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For me it's all about Lee Holdridge's VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 2. Especially the first movement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5h4iIY0_iE
Wow, so glad to have had this recommended; just received a copy (seems to be available readily on CD from Amazon), what a terrific work. Highly recommended.
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I would like to hear your recommendations about classical compositions written by film composers. I’m thinking of including composers who are mostly known for their work in film music. However I realize many golden age composers have a classical background, and many predominantly classical composers have written film scores as well.
Here are some of mine:
Herrmann – Clarinet Quintet “Souvenirs de voyage”
Kilar – Orawa
Korngold – Violin Concerto
Morricone – Varianti Su Un Segnale Di Polizia
Herrmann _ For The Fallen
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There's also Benjamin Frankel's "Violin Concerto", which he devoted to the memory to the six million Jews who died in the concentration camps.
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Can't say it's classical, but I found this on ASCAP under Morton Stevens:
SYMPHONY 6 (PATHETIQUE)
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Oh, I just stumbled upon this, quite interesting. A Deutsche Grammophon release with music by Krzysztof Penderecki and John Williams, who are/were roughly the same age (Penderecki was a year younger). It's interesting because that was long before John Williams became a household-name famous (film) composer (the album is from 1970), he was just starting out. It seems this has officially only been released on LP, not on CD, not digitally for streaming/download?
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Stanley Myers composed a saxophone concerto for John Harle, recorded in the early 90s along with sax concertos by Richard Rodney Bennett and Michael Torke.
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Can't say it's classical, but I found this on ASCAP under Morton Stevens:
SYMPHONY 6 (PATHETIQUE)
Symphony 6 "Pathetique"? May be referring to the Tchaikovsky symphony?
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Some British composers I admire that I don't think have been mentioned. I'm not sure how much they divide between concert and film, but I know them all for both.
Alan Rawsthorne - I especially like his piano concertos and Concerto for strings. A good deal of his non-film music is on Chandos and Naxos (and I don't know where else) - a bit austere mid- 20th century compared to his film music, but very much to my taste.
Benjamin Frankel - I've enjoyed his symphonies and other orchestral works, again sterner stuff than his film music but not too thorny.
Humphrey Searle - When I'm in the mood for mid-century 12-tone or atonal symphonies, he's my guy! Quite thorny but I still find it listenable.
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I usually don't like when film composers write so called "classical" music because somehow it seems to me all they try is to avoid their usual melodic style at all costs and most of the times the result is some abstract non-melodic music, which I'm not that keen on.
No reason for you to be keen on it, but I think if I were a prominent film composer, I'd use my concert pieces as an opportunity to do things I don't get to do in my film scores. I wouldn't take it as a rejection of their film style, but rather a chance to use different creative muscles.
While I think there are many melodic "classical" pieces by film composers (violin concertos by Korngold and Rozsa, for starters), I do know what you mean.
I remember looking forward to a symphonic album by the pop songwriter Joe Jackson, who had a great talent for catchy melodic songs, and being disappointed because he seemed to abandon that melodic gift in favor of what he might have perceived as serious music.
Also, Frank Zappa, who has composed one unforgettable melody after another (the man's creative gifts were boundless) composed very abstract orchestral music not unlike that of one of his idols, Edgard Varese. The Zappa orchestral works are wonderful but like Schiffy pointed out, Zappa's focus was elsewhere.
A Zappa orchestral piece, "Strictly Genteel," is extremely melodic. He first recorded it in the seventies with a smaller orchestra (David Raksin conducted it in rehearsels) and then in the eighties with the LSO. A remarkable piece.
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