Delightful! Many thanks for posting this. Wouldn't it be nice if a Potter symphony were performed at a certain major British music festival. Fat chance, alas!
Much as I dislike aspects of the Proms (it does draw a _singular_ crowd), they have programmed less well-known pieces on occasion, and usually British ones. So you might yet be surprised.
The most remarkable movement is the scherzo which seems to anticipate both Brahms & Bruckner. Stylistic elements from Beethoven, Schubert, Rossini & Meyerbeer are taken & forged into a style & manner that are very individual. Among his contemporaries Berwald shows a similar individuality.
As I'm doing some work on my computer I'm taking in this symphony. I'm not one to fall for every unfamiliar piece of music, but this is very attractive music, much as his Third symphony was. It would be great if Chandos, cpo, or Hyperion committed themselves to a Potter symphony cycle. Is that asking for too much? Many thanks to Bom Cabedal for his enterprise in presenting this to us.
The ones I have, beside the ones you mention, are the two I uploaded and another recording of No. 8, which I'm not going to upload because it is available commercially.
I'm not entirely sure. A friend of mine burned me CDs of several Potter symphonies, and I believe his source was commercial CDs, but I'm not sure what the label was. Perhaps if you search online you can find some on Amazon.com. I often get movement titles there.
If I'm not mistaken the performers are the BBC Ulster Orchestra conducted by Hilary Davan Wetton. The movements are: I. Moderato assai - Allegro II. Andante III. Scherzo: Allegro IV. Finale: Presto
What were those other symphonies, if I may ask? If I anticipate you properly, these would be partly from the Unicorn-Kanchana recording of nos. 8 & 10, as well as the Classico recording of no. 7, which is paired with the G-minor symphony of Sterndale Bennett. Were there any others that your friend made recordings of for you? I'm really beginning to wonder how many of Potter's symphonies have actually been recorded. I used to think it was only those 3.
Wonderful ! I've always loved the composers of the so-called "common practice" period. Arguably starting with Haydn and ended with Brahms. This music uses the traditional harmonic language I learned in Music School. Not derivative at all ! The usual attempt to find similarities with other better known composers is foolish. A common language does not mean lack of originality, as witnessed by this great work.
There is often a bit of distortion in hindsight, where we only remember the best-known member of a circle and think everyone else just copied them - Brahms is a good example. There is a lot of uniqueness and great skill in his music, but the overall language is something he shared with many others (Fuchs, Bruch, Herzogenberg, Dietrich, Gernsheim, etc.) and to dismiss them all as just "derivative" is doing an injustice both to them and to Brahms himself.
Wonderful stuff! A shame that this is so rarely performed.
Never heard of him, but this is really wonderful---thank you so much!
This composer had it alllll together for this work.
All his symphonies are pretty tight like this - nice and solid.
Delightful! Many thanks for posting this. Wouldn't it be nice if a Potter symphony were performed at a certain major British music festival. Fat chance, alas!
Much as I dislike aspects of the Proms (it does draw a _singular_ crowd), they have programmed less well-known pieces on occasion, and usually British ones. So you might yet be surprised.
The most remarkable movement is the scherzo which seems to anticipate both Brahms & Bruckner. Stylistic elements from Beethoven, Schubert, Rossini & Meyerbeer are taken & forged into a style & manner that are very individual. Among his contemporaries Berwald shows a similar individuality.
My first reaction was literally 'this sounds like Rossini composing symphonies'.
:) thank you...i love you your channel...this music is very cool! blessings!
As I'm doing some work on my computer I'm taking in this symphony. I'm not one to fall for every unfamiliar piece of music, but this is very attractive music, much as his Third symphony was. It would be great if Chandos, cpo, or Hyperion committed themselves to a Potter symphony cycle. Is that asking for too much? Many thanks to Bom Cabedal for his enterprise in presenting this to us.
I think I have this one too. I'll try to get the movements to you before the end of the month.
Exceptional!
The ones I have, beside the ones you mention, are the two I uploaded and another recording of No. 8, which I'm not going to upload because it is available commercially.
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I'm not entirely sure. A friend of mine burned me CDs of several Potter symphonies, and I believe his source was commercial CDs, but I'm not sure what the label was. Perhaps if you search online you can find some on Amazon.com. I often get movement titles there.
If I'm not mistaken the performers are the BBC Ulster Orchestra conducted by Hilary Davan Wetton. The movements are:
I. Moderato assai - Allegro
II. Andante
III. Scherzo: Allegro
IV. Finale: Presto
+James Levee Hi James, can you tell me where you got that information? Is there a CD with that performance?
A friend of ours burned and sent me a CD with that information on it. He coupled it with the Dræseke 3rd. I'm sure it came from a reliable source.
Thanks. It's just that I don't want to put material on TH-cam that is commercially available. Thank you for the information.
I don't think it is. I could find it nowhere else.
What were those other symphonies, if I may ask? If I anticipate you properly, these would be partly from the Unicorn-Kanchana recording of nos. 8 & 10, as well as the Classico recording of no. 7, which is paired with the G-minor symphony of Sterndale Bennett. Were there any others that your friend made recordings of for you? I'm really beginning to wonder how many of Potter's symphonies have actually been recorded. I used to think it was only those 3.
Can you identify the recording from which this work and Potter's Third originated? I had never heard of these particular works being recorded.
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I will be exceedingly grateful if someone could point me to a score of his Bravura Variations on a theme by Rossini
Wonderful ! I've always loved the composers of the so-called "common practice" period. Arguably starting with Haydn and ended with Brahms.
This music uses the traditional harmonic language I learned in Music School. Not derivative at all ! The usual attempt to find similarities with
other better known composers is foolish. A common language does not mean lack of originality, as witnessed by this great work.
There is often a bit of distortion in hindsight, where we only remember the best-known member of a circle and think everyone else just copied them - Brahms is a good example. There is a lot of uniqueness and great skill in his music, but the overall language is something he shared with many others (Fuchs, Bruch, Herzogenberg, Dietrich, Gernsheim, etc.) and to dismiss them all as just "derivative" is doing an injustice both to them and to Brahms himself.