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Favorite Piano and Orchestra

Schubert - Liszt : Wanderer Fantasy: 0 (0%)
Weber - Liszt: Polacca Brillante: 0 (0%)
Schumann: Introdution and Allegro appassionato Op 92: 1 (2%)
Schumann: Introduction and Allegro Op 134: 0 (0%)
Mendelssohn: Serenade and Allegro giocoso Op 43: 0 (0%)
Mendelssohn: Capriccio Brillant Op 22: 0 (0%)
Chopin: Variations on Mozart´s "La ci darem".: 1 (2%)
Chopin: Rondo a la Krakowiak: 0 (0%)
Chopin: Fantasy on Polish Airs: 0 (0%)
Liszt: Fantassy on Beethoven´s Ruins of Athens: 1 (2%)
Liszt: Totentanz: 13 (26%)
Franck: Symphonic Variations: 2 (4%)
Franck: Les Djinns: 0 (0%)
De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain: 5 (10%)
Rachmaninov: Paganini Rhapsody: 17 (34%)
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue: 1 (2%)
Other: 9 (18%)

Total Members Voted: 50

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Topic: Favorite Piano and Orchestra work? (Not Concertos) (Read 3463 times)

presto agitato

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Favorite Piano and Orchestra work? (Not Concertos)

on: November 03, 2005, 03:04:12 AM

My vote goes directly to Franck.

Symphonic Variations = MASTERPIECE

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Re: Favorite Piano and Orchestra work? (Not Concertos)

Reply #1 on: November 03, 2005, 03:09:59 AM

Scriabin - Prometheus

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Reply #2 on: November 03, 2005, 04:01:54 AM

Strauss- Burlesque for Piano and Orchestra

However, of those on the list, Rachmaninoff

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Re: Favorite Piano and Orchestra work? (Not Concertos)

Reply #3 on: November 03, 2005, 04:59:42 AM

You totally forgot about Chopin's Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise, Op.22. That's my personal favorite outside the concertos.

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Reply #4 on: November 03, 2005, 05:37:28 AM

Hard to choose between the Totentanz and Rhapsody in Blue but I went with Gershwin....

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Re: Favorite Piano and Orchestra work? (Not Concertos)

Reply #5 on: November 03, 2005, 06:57:02 AM

Tie between Liszt Totentanz and Franck Symphonic Variations.

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Reply #6 on: November 03, 2005, 12:21:42 PM

Franz Schmidt's Concertante Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for piano (left hand) and orchestra (1923) is delightful.

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Reply #7 on: November 03, 2005, 08:49:43 PM

Olivier Messiaen's "Des canyons aux étoiles..." or "Turangalîla-symphonie".

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Re: Favorite Piano and Orchestra work? (Not Concertos)

Reply #8 on: November 03, 2005, 09:53:22 PM

My fave is The Warsaw Concerto by Addinsel.

Weepy film music at its best.

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Re: Favorite Piano and Orchestra work? (Not Concertos)

Reply #9 on: November 03, 2005, 10:16:14 PM

Lecuona's Rhapsodia Negra.

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Reply #10 on: November 04, 2005, 12:30:32 AM

Quote from: shasta on November 03, 2005, 10:16:14 PM

Lecuona's Rhapsodia Negra.

Vas ist dis!!?? Ah luvz da Lecuona, mah bad self did not know he wrote da Concerto type pieces, where can I find the music? It might be perfect for mah bad self to play with our local not so good Orchestra.....

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Reply #11 on: November 04, 2005, 07:42:05 PM

Quote from: arensky on November 04, 2005, 12:30:32 AM

Vas ist dis!!?? Ah luvz da Lecuona, mah bad self did not know he wrote da Concerto type pieces, where can I find the music? It might be perfect for mah bad self to play with our local not so good Orchestra.....

Rapsodia Negra is a totally amazing work - - - very Scheherazade-esque. You can listen to an audio clip of it (track 1) from this CD:

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000016N9/qid=1131133002/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/103-7345667-6716664?v=glance&s=classical

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Reply #12 on: November 04, 2005, 08:22:54 PM

Thank you very much Shasta!

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Re: Favorite Piano and Orchestra work? (Not Concertos)

Reply #13 on: November 05, 2005, 06:43:13 AM

totentanz

one of the greatest pieces EVAR

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Reply #14 on: November 06, 2005, 12:37:53 AM

Da Liszt Hungarian fantasy absent? And Mendelssohn wrote Rondo Brillant op.29. There are 2 left hand works by Strauss - Paregon something and another but it suck-didley-uks! however out of dose pieces, da totentanz is my pick. (dam sdc!!!!)

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Reply #15 on: November 08, 2005, 09:53:50 PM

I just heard Arvo Part's Lamentate for orchestra and piano and it is just an incredibly immense summer blockbuster hit! But one of those summer blockbusters that actually has substance.

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Re: Favorite Piano and Orchestra work? (Not Concertos)

Reply #16 on: November 12, 2005, 01:13:48 AM

Quote from: pita bread on November 03, 2005, 03:09:59 AM

Scriabin - Prometheus

Agreed.

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Reply #17 on: November 12, 2005, 10:43:49 AM

I think prometheus falls out of this category, sure it's piano and orchestra but it's more of a concertante piano part. Petrouschka could be up there as well, or to a lesser extent Shosta 1 int that case.
No one's mentioned The Dohnyani nursery rhyme variations? They're cool!

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Reply #18 on: November 13, 2005, 02:58:27 AM

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sure it's piano and orchestra but it's more of a concertante piano part.

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Concertante. A concert for two or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment.

hmm

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Reply #19 on: November 13, 2005, 03:27:59 AM

alright wrong word, but you get the general jist of my arguement I hope. I actually thought of that straight after I posted it.

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Reply #20 on: November 13, 2005, 03:32:57 AM

Quote from: mikey6 on November 13, 2005, 03:27:59 AM

alright wrong word, but you get the general jist of my arguement I hope. I actually thought of that straight after I posted it.

Prometheus isn't a concerto.

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Reply #21 on: November 13, 2005, 03:39:25 AM

But compared to the other works listed where the piano is treated as a true solo instrument, the piano part to Prometheus is integrated into the orchestra with a solo spotlight here and there. But if you want to take the question at name value and list it becuase the word concerto is not in the title then fair enough.

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Reply #22 on: November 13, 2005, 03:46:52 AM

Prometheus is my vote.

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Reply #23 on: November 14, 2005, 12:07:55 AM

whoops, that's the wrong smiley!!!!!

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Reply #24 on: November 15, 2005, 12:00:08 PM

My "Other" vote is for Saint-Saens' "Africa" Fantasie

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Reply #25 on: November 24, 2005, 08:09:05 PM

As i expected, Rach and Gershwin are "winning".

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