Thanks, Martin, for enabling us to hear Prout's music. It's very academic-sounding, but has plenty of energy. He's part of our musical history, so we needed to know what we were missing. I'm very grateful for all your hard work.
@@martinrobertwalsh Yes, I take your point. It's important to know that his detractors were largely right - but I'm glad to have the evidence of this fine computer rendering because so often history is wrong, as your work so regularly proves!
Nicely done! Beautiful with the score. Are you going to attempt the same with his other three symphonies? I really like this one. And I think they deserve to be heard. Thank you for sharing this music of grace and balanced beauty 🎶❤️
Overall this symphony feels uneven and academic to me, not enough ideas to carry the whole half an hour... but after the first two movements I find myself enjoying the scherzo and the finale. Thank you Martin!
It might sound somewhat less "academic" if it were performed by a real orchestra, although I intend no disparagement of the huge task involved in creating this virtual performance. This is very unfamiliar music (although the idiom itself is very familiar), so it will take repeated listenings to get closer to understanding its ultimate worth in the greater scheme of late 19th century music. That said, although very smoothly and competently composed, it certainly does not appear to inhabit the same world as Brahms or Tchaikovsky, let alone that of Bruckner or Mahler (whose first symphony was only four years after this one!), but rather that of Mendelssohn and Schumann.
@@martinrobertwalsh You are right! I have the Finale running through my head constantly these days - this after having waited 40+ years to finally get to hear this work. I sincerely believe that the Finale at least, is certainly worthy of performance by a live orchestra - and I'll bet it would bring down the house too (-:
Thanks, Martin, for enabling us to hear Prout's music. It's very academic-sounding, but has plenty of energy. He's part of our musical history, so we needed to know what we were missing. I'm very grateful for all your hard work.
Thank you. There seems to be a consensus this symphony is the best. I wonder (with respect to Mr Prout) how trite the others must be!
@@martinrobertwalsh Yes, I take your point. It's important to know that his detractors were largely right - but I'm glad to have the evidence of this fine computer rendering because so often history is wrong, as your work so regularly proves!
Yes, you've read the textbooks - now listen to the symphonies!
A Marvelous Discovery.....BRAVO to YOU, Dr. Walsh......from Mexico!
Thanks Steve
I don't know anything about this composer. But it's wonderful to discover new ones! Very beautiful !
Thank you, Martin.
Nicely done! Beautiful with the score. Are you going to attempt the same with his other three symphonies? I really like this one. And I think they deserve to be heard. Thank you for sharing this music of grace and balanced beauty 🎶❤️
I’d really like to see a performance of Bernhard Romberg’s Cello Concerto No 7, Op. 44.
Overall this symphony feels uneven and academic to me, not enough ideas to carry the whole half an hour... but after the first two movements I find myself enjoying the scherzo and the finale. Thank you Martin!
Thank you Tuomas. The finale does grow on you I must say.
Yes and as regards that 1st mov what a superb slow introduction!@@msroper5287
It might sound somewhat less "academic" if it were performed by a real orchestra, although I intend no disparagement of the huge task involved in creating this virtual performance. This is very unfamiliar music (although the idiom itself is very familiar), so it will take repeated listenings to get closer to understanding its ultimate worth in the greater scheme of late 19th century music.
That said, although very smoothly and competently composed, it certainly does not appear to inhabit the same world as Brahms or Tchaikovsky, let alone that of Bruckner or Mahler (whose first symphony was only four years after this one!), but rather that of Mendelssohn and Schumann.
@@martinrobertwalsh You are right! I have the Finale running through my head constantly these days - this after having waited 40+ years to finally get to hear this work. I sincerely believe that the Finale at least, is certainly worthy of performance by a live orchestra - and I'll bet it would bring down the house too (-:
Martin, orchestre, conductor?