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5 days ago · Classical Album Reviews: “Aux étoiles” and Saint-Saëns’ Symphonic Poems. December 15, 2023 | Leave a Comment. By Jonathan Blumhofer. Spiffy discs of French music featuring the Orchestre National de Lyon led by Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider and François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles.
5 hours ago · The Manfred Symphony. Thursday 03. October, at 19:30. Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 is a work renowned for its emotional depth and technical brilliance. Following this is Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s symphonic poem “Manfred,” inspired by Byron’s epic poem, which takes the audience on a passionate and dark journey through the landscape ...
4 days ago · By Jonathan Blumhofer. There are no two ways around the fact that Franz Liszt’s Dante Symphony is a problematic piece. First of all, there’s the question of whether or not it’s really a symphony. Its two movements are basically a pair of symphonic poems, each depicting, respectively, scenes from Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio, the first ...
2 days ago · Dvořák wrote five symphonic poems, all in 1896–1897 with sequential opus numbers: The Water Goblin, Op. 107; The Noon Witch, Op. 108; The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op. 109; The Wild Dove, Op. 110; and A Hero's Song, Op. 111. The first four of poems are based upon ballads from the collection Kytice by the Czech folklorist Karel Jaromír Erben.
3 days ago · Definitions of symphonic poem. noun. an orchestral composition based on literature or folk tales. synonyms: tone poem. see more.
5 days ago · Music Reviews: Edward German: Hamlet - Symphonic Poem; The Tempter; Romeo & Juliet; The Willow Song; Symphony No.1 in E minor by BBC Concert Orchestra & John Wilson released in 2005.
1 day ago · Bergliot presents a poem by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832-1910), who was the theatre manager in Oslo and also a friend of Grieg. Indeed they planned to work on an opera together but this never happened. The poem deals with a historical eposide in tenth century Norway. Bergliot, originally Bergljot Håkonsdatter, was the wife of a local ...
