Unsung Composers

The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: JimL on Wednesday 15 March 2017, 14:03

Title: Sverre Jordan (1889-1972)
Post by: JimL on Wednesday 15 March 2017, 14:03
I've encountered his 2 piano concertos on YouTube, and both appear to be in a Romantic/post-Romantic idiom, at a time in which many of his fellow Norwegians were going down the avant-garde path.  He studied in Berlin, and graduated in 1914.  He is noteworthy inasmuch as he appears to have composed the only cello concerto in a Romantic style by a Norwegian besides Johan Svendsen's; a work I would very much like to be exhumed and recorded.
Title: Re: Sverre Jordan (1889-1972)
Post by: Alan Howe on Wednesday 15 March 2017, 15:08
Interesting, yes. The sound (on YouTube) in PC1 is awful, but the music's very attractive. PC2 is still available on a Simax CD.
Title: Re: Sverre Jordan (1889-1972)
Post by: Mark Thomas on Wednesday 15 March 2017, 15:46
Fight your way through the murk and mud and, yes, a very enjoyable utterly romantic piano concerto.
Title: Re: Sverre Jordan (1889-1972)
Post by: Alan Howe on Friday 24 March 2017, 17:25
PC2 is also thoroughly romantic and highly enjoyable. What a pity that PC1 isn't available on CD.
Title: Re: Sverre Jordan (1889-1972)
Post by: detuqueridapresencia on Monday 18 April 2022, 21:35
Guys still no trace about any recording of his cello concerto. I am also searching - in vain - for his horn concerto which I was extremely curious to listen to, even an amateur performance. Any thoughts?
Title: Re: Sverre Jordan (1889-1972)
Post by: eschiss1 on Tuesday 19 April 2022, 12:32
Were his fellow Norwegians going down the avant-garde path? When Fartein Valen went a little off the Romantic path in the 1940s or so Norwegian music didn't welcome or follow him. (Maybe this was later...)