Naxos, having already contributed efforts to a cycle of the Franz Berwald symphonies with Okko Kamu at the helm, now takes on several of his tone poems with the Gävle Symphony Orchestra. Whereas many orchestral tone poems are seen as secondary in importance within the works of composers best known as symphonists, Swedish composer Berwald lavished just as much attention on these ten-minute mini-masterworks as he did his longer symphonies, and one work here, Overture to Drottningen av Golconda, is held in roughly equal regard ...
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Naxos, having already contributed efforts to a cycle of the Franz Berwald symphonies with Okko Kamu at the helm, now takes on several of his tone poems with the Gävle Symphony Orchestra. Whereas many orchestral tone poems are seen as secondary in importance within the works of composers best known as symphonists, Swedish composer Berwald lavished just as much attention on these ten-minute mini-masterworks as he did his longer symphonies, and one work here, Overture to Drottningen av Golconda, is held in roughly equal regard. Berwald's tone poems contain many of the aspects that are most attractive about his symphonies -- the racing, uptempo sections inspired by the example of Italian opera, his distinctive voicings in the winds and brass, and quirky harmonic ideas that seem like they don't quite belong in the nineteenth century. One extreme rarity, Ernste und heitere Grillen (Serious and Joyful Fancies), does not appear to have been recorded before, and none of the others are particularly common or...
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