'm really looking forward to hearing this one. Twice.

Surely it does not detract from Salymap's setting the thread up, or Antongould's collating of the responses. Sir Velo's offending post seems to me to be in a similar vein.

As far as the thread goes, it has been enjoyable, and I have entered into in wholeheartedly (six posts before the one you complain of). It is a real shame that you have taken the 'tut tut' line that you have.

[antongould]

Oh dear! Your sensitivity is showing. I cannot speak for Sir Velo, but my post was not intended to be impolite at all. It was a little mischievous, I suppose, but all very good natured. Here it is:



Surely it does not detract from Salymap's setting the thread up, or Antongould's collating of the responses. Sir Velo's offending post seems to me to be in a similar vein.

As far as the thread goes, it has been enjoyable, and I have entered into in wholeheartedly (six posts before the one you complain of). It is a real shame that you have taken the 'tut tut' line that you have.

Absolutely no offence taken - thank you for your active interest and support.

[Lateralthinking1]

An excellent list. Thank you antongould. I have forwarded a pm to you on one small point.

More broadly, it isn't clear to me whether more selections are being added. I would though like to reiterate my support for Copland's "An Outdoor Overture" which has also been put forward by Suffolkcoastal.

Feeling rather sorry for U, X and Y, I did look to see if we could help them. I can offer Uhl - "Wer einsam ist, der Hat es Gut: Overture" and Yamada - "Overture in D Major". Xenakis never looked hopeful. Sadly the other three X people were equally poor.

(Subsequent edit - Xyndas - Conte Juliano - if Spotify fails, there's always Google! )

[salymap]

Many a true word........still one less Christmas card

Never mind my Christmas card [one less to send ] No-one, not no how, could have done this like you anton. Bless you.

[JFLL]

For sheer tunefulness and pleasure:

Arriaga: The Happy Slaves (Los Esclavos Felices) - written when he was 13
MacCunn: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Mendelssohn: The Fair Melusine
Nicolai: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Reznicek: Donna Diana - used to be a standard opener fifty years ago, hardly heard now?
Weber: Euryanthe

[teamsaint]

perhaps we could list do a of overtures "not on the list." AG would i am sure love to compile a list of such pieces !!
I'll start with Britten's Canadian Carnival overture.....

anyway, many thanks for your efforts AG.
Lists are, as the Sunday papers know so well, compulsive, even if we know we shouldn't like them really !!

[gurnemanz]

Bit late.... My list:

Wagner Parsifal
Gluck Iphigenie en Aulide
Elgar In the South
Weber Freischütz
Dvorák Nature's Realm
Rossini Barber

[Sir Velo]

I cannot speak for Sir Velo, but my post was not intended to be impolite at all. It was a little mischievous, I suppose, but all very good natured. Surely it does not detract from Salymap's setting the thread up, or Antongould's collating of the responses. Sir Velo's offending post seems to me to be in a similar vein.

As far as the thread goes, it has been enjoyable, and I have entered into in wholeheartedly (six posts before the one you complain of). It is a real shame that you have taken the 'tut tut' line that you have.

Can I extend my apologies to Anton as well? No offence was intended and I hope my was seen as facetious, and nothing more. I certainly appreciate Anton's efforts at collating so many choices so quickly, even if he did omit a piece which has been a personal favourite since early childhood.

Russian Easter Festival Overture is by Rimsky-Korsakov, btw.

[antongould]

No apologies required R-K now hopefully added with others to this list

Alwyn:Derby Day
Ansell:Plymouth Hoe
Arnold :A grand,grand overture
Arnold :A Sussex Overture
Arnold :Becchus the Dandiprat
Arnold:Leonora No 4
Arnold:Tam O'Shanter
Arriaga :The Happy Slaves (Los Esclavos Felices)
Auric:Ouverture
Bach J C:Amadis des Gaules
Bach:Number 2
Bach:Suite no 3 in D
Balakirev :On 3 Russian Themes
Barber:A School for Scandal
Bax:Rogues Comedy
Beethoven :Die Weihe des Hauses,
Beethoven :Coriolan
Beethoven :Coriolanus
Beethoven :Egmont
Beethoven :King Stephen
Beethoven :Leonora No 2
Beethoven :Leonora No 3
Beethoven :The Consecration of the House
Berlioz :King Lear
Berlioz :Le Corsaire
Berlioz :Les Franc Judges
Berlioz :Roman Carnival
Berlioz:Benvenuto Cellini
Bernstein :Candide
Biggin:A Sussex Overture
Boieldieu:The Caliph of Bagdad
Borodin :Prince Igor
Boyce :Overture for St Cecilia's Day
Brahms :Academic Festival
Brahms :Tragic Overture.
Bridge:Rebus Overture
Britten:An Occasional Overture
Bush :Yorick
Bush:The Rehearsal
Carse:Overture Holiday
Carter:Holiday Overture
Chabrier:Gwendoline
Chagrin:Helter Skelter
Cherubini:Anacreon
Cherubini:Medea
Coleridge-Taylor:Hiawatha
Copland :An Outdoor Overture
Cruft:Overture Tamburlaine
Dvorak :Carnival
Dvorak :In Nature's Realm
Dvorak :Otello
Dvoral:Othello
Dyson :At The Tabard Inn
Elgar :Froissart
Elgar:Cockaigne
Elgar:Froissart
Elgar:In the South
Fenby :Rossini on Ilkley Moor
Gershwin :Cuban
Ginastera :Creole Faust
Glinka :Russlan and Ludmilla
Gluck :Iphigenie en Aulide
Gluck:Alceste
Gounod :Faust overture
Handel :Alexander's Feast
Handel :Messiah Overture
Handel :Royal Fireworks Music
Herold :Zampa
Heuberger:Der Opernbal
Holst:Fugal Overture
Humperdinck :Hansel and Gretel
Ireland:A London Overture
Ireland:Satyricon
Ives:Robert Browning
Jacob:The Barber of Seville Goes to the Devil
Kabalevsky:Colas Breugnon
Kalinnikov :Tsar Boris
Kodaly:Theatre
Lalo:Le Roi d'Ys
Lilburn:Aotearoa
Lloyd:John Socman
MCCunn :The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Mendelssohn :A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mendelssohn :Calm Sea And Prosperous Voyage
Mendelssohn :Elijah
Mendelssohn :Fingal's Cave
Mendelssohn :Overture for wind instruments
Mendelssohn :Ruy Blas
Mendelssohn :The Fair Melusine
Moeran:To a Masque
Monteverdi:the instrumental toccata that beginsL'Orfeo
Mozart :abduction from the harem
Mozart :Der Schauspieldirektor
Mozart :Die Zauberfloete
Mozart :Don Giovanni
Mozart :Marriage of Figaro
Nicolai :Merry Wives of Windsor
Nielsen:Helios
Nielsen:Maskarade
Norman:Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
Offenbach:La Belle Hélène
Offenbach:Orpheus in the Underworld
Panufnik:Tragic Overture
Parry :Overture to an Unwritten Tragedy
Prokofiev:Overture on Jewish Themes
Quilter:A Children's Overture
Rameau :Les Indes Galantes
Rameau :Platee
Rameau :Zaïs
Remo Lauricella:Overture Fleet Street
Reznicek :Donna Diana
Rimsky-Korsakov :Russian Easter Festival Overture
Rossini :Barber of Seville
Rossini :Il Senor Brushino.
Rossini :La Gazza Ladra
Rossini :Matilde di Shabran
Rossini :Semiramide
Rossini :The Thieving Magpie
Rossini :William Tell
Rossini:Semiramide
Rosza :Overture to a Symphony Concert
Rush:2112 Overture
Schubert :Die Zauberharfe
Schubert :Overture in the Italien style
Schubert :Rosamunde
Schuman W :American Festival Overture
Schumann :A Faust Overture
Schumann :Genoveva
Schumann:Die Braut Von Messina
Shostakovich:Festival overture
Sibelius :Karelia (overture)
Smetana:Bartered Bride
Spohr :Jessonda
Strauss J:Die Fledermaus
Strauss R :Potpourri from 'Die schweigsame Frau
Sullivan :Yeomen of the Guard
Sullivan:Iolanthe
Suppe:Light Cavalry
Suppe:Poet and Peasant
Szymanowski:Concert Overture
Tchaikovsky:1812
Tchaikovsky:Hamlet
Tchaikovsky:Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Tchaikovsky:The Tempest
Telemann :Alster
Telemann :Overture in E minorTafelmusikBook 1
Vaughan Williams :The Poisoned Kiss
Verdi :La Forza del Destino.
Verdi :Nabucco
Verdi :The Force of Destiny
Villa-Lobos:Floresta do Amazonas
Wagner :das liebesverbot
Wagner :Der fliegende Hollaender
Wagner :Die Meistersinger
Wagner :Eine Faust overture
Wagner :Parsifal
Wagner :Rienzi
Wagner :Tannhauser.
Walton :Johannesburg Festival
Walton :Portsmouth Point
Weber :Abu Hassan
Weber :Der Freischutz
Weber :Euryanthe
Weber :Oberon
Weber:Der Freischutz
who:overture from tommy
Wolf-Ferrari :Suzanna's Secret
Xyndas :Conte Juliano
Zimmermann:Musique pour les soupers du roi Ubu

I said I'd do this next week - but I presume we have all suggestions in now

If I understand the wishes of my leader, everyone - well obviously not those people who hate polls/charts - should vote for the 3 on the list that they would like to hear on Breakfast were they to listen.

If you love Breakfast as it is vote for Cockaigne, Egmont and Midsummer.........if not spread your wings/votes.
If the response proves worthy of another list I shall provide and pass the Top Ten to SMP/PT

[salymap]

You are a marvel Anton.

Bearing in mind that some of mine are not recorded I'll choose

Wagner Das liebesverbot
Bush Yorick
Ireland Satyricon. And who is Biggin ?? Thanks a lot Anton,

[antongould]

A friend has pointed out I have missed off the well supported Wasps by RVW - worthy of anyone's vote apologies.....................

[mercia]

A friend has pointed out I have missed off the well supported Wasps by RVW

that must have stung


[thought I'd be first with that]

[antongould]

that must have stung


[thought I'd be first with that]

It did indeed but all it took was a bit of lateral thinking!

[Tony Halstead]

Four more overtures not on AG's list:

Thomas Pitfield : Concert Overture
Thomas Pitfield : Overture on Northern Tunes ( lovely piece, I played in a performance of it by the BBCNSO in Bolton, TP's
birthplace, nearly 50 years ago)
Maurice Johnstone : Tarn Hows
G. P. Telemann : Overture in D (1764 - his last orchestral work)