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Christo,
Thank you for your interest. I am proceeding slowly with these symphonies. I only owned Symphony Four, which I really like. So Far, I can tell you two is amazing...Now tackling three....But Roger interrupted me (with pleasure I might add) to "The Flying Dutchman", which I am on my third attempt to listen but keep getting interrupted.....
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Christo
Regarding John Kinsella, I only own one disc a MP with Symphonies 3&4. I very much like the third.....very easy tonal music. Kind of reminds me of Sibelius....Please let me know how you feel about the others....
Robert
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On this XMAS day
Norgard Symphony 3
Schmidt Symphony 4
Rubbra Symphony 4
Holmboe Symhony 8
Peterson Symphony 7
Myaskovsky Symphony 21
Saariaho Graal Theatre, Du Cristal
Robert
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Christo
Regarding John Kinsella, I only own one disc a MP with Symphonies 3&4. I very much like the third.....very easy tonal music. Kind of reminds me of Sibelius....Please let me know how you feel about the others....
Robert Great to learn! Yes, the Third, aptly named 'Joie de Vivre' because that's what it sounds like, is a great symphony and was a real 'discovery' fifteen years ago. But I hold the others in a similar high esteem, especially Nos. 6, 7, 9, 10 and also the Fourth on the same Marco Polo cd (darker and less "easy" than the Third perhaps, but that is because each of Kinsella's ten symphonies has something unique to say, though most are just as communicate as the Third.) If you have a chance, find the Irish composers cd with Nos. 6 and 7.
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… music is not only an `entertainment’, nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found. RVW, 1948
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Richard Wetz, Symphony 2
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I am currently listening to Ferenc Erkel's (1810-1893) opera Bank Ban. Sadly I had never heard anything of Erkel's until today - many claim that Bank Ban is the centrepiece of the Hungarian operatic repertoire. Erkel was the Director of the Hungarian Academy of Music, when it was first established.
Sadly the performance on radio is poorly sung :((
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I am presently listening to an old favorite
Jack Gallagher The Persistence Of Memory Betty Beath Lagu Lagu Manis Mary Mageau The Furies
New Music for Orchestra Vienna Music Masters...
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Enjoying having discovered Geghuni Chitchyan 1929-, Armenian woman composer on YouTube. Somewhat on light side, though Concerto for Voice and Orchestra and Violin Concerto very nice.
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Again: Kinsella, this time his Tenth Symphony (2010). A bit enigmatic, using a chamber orchestra with 'symphonic' aspirations, at the same time as genuinely 'Kinsella' as ever before. ;)
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Back to Holmboe once again, Symphonies Nos. 11, 12 and 13. I saw the score of the Thirteenth, soon to be dedicated to Orwain Orwell Hughes, on the piano on my visit to the Holmboes in early August, 1994.
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… music is not only an `entertainment’, nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found. RVW, 1948
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...any thoughts on the Sym #3 with Sten Frykberg conducting on BIS Hi dhibbard. It is thanks to Mr Frykberg that we can hear this unpublished work, which strikes me as the best of Larsson's symphonies. Frykberg certainly has the measure of it, but the (live) performance is scrappy, the winds sometimes out of tune and the strings undernourished. As for the symphony itself, the first movement, in triple time, is clearly reminiscent of Nielsen's Espansiva, but it's the diction and rhetoric that stem from Nielsen, not the tunes themselves. The finale similarly sounds as though the composer has paid attention to Prokofiev's works of the previous decade -- though by no means slavishly so. The overall impression is of a well wrought work by an eclectic composer who definitely has something to say. Not quite as consistent a voice as, say, Dag Wiren. And nothing like the penetrating power of Vagn Holmboe and Eduard Tubin. But a fine musical companion.
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after reading some of the recommendations about Skold I decided to get his Symphony No 2/Violin concerto on Amazon. Its the Phono Suecia label.
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I'm having another listen to THE KING GOES FORTH TO FRANCE. I'd forgotten what a really fantastic opera this is :)
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...any thoughts on the Sym #3 with Sten Frykberg conducting on BIS Hi dhibbard. It is thanks to Mr Frykberg that we can hear this unpublished work, which strikes me as the best of Larsson's symphonies. Frykberg certainly has the measure of it, but the (live) performance is scrappy, the winds sometimes out of tune and the strings undernourished. As for the symphony itself, the first movement, in triple time, is clearly reminiscent of Nielsen's Espansiva, but it's the diction and rhetoric that stem from Nielsen, not the tunes themselves. The finale similarly sounds as though the composer has paid attention to Prokofiev's works of the previous decade -- though by no means slavishly so. The overall impression is of a well wrought work by an eclectic composer who definitely has something to say. Not quite as consistent a voice as, say, Dag Wiren. And nothing like the penetrating power of Vagn Holmboe and Eduard Tubin. But a fine musical companion. Thank you Chill319 yes I noticed that the recording was rather rough.. almost like a youth orchestra .....and the placement of the microphones were not optimal. Oh well, better to have a recording than nothing at all.
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Toby Esterhase
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He had a romantic "elan"IMHO his untimely Death was a real loss
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