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Mieczyslaw Karlowicz: Symphony in E minor

Mieczyslaw Karlowicz: Symphony in E minor

by | Last updated Mar 3, 2020 | Published on May 17, 2019 | The music room

Mieczyslaw Karlowicz was a polish composer and conductor. He died very young, at the age of 33, and, unfortunately, most of his music got lost during World War II. However, what’s left testifies the stature of this musician, perfectly comfortable between Chopin...
Carl Nielsen: Symphony n.2

Carl Nielsen: Symphony n.2

by | Last updated Nov 6, 2022 | Published on Apr 17, 2019 | The music room

How about turning a very specific mood into a symphony movement? While working on his first opera, Nielsen finished his second symphony, subtitled “The Four Temperaments”: ‘The Choleric’, ‘The Sanguine’, ‘The...
Jean Sibelius: Hymn to the Earth

Jean Sibelius: Hymn to the Earth

by | Last updated Mar 3, 2020 | Published on Jan 10, 2019 | The music room

Jordens sång, Hymn to the Earth, Op. 95. A gorgeous cantata for mixed choir and orchestra by Jean Sibelius.  Enjoy Paavo Jârvi with the Ellerhein Girls’ Choir, the Estonian National Male Choir and the Estonian National Symphony...
Henri Dutilleux: The Shadows of Time.

Henri Dutilleux: The Shadows of Time.

by | Last updated Mar 3, 2020 | Published on Oct 21, 2018 | The music room

Written in 1997 The Shadows of Time is a somber meditation on loss. The trigger to the composition was ticked off in 1995, on the half-century anniversary of the end of WWII and the discovery of the deportation by the Nazis to concentration camps of an entire...