If I Could Choose Only One Work By...STENHAMMAR

The Ultimate Classical Music Guide by Dave Hurwitz

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It Would Have To Be...the Serenade for Orchestra
Because it offers a rare combination of joyful music making within a relaxed formal setting at the very highest level of polished craftsmanship.
The List So Far:
1. Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose Ballet)
2. Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
3. Schubert: String Quintet in C major
4. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
5. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”
6. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
7. Debussy: Preludes for Piano (Books 1 & 2)
8: Handel: Saul
9. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
10. Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G major
11. Vaughan Williams: Job
12. Bach: Goldberg Variations
13. R. Strauss: Four Last Songs
14. Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust
15. Haydn: “Paris” Symphonies (Nos. 82-87)
16. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
17. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor
18. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
19. Chopin: Preludes
20. Verdi: Rigoletto
21. Roussel: Symphony No. 2
22. Copland: Appalachian Spring (complete original ballet)
23. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2
24. Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
25. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
26. Rimsky-Korsakov: Opera Suites (Scottish National Orchestra/Järvi) Chandos
27. Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
28. Smetana: Ma Vlást
29. Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
30. Bizet: Carmen
31. Elgar: In the South
32. Sullivan: The Mikado
33. Dvořák: Symphony No. 8; Cello Concerto (Piatigorsky/Munch/Boston Symphony) RCA
34. Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies
35. Monteverdi: Orfeo
36. Scarlatti: Sonatas
37. Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op. 17
38. Berg: Wozzeck
39. Hermann: Psycho (film score)
40. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini
41. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
42. Holst: Suites for Military Band
43. Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
44. Respighi: Three Botticelli Pictures
45. Sibelius: Symphony No. 5; Pohjola’s Daughter (Bernstein, New York Philharmonic) Sony
46. Britten: The Turn of the Screw
47. Borodin: String Quartet No. 2
48. Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen
49. Korngold: Violin Concerto
50. Tallis: Spem in Alium
51. Nielsen: Symphony No. 5
52. Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915
53. Hindemith: Symphony in E-flat
54. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
55. Franck: Violin Sonata
56. Rossini: La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
57. Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 “Egyptian”
58. Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
59. Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
60. Albeniz: Iberia
61. Bernstein: Mass
62. Schreker: Chamber Symphony
63. Walton: Variations on a Theme by Hindemith
64. Dukas: Piano Sonata
65. Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
66. Tippett: Piano Concerto
67. Poulenc: Songs (ATMA, 5 discs)
68. Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1
69. Gluck: Alceste
70. Vivaldi: L’estro armonico, Op. 3
71. Puccini: La Bohème
72. Hanson: Symphony No. 2 “Romantic”
73. Alkan: 12 Etudes in All the Minor Keys, Op. 39
74. Dutilleux: Métaboles
75. Glinka: Kamarinskaya
76. Crumb: Makrokosmos III (Music for a Summer Evening)
77. Biber: Sonata violino solo representativa
78. Josquin: Missa Ave maris stella
79. Arnold: Symphony No. 5
80. Fauré: Piano Quartets (Trio Wanderer) Harmonia Mundi
81. Hovhaness: Fra Angelico
82. Martinu: Symphony No. 6 “Fantaisies symphoniques”
83. Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy
84. Corelli: 12 Concerti grossi, Op. 6
85. Bellini: Norma
86. Ives: “Concord” Sonata
87. John Williams: Jaws (film score)
88. Honegger: Le Roi David (King David)
89. Kodály: “Peacock” Variations
90. Milhaud: Une Vie Heureuse (10 CD Set, Erato)
91. Scriabin: Piano Sonatas (Hamelin/Hyperion)
92. Casella: Concerto for Orchestra
93. Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus
94. Chabrier: España
95. Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
96. Waxman: Sunset Boulevard (film score)
97. Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie
98. Suk: A Summer Tale
99. Delius: A Song of the High Hills
100. Telemann: Tafelmusik

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@artbochevarov8790 Год назад

Dave, "Sången" is pronounced song-en, not zang-en or sang-en. The first part of the word, "sång", is pronounced just like the English word "song". I am not Swedish but I know the Swedish language quite well.

@DavesClassicalGuide Год назад

Well, since I asked, thanks!

@dameinoferrall2400 5 месяцев назад

I'm a fanatic. I love all of Stenhammar's music. Absolutely! His repertoire is small but it's all really lovely music.

@leestamm3187 Год назад

A great choice. Such a delightful work. I recall reading somewhere that it was dedicated to his wife. If she was anything like mine, a beautiful composition would burst forth almost of its own accord. My acquaintance with it is an old Kubelik recording with the Stockholm Philharmonic.

@johkkarkalis8860 Год назад

A second thumbs up for Stenhammar's 2nd Symphony. For me, a recently discovered gem. I would add the short, bracing early concert overture "Excelsior", op.13 The music well describes the meaning of the title, "upward" "optimistic", so when you get the urge to kick the cat, put on Neeme Jarvi's BIS recording of the Stenhammar work. You noted that the man was retiring, reticent? Perhaps he would be better known if he didn't share that part of the musical world that sits astride the arctic circle with the giants Grieg and Sibelius? Propinquity breeding benign neglect? Hm.....

@eugenebraig413 Год назад

A fan of Nordic orchestral music, of course I'm a fan of Stenhammar. Another worth consideration that might otherwise fall through the cracks of attention is the rhapsody for choir and orchestra, Midvinter. It highlights his skill at orchestrating folk elements that evoke unabashed nostalgia, both his style of orchestration and choral writing, etc. I love when the relevant solstice approaches because it gives me an excuse to repeatedly listen to the piece.

@dameinoferrall2400 5 месяцев назад

I've tried to get anyone who will listen to me to give Midvinter a shot. It's right up there with the best of his music! Lodolezzi sjunger too!

@MofosOfMetal Год назад

His Symphony #2 in G minor is phenomenal. the Serenade is new to me!

@ruramikael Год назад

One of many great Swedish Symphonies from around the Great War! Stenhammar's best work IMHO.

@grahamharfleet6026 Год назад

I managed to find a recording of the Serenade by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Neeme Jarvi to listen to and I am knocked sideways by how much I am enjoying it (having never heard it before). I am now asking myself "Where has Stenhammer been in my life for the last 62 years?" I am looking forward to discovering his other works now. I am so grateful for the musical enlightenment you bring to my life.

@DavesClassicalGuide Год назад

That's a great performance--actually he did it twice. The first one, on BIS, has especially amazing sonics.

@michaele.stovall6364 Год назад

Dave, wow you are a wealth of a library of classics.. top of my list channel FOR SURE

@connykarlsson9969 Год назад

I completely agree with the choice of Serenade. It is a work that stands out in the Swedish orchestral repertoire. It is also important to mention Stenhammar as one of the foremost Swedish composers of songs, romances, wonderfully well-crafted.

@mikeleghorn6092 Год назад

I discovered the Serenade a few months ago and have listened to it about a dozen times. I can’t think of a more perfect piece of music. (I especially like the recording with Jarvi on Biss). It’s a completely individual work, with total mastery of the form, material, and orchestra, yet I hear influences, e.g. similarities to Elgar’s string serenade and even to one of the main themes in the last movement of Elgar’s 1st. The recurring horn call is in the spirit of Wagner’s Siegfried horn theme.

@herbchilds1512 Год назад

Serenade it is!

@gartenkauz2152 Год назад

Just started to listen to the Brilliant Classics / licensed from BIS box yesterday. Serenade not included :( Symphony No. 1 has clapping and yelling at the end. Only other recording I found is Järvi (again) on DG. Are there any others?

@DavesClassicalGuide Год назад

There are many others. I mentioned one in the video, but there are at least two others on BIS, one on Naxos, Kubelik did it on EMI...and a few others.

@gartenkauz2152 Год назад

Dave, you mentioned No. 2, not No. 1