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Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Ture Rangström - Symphony No. 1 (Michail Jurowski)


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Composer: Ture Rangström
  1. Dityramb
  2. Symphony No. 1 in C sharp minor "August Strindberg in memoriam": I. Jäsnigstid: Allegro entusiastico
  3. Symphony No. 1 in C sharp minor "August Strindberg in memoriam": II. Legend: Andante serioso
  4. Symphony No. 1 in C sharp minor "August Strindberg in memoriam": III. Trollruna: Sostenuto. Presto turbulento
  5. Symphony No. 1 in C sharp minor "August Strindberg in memoriam": IV. Kamp: Allegro eroico
  6. Vårhymn

Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
Michail Jurowski, conductor

Date: 1995
Label: cpo

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Review

ARTISTIC QUALITY: 8 / SOUND QUALITY: 9

Swedish composer Ture Rangström (1884–1947), a contemporary of Sibelius and Nielsen, was largely self-taught and defiantly independent in his approach to symphonic composition. Though well versed in counterpoint and sonata principles, Rangström largely rejected these techniques in favor of his own, which emphasized content over form, and drama over development. While there’s no doubting the dramatic and narrative power of the music, the lack of true counterpoint (his themes are not harmonically interrelated or contrasted, but rather blatantly juxtaposed) makes them ultimately unsatisfying as symphonies but perfectly suitable, as, for example, film scores, or as multi-movement symphonic poems (poets were his main inspiration). Viewed in that context they are highly effective. Those familiar with the music of Howard Hanson will have a good idea of the character of Rangström’s music, though his structures are looser and his orchestral style perhaps closer to fellow Swede Wilhelm Stenhammar. The far-flung, and super-heated Symphony No. 1 (a memorial to the poet August Strindberg) is aptly coupled to the symphonic poem Dithyramb (which is vaguely reminiscent of Strauss’s Don Juan) and the Spring Hymn. The similarly pot-boiling Symphony No.2 shares its disc with the surprisingly restrained Intermezzo dramatico, which is a pleasant sounding suite based on modal tunes. Symphony No. 3, Song under the Stars, is in one subdivided movement and is the most bombastic and least convincing of the four. The Invocatio symphony occupies a calmer, more meditative air than the other three, and features telling use of the organ. The Norrköping Symphony Orchestra plays as if they really believe in this music, as well they might under Michail Jurowski’s consistently inspired conducting. CPO captures these mostly massive scores, orchestrated for maximum visceral impact, in a large, well detailed acoustic.

-- Victor Carr Jr, ClassicsToday
reviewing CPO 999 748-2 - RANGSTRÖM: Complete Symphonies

More reviews:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2000/Oct00/rangstrom.htm
http://www.classicalcdreview.com/rangstrom.htm
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ture-Rangstrom-Symphony-Dityramb-Vrhymn/dp/B000001S0N

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Ture Rangström (30 November 1884 – 11 May 1947) was a Swedish composer. He studied under Hans Pfitzner in Berlin, and with Julius Hey in Munich. Rangström belonged to a new generation of Swedish composers who in the first decade of the 20th century introduced modernism to their compositions. Rangström started to write songs in his late teens, and follow the success of his early symphonic poems, composed four symphonies, three operas. Rangström also wrote almost 300 songs and orchestrated about 60 of them. In addition to composing, he was also a musical critic and conductor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ture_Rangstr%C3%B6m

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Michail Jurowski (born 25 December 1945 in Moscow) is a Russian conductor. He is the son of Soviet composer Vladimir Jurowski (1915-1972), and the father of Russian conductor Vladimir Jurowski (b. 1972). Jurowski studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Lev Ginzburg and Alexey Kandinsky, and also worked as assistant to Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Jurowski was music director and principal conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie (1992-1998), the Leipzig Opera (1999-2001), and the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln (2006-2008). He is currently principal guest conductor of the Sinfonia Iuventus in Warsaw.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Jurowski
https://imgartists.com/roster/michail-jurowski/

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