Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Peter Szilvay - Edvard Fliflet Bræin: Complete Symphonies (2007)
BAND/ARTIST: Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Peter Szilvay
- Title: Edvard Fliflet Bræin: Complete Symphonies
- Year Of Release: 2007
- Label: Simax Classics
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless
- Total Time: 01:19:09
- Total Size: 365 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Symphony No. 1, Op. 4-I Mvt: Andante Sostenuto-Allegro
02. Symphony No. 1, Op. 4-Ii Mvt: Adagio Con Moto
03. Symphony No. 1, Op. 4-Iii Mvt: Scherzo: Allegro Molto / Trio: Poco Meno Mosso
04. Symphony No. 1, Op. 4-Iv Mvt: Finale: Andante-Allegro Molto
05. Symphony No. 2, Op. 8-I Mvt: Adagio Non Troppo
06. Symphony No. 2, Op. 8-Ii Mvt: Scherzo: Allegro Molto / Trio: Poco Meno Mosso
07. Symphony No. 2, Op. 8-Iii Mvt: Attacca Finale: Allegro
08. Symphony No. 3, Op. 16-Allegro Moderato, Con Brio-I
09. Symphony No. 3, Op. 16-Allegro Moderato, Con Brio-Ii
10. Symphony No. 3, Op. 16-Allegro Moderato, Con Brio-Iii
11. Symphony No. 3, Op. 16-Allegro Moderato, Con Brio-Iv
"Music is the art of emotions - an art form connected directly to our nervous system. He who writes music has no easy task. His nerves have to be constantly exposed." This is the world premiere recording of Edvard Fliflet Bræin's complete symphonies.
Edvard Fliflet Bræin (1924-76) comes from a long line of Norwegian musicians, to the extent that a hundred and fifty years ago "a Bræin" was synonymous with "a fiddler" in certain parts of the country. His First Symphony was premiered in 1950 by the Oslo Philharmonics. It is a work where inspiration of post-war patriotism fuses with a tradition-orientated international style. Around the same time Bræin received a study grant enabling him to go to Paris for studies with Jean Rivier. After returning to Norway Bræin turned to composing full-time, and his Second Symphony is clearly influenced, certainly in way of neoclassical formal clarity, by what he had learned and heard during his studies in Paris. Whereas the second symphony was written before a wave of modernism washed over Norway, the Third Symphony came into being after hard-core modernism had been usurped by postmodernist ideas. Here the traditional multi-movement form has been replaced by a dramatic narrative in which the various "scenes" change within the context of the single movement.
When discussing the music of Edvard Fliflet Bræin, it is important to mention his opera Anne Pedersdotter (1971, available on Simax). In this highly dramatic medieval story, where Anne is sentenced to be burned for having bewitched a man, Bræin demonstrates his talent for drama and superb musical portrayal of the characters.
Assistant to Mariss Jansons in Oslo for three years, Peter Szilvay is now forging a highly successful career of his own. He has already coducted the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic and The Norwegian Opera. Szilvay has single-handedly rescued and restored the scores of Bræin's symphonies, and on this recording he leads the Norwegian Radio Orchestra in one of their finest achievements on CD.
01. Symphony No. 1, Op. 4-I Mvt: Andante Sostenuto-Allegro
02. Symphony No. 1, Op. 4-Ii Mvt: Adagio Con Moto
03. Symphony No. 1, Op. 4-Iii Mvt: Scherzo: Allegro Molto / Trio: Poco Meno Mosso
04. Symphony No. 1, Op. 4-Iv Mvt: Finale: Andante-Allegro Molto
05. Symphony No. 2, Op. 8-I Mvt: Adagio Non Troppo
06. Symphony No. 2, Op. 8-Ii Mvt: Scherzo: Allegro Molto / Trio: Poco Meno Mosso
07. Symphony No. 2, Op. 8-Iii Mvt: Attacca Finale: Allegro
08. Symphony No. 3, Op. 16-Allegro Moderato, Con Brio-I
09. Symphony No. 3, Op. 16-Allegro Moderato, Con Brio-Ii
10. Symphony No. 3, Op. 16-Allegro Moderato, Con Brio-Iii
11. Symphony No. 3, Op. 16-Allegro Moderato, Con Brio-Iv
"Music is the art of emotions - an art form connected directly to our nervous system. He who writes music has no easy task. His nerves have to be constantly exposed." This is the world premiere recording of Edvard Fliflet Bræin's complete symphonies.
Edvard Fliflet Bræin (1924-76) comes from a long line of Norwegian musicians, to the extent that a hundred and fifty years ago "a Bræin" was synonymous with "a fiddler" in certain parts of the country. His First Symphony was premiered in 1950 by the Oslo Philharmonics. It is a work where inspiration of post-war patriotism fuses with a tradition-orientated international style. Around the same time Bræin received a study grant enabling him to go to Paris for studies with Jean Rivier. After returning to Norway Bræin turned to composing full-time, and his Second Symphony is clearly influenced, certainly in way of neoclassical formal clarity, by what he had learned and heard during his studies in Paris. Whereas the second symphony was written before a wave of modernism washed over Norway, the Third Symphony came into being after hard-core modernism had been usurped by postmodernist ideas. Here the traditional multi-movement form has been replaced by a dramatic narrative in which the various "scenes" change within the context of the single movement.
When discussing the music of Edvard Fliflet Bræin, it is important to mention his opera Anne Pedersdotter (1971, available on Simax). In this highly dramatic medieval story, where Anne is sentenced to be burned for having bewitched a man, Bræin demonstrates his talent for drama and superb musical portrayal of the characters.
Assistant to Mariss Jansons in Oslo for three years, Peter Szilvay is now forging a highly successful career of his own. He has already coducted the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic and The Norwegian Opera. Szilvay has single-handedly rescued and restored the scores of Bræin's symphonies, and on this recording he leads the Norwegian Radio Orchestra in one of their finest achievements on CD.
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