...forthcoming from Ondine:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9362342--ludvig-norman-symphony-no-3-overtures
More here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0R5bVHAzpE
And about time too! This is a magnificent symphony; at last we can discard the sub-par Sterling recording.
Oh, yummy. Although for me, the yardstick is now Sakari Oramo's live performance with the Royal Stockholm Phil in the downloads section (https://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,7632.msg79934.html#msg79934). The samples sound very good, though. But this also has the very attractive Anthony and Cleopatra overture, so it's a must-buy regardless.
Ilja's right. The Oramo performance is the current yardstick, so we must hope this new release measures up.
I find this a rather patronising, not to say ignorant review:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/Classrev/2022/Sep/Norman-sy3-ODE13912.htm
"I suspect I am not alone in barely having heard the name of, let alone a note of music by Ludvig Norman." Considering how often Euroclassic Notturno plays his string quartets and other chamber works, that'd be a resounding "No."
Reviewers really ought to do some homework.
Agreed. Though in the strict sense of "not alone", I suppose he's right. In the connoted? sense, not so much.
He's definitely correct in being 'not alone' in his ignorance.
Even I won't pretend to know much. Though I think my main problem with the review is the very very common notion that a composer who was not a nationalist was doomed to be derivative of those Very Hungry Germans they studied under...
I have a number of CDs of his very fine chamber music, plus the other symphonies. The reviewer really ought to have investigated him further.
Quote from: eschiss1 on Monday 12 September 2022, 23:24I think my main problem with the review is the very very common notion that a composer who was not a nationalist was doomed to be derivative of those Very Hungry Germans they studied under...
I think that's a good point, Eric, and it's an issue that has popped up before somewhere in UC. The word "derivative" also hides a host of possibilities, but so often is used purely pejoratively.
I have not yet received the cd from jpc, so I can't comment on the music itself, but I have to say that I found the general tone of the review shockingly condescendiong