Comme la première lumière du crépuscule, cette musique ouvre les yeux à de vieilles promesses et à toutes les anomalies bienfaisantes de la nature. Evocatrices de pouvoirs au-delà de l'observation, ces pièces tirent les ficelles du cœur, attirent les nostalgies et réveillent les regrets, les vies écorchés et la torpeur des veilleurs tourmentés.
A most welcome addition to the scarcely available canon of Foerster symphonies on Utube. Meantime, am eagerly looking fwd to the upload of the tragic and magnificently late Mahlerian sounding JB Foerster Sym 5 in D minor op.141.
Yes, it has a restrained joy that comes from deep comprehension. (By the way, why do you think Master Kuhlau just disappears every so often, and without warning? Where would he possibly go?? Saludos desde México!
@@steveegallo3384 Different youtube channels which upload classical music have different problems with copyright and certain companies and persons who copystrike them for just a music video like this one. Kuhlau got banned(?) From youtube for a certain amount of months because some sort of company claimed a video he uploaded years ago! It's a ridicilous system where many suffer from, and this great channel is one of them. If you check his previous video and look at the discription you'll find a excellent explanation why he had to leave for a while. At least I'm very happy this channel continues existing. The real fans of unkown classical music know what happend to the fantastic channel: unsungmasterworks. It was deleted before anyone knew it (He continues uploading on the channel "Im Walde" with sheet music videos, I highly recommend it). But again, I'm very happy to see this channel is still living and therefore I'm also very happy to see how this little group of people on the internet really care about the unsung masterworks which are now explorable on the internet thanks to channels like these. (Correct me if I'm wrong Kuhlau)
@@lucienr7931 -- I appreciate your magisterial explanation...and never realized just how encyclopædic my ignorance of such matters is. Thanks too for "Im Walde" which I'm enjoying as we speak! Regards from México….
Does this composer, Josef Bohuslav Foerster (or any other classical composer) decide in advance, which 'key' the composition is going to be written in? How is it decided and can a conductor interpret the same composition in another 'key'?
Playing the symphony in a different key would change how it sounds and would create a lot of unnecessary difficulties. The whole score would have to be transposed and reprinted, and orchestration would have to be changed where the music had been moved out of an instrument's range. It doesn't happen. The key is generally decided very early in the process of composition, but asking how the composer makes that decision is a bit like asking how he decides which notes to write. Things he may consider include which keys particularly suit the instruments being used and his ideas about the character of different keys. Beethoven's Symphony No 3, known as the Eroica (Heroic) is in Eb major because he thought that key (and its relative minor key, C minor) was good for the mood of the music and because it suited the horns, which have an important role and, having no valves at that time, could not play some notes.
