Landscape redux - Hanson, Loeffler etc.

Started by jasthill, Thursday 23 September 2021, 03:25

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semloh

Before the Dawn is everything you say, Alan and Mark. A gorgeous piece, beautifully played. Although Hanson isn't Unsung, this piece certainly is, and I don't understand why. I think it would be a perfect Encore at orchestral concerts.

eschiss1

... one movement of one work (sometimes quoted in other works) actually performed with any real frequency does not a sung composer make. He's only intermittently Romantic in our limited sense, I grant.

Alan Howe

I'd say Hanson was definitely unsung - especially here in the UK.

Eric: Before the Dawn is very early Hanson and very definitely romantic in the traditional (not neo) sense.