Tone Poems

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Jaakko Keskinen

Quote from: vandermolen on June 22, 2018, 01:47:11 PM
Agree with many of these. No 'Tapiola'?  :o

I still like Tapiola but nowadays, while I respect enormously the way the motives develop, I find the instrumentation a bit dull. Nothing personal.
"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo

Jaakko Keskinen

Damn, just realized I forgot to mention Saint-Saƫns's Danse macabre.
"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo