Grieg - Symphonic Dances - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Berglund

[@keiththomas795]

Very much in the style we recognise with well crafted melodic music, very well played too. Grieg is always a joy to behold and leaves us humming one of the tunes from the dances.

[@icmeler2000]

I think you mean 'joy to behear', Sir. :)

[@icmeler2000]

@@sebastianplaum4667 I don't see Grieg 😀

[@MrLieinking]

This music was was used in the original TV version of "The railway children" and I have loved it ever since.Alas there is no recording still available of the TV program.

[@樋口奏斗-k4d]

5:42

[@toyman9642]

Great music. Unlike the pop cra* that kids are listening to today.

[@pbrower2a1]

The schools aren't introducing children to great music, perhaps out of fear that emphasis on 'dead white males' as composers isn't politically correct. The problems with such a rejection of one of the more satisfying and least oppressive aspects of human culture does not exult 'whiteness'. First, this music is well received in places not culturally in the West, like Korea and Japan. Second, it is safe to say that most of the composers did not use their music to exult 'whiteness'. Wagner is a possible exception, and then against Jews whom he thought alien to his German way of life (an aside -- Germans are probably the gentiles most similar to Jews in culture). Third, does it really matter that such a composer as Mozart is white? I have never seen any music critic say of classical music that one must be white to appreciate it. All that one certifiably needs to appreciate classical music is a long attention span, without which listening to classical music is sheer drudgery. In view of long symphonies by Bruckner and Mahler, many choral works, and practically all operas, maybe we could do better to teach that a long attention span is an asset for living well.

[@jamesharrel]

@@pbrower2a1 I don't disagree, but the problem goes back further than political correctness. I was brought up in the 70s and 80s and was taught that such music was "upper class" and "not for me." How old are you, and in what part of the country were you raised, and raised your children if you have any? I'm 47, VERY white, and from the northeastern US.

[@davidcoxall3270]

@@jamesharrel Surely music is classless, listening over a period of time compositions can enter the psyche and by using our imagination can inspire us like few things can.Our appreciation is not dependent on our status or where we live.