The coda beginning at 23:37 is extraordinarily rollicking and satisfying. Three final statements of the theme, answered by the sixteenth notes in the trumpets, then the triumphant concluding tutti “g”. One of the greatest endings in symphonic music.
This is a compelling symphony and demonstrates a great balance between tradition and innovation. Roussel packs an awful lot of material into a relatively short space of time. It is worthy of more performances in today's concert halls.
The Halle Orchestra in Manchester performed this symphony in 1985, and the B.B.C. Philharmonic Orchestra did likewise in 2006. I attended both concerts. I recently sent a request to the B.B.C. in Salford for a public performance of Roussel's masterly Fourth Symphony; the Orchestra played his 'Suite in F' a few years ago.
A truly inspirational work. I love the combination of motoric drive, harmonic angularity, and uniquely 'French' refinement in the orchestration. Such subtle use of musical motifs that, whilst at face value, may not seem immediately memorable - yet are constantly shifting and transforming - permeating the musical tissue, as well as burrowing into your subconscious. It's a masterclass in "purely" musical argument. The slow movement in particular feels to me like 'hyper-compressed' Bruckner, with almost Cubist shifts in perspective. Bravo!
Prolific dadaism surmounting obligatory modernity into a realm of serene cosmicity! Sizzling inanities wayladen by an impeccable thirst! Ditto obligato.
blown away by this recording !!!! I love Bernstein and Celibidache in this symphony ,but this one surpasses them both, in my opinion, in passionate drive ( especially the first movement!), clarity and polyphony(second movement!) and balance between the instruments. The recording is also excellent.
This is a delightful work of great ingenuity and purpose...just a bit of that Prokofiev influence there with the use of woodwinds and the terse argument and twisting high string passages....But it's much more than that. Beautifully controlled, yet so free. I had heard about Roussel a couple of decades ago but did not give his symphonies the attention they deserved. The orchestral coloring is quite effective. Should be performed more often...like skip a Mozart now and then and put this on the program.
Tengo pocas nociones de haber creado esta sinfonía Sentado en un sillón, con la luz del sol Dando hacia mi lado derecho, vestido de traje, Fui Albert en mi vida pasada.
Every once and a while, there is a composer that just seem to defy their era, whether surprisingly progressive or remain stubbornly conservative. And nothing's wrong about that, they are just on their own road of writing good music (and why else to write music than to make it enjoyable!)
The coda beginning at 23:37 is extraordinarily rollicking and satisfying. Three final statements of the theme, answered by the sixteenth notes in the trumpets, then the triumphant concluding tutti “g”. One of the greatest endings in symphonic music.
This is a compelling symphony and demonstrates a great balance between tradition and innovation. Roussel packs an awful lot of material into a relatively short space of time. It is worthy of more performances in today's concert halls.
Bravo, un véritable hymne à la vie... Merci.
Extraordinaire symphonie...dont l'énergie motrice semble constituer la source vitale. Merci encore.
As always......BRAVO from Acapulco!
Gets one's attention from the first, then holds one rapt, in a spell. One of my very favourite composers.
Enjoying!!! Thanks for sharing so much beauty! 👏👍🙌🎼🎹
Best music I've ever heard
One of my favourite symphonies. Never had the chance to hear it live.
No one has
The Halle Orchestra in Manchester performed this symphony in 1985, and the B.B.C. Philharmonic Orchestra did likewise in 2006. I attended both concerts. I recently sent a request to the B.B.C. in Salford for a public performance of Roussel's masterly Fourth Symphony; the Orchestra played his 'Suite in F' a few years ago.
@@jamesbarlow6423 I did. Royal F Hall - Solti 👏👏
Thanks
A truly inspirational work. I love the combination of motoric drive, harmonic angularity, and uniquely 'French' refinement in the orchestration. Such subtle use of musical motifs that, whilst at face value, may not seem immediately memorable - yet are constantly shifting and transforming - permeating the musical tissue, as well as burrowing into your subconscious. It's a masterclass in "purely" musical argument. The slow movement in particular feels to me like 'hyper-compressed' Bruckner, with almost Cubist shifts in perspective. Bravo!
Prolific dadaism surmounting obligatory modernity into a realm of serene cosmicity! Sizzling inanities wayladen by an impeccable thirst! Ditto obligato.
@@jamesbarlow6423 Ostentatious Expressionist meanderings overcoming post-colonial part-writing, melting into rhapsodic fugal interludes, interlaced with, and straddled by, discombobulating disquietudes of symphonic scale.
thank yuuu
blown away by this recording !!!! I love Bernstein and Celibidache in this symphony ,but this one surpasses them both, in my opinion, in passionate drive ( especially the first movement!), clarity and polyphony(second movement!) and balance between the instruments. The recording is also excellent.
Regrettably antidepth.
that's because dutoit is 4x either of the other two, conservatively
This is awesome, thank you!
0:00 is a good place to start. ^
This is a delightful work of great ingenuity and purpose...just a bit of that Prokofiev influence there with the use of woodwinds and the terse argument and twisting high string passages....But it's much more than that. Beautifully controlled, yet so free. I had heard about Roussel a couple of decades ago but did not give his symphonies the attention they deserved. The orchestral coloring is quite effective. Should be performed more often...like skip a Mozart now and then and put this on the program.
Prokofiev was my first thought. I love it.
Tengo pocas nociones de haber creado esta sinfonía Sentado en un sillón, con la luz del sol Dando hacia mi lado derecho, vestido de traje, Fui Albert en mi vida pasada.
19:31 Symphonie Fantastique, anyone?
Maravilhoso
旋律新鮮,刺激,好聽! 以前買到CD,是erato出品的,一直聽聽不膩! 很久沒聽了! 但記得這首應該是F大調組曲,而非第三號交響曲!?
樂曲用降B大調寫成。
F大調組曲在此：ruclips.net/video/m-Yp-uFTy-I/видео.html
The story of Erik Satie brought me here
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Man, all this time I figured this was from the late 19th century, not the 1930s. He's like the French Rachmaninoff in that regard.
Every once and a while, there is a composer that just seem to defy their era, whether surprisingly progressive or remain stubbornly conservative. And nothing's wrong about that, they are just on their own road of writing good music (and why else to write music than to make it enjoyable!)
Hindemith.