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Do you have a favorite overture? Or if not, which ones are especially fond of?

submitted by Lost_In_The_Thinking to Classical_Music 10 monthsJun 21, 2023 19:27:43 ago (+12/-0)     (Classical_Music)

As I was driving home today, I started thinking about overtures I've always liked. Von Suppe's "Poet and Peasant" and "Light Cavalry" overtures are fun, and it's easy to make comparisons between them and "William Tell". I started a mental tabulation in my head, and when I got home I did a search to remind me of the many, many others I listened over the years. "La Gazza Ladra", "The Marriage of Figaro", and "Die Meistersinger" rank high on my list of favorites -- although I don't actually have *A* favorite.

If you have Broadway or movie overtures that you like, please name them. I especially the overture and fugue for tinhorns in "Guys and Dolls".

I don't use Spotify, but I thought the list in this link might spur some memories as it did with me.

https://open.spotify.com/album/6vAgh1YJ01m2dotpY20jLn


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[ - ] Jfjdjsksk 3 points 10 monthsJun 21, 2023 20:47:39 ago (+3/-0)

https://youtu.be/SRmCEGHt-Qk

Wagner Tanhauser Overture.

Magic

[ - ] FacelessOne 2 points 10 monthsJun 21, 2023 21:33:55 ago (+2/-0)

This guy gets it

[ - ] Lost_In_The_Thinking [op] 0 points 10 monthsJun 22, 2023 11:17:59 ago (+0/-0)

Yup. And Wagner is great.

[ - ] paul_neri 1 point 10 monthsJun 22, 2023 03:50:35 ago (+1/-0)

My favourite overture was: "What's a girl like you doin' in a nice place like this". I had a hard time meeting gals!

[ - ] rhy 0 points 10 monthsJun 23, 2023 02:07:30 ago (+0/-0)

I love a lot of classical music, from the classical era all the way up to modern stuff. I don't go for the baroque usually.

Some of my favorites:

Holst the planets
Mozart's Requiem
You only live twice soundtrack by John Barry
That's sibelius string quartet.. can't remember the name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7rxl5KsPjs

[ - ] anrach 1 point 10 monthsJun 22, 2023 00:12:11 ago (+1/-0)

Joseph Martin Kraus' Olympie Overture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzEf8nAm4MM

[ - ] Lost_In_The_Thinking [op] 1 point 10 monthsJun 22, 2023 11:29:26 ago (+1/-0)

Thanks for the link. That's a pretty obscure one for me, especially since I'd never heard of of Joseph Martin Kraus. But I am fond of Verdi's "Un ballo in maschera", which was somewhat based on Kraus' murder at a masked ball. I'm sure I read that decades ago, but I immediately forgot the origin of the real life counterpart because I wasn't familiar with the name.

I just listened to the overture. It's very pleasant and very comparable to works of his contemporaries in style and quality.

[ - ] PhimoticEmbrace 1 point 10 monthsJun 21, 2023 21:03:18 ago (+1/-0)

Carmen's definitely a favourite. Tchaikovsky is worth a mention for the cannons.

[ - ] Lost_In_The_Thinking [op] 0 points 10 monthsJun 22, 2023 11:19:03 ago (+0/-0)

I've listened to the entire opera well over a dozen time, and the overture is just a taste of the brilliance that will come.

[ - ] paul_neri 1 point 10 monthsJun 21, 2023 20:46:08 ago (+2/-1)

Thank you for asking. Here are a few favourites. Yes they are popular pieces which apparently means I don't have a sophisticated musical taste:

Beethoven - Symphony No.7 in A major op.92 - II, Allegretto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCHREyE5GzQ

Pavane, Opus 50 Gabriel Fauré
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuM6tFwYaoI





[ - ] Lost_In_The_Thinking [op] 0 points 10 monthsJun 22, 2023 11:20:20 ago (+0/-0)

It does mean you enjoy some very good works of art, however. A couple of my favorites too.

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 0 points 10 monthsJun 21, 2023 23:48:47 ago (+0/-0)

I kind of dig the bridge in Black Sabbath's Paranoid. Does that count?

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 0 points 10 monthsJun 21, 2023 23:44:22 ago (+0/-0)

Not much of a fan of overtures. However, I'll share a couple of my favorite musical bits, in the spirit of spring time The Rite of Spring, and one of my all-time favorites Night on Bald Mountain. The history surrounding those songs is fun to read while listening to them.

[ - ] VitaminSieg 0 points 10 monthsJun 21, 2023 23:28:00 ago (+0/-0)

Anything Telemann

[ - ] Jfjdjsksk 0 points 10 monthsJun 21, 2023 21:09:53 ago (+0/-0)

https://youtu.be/-oxH-7VklBI

Concierto de Aranjuez // Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Rafael de Burgos & Pepe Romero (Live)" on YouTube

[ - ] Jfjdjsksk 0 points 10 monthsJun 21, 2023 21:11:07 ago (+0/-0)

Not an overture, but hey, good song

[ - ] paul_neri -1 points 10 monthsJun 21, 2023 20:51:59 ago (+0/-1)

Classical music reminds me nothing really matters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB27OUs-v4M