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Veale: Symphony 2
Rootham: Symphony 2
The Veale is a powerful work showing, I think, some influence of Shostakovich. The Rootham completed in his final days and the last part dictated to his friend Patrick Hadley has the most unbearably moving final pages - a beautiful work and unsurprisingly quite different to his energetic and tuneful First Symphony.
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Veale: Symphony 2
Rootham: Symphony 2
The Veale is a powerful work showing, I think, some influence of Shostakovich. The Rootham completed in his final days and the last part dictated to his friend Patrick Hadley has the most unbearably moving final pages - a beautiful work and unsurprisingly quite different to his energetic and tuneful First Symphony.
Have you read the thread I started about the Veale No2, Jeffrey? Not for the first time ;D it looks as if we are in complete agreement! |
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Christo
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Veale: Symphony 2
Rootham: Symphony 2
The Veale is a powerful work showing, I think, some influence of Shostakovich. The Rootham completed in his final days and the last part dictated to his friend Patrick Hadley has the most unbearably moving final pages - a beautiful work and unsurprisingly quite different to his energetic and tuneful First Symphony. I came to appreciate the Veale 2 just as highly as you do; big surprise of course. 8) Many thanks for alerting me again to the new Rootham. I must confess that Rootham 1 didn't make as big an impression on me than it did on you - in an earlier phase of your life, if I'm not mistaken :) - but it's certainly music that I can love unconditionally and I'll try the Second ASAP. |
… 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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Great addiction
] All seven composers are rather unknown - at least to me. What do you think are the most interesting pieces in this collection? [BTW strange typo in 'Palaestina'] Dear Christo Spratley together Gregson and Derek Bourgeois is a well known composer of brass music.IMHO here could be Ketelbey's exoticism echoes Gareth Glyn was in Naxos cd of Welsh music heavily influenced from folk music. David Lyon's Piano Concerto is a conservative work like this: Anthony Hedges is a quite established composer of "light music" with various recording on Naxos and Asv Bryan Kelly was a Gordon Jacob's student IMHO influenced from him. Best Great to learn and great to hear, many thanks! :) |
… 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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It's probably cheating to name a radio station as my 'discovery' of the year - and I'm afraid for American colleagues, & probably a few others besides, Q2 radio from WQXR New York isn't that amazing at all. But for an ignorant Brit, it's the best constant 'contemporary' station I've encountered.....unless of course anyone knows better ? http://www.wqxr.org/#!/series/q2/ Happy New Year listening to all ! |
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M. Yaskovsky
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The 8 symphonies by Miroslav Kabelac on Supraphon
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Christo
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The symphonic music of Norwegian Eivind Groven (1901-1977), especially:
Symphony No. 1, Op. 26: Innover viddene ('Towards the Mountains') (1938, rev. 1951)
Symphony No. 2, Op. 34: Midnattstimen ('The midnight hour') (1946)
Symfoniske slåttar No. 1, Op. 43 (1956)
Faldafeykir No. 2 (Symfoniske slåttar No. 2), Op. 53 (1965)
Draumkvædet (for soloists, choir and orchestra) Op. 51 (1963)
Not the 'greatest' composer that I know, but one that I highly enjoy for his melodious and imaginative writing (not dissimilar to Geir Tveitt in times).
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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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Groven was also known for his experiments in perfect tuning. He even had built a perfectly tuned organ for his home in Oslo, I was there for a concert in the late 70ies. I like the BIS CD of the symphonies a lot, you should try the BIS CD of von Koch symphonies, I find a lot of similarities.
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Groven was also known for his experiments in perfect tuning. He even had built a perfectly tuned organ for his home in Oslo, I was there for a concert in the late 70ies. I like the BIS CD of the symphonies a lot, you should try the BIS CD of von Koch symphonies, I find a lot of similarities. Great to learn about your personal experiences with Groven! Also many thanks for the tip, Erland von Koch is on my radar since long, but I hesitated to buy the symphonies. Will oblige now. :) |
… 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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Have this one; do you like it? |
… 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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Toby Esterhase
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His flamboyant piano concerto would deserve a new performance  |
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