Favored Post-Sibelius Nordic Composer

[snyprrr]

Prompted by the Holmboe Thread...

Sibelius...

Kokkonon
Holmboe
early Norgard
Sallinen
Aho
:oSwedes

yea, I don't know what I'm doing here. Please, someone, take over ...

I like Sallinen the best at the time being. Holmboe just never fulfilled the 'it' that I needed, post-Sibelius No.7.

[Sergeant Rock]

Einojuhani Rautavaara

Sarge

[snyprrr]

Einojuhani Rautavaara

Sarge

OK, there's a good one. What are your top works?

[Sergeant Rock]

OK, there's a good one. What are your top works?

Symphonies 3, 7 and 8, "Daydreams" from Manhattan Trilogy, Autumn Gardens, Garden of Spaces, the Clarinet Concerto and, yes  ...Cantus Arcticus.

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Sarge, have you heard the Vigilia?  It's not Henning, but it is excellent nonetheless  0:)

[aukhawk]

Pettersson - starting with Symphony 7 - the Dorati recording if you can find it
Aho - try the Contrabassoon Concerto

[edited for spelling, silly me]

[Sergeant Rock]

Sarge, have you heard the Vigilia?  It's not Henning, but it is excellent nonetheless  0:)

Nothing's like Henning    but I won't hold that against him. And no, I have not heard it. In fact, I have none of Rautavaara's vocal music. I'll check it out.

Sarge

[Brian]

Copied over, light-heartedly, from the Purchases Today thread:

Kalevi Aho's arrangement of Flight of the Bumblebee for flute and orchestra is "genius! The solo line is almost completely untouched, but Aho adds some great contrapuntal solos to pit the flute against the other winds, and there are a few fun orchestral interjections that bring both menace and humor. Great big smile of a piece, uses almost the whole orchestra but is very light on its feet."

That said, I may not vote for Aho. Adon't know.

[Mirror Image]

Aho, Lindberg, Holmboe, Pettersson, and Rautavaara are my favorite post-Sibelius Nordic composers.

[Brian]

Wait! Late Atterberg counts, if we're using Sibelius' retirement as the cutoff rather than Sibelius' death.

But for me, in no particular order, Atterberg, Rautavaara, Aho, Sallinen, Holmboe, and the talented family of Herman, Benjamin, and Anders Koppel. I look forward to exploring more music by Geirr Tveitt; first impressions were good. I dislike the Lindberg I've heard.

[12tone.]

Is Holmboe atonal?  I think his SQs are eh?

[pjme]

http://youtube.com/v/kC-BUUx13CM


Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen is just irresistible .

P.

[Karl Henning]

Well, Leningrad Cowboys, naturally

http://www.youtube.com/v/SRvL11JdNBE

[Brian]

Well, Leningrad Cowboys, naturally

ABBA

[pjme]

Per Norgard: symphony nr. 8

http://www.youtube.com/v/gyIkRY5Bmks

P.

[pjme]

Norwegian folkmusic can be ...wonderful.

http://youtube.com/v/72hbEpWZfY0

Jan Garbarek and the voice of Agnes Buen Garnås.

I do like the mellifluous Arve Moen Bergset aswell.

http://youtube.com/v/ltSoQfWzF7Y

P.

[pencils]

Aho, Lindberg, Holmboe, Pettersson, and Rautavaara are my favorite post-Sibelius Nordic composers.

Well, pretty much what he said, in the main, with Norgard.

*and Rosenberg* ... shhhh..

[Karl Henning]

ABBA

Thank you for the music

http://www.youtube.com/v/4lrqs_ViPS8

[Sergeant Rock]

http://youtube.com/v/kC-BUUx13CM


Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen is just irresistible .

P.

White Men Can't Jump Dance 

Sarge

[pjme]

Of course.

But I still like that little clip very much. The music is as invigorating as Le sacre and Pelle's movements are really "real". He "is" his music and enjoys it.

That is how I see and hear it.

P.