Best NON piano orchestral pieces

[retrouvailles]

Have you conceded defeat, skepto? Or do you still wish to argue with me?

[cmg]

Ok, I'll cut my hair and stop wearing red. I understand that we are not in the eighties anymore, and i will stop dressing as though we were. By the way, that red t-shirt has a lot of sentimental value to me because i got it from my old school. Also, I'm way too cool to care about what others (and especially Turinians) think of my clothes.

I assume that you do love all the music you list from time to time, but mostly because i have the naive hope that people are good and would not pretend to be something they aren't. You do give off the impression of someone who loves to provoke and shock, and that coupled with a somewhat provocative musical taste could lead to conclusions like Mephistos. Although i won't claim to have read every post of yours, no example of an in-depth discussion of avant-garde music with your contributions springs to mind. But maybe that's just because those are far less memorable than the many gay sex references.

Time to get my head out of my ass and address the original topic:

These are just off the top of my head, and more a list of favorites. I don't think i'm musically competent enough to decide which pieces are best.

Debussy - La mer
Prokofiev - Sur le Borysthène
Prokofiev - Zdravitsa
Prokofiev - Flourish, mighty country
Poulenc - Stabat Mater
Milhaud - Either Violin Concerto
Milhaud - L'homme et son désir
Korngold - Cello Concerto
Brahms - Ein deutsches requiem
Hindemith - Mathis Der Mahler Symphony
Honegger - Cello Concerto

And millions more.

Bravo!

[soliloquy]

Have you conceded defeat, skepto? Or do you still wish to argue with me?

Actually *** it you're probably right.  I've just never thought of Lamentate as a "Piano + Orch" piece.  Always more of an "Orch + Piano" if you know what I mean.  But then again I guess Part's compositional style could probably easily lend to that misinterpretation, due to how sparce the piano part in even a piano concerto would be.  I guess I just always found the horns more interesting in that piece and sort of focused on them; I actually think the piano part is sort of unnecessary XD

[retrouvailles]

Oh, ok. I forgot about that. Whatever then.