Sibalius Symphony 2

Lalo Schifrin - Jazz Meets the Symphony Collection (1999) {4CD Set with Bonus CD Aleph Records Aleph 012 rec 1992-1998}
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© 1992-98, 1999 Aleph Records | Aleph 012 / 51702 63342
Jazz / Classical / Third Stream / Neo-Classical / Bop / Modern Post Bebop / Modern Arrangement

Here's yet another composer-performer who abhors the idea of building walls and fences between musical cultures. He's been carrying on parallel activities in the jazz and classical worlds ever since he was a youth in his native Argentina. Schifrin has composed a series of suites putting such jazz greats as Ray Brown and Grady Tate together with the London Philharmonic in a mix of originals, arrangements of standards, and several 13-14 minute tributes to the giants of jazz.

Lepo Sumera - Symphonies 1-3
Malmö Symphony Orchestra / Paavo Järvi
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Label/Cat#: BIS # BIS-CD-660 | Country/Year: Sweden 1994
Genre: Classical | Style: Contemporary, Modern

Lepo Sumera (8 May 1950 – 2 June 2000) was an Estonian composer and teacher. Considered one of Estonia's most renowned composers along with Heino Eller, Eduard Tubin and Arvo Pärt, he was also his country's Minister of Culture from 1988 to 1992 during the days of the Singing Revolution…

Schelomo receives its mead of barbarous splendour at the hands of Nelsova and Abravanel. The recording is a shade too warm but Nelsova (who recorded far too little) who studied the piece with the composer demonstrates her familiarity and sympathy with the piece. This is essential as Schelomo is one of those works that can easily seem nondescript if the artists involved are unengaged. In that sense it is rather like the Bax cello concerto (still awaiting its ideal exponent on disc). This is Nelsova's second, recording of the work. The feverish grip of the music is strongly asserted.

Born on 19th September 1911, Allan Pettersson was a singular voice in Swedish, and indeed European, 20th-century music. Raised in a poor neighbourhood in Stockholm, his first instrument was a fiddle made by one of his brothers from a tin box and some strings, and Pettersson immediately realized that music was his calling. In 1939 he won a place as viola player in what is today the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, but at this time …..

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, 1 violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelio…

Benjamin Frankel (1906-73) was a British composer best known for his film scores, but that is only one aspect of his output. Here are two symphonies, very impressive compositions which make use of atonal / serial techniques yet have clear themes and melodies, transparent scoring, and a direct emotional appeal. They are both strongly atmospheric, reflecting perhaps Frankel's skills as a film composer. The 2nd is a formidable, aggressively bleak work, suggestive of some sort of prolonged crisis. At times it threatens ……

Karl-Birger Blomdahl (1916-68), one of Sweden's greatest composers, is only now becoming better known–and mostly through these three symphonies. Taken together, these works, composed in the space of a decade, show Blomdahl's growth from a post-Romantic composer (Symphony 1, written in 1943) to a composer willing to take a few risks in tonality (Symphony 2, written in 1947)–and then some. His Symphony 3, written in 1950, leaps all the way into 12-tone techniques with his own dodecaphonic stylings …..

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