10 ESSENTIAL ORCHESTRAL SERENADES for BEGINNERS
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- 10 Essential Orchestral Serenades for Beginners
Mozart: “Haffner” Serenade (No. 7) in D major, K. 250 (248b)
Mozart: “Posthorn” Serenade (No. 9) in D major, K. 320
Brahms: Serenade No. 1
Brahms: Serenade No. 2
Fuchs: Serenade No. 5
Casella: Serenata for Chamber Orchestra, Op. 46bis
Piston: Serenata for Orchestra
Korngold: “Baby” Serenade
Bernstein: Serenade after Plato’s “Symposium” for Violin and Orchestra
Stenhammar: Serenade for Large Orchestra, Op. 31
I just listened to the Stenhammer..what a spectacular piece!! As a side note, it made for great road music on my drive from providence to Boston :)
I thought it funny you mentioned knitting or jigsaw puzzles while listening to the music. I play video games when I am listening to your essential lists. I play a game called "House Flipper" where you "buy" dilapidated properties and fix them up to sell. So while listening, I virtually cut grass, mop floors, paint walls and tile bathrooms. This might seem boring to people but I find it very relaxing and it really allows me to enjoy wonderful music instead of listening over and over to the 3 five minute pieces written for the game. Video games and classical music, & contemporary instrumental or neo-classical, actually have a new history together starting and they even got their own category at the Grammy this year.
Bruckner goes great with grouting.
I just heard the Stenhammer on the radio. At first I thought it sounded like Sibelius. But I’ve heard all of Sibelius’s orchestral music. I knew it was someone else who had to be influenced by him. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Thank you Dave for your insight, it is always great to learn something new.
Wow. The last 5 listed I had never heard, and only heard OF the Korngold work. I was walking in the park today and binge-listened to the Casella, Piston, Korngold, and Bernstein. And I strongly enjoyed all four of those! And Stenhammar's sounds like it will be great for my lights-out pre-bedtime hour!
That is awesome!
Mozart’s “Posthorn” and Brahms’s Serenades feel like symphonies more then serenades with extra movements due to the massive orchestration and the first movement of the “Posthorn” in particular is very symphonic.
Now I know what a serenade is - nice! 2.5k subscribers- weren’t we just at 2.0k? This channel is blowing up 😎
Fantastic selection, Dave! I was particularly heartened that you made the wonderfully fresh and vital Stenhammar your “however” choice. The work has a uniquely quirky and enigmatic ending which is particularly memorable. Even the “Reverenza” movement that Stenhammar later discarded is really fine.
Even as an avowed Casella enthusiast, I’ve yet to hear his Serenata, so time to rectify that! Are you considering doing a video dedicated to Casella sometime soon? You’ve included him in a few of your lists, but I think he deserves a video of his own. Every time I listen to a piece of his, I’m bowled over by its quality and left frustrated as to why he isn’t much better known! He’s one of my most treasured “unsung composers” along with Lloyd, Braga Santos, and Atterberg.
Yes, I certainly plan to do Casella. I think he's wonderful too.
I love Brahms' Serenade No 1! But prefer the nonet version much more than the orchestral one.
Yes. Maybe you heard the recent release of both of them with smaller forces on Cappricio?
Would you count Strauss' "Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite" as an orchestral serenade?
No, it's a suite.
Is there any definable difference between a serenade and an orchestral suite? I don't meant suites that are abridgments of full works, such as Nutcracker, I mean the 5 or 6 movement variety such as those by Moszkowski and Cui, or the Roma Suite by Bizet? I'm guessing it's simply down to what the composer wants to call the work rather than any tangible difference?
Basically, although suites are technically "dance suites" while serenades may have dance elements, but also concerto movements and other, more abstract formal shapes. Originally, their purpose was different too, but musically, as you note, after the classical period is doesn't much matter.
@@DavesClassicalGuide Thank you Dave, add that to the very long list of things I've learnt from your marvelous videos. Loved your recent review of a Saint Saens orchestral cd, he wrote so much wonderful music that I'm only just discovering!