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Can anybody tell me what the fifth track of this album is? I think it is labeled wrongly because it says it is Mendelssohn's Military Overture.

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perlnerd666 wrote:Or you could call that a Russian version of the Mendelssohn, which comes how many years earlier?

Ha, I was thinking the same thing, although I did know the Rimsky-Korsakov before the Mendelssohn.

Mendelssohn's War March of the Priests from Athalie, Op. 74

New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstin
You could say this is the German version of Rimsky-Korsakov's Procession of the Nobles.

Gesamtkunstwerk wrote:Oh, and Il Pini di Villa Appia...drool!!

I love that one too. Just imagine the Roman army marching in full force after conquering a land like Gaul or Britain!

PS: I've always found the stab-then-die-slowly at the end of the New World symphony to be ineffective, at least as it is usually performed. I wonder how Dvorak actually intended it to go? I agree that it is usually performed ineffectively, though I think Dvorak wanted there to be more decrescendo o...

Frederick Delius- Piano Concerto in C minor: I. Allegro ma non troppo

Piers Lane, piano with the Ulster Orchestra under David Lloyd-Jones

This was one of Percy Grainger's favorite pieces, and he performed it frequetly as a pianist.

Spohr- Nonett in F major, Op. 31: I. Allegro

Linos Ensemble

Handel- Israel in Egypt
Prokofiev- Overture on Hebrew Themes

Those are the ones that I can think of off the top of my head. Might add more later.

aldona wrote:So many gorgeous melodies in Schubert's music

I imagine you like the melodies in Schubert's The Shepheard on the Rock?

I forgot to mention that I do like symphonic music. I prefer a less dense orchestra, so I am too crazy with the Mahler, Bruckner, and Richard Strauss orchestral works. Brass is good on some parts, but when used too much I feel it can drown out the whole orchestra. Russians write for brass very well;...

The coda to Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Antal Dorati

Clarinet Solo/Feature. This one's just because I don't really like the clarinet's sound that much. With the exception of the Bass and lower clarinets, the timbre is just too whiney for me. :( Maybe you have been listening to bad clarinetists. You also mentioned that the clarinet get a descent amoun...

A good melody, in my personal opinion, is one that contains a fairly restricted range (with a high and low point). With that definition in mind, Rachmaninov would not be considered a good melodic writer? I would disagree because I find it rather easy to compose a melody with stepwise motion. I like...

I must say now that I love the score to A Bridge on the River Kwai by Malcolm Arnold. I know the Colonel Bogey March is the most popular part from that film, but I must say I love the Overture and The Trek to the Bridge sections. Sir Malcolm was a wonderful melodic writer, and it is apparent in this...

That said, two of my very favorites are Varèse and Ives. I would put Varèse up for "greatest" composer of all time, too to be honest. I thought Elliott Carter was your favorite. :wink: By the way, the Second is my favorite symphony by Brahms as well, followed by the underappreciated Third.