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

[Pabmusic]

...I wish I knew something else of "Donna Diana" other than the overture but I've never come across it.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reznicek-Donna-Diana-E-von/dp/B0007ACVOG/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1353487259&sr=1-3

A bit pricey, but there's not much choice.

[Hornspieler]

I'm going to bend the rules slightly and confine my choice to my favourite by British Composers (in alphabetical order - not preference)

Edward Elgar: Cockaigne

John Ireland: A London Overture

Leo Norman: Overture to a Picaresque Comedy

Arthur Sullivan: Iolanthe

Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Wasps

William Walton: Portsmouth Point

Any alternative suggestions for each of the above?

HS

[Zauberfloete]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reznicek-Don...3487259&sr=1-3

A bit pricey, but there's not much choice.

Thanks very much for that, Pabmusic. From the single review, it sounds like it's worth the expense.

[Pabmusic]

And six ‘one-offs’ that I love:

MacCunn – The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Lilburn – Aotearoa
Prokofiev – Overture on Hebrew Themes
Rosza – Overture to a Symphony Concert
Gershwin – Cuban Overture
Boieldieu – The Caliph of Bagdad

[Hornspieler]

A few overtures for William Shakespear's plays:

Nicolai: Merry Wives of Windsor

Berlioz: King Lear

Tchaikovsky: Hamlet (also The Tempest)

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Beethoven: Coriolanus

Dvoral: Othello

[salymap]

Perhaps it's time for antongould to pick the pieces he decides to put on his Breakfast list, hoping a few rarities will vary the menu a little.

One can only hope that the BBC will respond.

And I'm surprised at the number of overtures I don't know well. Time to explore perhaps

[EdgeleyRob]

Anyone had Holst's Fugal Overture yet? One for EdgeleyRob, it's a goodie!

Good call Jayne,would be a refreshing change from jupiter on breakfast.

[teamsaint]

Good call Jayne,would be a refreshing change from jupiter on breakfast.

I think it was chosen on "your Call " at a weekend recently.

[Petrushka]

Wagner: Die Meistersinger
Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus
Berlioz; Roman Carnival
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Elgar: In the South
Rossini: Matilde di Shabran

[antongould]

Perhaps it's time for antongould to pick the pieces he decides to put on his Breakfast list, hoping a few rarities will vary the menu a little.

One can only hope that the BBC will respond.

And I'm surprised at the number of overtures I don't know well. Time to explore perhaps

As always Dame salymap's wish

Alwyn:Derby Day
Alwyn:Derby Day
Ansell:Plymouth Hoe
Arnold :A grand,grand overture
Arnold :A Sussex Overture
Arnold:Leonora No 4
Arnold:Tam O'Shanter
Auric:Ouverture
Bach J C:Amadis des Gaules
Bach:Number 2
Bach:Suite no 3 in D
Barber:A School for Scandal
Bax:Rogues Comedy
Beethoven :Beethoven,Die Weihe des Hauses,
Beethoven :Beethoven:Leonore No.4
Beethoven :Coriolan
Beethoven :Coriolan
Beethoven :Coriolanus
Beethoven :Egmont
Beethoven :Egmont
Beethoven :Egmont
Beethoven :Egmont
Beethoven :Egmont
Beethoven :Egmont
Beethoven :Leonora No 2
Beethoven :Leonora No 2
Beethoven :Leonora No 3
Beethoven :Leonora No 3
Beethoven :The Consecration of the House
Beethoven :The Consecration of the House
Berlioz :King Lear
Berlioz :King Lear
Berlioz :Le Corsaire
Berlioz :Le Corsaire
Berlioz :Les Franc Judges
Berlioz :Les Franc Judges
Berlioz:Benvenuto Cellini
Bernstein :Candide
Bernstein :Candide
Bernstein :Candide
Biggin:A Sussex Overture
Boieldieu:The Caliph of Bagdad
Borodin :Prince Igor
Borodin :Prince Igor
Borodin :Prince Igor
Brahms :Academic Festival
Brahms :Academic Festival
Brahms :Academic Festival
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:Anacreon
Cherubini:Medea
Cherubini:Medea
Coleridge-Taylor:Hiawatha
Cruft:Overture Tamburlaine
Dvorak :Carnival
Dvorak :Carnival
Dvorak :In Nature's Realm
Dvorak :Otello
Dvoral:Othello
Dyson :At The Tabard Inn
Dyson :At The Tabard Inn
Elgar:Cockaigne
Elgar:Cockaigne
Elgar:Cockaigne
Elgar:Cockaigne
Elgar:Cockaigne
Elgar:Cockaigne
Elgar:Egmont
Elgar:Egmont
Elgar:Froissart
Elgar:In the South
Elgar:In the South
Fenby :Rossini on Ilkley Moor
Gershwin :Creole Faust
Gershwin :Cuban
Gershwin :Cuban
Glinka :Russlan and Ludmilla
Glinka :Russlan and Ludmilla
Glinka :Russlan and Ludmilla
Glinka :Russlan and Ludmilla
Gluck:Alceste
Handel :Alexander's Feast
Handel :Royal Fireworks Music
Herold :Zampa
Heuberger:Der Opernbal
Holst:Fugal Overture
Humperdinck :Hansel and Gretel
Humperdinck :Hansel and Gretel
Ireland:A London Overture
Ireland:A London Overture
Ireland:Satyricon
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
MCCunn :The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
MCCunn :The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Mendelssohn :A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mendelssohn :A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mendelssohn :A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mendelssohn :A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mendelssohn :A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mendelssohn :A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mendelssohn :A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mendelssohn :Calm Sea And Prosperous Voyage
Mendelssohn :Calm Sea And Prosperous Voyage
Mendelssohn :Elijah
Mendelssohn :Fingal's Cave
Mendelssohn :Overture for wind instruments
Mendelssohn :Ruy Blas
Mendelssohn :The Fair Melusine
Mendelssohn :The Fair Melusine
Mendelssohn:Midsummer Night's Dream
Moeran:To a Masque
Monteverdi:the instrumental toccata that beginsL'Orfeo
Mozart :abduction from the harem
Mozart :Der Schauspieldirektor
Mozart :Die Zauberfloete
Mozart :Die Zauberfloete
Mozart :Die Zauberfloete
Mozart :Don Giovanni
Mozart :Don Giovanni
Mozart :Marriage of Figaro
Mozart :Marriage of Figaro
Mozart :Marriage of Figaro
Nicolai :Merry Wives of Windsor
Nicolai :Merry Wives of Windsor
Nicolai :Merry Wives of Windsor
Nielsen:Helios
Nielsen:Helios
Nielsen:Helios
Nielsen:Maskarade
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
Prokofiev:Overture on Jewish Themes
Quilter:A Children's Overture
Rameau :Les Indes Galantes
Rameau :Platee
Remo Lauricella:Overture Fleet Street
Reznicek :Donna Diana
Reznicek :Donna Diana
Reznicek :Donna Diana
Rossini :Barber of Seville
Rossini :Il Senor Brushino.
Rossini :La Gazza Ladra
Rossini :Semiramide
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
Schumann:Die Braut Von Messina
Shostakovich:Festival overture
Sibelius :Karelia (overture)
Smetana:Bartered Bride
Strauss J:Die Fledermaus
Sullivan :Yeomen of the Guard
Sullivan:Iolanthe
Sullivan:Yeomen of the Guard
Suppe:Light Cavalry
Suppe:Light Cavalry
Suppe:Light Cavalry
Suppe:Poet and Peasant
Szymanowski:Concert Overture
Szymanowski:Concert Overture
Szymanowski:Concert Overture
Tchaikovsky:1812
Tchaikovsky:Hamlet
Tchaikovsky:Hamlet
Tchaikovsky:Romeo and Juliet
Tchaikovsky:Romeo and Juliet
Tchaikovsky:Romeo and Juliet
Tchaikovsky:Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Tchaikovsky:The Tempest
Telemann :Alster
Telemann :Overture in E minorTafelmusikBook 1
Vaughan Williams :The Poisoned Kiss
Vaughan Williams :The Wasps
Vaughan Williams :The Wasps
Vaughan Williams :The Wasps
Vaughan Williams :The Wasps
Vaughan Williams :The Wasps
Vaughan Williams :The Wasps
Verdi :La forza del destino
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 :Die Meistersinger
Wagner :Die Meistersinger
Wagner :Parsifal
Wagner :Tannhauser.
Wagner :Tannhauser.
Walton :Johannesburg Festival
Walton :Portsmouth Point
Walton :Portsmouth Point
Walton :Portsmouth Point
Weber :Abu Hassan
Weber :Der Freischutz
Weber :Der Freischutz
Weber :Der Freischutz
Weber :Euryanthe
Weber :Oberon
Weber:Der Freischutz
who:overture from tommy
Wolf-Ferrari :Susanna's Secret
Wolf-Ferrari :Suzanna's Secret
Zimmermann:Musique pour les soupers du roi Ubu

Simply copied from people's entries - you tube attachments without titles or entries without composers ignored re-enter if you wish - no smileys in future if possible.
This will probably be the last time I do this as I am teaching salymap Excel 2007 by PM! Will update if more entries arrive.

[Pabmusic]

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

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

[antongould]

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

Apologies should not appear the dangers of cut and paste!

[Sir Velo]

Anton, you have something against the Russian Easter Festival overture eh?

[salymap]

Dear Anton, while I was sleeping you were working all night at this. But if we choose by the number of requests it looks as though we will get the usual suspects. How is it to be done.? And unfortunately saly is now too old to take in any new skills such as Excel 2007.

Thanks a lot.

Err, what happened to my friend Remo Lauricella's overture 'Fleet Street' ? Although as it was never recorded AFAIK it's academic.

Ooh very sorry. i see it's under his Christian/first name.

[Alison]

The Proms could usefully explore the overture.