Please recommend some Late-Romanticism

Started by ComposerOfAvantGarde, January 22, 2017, 06:50:38 PM

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mc ukrneal

Quote from: Mahlerian on January 23, 2017, 08:42:26 AM

I'm going to surprise myself by being the first to mention Korngold, who in his pre-Hollywood period especially was a very accomplished and serious composer.
Who became less accomplished and less serious when he went to Hollywood?!?!   ::)

I was thinking Laangaard's first symphony. Of those not mentioned, there is also Alfven, Bortkiewicz, Godowsky, Medtner, and Coleridge-Taylor. Pierne may be too modern, but I think he fits that late romantic style for the most part.
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Monsieur Croche

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Daverz

Suk: Asrael; Ripening; A Summer's Tale
Gliere: Ilya Murometz

Zeus

#23

If I understand you correctly, sounds like you're looking for a little more adventurous late romantic...

Anything Durosoir

The Chinese Symphony of Van Dieren

Langgaard - The Time of the End

Malipiero.

Oh and Jean Cras is always great.

Actually, I have no idea if these are what you're looking for. But they are mostly great anyway.
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Monsieur Croche

Whatever the more modern harmonic vocabulary, this seems to be wholly made of almost nothing but romantic gestures.  A composer with more than two feet in a number of camps...
Florent Schmitt:
Symphonie Concertante, Op.82
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50H94eSNqkM
Psaume XLVII

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3RNRzhKhwY

Some blazing flashes of the more obvious and well-known.  Add to your list Scriabin's lush eccentricities!

The premiere of Le Poème de l'Extase was a private performance attended by an invited audience of composers, artists and literati.  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was in attendance, and commented about Scriabin, "He is half-mad!"  I think at that time in Scriabin's life, Nikolai's comment was spot-on.  If you never listened to these Scriabin works all the way through, their quirks and excesses will make you smile, frown, laugh and cry, lol.

Scriabin:
Le Poème de l'Extase op. 54

https://www.youtube.com/v/BWINpXNd5KE
Prométhée ou le Poème du feu op. 60
https://www.youtube.com/v/6osJBtQRjoY

IF you haven't gotten around to Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht, Op 4 in its original string sextet format... (the only way I care to hear it.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEhkC9lMe2A

and this quintessential late romantic ditty, in my favored Bruno Walter recording, with perfect tempi, clarity, balance -- the singers quite fine, and not engineered so 'forward,' as is the case with far too many a recording with vocal or instrumental soloists.
Mahler ~ Das Lied von der Erde
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmayU9gWB6Q



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pjme

#26
An unknown gem from Croatia: Sunny fields by Blagoje Bersa. This is music that will appeal to those who love Mahler, Richard Strauss,Respighi and Szymanowski.

https://www.youtube.com/v/8tQKZGgz5lU

Difficult to find a recording...



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pjme

Browsing through my cds, I found some music by Johan Wagenaar. Maybe not the most "personal" sounding music, but it is really brillant and superbly orchestrated.


Some good examples:

https://www.youtube.com/v/tFJHHF3aOEQ

https://www.youtube.com/v/-X7xPg1AoBg

https://www.youtube.com/v/5hb_-B3alZ0

P.

relm1

#28
Rued Langgaard's Symphony No. 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCS8hUZXJ-g

Siegmund von HAUSEGGER's Nature Symphony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm716VRpX5E

Alfredo Casella symphony no. 1 and 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk7eqDwQz9E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDslVGf7OTQ

How do you get a link to be an embedded youtube video?


vandermolen

Quote from: Daverz on January 24, 2017, 03:19:31 PM
Suk: Asrael; Ripening; A Summer's Tale
Gliere: Ilya Murometz
+1
Also maybe some early Miaskovsky (try Symphony 3)
Vaughan Williams's A Sea Symphony, A London Symphony
Bloch: Symphony in C.
Maximilian Steinberg: Symphony 2
Novak: In the Tatra Mountains.
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RebLem

#32
I'd like to second Spineur's recommendation that you explore the music of Frank Bridge.  He was Benjamin Britten's most important teacher and mentor, as well as being a very  fine composer in his own right.  Elgar and Vaughan Williams are people you should explore.  One composer I didn't see mentioned here is Karol Szymanowski, another is Leos Janacek.  And although he is a little early for your timeline, I would suggest you might want to investigate the chamber music of Max Bruch.  I am not very excited about his much more famous concerti and symphonies, but his chamber music is truly amazing.  In fact, I find that I am constantly impressed by the lesser known works of already recognizably great composers--Schubert's Masses & Dvorak's Cypresses among them.  Also, Wilhelm Stenhammar's six string quartets, and, of course, Camille Saint-Saens, whose last published work (1924, I believe) was an oboe sonata.  People think he died much sooner than he actually did!
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