Nielsen: Symphony No. 5

ISBN-13: 9780521446327 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 138 str.

David Fanning; Julian Rushton

Opis

After the death of Mahler in 1911 the great Austro-German symphonic line was carried on mainly in England, America, Scandinavia and Russia. The Fifth Symphony of Carl Nielsen, a Danish composer, was composed in 1921. David Fanning discusses its place within the symphonic tradition since Beethoven, revealing the personal background to the work and taking account of the extensive Danish commentaries, including the composer's own. In an analysis of the music he lays bare the origins of its images of inertia, anxiety and collapse in Nielsen's tone poems and incidental music for the theatre. Insights are offered into the symphony's progressive tonality and its relationship to traditional structural models.

Recenzje

'The writing is imbued with a deep love and understanding of the music and the author has the skill to put it into historical and artistic perspective.' Musical Times

Spis treści

1. Tradition and renewal; 2. The first movement: dark, resting forces; 3. The second movement: alert forces; 4. Composition, reception, editions, recordings; Appendices: A. Interview with Axel Kjerulf; B. Statement to Ludvig Dolleris; C. Analytical reductions; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.