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Louis Glass: 6 Symphonies


Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra
Nayden Todorov

DACOCD 541-544 [DDD] - Released 2018

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Louis Glass was a contemporary of Carl Nielsen, however his musical ideals were of the late-Romantic idiom. Like Nielsen he composed six symphonies, but as a composer he was a dreamer and his lush, brilliantly orchestrated works hark back to a time when modernism had no influence.

This is the first complete recording of the six symphonies which were played frequently in Denmark, but vanished into the mist of a forgotten world. The splendid Bulgarian orchestra easily identifies with Glass' musical sound world, stretching back and absorbing the style of the early Richard Strauss.

Content of DACOCD 541-44
Louis Glass (1863-1936)

DACOCD 541
  Symphony No. 4, E-Minor, op. 43 60:02  
[ 1 ] Sostenuto - Allegro risoluto - Meno Allegro - Tempo I - Meno Allegro 20:06 Play
[ 2 ] Molto vivace - Andante, poco con moto - Tempo I - Allegro, poco con moto - Tempo I - Allegro, poco con moto - Tempo I 13:48 Play
[ 3 ] Adagio - Poco con moto - Poco animato - Poco con moto, ma molto maestoso 17:07 Play
[ 4 ] Allegro appassionato - Poco sostenuto - Tempo I 8:42 Play

DACOCD 542
  Symphony No. 3, D-Major, op. 30
»Wood-Symphony« (»Skovsymfonien«)		 36:39  
[ 1 ] Moderato - allegro ma non troppo 8:34 Play
[ 2 ] Andante con moto, poco allegretto 8:28 Play
[ 3 ] Scherzo, allegro vivace 5:25 Play
[ 4 ] Finale, allegro 14:12 Play
 
  Symphony No. 5, C-Major, op. 57
»Sinfonia Svastica«		 41:37  
[ 5 ] Dagvirke (»Daily work«) - Allegro energico 11:25 Play
[ 6 ] Hvile (»Rest«) - Andante tranquillo 11:34 Play
[ 7 ] Skygger (»Shadows«) - Presto 5:25 Play
[ 8 ] Morgengry (»Dawn«) - Adagio, ma non troppo 12:36 Play

DACOCD 543
  Symphony No. 2, C-Minor, op. 28 48:05  
[ 1 ] Lento - allegro moderato 19:23 Play
[ 2 ] Presto 10:33 Play
[ 3 ] Adagio 7:18 Play
[ 4 ] Allegro, molto moderato 10:51 Play
  Philippopolis Choir
 
[ 5 ] Fantasia for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 47 22:46 Play
  Piano solo: Romeo Smilkov

DACOCD 544
  Symphony No. 1, E-Major, op. 17 43:38  
[ 1 ] Allegro 11:13 Play
[ 2 ] Andante sostenuto 11:43 Play
[ 3 ] Scherzo 7:12 Play
[ 4 ] Finale 13:13 Play
 
  Symphony No. 6, Op. 60
»Birth of Scylings« (»Skjoldungeæt«)		 35:13  
[ 5 ] Sostenuto - allegro héroique 11:13 Play
[ 6 ] Allegro scherzando ma non troppo vivace 3:19 Play
[ 7 ] Maestoso: Giostra 6:10 Play
[ 8 ] Adagio: Funeral march (Sørgemarch) 7:50 Play
[ 9 ] Allegro risoluto e festivo 6:41 Play
 
  Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra
Nayden Todorov, conductor