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Anyone know / like this composer / music?; Wilhelm Stenhammar 1871-1927
Topic Started: Dec 19 2006, 07:43 PM (97 Views)
David Burton
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Was listening over the weekend to an anthology of his orchestral music, particularly liked his first symphony, which the composer eventually came to hate so much that he denouced it in favor of his later creations.
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George K
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I am totally unfamiliar with this composer, so I went over to Amazon to have a look/listen. The snippet of the 1st movement of Symphony #1 reminded me a bit of Mahler, with a heavy (very heavy) dose of Bruckner thrown in. You know the old joke about Bruckner: he wrote the same symphony nine times. However, I didn't get this feeling with Stenhammer, and the short cuts I listened to were intriguing.

I've been listening to some lesser known composers lately (or at least not as famous: Alkan, early Classic period, etc, and none of them captivated me. Perhaps Stenhammer will. What anthology would you recommend, David?
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AlbertaCrude
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Not at all familiar with Stenhammer.

Anyone here ever listened to any music by Sir Arnold Bax? A bit like Vaughn Williams, Elgar and Sibelius but with a definite Celtic lyricism.
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David Burton
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George K
Dec 19 2006, 07:55 PM
What anthology would you recommend, David?

Product Details
Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Audio CD (February 13, 1996)
Number of Discs: 2
Label: Polygram Records
ASIN: B000001GP5

Yes basically he starts from being a Bruckner / Mahler post-Wagnerian, but I kept listening to the first symphony more than any of the rest. Maybe I like the style, but there was something else there too, an honest human yearning that perhaps he felt was not reserved enough - Swedes prefer to be reserved, even a bit dour by most other's standards. The compositional craftsmanship as well as the playing on some of these recordings was compelling - some of the nicest writing for massed horns since Wagner, maybe better than Wagner ever managed.

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David Burton
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AlbertaCrude
Dec 19 2006, 08:15 PM
Not at all familiar with Stenhammer.

Anyone here ever listened to any music by Sir Arnold Bax? A bit like Vaughn Williams, Elgar and Sibelius but with a definite Celtic lyricism.

Yeah, another really good composer too, that nobody knows about
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