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Dvorak9NW, Nov 30 at 7:29 PM EST   

One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)

Hi all!

I have a few downloads left, and I have nearly all of the music I really know and appreciate already - time for some exploring!

I have already come across a few albums with entire works in one track - excellent news when we get a certain number of tracks. I thought there must be others out there I haven't come across. So...

I thought I would start a discussion topic where users could post the links to single classical tracks they have found containing an entire work. (I know there are loads of albums where works are squeezed into fewer numbers of tracks - but lets keep this discussion to one-track wonders to start with, shall we?)

So here's my first contribution:

Schumann's Konzertstuck for 4 Horns in F major Op. 86 (a good recording too!)
http://www.emusic.com/album/-REGER-Variations-and-Fugue-on-a-Theme-of-Mozart-MP3-Download/11019923.html (Track 11)

Thanks. Hope this is mutually beneficial :)
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  Katrina Dec 2 at 2:37 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Good idea! When I come across one, I will post it here.
  SoNotASonata Dec 1 at 4:19 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
I'm afraid you may have opened up a huge can of worms, Dvorak, in a good way - I can think of a ton off the bat. I'll spread them out though. So my entry today is for

Gorecki: Beatus Vir (Track 1)

30 minutes long - not bad for one track. The symphony is a good value too, although it costs (gasp!) 2 downloads.
  bissie Dec 1 at 4:42 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by SoNotASonata
Allan Pettersson's 7th Symphony. Other works by that same composer, possibly Sweden's alltime greatest symphonist.

Best - Robert
  RonanM Dec 1 at 7:13 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
You might try the Honegger cello concerto, in a splendid recording by Christian Poltera. If he doesn't quite catch the pawky humour of of the work at times, he still makes a glorious sound, and it's a fine work.

Another compser well worth a try is Harald Saeverud. His wartime symphonic trilogy are good (if not easy) listening. Start with the one-track Sinfonia Dolorosa

Finally, I've been listening with pleasure to the quartets of Murray Schafer. He's a Canadian composer whose music is certainly modern but still rooted in the quartet tradition of Bartok and Shostakovich. I started with the sixth quartet, but you can take your pick. All of the quartets are single track except the third. The Moliari quartet's performances are first rate.
  Dvorak9NW Dec 1 at 7:48 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Thanks people! Will check those out.
Keep 'em coming!!!
  SoNotASonata Dec 1 at 12:06 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Violin Concerto No. 12 by Louis Spohr (Track 4) is worth checking out for, well, anyone who likes 19th-century violin concerti.
  Melodia Dec 1 at 1:00 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by bissie
Allan Pettersson's 7th Symphony. Other works by that same composer, possibly Sweden's alltime greatest symphonist.


I for one like Alfven better, who ALSO has a full and long single track work on BIS: His 4th Symhpony


-Lala-
  squark Dec 2 at 1:28 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by RonanM
I second RonanM's recommendations of the Honegger cello concerto and Harald Saeverud's one-track Sinfonia Dolorosa. Another nice one-track symphony by Saeverud is his Symphony No. 5, Op. 16, "Quasi una fantasia"

Here's a list of some other substantial (>18-minute) 20th century/contemporary classical one-track works that I think are well worth risking a single download to hear what the composer has to offer:
Einar Englund - Symphony No. 5 "Fennica"
Poul Ruder - Symphony No. 2, "Symphony and Transformation"
Peteris Vasks - Symphony No. 2 and Violin Concerto 'Tala Gaisma' (Distant Light), each work's a single track.
Pehr Henrik Nordgren - Symphony No. 5, Op. 103 (1998)
Haflidi Hallgrimsson - Herma, Ombra, Rima, single-track concertos for 'cello and viola respectively and a setting of a sonnet by Michaelangelo for soprano and strings
Sofia Gubaidulina - Flute Concerto "...The Deceitful Face of Hope and Despair"
Magnus Lindberg - Clarinet Concerto, Gran Duo & Chorale, each work is one track
Peter Sculthorpe - Piano Concerto
Ge Gan-Ru - Chinese Rhapsody and Wu, each is a single track
Einojuhan Rautavaara - On The Last Frontier (A Fantasy for Chorus and Orchestra, 1997)
Morton Feldman - The Rothko Chapel and For Stephan Wolpe, each is one track.
Kokkonen - "...durch einen Spiegel..." Metamorphosis for 12 Strings and Harpsichord


Of course, there are several excellent performances of Sibelius's Seventh Symphony and substantial tone poem, Tapiola, available as single tracks on eMusic
  frogkopf Dec 1 at 3:33 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by squark
A user named Bax has this list of one track symphonies.
  SoNotASonata Dec 2 at 1:25 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
This Album of Music by William Henry Fry contains four longish one-track works. Since it's the holiday season I'll reccomend the Santa Claus Symphony. Fry was an interesting guy and a significant figure in the development of American orchestral music.
  squark Dec 2 at 3:20 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by frogkopf
That list by Bax is relevant and useful. It includes four symphonies I overlooked above since I have them on CD, Aho's 2nd, Lutoslawski's 3rd, Rochberg's 5th, and Sumera's 5th. There are others there that I plan to check out, like the Koppel and Bentzon.

By the way, I remember using a Google search designed to find albums on eMusic with a certain number of tracks, but I've lost that link. If anyone knows about it, could you please post the link in this thread?
  EverythingFusion Dec 2 at 5:38 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Thanks! That piece is one of my favorites--I had a 35-year old vinyl version (it was my parents' but somehow migrated into my collection when I went off to college. . . )
  Paul R Dec 2 at 7:10 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
http://www.emusic.com/album/Torleif-Thedeen-Lutoslawski-Penderecki-Cello-Concertos-MP3-Download/10995833.html

Lutoslawski / Penderecki: Cello Concertos

one track each, 64.53

Paul
  bklynd Dec 2 at 7:25 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by squark
Hi squark - it's in the user FAQ.
  squark Dec 2 at 9:35 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by bklynd
Thanks bklynd, you're right, it's in the FAQ. This website can generate a custom google search to find an an album with a certain number of tracks in a specific genre. It isn't like getting a specific recommendation and can't directly find one-track works, but it can help browse for possibilities. (BUT NOTE THE WARNING: Search results can include direct links to downloads, so log out of eMusic before using this search utility!)
  SoNotASonata Dec 2 at 11:30 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Enescu's Romanian Poem is a nice value, and so are both of the Romanian Rhapsodies (the first one is a very popular work).
  RonanM Dec 3 at 5:18 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Eshpai's 7th symphony is good listening too, and a substantial work, clocking in at over half an hour (but does not outstay its welcome)
  squark Dec 3 at 10:05 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by RonanM
Nice find, RonanM. I'll give it a shot. I just heard about him via another recent thread. Then I found a second recommendation in this review of his Symphony No. 7 (and the two Concertos) at Onno van Rijen's site on Soviet Composers.

I think these bargain 1-track symphonies are a great way to experiment and discover new composers. This is certainly worth a quarter.
  Dvorak9NW Dec 3 at 10:12 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by squark
Indeed! This thread is working well - thanks everyone :)
  Dvorak9NW Dec 3 at 10:15 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by EverythingFusion
(I presume you mean the Schumann?) Yeah - I've listened to it nearly ten times since I downloaded it!
  Dvorak9NW Dec 4 at 7:34 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
This is one of Beethoven's lesser well known works - but I thinks it amazing! There seem to be a few good recordings with good pianists:

Beethoven's Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra in C minor, Op.80 (Around 20mins long)

Sviatoslav Richter:
http://www.emusic.com/album/USSR-RTV-Symphony-Orchestra-And-Chorus-Sviatosla-Richter-Plays-Beethoven-Weber-Schubert-Chopin-MP3-Download/10826459.html (Track 1)

Alfred Brendel:
http://www.emusic.com/album/Alfred-Brendel-Alfred-Brendel-Plays-Beethoven-The-5-Concerti-C-MP3-Download/11101192.html (Track 4, Disk 3)

(One track each, of course!)
  Dvorak9NW Dec 4 at 10:23 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
This album is full of famous Tchaikovsky works - all one track each
"A Tchaikowsky Collection"
http://www.emusic.com/album/Munich-Symphony-Orchestra-Others-A-Tchaikowsky-Collection-MP3-Download/11030426.html
  beanstalk Dec 4 at 5:05 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
A one-tracker I can recommend, if anyone is into Liszt piano music is his Sonata in B minor played by Markus Groh, which is one of the best I have ever heard. Sorry folks, I don't have the skill to provide a link to the CD: perhaps someone can tell me how.
  martenot Dec 4 at 6:13 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by beanstalk
Liszt: Sonata / Fantasy And fugue On B-A-C-H / Totentanz
  RonanM Dec 6 at 10:40 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
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You may or may not like Lucier's I am sitting in a room - the review and comments are more enlightening than listening to just a few seconds of this long, evolving work. If you like this sort of thing, check his Music on a long thin wire, a truly beautiful and hypnotic experience, though outside the bounds of the thread, is it's in four tracks.
  JFLL Dec 7 at 5:59 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Richard Strauss: Burleske for Piano and Orchestra
  JFLL Dec 7 at 6:15 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by Dvorak9NW
Another Brendel Beethoven goody is his recording of the splendid Eroica Variations op. 35 (22 mins) at

http://www.emusic.com/album/Alfred-Brendel-BRENDEL-Alfred-Beethoven-Variations-and-Vignett-MP3-Download/11104132.html

(Some other Beethoven rarities on this album, too)
  squark Dec 9 at 1:19 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by RonanM
I tried Eshpai's 7th symphony and agree with RonanM that it's good listening. However, I had some trouble playing this file, even after downloading it twice. It stopped abruptly at about 29:50, skipping the final 3 minutes or so. I was able to fix it so it played to the end using the software VBRFix.

UPDATE: A third download try now plays OK, without any fixing (3rd time's a charm?)! Maybe it's been fixed, or maybe I just had a bad download day and the file got corrupted. I apologize for the false alarm and now recommend it without reservation (to fans of mid-20th century symphonies).
  JasoninOttawa Dec 19 at 12:12 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
One of my favourites is Dmitri Shostakovich's The Execution of Stepan Razin, if you want opera.
  Dvorak9NW Dec 19 at 8:13 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by JasoninOttawa
Thanks, Jasonin, I'll check that out. Shostakovich is becoming really popular - I don't understand his music yet, so perhaps I'll give this a go.
  Dvorak9NW Dec 19 at 8:20 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
LISZT: Piano Concertos 1 & 2; Symphonic Poem No.3
One track each, Alfred Brendel as soloist
  Dvorak9NW Dec 20 at 9:23 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by Dvorak9NW
VIVALDI: Four Seasons (Trevor Pinnock, the English Concert)
(One track per concerto)
  BenY Dec 29 at 6:57 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
I've been keeping notes on 1-trackers for some time now. They are indeed useful for filling in the remaining monthly downloads. So here goes my first post on this subject:

Works by Arnold Rosner http://www.emusic.com/browse/c/b/-dbm/a/0-0/1611708898/0.html:
A Sephardic Rhapsody (16 minutes)
String Quartet No. 5 (16)
Of Numbers and of Bells (16)

And some reviews of Rosner's music:

"Simplicity is Rosner's 'touchstone' but not simple-mindedness. Brave the composer who will hold his invention up to the light without shade or the overlay of complexity and harmonic density. Rosner is such a composer."
-Rob Barnett, MusicWeb International

"To me, he's one of the best now writing. Almost everything I've heard rings for me with the sound of a classic."
-Steve Schwart, classical.net


More one-trackers to come...
  BenY Dec 30 at 2:06 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Louis Gruenberg: The Enchanted Isle (17 minutes)

"Gruenberg's music possesses a sensuous quality and a predelication for interesting use of percussion as well as good melodies. An audiophile composer for sure."
-John Sunier, Audiophile Audition

(A performance of Gruenberg's Violin Concerto is available on
YouTube.)
  SoFarSoGood Jan 12 at 4:47 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by RonanM
RonanM - Thanks for the tip on Honegger's CC. It's excellent.
  mommio Mar 20 at 11:09 AM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
This one has to come to the top, too.

Sorry for the reruns, folks, but they're getting buried too deep. And we do like music threads on the first page, now, don't we?
  Bax Jan 28 at 12:00 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Just thought I'd mention my ever-growing list of One-track Symphonies http://www.emusic.com/lists/showlist.html?lid=19240383&p=1
  Melodia Jan 28 at 1:14 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by Bax
It looks like you're missing R. Strauss's symphony on that.

-Lala-
  Bax Jan 28 at 1:54 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by Melodia
Thanks. Strauss Symphony added to the list :)
  mommio Jan 30 at 8:31 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by mommio
Beanstalk recommended a track from Liszt: Sonata / Fantasy And fugue On B-A-C-H / Totentanz, Artist: Markus Groh. I'm downloading the entire album -- only three tracks. Appropriate for my third download of the night? Yet another treat that will wait for me tomorrow.

I think that's 21 tracks downloading tonight while I sleep. (Dialup, remember?) Sixty-nine left. So much that I want. I want to think about what will be next.
  TimMason Feb 13 at 2:13 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by mommio
Need to keep this one around don't we
  Nereffid Feb 4 at 6:09 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by TimMason
I recently discovered the wonderful vocal music of Lepo Sumera. This album has the amazing "Island Maiden's Song from the Sea" - 30 minutes of beauty and weirdness.
  Vivaldi55 Feb 8 at 12:12 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by Nereffid
Britten's Young Person's Guide by Previn on Telarc.
  Melodia Feb 8 at 1:09 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
And on a similar note, Pictures at an Exhibition, Maazel/Cleveland, (along with its favorite discmate, Night on Bald Mountain). One of the best recordings too (my own imprint, but it gets a lot of praise)


-Lala-
  beanstalk Feb 10 at 11:33 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
In the February Gramophone magazine all the available recordings of the Brahms Piano Sonata No.3 are reviewed by Jed Distler. 3 out of the 4 top recordings are available on eMusic including a one-tracker (36 minutes!) from a live performance by Roberto Plano at the 2005 Van Cliburn Competition. It has to be said that he plays some wrong notes, but he "impressively withstands the pressure and plays with heart, soul and plenty of quick thinking". The top recommendation is also available. I have tried them both, and the Andre Laplante version is definitely worth the extra outlay (5 tracks), however the Plano remains a very good one-tracker.
  RonanM Feb 14 at 5:47 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Gavin Bryars' remarkable and haunting The Sinking of the Titanic has just arrived, in a new live recording from Venice (appropriately enough).

The piece isn't so much a score as a portfolio of ideas for a piece of music. This incarnation is different to the others I have heard, emerging slowly out of the crackle of an old shellac record (or maybe the crackle of static from an old wireless). In a way, now that we know the piece's hymn-tune reference, the tune can now take more of a back seat and let us think about the music in other ways.

I still find the crowd sound horrifying. It hadn't occurred to me that when the ship finally went under, hundreds of people would have cried out all at once.

Highly recommended.
  TimMason Feb 22 at 5:20 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by RonanM
The crowd sounds more like a political rally or a set of football supporters than terrorised travellers.
  mlstein May 28 at 9:31 PM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by TimMason
Very well worth hearing and rehearing is Josef Suk's Second String Quarter, Op. 31--a mysterious and haunting single-movement piece from 1911 that's close to 30 minutes long. It's in Suk's mature style--nothing really Czech in tone, much more in line with Schrecker or a more restrained Zemlinsky (who knew and promoted Suk's music--they both lived in Prague--and who surely took inspiration from Suk's piece in his own, much more violent Second Quartet of three years later). It's highly chromatic, inward, playful and ironic and then grave and mournful, but always beautiful. One of Suk's masterpieces, ranking with Asrael, Ripening, and the St Wenceslaus Meditation. eMusic's got two really good performances. The Penguin Quartet (now the Zemlinsky Quartet) has the more beautiful blend and sound, but the Suk Quartet performance is more red-blooded and makes the closing sections more cogent. But at a download a piece you can have both.
  JFLL Feb 22 at 1:02 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Two for Richard Strauss fans:

Strauss Ein Heldenleben with Previn on Telarc -- 46 mins!

Symphonic Fragment from Josephslegende
  JFLL Feb 22 at 12:51 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by JFLL
Bump
  FarmerTed Feb 23 at 6:08 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Some Brahms, perhaps?
The Op. 56a Haydn variations for orchestra (normally 10 tracks) by Rahbari on Naxos or Previn on Telarc, 20:09 and 18:23 respectively.
  FarmerTed Feb 24 at 5:00 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by Dvorak9NW
There is also a recording of this piece (i.e. Beethoven's Choral Fantasy) with Walter Klien as the soloist.

And, to stay on the choral theme, there's a single track (25:46) recording of Domenico Scarlatti's Stabat Mater by Harry Christophers and the Sixteen here.
  bklynd Feb 24 at 5:08 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by FarmerTed
One of my favorite Classical albums I've found here is this collection of Ravel chamber music.

It's got some one-track gems on it, like "Introduction and Allegro."
  FarmerTed Feb 26 at 4:22 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
For a little bit of English, why not try Howard Shelley, Richard Hickox and the LSO in William Alwyn's Piano Concerto No. 1 (15:06). Also (though here I'm at risk of repeating information mentioned elsewhere), Alwyn's 5th Symphony ('Hydriotaphia') is available as a single track conducted by David Lloyd-Jones on Naxos (14:27) or by Alwyn himself with the LPO on Lyrita (14:55). Unfortunately the Hickox recording on Chandos is rather cheekily spread over 4 tracks, so cannot be recommended here.

There's a fine version of Elgar's Severn Suite (17:50) by the Black Dyke Mills Band on Chandos: this disc also has single-track recordings of pieces for brass band by e.g. Edmund Rubbra and Percy Fletcher.

Britten's Nocturnal for guitar (a reflection on John Dowland's song 'Come, Heavy Sleep') is performed on this recital by Jeremy Jouve (18:39).

Finally, a plug for the under-recorded British-based (South African-born) composer, John Joubert, whose Kontakion for Cello and Piano, Op. 69 (13:29) is certainly worth a listen.
  FarmerTed Feb 26 at 4:10 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
A few more:

Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto is single-track: recordings on emusic by Niels Thomsen on Chandos (25:55) and Kevin Banks on Naxos (24:41).

Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts Kodaly's Concerto for Orchestra (15:59) and you could also take in the Dances of Marosszek (13:11) while you're there. The Dances of Galanta can be found here (17:27 with the Peacock Variations (28:29)), here (15:51), here (16:32) and here (17:11). This latter set is a good introduction to Kodaly and also contains the Peacock Variations and the Marosszek Dances: in all, 4 single-track pieces making up nearly 75 minutes of music.

Some French: Poulenc's Organ Concerto (23:04), YP Tortelier again, with Ian Tracey as soloist, Faure's Messe Basse, short at 9:41, but unusual to find all sections in one track, and a cracking period instrument performance of the most famous Charpentier Te Deum (22:05) by the Aradia Ensemble on Naxos.

Szymanowski's Third Symphony, 'Song of the Night' (24:19) is available on Naxos, which label also issued his two single-movement violin concertos (24:26 and 23:31 respectively) in idiomatic performances. Lydia Mordkovich has also recorded these concertos for Chandos, but only the first concerto is single-track (25:53).
  RonanM Feb 26 at 8:04 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Here's a renaissance masterpiece - Robert Whyte's Lamentations as a single, 22:30 track, in a splendid performance by The Sixteen.

Whyte isn't as well known as Tallis and Byrd, but his music is very approachable for the modern listener, as his counterpoint tends to be clearer to follow and, more important, he has a sense of tone colour that is way ahead of his time. Listen to how the music modulates, following the sense of the text, to all sorts of keys.

Also recommended on this album is Parsons' lovely Ave Maria and the other Whyte piece, a setting of the evening hymn Chiste qui lux es et dies
  I_Love_Music Feb 27 at 10:41 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Richard Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra with Andre Previn and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
  MrBoJangles Feb 29 at 3:43 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by I_Love_Music
Pictures at an Exhibition Lorin Mazel - New release at e-music
  Belcanto Feb 29 at 9:44 AM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Anyone interested might also want to use this:

http://search.dslgateways.com
  Melodia Feb 29 at 12:54 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by MrBoJangles
Pictures at an Exhibition Lorin Mazel - New release at e-music

Already noted above .

Though it's a worthwhile download, reguardless.


-Lala-
  Melodia Mar 5 at 1:16 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
A few new Telarcs came today, among them this excelly CD of Walton's Belshezzar's Feast on one track. The Bernstein stuff is good too, but multitracked.


-Lala-
  clabbers Mar 7 at 4:04 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by Melodia
The first three tracks on this beauty all qualify and the album as a whole is a great value.

Nielsen Choral Works

I first learned of it from a book which claimed it had highly seductive powers. My wife is not a fan of classical music in general, so I've never tried it for that purpose. If you do, please be sure to share the results : )
  squark Mar 8 at 4:55 PM EST RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by clabbers
When I tried to download Hymnus amoris, I got an empty file, and DL manager never showed it. When I went to the downloads in my profile to re-download, I couldn't find it. How should it be listed among the "artists" of the download list?

Edit: NEVERMIND -- FOUND IT (later, under Jorgen Ditlevsen, of course) & IT RE-DOWNLOADED OK.

  JFLL Mar 13 at 2:32 PM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Martinu's Field Mass (Polni mse), track 2 of this, has that Martinuvian mixture of lyricism and tension which I find very appealing. Apparently written for performance in the open air, hence the name.
  Nereffid Mar 13 at 2:47 PM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by JFLL
"Martinuvian" - I like that! I like the Field Mass, too - heard it years ago. I think the "field" has a military connotation as well.
  Dvorak9NW Mar 13 at 7:00 PM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by bklynd
Thanks bklynd - I'll have a look at those Ravel pieces.
Thanks to those who highlighted the Richard Strauss tone poems (Ein Heldenleben, Also Sprach Zarethustra) - I'm downloading them now!

I have a few more found here:
R. Strauss (Karl Bohm & Staatskapelle Dresden)
(Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche & Salome's Dance)
  JFLL Mar 13 at 7:24 PM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by Dvorak9NW
And don't forget the Festliches Praludium on that Bohm disc -- this was unknown to me, but imho vintage Strauss. (And the Pfitzner's interesting, too.) What an orchestra!
  sitnalisa Mar 15 at 8:47 AM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by TimMason
Bryers himself, in the notes to Ghost Stories by the Smith Quartet, where there is another nice (but far shorter version) of the piece, says that a survivor described the noise as being "like 100,000 people at the cup final". So you are quite right, as the recording used is precisely that: a crowd of football supporters at a cup final.

There are several good longish one-movement pieces on there as well, if you like contemporary British composers.

While I'm here, James MacMillan's The Confession of Isobel Gaudie and the Symphony No. 3 at the same place both come in at around half an hour, and are very approachable (read absolutely magical) contemporary works.
  RonanM Mar 20 at 12:44 PM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Here's another that just appeared on the radar:

Berio: Solo for trombone and orchestra

And speaking of MacMillan, a second one-track "Confession of Isobel Gowdie" has appeared, coupled with a one-track The World's Ransoming
  Dvorak9NW Mar 27 at 9:41 AM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
In the South, Op. 50, "Alassio"
(Richard Hickox & BBC National Orchestra of Wales)

22mins - good Elgarian stuff!

(I noticed a few other recordings of this are available on eMusic, but I went for this one)
  I_Love_Music Mar 28 at 12:16 PM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Frederic Rzewski's The People United will never be Defeated. (62 minutes of piano music)
  brighternow Mar 27 at 11:18 PM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Well this one is a 2 tracker:
Bengt Hambraeus - Mutetum Archengeli Michaelis two choir/organ pieces of epic proportions by a Swedish composer that are completely new to me - Highly recomendable
  squark Apr 9 at 9:36 PM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
bump
  JFLL Apr 21 at 12:21 PM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
A great one-tracker here:
Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin with Peter Eotvos, which got a rave review ("white-hot music making") in the Gramophone.


  gpdlt2000 Apr 28 at 5:34 AM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by JFLL
This one is probably a world record:
Carles Santos's L'Adeu de Lucrecia Borja - one track and nearly 70 minutes!
  mommio May 21 at 7:21 AM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by gpdlt2000
Bump!
  chrismartin76 May 27 at 12:14 AM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by Dvorak9NW
All recordings of Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, to my knowledge, are one track.
  Melodia May 27 at 12:51 PM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by chrismartin76
All recordings of Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, to my knowledge, are one track.

Not sure about what's on eMusic, but certainly not ALL. I own a Till (on RCA with Berglund) that has multiple tracks.

-Lala-
  chrismartin76 May 28 at 2:20 PM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
http://www.emusic.com/album/Xiaohan-Wang-2005-Van-Cliburn-International-Piano-Competition-S-MP3-Download/10902167.html
Beethoven Sonata in C minor, Op. 111
Jennifer Higdon Secret & Glass Gardens
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

http://www.emusic.com/album/Andrius-Zlabys-2005-Van-Cliburn-International-Piano-Competition-P-MP3-Download/10902141.html
Beethoven Tempest sonata

http://www.emusic.com/album/Yunjie-Chen-2001-Van-Cliburn-International-Piano-Competition-P-MP3-Download/11075646.html
Mozart B-flat piano sonata, K.570

Bach Partita No. 5
http://www.emusic.com/album/Alexey-Koltakov-2005-Van-Cliburn-International-Piano-Competition-P-MP3-Download/10902140.html
Beethoven Sonata in D major, Op. 10, No. 3
Prokofiev Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82

http://www.emusic.com/album/Alexey-Koltakov-2001-Van-Cliburn-International-Piano-Competition-P-MP3-Download/11075702.html
Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 7

http://www.emusic.com/album/Maurizio-Baglini-2001-Van-Cliburn-International-Piano-Competition-S-MP3-Download/11075852.html
Schumann Carnaval, Op. 9

http://www.emusic.com/album/Ying-Feng-2005-Van-Cliburn-International-Piano-Competition-P-MP3-Download/10902148.html
Prokofiev Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82
Rachmaninoff-Horowitz Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36

Check other Van Cliburn competition discs for more. The sound quality on the Carnaval recording is poor btw.
  garzamayer Jun 8 at 1:34 AM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Here is the Sibelius Violin Concerto in one track (31 min):

http://www.emusic.com/album/Ang%C3%A8le-Dubeau-Concertos-For-Violin-Sibelius-Glazounov-Prokofi-MP3-Download/11208824.html
  RonanM Jun 10 at 5:40 AM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Here's an oddity for you: Shostakovich's re-orchestration of his pupil Boris Tischenko's cello concerto. The concerto was originally written for an highly unusual orchestra of brass and wind, percussion and harmonium. DSCH rescored it for conventional orchestra as a thirtieth birthday present to his pupil, which says how highly he thought of the music and, well, that he thought less of the orchestration.

Sample here.

Album, which also includes a fascinating and dark rescoring of the Schumann cello concerto, here
  frankiepop Jun 10 at 8:27 AM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by Katrina
Well, try this:

Rzewski: Coming Together

The prior track, Les Moutons de Panurge, is the perfect lead for Coming Together.
  mlstein Jun 10 at 2:50 PM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by frankiepop
One of Myaskovsky's greatest works, the single movement Symphony No. 21 just out in the Svetlanov recording. It's filled with his particular brand of introspective lyricism: a deeply moving slow movement wrapped around a vigorous allegro which features one of his best Big Tunes. Written, if you can believe this, for the 75th anniversary of the Chicago Symphony!
  RonanM Jun 28 at 11:06 AM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Some more Schumann - the Cello Concerto with Dimitri Ferschtman and a splendid recording of Schumann's most enigmatic work, the Humoreske , played on a period piano, much to the advantage of the music.

Perhaps the title 'Humoreske' doesn't prepare the listener for the fragmented, obsessive music which descends from melancholy to madness. There has to be some reason that the work is less highly-rated than Kreisleriana. Together they are a horrifying study of the mind close to breaking point.
  Melodia Jul 10 at 5:50 PM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
To bump this thread, I was gonna add the new Naxos recording of Michael Colgrass's Urban Requiem (interesting piece for sax quartet and wind ensemble). Upon searching, there seems to be another recording on Albany.

-Lala-
  PKLARREICH Jul 11 at 1:34 PM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by BenY
I hope you don't mind, but I shall send Arnie your kind comments about his music. [HowdoIknowhim?HeismybridgepartnerinBrooklyn,whereheisProfessorofMusicTheoryatKingsboroughCommunityCollege.]
  Timbre Jul 17 at 10:34 AM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Here are some one-track works I have encountered:

Strauss: Don Juan & Don Quixote (Previn/VPO)

Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (Shaw/Atlanta SO)

Stravinsky: The Firebird, Petrushka & Fireworks (Zinman/Baltimore SO)

Stravinsky: The Rite Of Spring (Goossens/LSO)

Bruckner: Te Deum (Karajan/VPO)
  mlstein Jul 28 at 9:24 AM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by Timbre
More Suk--his symphonic poem Ripening (as Gramophone put it, "of Straussian opulence and more than Straussian substance"), in a performance by the Czech Phil under Suk's friend and associate Vaclav Talich. Forty minutes of passion and beauty, only one download...
  PKLARREICH Aug 4 at 10:49 PM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
I am not sure this is on-topic (and if not, I apologize) but I have to ask this question: I see this album listing:

The Journey by Leon Fleisher

-- and these words after it:
* Free
* Pick

I suppose the word 'Pick' is a form of hype, but what about 'free'? Is this album offered free (in that I would not be charged for the downloads?)

If so, then this is a ZERO-TRACKS classical work. (Ugh! Bad form of humor. Another apology offered.)

  mommio Aug 5 at 8:19 AM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by PKLARREICH
Yes, Pick refers to an abum the editor thinks is particularly good. Watch out for Free. That means one or more tracks are free, and you will not be charged for downloading those specific tracks. In the case of this album, only the tracks on Disc 2 are free (always look for the Free by individual tracks). I didn't sample, but from the "We say" comment, it would appear to be parts of an interview with Fleisher.
  Eclectika Aug 5 at 2:44 PM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by Nereffid
First many thanks to Nereffid for "Island Maiden's Song from the Sea" brilliant! I was downloading before I even heard the entire sample. My contribution to the thread is Saint Saëns, The Carnival Of The Animals done by Andre Silotti in one track, (I hope I didn't miss it being mentioned) http://www.emusic.com/album/Andre-Silotti-Saint-Sa%C3%ABns-The-Carnival-Of-The-Animals-Piano-C-MP3-Download/10913402.html
  cebee Aug 6 at 7:09 AM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
http://www.emusic.com/album/Arturo-Toscanini-STRAUSS-Ein-Heldenleben-MOZART-Magic-Flute-Ove-MP3-Download/10947005.html

Others have mentioned the Previn/VPO Ein Heldenleben which is very good but this historical recording by Toscanini is electrifying and must rate as a 'one track wonder'.
  jimmosk Aug 14 at 12:33 AM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in direct response to the topic by Dvorak9NW
Mahler's unfinished Symphony #10 is a single huge Adagio. The entire five-movement symphony has since been reconstructed/completed, several times, but if you want to hear the part that Gustav himself finished (well, as far as he ever finished a work, given that he was given to constantly tinkering with his works), now you can for a single download. It lay hidden under the nondescript album title, "Symphonies".
  PKLARREICH Aug 24 at 10:28 AM EDT RE: One-Track Classical Works (1 TRACK PER WORK!!!)    
in response to the message by martenot
Another one: (I suppose it is common to put this sonata in one track.)

http://www.emusic.com/album/George-Emmanuel-Lazaridis-Liszt-Sonata-and-Grandes-Etudes-MP3-Download/11253549.html
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