Louis Glass: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 43

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Glass may not have had the inventive genius of his contemporary Nielsen but, in his own tuneful, late-Romantic way, was no mean symphonist. The Adagio third movement here is particularly exquisite. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th Jan 2023
Catalogue No: 777898-2
Label: CPO
Length: 54 minutes

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Glass, L: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 43

Work length54:33

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$16.75

Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie
Daniel Raiskin

I. Sostenuto - Allegro risoluto

Track length17:21

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$5.15

II. Molto vivace

Track length13:18

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$3.85

III. Adagio

Track length16:06

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$5.15

IV. Finale. Allegro appassionato

Track length7:48

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Our third CD with symphonies by Louis Glass features his Fourth Symphony - a large-scale work with a playing time of about one hour. It calls for triple woodwinds as well as six horns and the strongest wind section that Glass used in his symphonies. And the composer also works here with tighter thematic structures than in the three earlier symphonies. The piece immediately attracted attention and was not only performed repeatedly in Copenhagen from 1912 to 1933, but also abroad. After the composer's death, it was performed three more times; since then, however, it has probably not been performed in public. But with this large-scale symphony, Louis Glass had consolidated his position as one of the most important Danish symphonic composers of his time.

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March 2023

Glass may not have had the inventive genius of his contemporary Nielsen but, in his own tuneful, late-Romantic way, was no mean symphonist. The Adagio third movement here is particularly exquisite.

Louis Glass: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 43

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