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What's your favorite (short) solo with orchestra?

Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:15 pm
by jon112780
1- I was thinking more of a solo(instrument/voice) w/orchestra acc. not a solo within the orchestra
2- Hopefully under 5 minutes (either an individual work or mvt. of a concerto)
3- Scary/wow factor preferred over 'well wasn't that just the cutest little piece'

Ideas..?

Re: What's your favorite (short) solo with orchestra?

Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:23 pm
by Tuba Guy
Bydlo? Or is that just scary for us?

Re: What's your favorite (short) solo with orchestra?

Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:31 pm
by John Caves
An American In Paris

Re: What's your favorite (short) solo with orchestra?

Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:54 pm
by The Jackson
The second movement of John Adams's "Gnarly Buttons" is a bit under six minutes. It definitely has a WOW factor, though.

Re: What's your favorite (short) solo with orchestra?

Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 6:05 pm
by Wyvern
The start of the last movement of Mahler 6

Re: What's your favorite (short) solo with orchestra?

Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:45 pm
by eupher61
um...."not a solo within the orchestra". Bydlo could possibly qualify, but not the others.

The VW "Romanza"? Maybe too long, not sure of the timing.

A couple of the Mahler "Songs of the Wayfarer"...
a movement of a Mozart Horn concerto...

Re: What's your favorite (short) solo with orchestra?

Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:53 pm
by Kory101
Urlicht from Mahler 2

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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:16 pm
by winston
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