Louis Glass - Symphony No.3 in D-major, Op.30 "Forest symphony" (1901)

Louis Glass (23 May 1864 -- 22 January 1936) was a Danish composer.
Work: Symphony No.3 in D-major, Op.30 "Forest symphony" (1901)
Mov.I: Moderato - allegro ma non troppo 00:00
Mov.II: Andante con moto: Poco allegretto 08:53
Mov.III: Scherzo: Allegro vivace 17:26
Mov.IV: Finale: Allegro 24:12
Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic
Conductor: Edward Downes

[@stephenjablonsky1941]

What I have learned from KZbin is that there are 10,000 good composers whose music I have never heard in my 79 years on the planet. The reason for that may be that, like most people, I tend to listen to the music of supreme geniuses whose scores hit the bulls eye with great frequency. This is an interesting piece that deserves a listen. Louis' bio in Wikipedia is very short and deservedly so because there is a big difference between pretty and gorgeous, and strong and powerful.

[@caseypride]

Like you, I keep discovering new composers this way! It's such a joy. I never would have known much of Madetoja, Melartin, Stanford, Parry, Bax, and others that are now very close to my heart.

[@ulfosterberg9116]

Try Stenhammar symphony no 2. An excellent view in to the Swedish psyche...

[@Aa_Sha]

exactly! so many fine music to listen

[@42BETWO]

“The Pareto Principle”: Here, the 80/20 rule focuses on the ‘vital few,’ ignoring the ‘trivial many.’

[@Kowjja]

I'm not sure about that last part... these lesser known composers weren't necessarily less great than their famous counterparts, mostly just less lucky.

[@meghnadrao970]

Poets have immortalized the serenity of Nature and what it holds in its ambit and now Louis Glass has achieved it by and in his 'Forest Symphony'

[@AnimaMochi]

26:57 so lovely, peaceful...

[@aalleexxii]

This is such a fun symphony. I just keep returning to it.

[@TheOboeCrack]

Me too

[@darrylschultz6479]

Me 3!🙂👍

[@juanbaraibarlopez8470]

Descubrí esta maravillosa sinfonía hace 2 años y para siempre me recordará el confinamiento por la pandemia...

[@fcoleman8]

The picture you have given us with this symphony is superb - and appropriate! It has a brooding quality about it which is matched in the symphony itself.

[@KuhlauDilfeng2]

Sorry my late answer, yes it is a radio broadcast so not a commercial recording but i will try to upload the danacord-recordings.

[@pamelakeightley3472]

A beautiful symphony in the true sense of the word!

[@1JillConnick]

Which word?

[@kokonssp]

wonderful masterpiece with a fantastic string harmony

[@MegaCirse]

Glass apparaît ici comme un bon compositeur sans emphase. Cette symphonie forestière a des tonalités primesautières, introduites dès le début par la sonorité des cors puis développées tout au long de l'œuvre. La langue est traditionnelle, mais utilisée de manière personnelle 🧙‍♂

[@TheBrblebrble]

A Mr. Glass worth listening to!

[@MegaCirse]

Quand le monde fléchit autour de soi, quand les structures d’une civilisation vacillent, il est bon de revenir à ce qui, dans l’histoire, ne fléchit pas, mais au contraire redresse le courage, rassemble les séparés, pacifie sans meurtrir. Il est bon de rappeler que le génie de la création est lui aussi à l’œuvre dans une histoire vouée à la destruction.

[@castorc9710]

My first experience with Louis Glass and I find it quite nice. Thanks for making it available, Kuhlau.

[@eo4922]

Love the third movement.

[@user-bd6iv1pj1u]

この交響曲の素晴らしさを最後まで堪能出来たのは今日一の収穫だった♪ 日本では恐らく年に数回しか取り上げないようなマイナー作曲家だと思われるけど、 この曲に関してはホントに良い出来なので、もっとメジャーな存在になってほしい。

[@marcosalejandrolandi7200]

I don't know so much about music, but when hear this piece I feel the beauty in my soul

[@mouseanderson7316]

just gorgeous, played this piece about 10 years ago. a joy to perform.

[@steveegallo3384]

Yes....and it gets quite heroïc at times....galvanizing energy and innovation!

[@mrturtle1128]

Sometimes that is all you need to know about music

[@GaryLachman]

Again, another wonderful work.

[@user-xf9cj2dq6z]

グラスの「森の交響曲」は、ブルックナー的響きがあり、幽玄にいざない素敵に思います。

[@JoelLeBras]

You've said well !

[@dennissalinas5862]

Lovely symphony and some very unique passages. I actually also hear some Goldmark influence too.

[@notmyworld44]

Goldmark! I haven't heard or thought about him in many decades! I must find some Goldmark here and have a listen.

[@CarmeloBonifacioMalandrino]

Se io penso mentalmente a un Vivaldi o a uno Zelenka e ascolto Louis Glass mi rendo conto che l'universo umano è cambiato,si è lacerato.L'armonia compositiva d'un tempo non c'è più.Musica è musica come Picasso non è Raffaello.Ma mi chiedo la gioia di vivere,di esistere si è persa per sempre nell'arte nella musica e nella poesia?Non credo,ma l'uomo che animale d'anima è?

[@brunocostapiano]

The beginning is awesome!

[@ylvaeliaeson4593]

So beautiful! I love it!🌺

[@gerardbegni2806]

Louis Glass is a poorly know. Do not make confusion with Philip Glass !! :-). It appears here as a good composer. His forest symphony has romantic tons, introduced from the begining by the sonority of horns and then developed all along the work. The language is traditional, but used in a personal way.

[@notprovided1131]

Very pretty symphony

[@philhomes233]

I do like this, and it's a piece that I'll certainly be coming back to, but I prefer Raff's infinitely more original 'forest'.

[@peterwilliams2068]

Look at the label CPO there new recordings of Glass, and many other exotic, worth discovering, composers.

[@TheOboeCrack]

I don't understand why this piece isn't programmed more often

[@e_mc58tyre]

The score is available through the publisher Edition S

[@user-wi8qd6rg3w]

何度聴いても最高…ﾃﾝｱｹﾞ間違いなしのｴﾓｴﾓのｴﾓだからマジ流行って欲しい…

[@paulescudero9973]

Very nice Symphony. I'm using it as brain fuel while I edit one of my books "Tauceti Incident" in Russian, English, and French (triple language book) 1473 pages.

[@rubensjosearaujo3632]

linda da eu adorei

[@42BETWO]

Such a pleasure from start to finish....A journey behind closed eyes...guided along an avenue of towering trees bcomposition

[@hectorbarrionuevo6034]

Ever since Beethoven's Sixth Symphony (perhaps before), composers have been writing brilliant orchestral music that evokes either fairy tales and forests (e.g. Weber, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, and Wagner) or massive natural vistas (e.g. Wagner, Raff, Marx, von Hausseger, and this work by Glass). This Symphony is colorful; playful; features an attractive, late-Romantic language; and is triumphant !!

[@fcoleman8]

It's good to have this interpretation of Glass' 3rd by Edward Downes - there'a another version available on KZbin by Todorov. Do you know if Glass' 6th symphony is available? Groves mentions a 6th written in 1926. I'd love to hear it.

[@Usefulmusic]

If written in 1926 it must have taken him just 22 days.

[@paulgorfinkel3093]

Wikipedia says he died in 1936, not 1926.

[@Skidoo22]

Edward Downes did the Glass 3rd and 5th Symphonies with his BBC Philharmonic and both were broadcast on UK classical radio station, Radio 3 in November 1990. They were going to record them for a commercial release but this didn't happen because of money, I understand. Leif Segerstam also did a live radio broadcast of the 5th, from Denmark in November 1990, which can currently be heard on the DR.DK website, just type in 'Segerstam' 'Louis Glass'. Segerstam does not play the repeat in the first movement and the first movement recapitulation is not as ecstatic as the other recordings as he slows down far too much. If anybody has a recording of the Michael Schønwandt radio broadcast, please upload it!

[@giovanniivanosapienza5743]

Deliziosa🤩

[@abdul7591]

Can you identify this recording, Kuhlau? I was unaware that the BBC Philharmonic had ever recorded this before. Is this another radio broadcast?

[@eo4922]

Is it just me, or does this give off Endor vibes?

[@fyvewytches]

I stumbled upon this doing a search for Philip Glass Symphony No.3. I’m so happy this was returned in the result, I had never heard of this composer before. Is this version available on CD? I can only find one conducted by Daniel Raiskin.

[@TheOboeCrack]

You also have one version by Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra but I don't recommend it.

[@TheOboeCrack]

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[@patrickmaynard7553]

6:40 sounds an awful lot like something Prokofiev later wrote into his 5th symphony. It's even in the same key. Listen to about mark 15:20 on this recording, for example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5LMiXyao8h0ba8

[@kuang-licheng402]

nice

[@licenselessrider4486]

lemuria

[@bgiantmountain.]

13 dislike deaf people

[@harryandruschak2843]

"Like" on 30 July 2017

[@misskatya099]

05:09, 18:00, 24:50, 30:17

[@josealexandreferreiradacos193]

Why, for one reason or the other, Danish composers of mid-XIX Century till mid XX Century are so Brucknerian ? Or that + footprints of Richard Strauss ? There should be a reason...

[@MattReads12]

He sounds like Bruckner? Oh good, that means I probably going to like this.

[@terryquinn1419]

Bruckner was far more influential than Mahler on his contemporaries (my opinion.) Am always wowed hearing another "minor" late romantic composer on KZbin, so marked by Bruckner's work.

[@EminAnimE1]

Bom ver um português por aqui.

[@davidavshalomov9541]

Denmark has no forests that I am aware of . . . . trees, yes.

[@dontreadmyprofilepicture1024]

13:18-14:21 16:14-17:22

[@pedroalejandroinigo]

I don't know this musician. looks like a romantic optimist

[@12corners]

I can only just cope with the "pastoral" symphony - surely humans are essentially anti-nature? - Beethoven has a lot to answer for! I liked the banal theme in the 4/4 scherzo, however - almost as though Glass is making fun of the whole thing. I had my doubts, though, when, in the fourth movement, he started rehearsing every theme in the whole symphony - I'd heard enough of them already!

[@pod831]

"surely humans are essentially anti-nature" -Ridiculous

[@MattReads12]

Humans see the divine in nature. Many European composers had nature themes in their music. Nature was a great influence for many German & Austrian composers such as Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Bruckner, Mahler.

[@terryquinn1419]

Never replay (easy enough.)

[@gemshornrick7646]

Much of the same thing occurs in his 4th Symphony. Avoid that one at all costs.