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In Reply to: RE: Just Discovered Composer ALEXANDER GRETCHANINOV posted by John C. - Aussie on March 27, 2015 at 20:09:16
He's on the definitive list of Russian composers.
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.... it is very listenable but not spine chilling stuff, on the one I sampled anyway. But I really should not comment until I've heard more of that and his other works.
I'll be interested to read opinion of others.
What can be more subjective than music? It reflects our individual tastes, says he enjoying 13,000+ albums on a Meridian Sooloos Server.
Somewhere in the several decades of my choral career I must have sung something by Gretchaninov, but I retain no impression of what it was like.
I have no recordings of anything by Gretchaninov, as far as I know, though there might be something or other on a choral compilation. Symphonies or chamber music--nothing, I'm sure. I will have to debate with myself whether I should remedy this situation.
I am listening his Symphony No. 4 on YT with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra under Valeri Polyansky, apparently a Chandos recording. It seems very varied and interesting, quite a good symphony.
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FWIW, I agree with you re his symphonies, but listening thru symphony 1 to hear Snowflakes and Missa Sancti Spiritus was really worth while. Chandos 9397. I'm really fond of Snowflakes!
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