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Sorry, these irritatingly short samples were freely available on a major retailer's website when I put them together here.

That's great news! Good luck and I hope it all works out very well for you. Thankyou so much for bringing Melartin's music back to life! 🙂

Yes ! the first concerts were appreciated and we are eager to play it again in September. But who are you ? a musician ?

That sounds great Laurence! Most of Melartin's works remain unpublished and have been performed using copies of the original scores. In many cases these are now in very poor condition and have been scribbled on and altered over the years. But you could try downloading and printing from this link... imslp.org/wiki/3_String_Quartets%2C_Op.36_(Melartin%2C_Erkki)

@@julianarculus2142 Thank you very much for the answer. Too bad, but I knew this handwritten score on IMSLP, impossible to work with, for me. How is it possible that such a marvelous peace of music has been no longer be printed ?

@@Duo2G Not sure if this is any better ~ appeared to be a printed, published score by Edition Tilli, but on closer inspection (see their "Promotional Download") I can't vouch for its accuracy, or usability... core.musicfinland.fi/works/jousikvartetto-nro-1-1306feec-e4c0-4e88-9d99-fbfc307c5350 nuotisto.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/store/d20edfd35ff1a1093fcd33a39ba2df90115b4fc52105ccfa04a579f6092c

I've never heard RVW channeled so authentically and effectively. The piece is indeed obviously inspired by, and has echoes of "The Lark Ascending," while still remaining a unique work. It has an elegaic quality to it, augmented by the bell sound toward the coda. I wonder what VW himself thougnt of it when he heard it, as I assume he must have done. Hopefully, that imitation---or at least inspiration!----truly is the sincerest form of flattery (or at least appreciation). I am unfamiliar with the composer; you mention this piece is completely different from anything else he wrote. That seems a great pity, as he seems to have a gift and genuine feeling for this style and mood of composition. And so many who possessed these things died so young, who knows what they were robbed of writing and we of hearing?

@@marijeangalloway1560 He wrote a mass and requiem, vast in scale, both in the Germanic mode. I was given broadcast tape copies many years ago by the composers son. Interesting listening, but I felt all very uninspiring. He wrote a Worcestshire suite for strings which is all very commonplace. On Bredon Hill was his moment.

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Hi Pietro, sorry, this is all I can find! Only a fraction of Melartin's works were published in his lifetime, and many performances are based on photocopies of worn-out and much-altered original manuscripts used in performances conducted by Melartin and later by his associates and pupils. I've noticed that until relatively recently it was very rare to find recordings of complete substantial works by him ~ usually only short works or selected movements from larger ones, on compilation discs with several better-known Finnish or Scandinavian composers. There's no evidence of this recording appearing on CD or LP, but it will almost certainly have been broadcast on Finnish radio within the last 30 years.

@@julianarculus2142 Thanks a lot. I just listened to his 6 symphonies and violin concerto. Great music, actually. I am sure he will capture more interest going forward. Happy New Year!hanks a lot. I just listened to his 6 symphonies and violin concerto. Great music, actually. I am sure he will capture more interest going forward. Happy New Year!

I was wrong. It is available :)

That's because his name isn't Mozart, Beethoven or Bach. It's also a matter of commercial appeal for the unwashed, unaware listeners.

Then it might hearten you to learn that I only found out about him through Radio 3: his "Marionettes" were played recently on "Through the Night". I'd never heard of Melartin before, and indeed, one of the reasons I still listen to the radio is to discover works I otherwise wouldn't.

Many thanks for passing this on. I still listen to Radio 3, but I find more interesting music here these days. @@TheDukeOfWaltham

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Only the Sixth Symphony was published in Melartin's lifetime, the others existed in increasingly degraded copies, much annotated, modified and re-modified over the decades by conductors for performance... resulting in much uncertainty and confusion. In recent years, the Erkki Melartin Society has put great effort into a project to produce clean accurate scores of the Symphonies. This has been a slow and painstaking process, one of the first fruits of which was their new, most authentic version of the Third Symphony (you will find this among my TH-cam videos). Now, I find they have been making excellent progress; (GoogleTranslate) June 2019; "The Erkki Melartin Society's project to transcribe Melartin's symphonies is nearing completion. Symphony No. 2 has now been published , Op. 30, No. 2, in E minor , whose score and preface can be found on the Sheet Music page. The transcription work has been done by graphic designer Jani Kyllönen . After this, there is only Symphony No. 6 left, which was the only one published while Melartin was still alive. Like other symphonies, it will also be reviewed and published in 2019-2020. erkkimelartin.fi/em/

@@julianarculus2142 How interesting! It's a pity I could not get one of my friends involved. She was Pierre Boulez's musical copyist, but she died of an infection she caught at the hospital.

@@feraudyh While they say "The Devil has the best tunes" I wager Boulez's music would not have been deemed Heavenly enough for him to have been received at the Pearly Gates. Some poor soul in Hell has already been assigned your sadly departed friend's job, for the next 1000 years...

@@julianarculus2142 She was also responsible for some other composers like Gilbert Amy and possibly Luciano Berio.