Gösta Nystroem: Ishavet (1924/1925)

[@ennordiskman9915]

Whoa... it just keeps building.. incredible feeling from this piece.

[@Miglokis]

Fantastic symphonic poem!

[@giuseppedimarco8358]

Wonderful!

[@1964ALCOZER]

Great

[@gabrieru1983]

outstanding!!

[@MegaVicar]

A worthy companion to Sibelius’ “Tapiola”! That quiet, spare ending seems so appropriate--as if the music were slipping into the Arctic depths.

[@jacquesferland1746]

When I listened to this incredible tone poem, I thought of Arctic explorers of the early twentieth century and how they would have perceived the Arctic: an extreme environment, threatening and potentially fatal. To my surprise, I then read that Nystroem had joined the famed Roald Rasmussen in such an Arctic expedition not long after they met in 1917. Rasmussen was the first Caucasian to traverse the Northwest Passage, from the Atlantic, to the Arctic, to the Pacific Ocean. Nystroem then went to Paris where he soon proposed to stage an Arctic Cubist ballet. The music to Ishavet is basically the music intended for a ballet that was never performed.

[@ronaldbwoodall2628]

Music as cold as the Arctic Ocean, and as forbidding, especially the march across the ice. Of course I haven't been there to experience such things, but I feel as if I have now by proxy. There is George Lloyd's "Arctic" Symphony of course, which is a great work also, but it is ultimately a more optimistic one. Nystroem's opus/ Leaves me hopeless.

[@1964ALCOZER]

Bartók, Villa Lobis

[@mendesiq]

15:30 :D