| Ruders, Poul / Symphony No. 4 (An Organ Symphony), Trio Transcentale, Songs And Rhapsodies. |
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| Album: | Symphony No. 4 (An Organ Symphony), Trio Transcentale, Songs And Rhapsodies. | Collection: | Classical | |
| Artist: | Ruders, Poul | Added: | Apr 2012 | |
| Label: | Bridge Records | |||
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| Add Date: | 2012-04-29 | Pull Date: | 2012-07-01 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | May 6 |
| Airplays: | 1 |
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| 1. | Apr 29, 2012: | feelin' the music (1:53) Ii. First Rhapsody | ||||
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| Larry Koran Reviewed 2012-04-26 | ||
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Ruders, Poul. Symphony No. 4 (An Organ Symphony), Trio Transcentale, Songs and Rhapsodies. Label: Bridge, 2011 Poul Ruders (b. 1949), an important Danish composer, is fascinated by death, loneliness and melancholy. His music is often dissonant, but seldom harsh. Symphony No. 4 (An Organ Symphony) takes advantage of the full range of the stops of a mighty organ and the listener must guess whether organ or orchestra is producing a particular sound. Trio Transcendentale, for organ, is a three-voice display piece, starting in “popcorn Baroque” and ending in near-atonal “madness”. Songs and Rhapsodies, for accordion and wind quintet, contrasts “rhapsodic” or improvisatory songs with more melodic songs. 1. (8:06) Symphony No. 4, I. Prelude (Adagio Lontono). Slow and mysterious, hazy tone clusters, a Nordic landscape under brooding storm-clouds. 2. (8:09) II. Cortége (Adagio extreme. Brutale). A funeral procession, loud and heavy, dominated by brass and percussion. Eerie. 3. (2:33) III. Etude (Presto). Like a bravura keyboard study, with rapid figures and harmonic shifts. Racing across a hilly countryside at dusk. 4. (10:07) IV. Chaconne (Camminando leggiero). A theme circles back on itself, with quieter central interlude, then tumultuous end. 1940s Soviet soldiers march Westward, without joy. 5. (4:32) Trio Transcentale, Playful, antic, needing rest, then up and running at the finale. 6. (2:09) Songs and Rhapsodies (2010/11) [27:11] I. Gateway to Dreaming. Slowly shifting, hallucinatory chords. 7. (1:53) II. First Rhapsody. Happy, upward flurries and scurries of minimalist figuration. 8. (1:22) III. A Song Within a Dance. Wooden dolls sing and dance as jerky wooden figures do. 9. (1:28) IV. Second Rhapsody. Parisian traffic at night, including bikes and pedestrians. 10. (1:40) V. The Desert of Time Revisited. Calm melancholy. 11. (1:21) VI. Third Rhapsody. Grasshoppers and wild flowers. 12. (2:18) VII. Shadow Play. A deserted Danish shore, boats pass distantly in the night. 13. (2:26) VIII. Reveille. Trumpet calls suggest a new beginning in the Judean hills, but nothing is simple. 14. (4:11) IX. Singing into the Distant Haze. Melodic voices in imitation suggest shepherds in an impolite song contest. 15. (1:59) X. Fourth Rhapsody. Wind buddies search for Tubby the Tuba, if you know who that is. 16. (3:01) XI. Stratospheric Solo. Accordion plays falsetto. 17. (2:45) XII. Swan Song. Ducks and geese join swans in crowding a lake as night falls and all becomes quiet. | ||
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