I've been in rehearsals this week for the Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique. Hardly unsung. But what strikes me about this work is that no matter how many times I play it or listen to it, it just always seems so new and fresh. It never sounds tired and worn out. There are many great works that just seem to have aged: Franck's Symphony, the Mendelssohn symphonies, a lot Brahms and Schumann and Liszt. But then there are some works that just never seem to age: the Berlioz, Beethoven's 3rd, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, even Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. Are there other works that just seem ever-fresh to you?
The Bruckner 9th......
Jerry
Strauss' 'Don Juan', Mackenzie's overture to 'The Cricket on the Hearth' and Elgar's 'Cockaigne'. All good ones to cheer me up on a bad day
One is Elgar's "In the South".
To name three unsungs: Urspruch's Symphony, Horneman's Aladdin overture, and The second Gernsheim string quartet.
? unsung, but can listen to daily: Busoni Pf Cto Op. 39