Message #16154

[Christo]

Played, urged by some of you here, the Erkki Melartin symphonic cycle, during the last weeks. Though the idiom is a little bit too romantic to my taste - for similar reasons I didn't surrender completely to the even more 'brazen romantic' Atterberg, a few years ago when the Swede was the talk of the day in fora like these  ;D - I love the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth especially. Almost like a 'better', saner and wiser and more humane, Mahler.  8)
Hope to follow the lead by some of the more adventurous here in discovering other new composers. Many thanks to all who helped me discover Melartin!