Johan Halvorsen - Symphony No.2 in D-minor "Fatum" (1924)
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- Johan Halvorsen (15 March 1864 -- 4 December 1935) was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist.
Work: Symphony No.2 in D-minor "Fatum" (1924 rev. 1928)
Mov.I: Allegro moderato
Mov.II: Romance: Andante con sentimenti
Mov.III: Intermezzo: Allegro amabile
Mov.IV: Finale: Allegro
Orchestra: Philharmonischen Orchester Bergen
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Halvorsen was known to have said that he pretty much did not care about present or future critical responses to his symphonies. He was pretty much retired and could feel free to do what he wanted, finally. So he wrote what he liked. He had had a long career as a conductor and was familiar with the modern currents in music. He just didn't want to write along those lines. No more than Rachmaninoff and many other great composers did. I'm glad! This is great music. And it is good thing that his music is being rediscovered, thanks to Neeme Jarvi and other broad-minded conductors.
Fun fact:
When Sergei Rachmaninoff left Russia due to the turmoil of the revolution, he eventually came to Norway to perform his piano concerto no.2 at Nationaltheatret in Kristiania (what Oslo was called at the time) in april of 1918. However, half the orchestral score was lost during his travel. So, for two days and nights Sergei and Johan Halvorsen (whom was also conducting the concert), worked tirelessly to reconstruct the score in time for the show.
most under rated music
hey i wonder who listens to classsical music all the time
i guess i like underated music
classical music is good
i like chopin's music
Jackson Long
This IS quite good! Good recording.
Great symphony!! The composer of Bojarens Inntogsmarsj presents us with other wonderful Norwegian music works!
Johan August Halvorsen est un compositeur, chef d'orchestre et violoniste norvégien, né à Drammen le 15 mars 1864 et mort à Oslo le 4 décembre 1935.
Biographie
Depuis son très jeune âge il s'avère être un violoniste plein de talent et il devient rapidement une personnalité prééminente de la vie musicale en Norvège.
Il étudie la musique à Kristiania, l'actuelle Oslo, et à Stockholm. À Bergen, il devient premier violon (concertmaster) avant de rejoindre l'orchestre du Gewandhaus de Leipzig. Ainsi commencent huit années d'étude et de travail à l'étranger, entre autres comme premier violon à Aberdeen, puis comme professeur de musique à Helsinki ou il est en contact régulier avec Ferruccio Busoni, qui l'encourage à faire ces premières compositions. Finalement de nouveau comme étudiant, à Saint-Pétersbourg avec Leopold Auer, à Berlin et à Liège avec César Thomson.
De retour, en 1883, en Norvège, il travaille à Bergen comme chef d'orchestre de l'orchestre du théâtre Den Nationale Scene et de l'orchestre philharmonique. En 1885, il devient premier violon de cet orchestre et en 1893 il y est nommé comme premier chef d'orchestre. En 1899 il est nommé comme chef de l'orchestre du nouveau théâtre national à Kristiania, fonction qu'il exerce pendant 30 ans jusqu'à sa retraite en 1929.
Halvorsen exécute de la musique pour le théâtre et des représentations de plus de 30 opéras.
Il est enterré au cimetière de Notre-Sauveur, à Oslo.
Il est le père de Stein Grieg Halvorsen, né de son union avec Nina Grieg, nièce du pianiste Edvard Grieg (à ne pas confondre avec Nina Hagerup Grieg).
Œuvres
Il est l'auteur de la musique de circonstance pour une trentaine de pièces de théâtre. Ce n'est qu'après sa retraite qu'il trouve le temps de se consacrer à la composition de ses trois symphonies et de deux rhapsodies norvégiennes bien connues. Ses compositions portent clairement les caractéristiques de la tradition romantique nationale dont Edvard Grieg est le grand exemple, bien que le style de Halvorsen se distingue par sa brillante orchestration. Il orchestre plusieurs œuvres de Grieg, parmi lesquelles la marche funèbre qui est jouée lors de l'enterrement de Grieg.
Ses deux œuvres qui de nos jours sont les plus connues sont la Bojarenes inntogsmarsj (Marche des Boyars), Bergensiana et sa Passacaglia sur un thème de Haendel, pour violon et alto.
I sat up at the 4:00 min. mark. Wow, a fugue. Wonderfully performed.
Una grande sinfonia post-romantico e di grande fascino, memorabile,nonostante in pieno novecento.Mirabile l'orchestrazione e la registrazione.
Ottimo inserimento.
Halvorsen sounds like my kind of guy -- the type that isn't interested in some dilettante critic's opinion, and who doesn’t care if he achieves the accolade of a listing in the index of a music appreciation textbook. He wrote what he felt like writing, without feeling compelled to invent something new. Vive Halvorsen.
I. Allegro moderato - 0:00
II. Romance: Andante con sentimenti - 8:52
III. Intermezzo: Allegro amabile - 15:04
IV. Finale: Allegro - 19:46
Pretty good! Yep! Pretty good!
Scusate se mi intrometto, ma il compositore ha scritto ciò che sentiamo e che ci importa se è in ritardo di 40 anni come dice il sig. Polce; la musica si ascolta e la si ama per come si presenta, non è che tutti i compositori debbano per forza scrivere in modo atonale o nel modo come ha scritto Schonberg o altri di quel tempo. La composizione mi sembra piacevole e non è necessario scrivere musica buttando tutte le note dove capita e dire poi " questa è la mia teoria la migliore di tutti i tempi"; quindi il mio insegnante Bruno Bettinelli che amava Hindemith sarebbe Indietro nel tempo. Oggi viviamo nel 2019 e non mi sembra che siano grandi compositori, e se ci fossero non andrebbero neanche lontanamente vicino alle generazioni passate. In questo caso anch'io mi fossilizzo indietro nel tempo, ma dopo Malipiero, Maderna, Zafred e Bettinelli, mi sembra che siamo molto lontani. Passeranno molti anni prima che la levatura di questi compositori sarà avvicinata, forse qualcuno si avvicinerà vedi Boccadoro o Campogrande stando nel nostro paese. Comunque viva la musica e ciao a tutti! Mi fa piacere comunque che molti siano legati alla musica classica contemporanea. Ascoltate la mia su TH-cam. Trentadue Domenico.
Hai ragione.Un saluto.
Great composer, great performance
Could you also download Halvorsen's First Symphony. It has a lot of melodies. Very lyrical. Thanks.
Very approachable and easy to enjoy, but I'm amazed it was written as late as 1924. Has a Brahms/Bruckner feel of 40 years beforehand. I wonder what Halvorsen would have thought about Ives, Schoenberg, Bartok et al who were his 20s contemporaries..
E' quello che ho pensato (e scritto) anch'io riguardo la prima sinfonia.
Lovely stuff - most enjoyable! I guess if this symphony had been written in 1884 instead of 1924, it would have had more credibility and achieved much more traction than it has done.
@KuhlauDilfeng2 can you send a link of where you get your background pics? They're absolutely gorgeous.
The picture "Frost Ridge" is here:
devingao123.artstation.com/albums/1122120
"Like" on 16 February 2016