Mind-blowingly good! All the more astonishing that I'd never knowingly heard it before finding it on this RU-vid channel. Thanks very much for posting.
Thanks to Classical Masterpieces on my Music Choice on TV I have found this and other great works that are no longer available on CD, or too expensive to purchase.
IT IS REDICULOUS WHEREAS LOTS OF ORCHESTRAL MUSIC IS WRITTEN IN THE 21ST CENTURY, LITTLE OF WHICH IS OF ANY WORTH AND SO MOST IS NOT WORTH LISTENING TO, AS IT IS MOSTLY SOUNDS LIKE A CAT ON A TIN ROOF. BUT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF EXCELLENT WORKS FROM THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES ARE MOSTLY UNFAIRLY UNPLAYED IN CONCERT HALLS, AS IT IS UNKNOWN BECAUSE IT IS UNJUSTLY NEGLECTED, DESPITE BEING EXTREMELY WORTHWHILE.
Thanks for the capitals, I guess. In fact, I find that today's "art music" is generally much more diverse, and easier to listen to than the dogmatic serialism of the 1950s and 1960s.
A shot in the dark- never heard of him- mainly to look at the picture! But what a treat. RU-vid is one of the best things in life and at 77 it has broadened my music experience at a time that I thought I had heard it all. Thanks.
If my arithmetic is right, this was first performed when the composer was 90, forty seven years after it was composed and five years before his death. Let's hope he got to hear it.
@@JaxYTB Thank you. It has been so long ago, and I was only 20 years old, too timid to contact an old wise man. I knew where he lived and that he was a very aristocratic man. A young conductor from Bruges has performed works by Ryelandt together with a Bruges orchestra and choir. Maybe he can provide more information: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZfzOfZFmhmk.html
It was wonderful to just sit back, relax and bathe my ears in this ultra-Romantic, ultra-dramatic symphony of sound and emotion. I've discovered yet another unjustly neglected Belgian composer (they seem to be generally as interesting as they are elusive). This work had to wait 47 years to be performed - why? It has character, heartfelt beauty, and immediate appeal, even though written in a comfortably conservative style. Rheinberger came to mind, and J. S. Bach, and astonishingly enough, in spirit and lyricism it resembles the symphonies of George Lloyd (I know, I'm really going off the deep end here). I only wish I knew the text used; I'll certainly be investigating Ryelandt further now!
I hope you'll get this reply. The text from the finale is the "Credo" from the traditional Latin mass as was used universally by the Roman Catholic Church until the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Meanwhile, our local orchestra (the Detroit Symphony Orchestra) puts on another season filled with works by Beethoven, Stravinsky, Mahler, et al, which are fine works, but which they have performed many many times before. At least Neeme Jarvi brought us less commonly performed Baltic music. Now it is all popular all the time in the desperate search for audiences. Bah!
Thank you yet again KuhlauDilfeng4 for uploading another fine work. On first hearing it I loved it so much I had to play it again (and again) to make sure I wasn't over reacting. It seems strange that it was not performed until 50 years after it was composed and at an age of 89. I read somewhere that his symphonies were not rated highly that can't be true of this one maybe the critic concerned was having a bad day! In the context of 1910 it would probably considered old-fashioned, but hey I love old-fashioned particularly his scoring for the horns, sheer magical. Until I found this, by complete happenchance, I had never heard of Joseph Ryelandt, now I am going to dig deeper. Thank you again KuhlauDilfeng4, keep up the good work.
It's like a Brahms symphony (oddly with touches of Mendelssohn, like Sym #2), with a choral and somewhat fugal finale. The third movement is a bit strange, how it transitions at the end.
44:59 and on seems a clear musical reference to the (then) Dutch anthem, "Wien Neerlands Bloed". I can't imagine that's a coincidence, especially from a Ghentian composer.
Merci, KuhlauDilfeng4 pour nous faire connaître cette superbe symphonie de ce compositeur si peu connu. Mais attention, cette symphonie n'est pas en si mineur (B minor), mais en mi bémol mineur (Es minor)
32:35 Credo in unum Deum, 33:15 Patrem omnipotentem, factorem caeli et terrae, 33:47 visibilium omnium et invisibilium. 34:12 Et in unum Dominum, Iesum Christum, 34:22 Filium Dei unigenitum, 34:34 et ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula. 34:48 Deum de Deo, Lumen de Lumine, 34:58 Deum verum de Deo vero, 35:20 genitum non factum, consubstantialem Patri; 35:37 per quem omnia facta sunt. 36:03 Qui propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem 36:27 descendit de caelis. 37:10 Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine, 37:53 et homo factus est. 38:40 Crucifixus etiam pro nobis, sub Pontio Pilato passus et sepultus est, 40:37 et resurrexit tertia die, secundum Scripturas, 40:49 et ascendit in caelum, 41:08 sedet ad dexteram Patris. 41:14 Et iterum venturus est cum gloria, iudicare vivos et mortuos, 41:41 cuius regni non erit finis. 42:19 Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum et vivificantem, 42:42 qui ex Patre Filioque procedit. 42:54 Qui cum Patre et Filio simul adoratur et conglorificatur: qui locutus est per prophetas. 43:49 Et (in) unam, sanctam, catholicam et apostolicam Ecclesiam. 44:25 Confiteor unum baptisma in remissionem peccatorum. 44:41 Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, 45:29 et vitam venturi saeculi. 46:39 Amen.
Music is good when it arouses an emotion or a mood within you. it's not necessarily about being melodic, religious or overtly musical, but about carrying the listener somewhere where he was not before. In this case, I feel like sitting on a park bench by a warm evening. the wind gently caresses my face, and everything is silent except for the nature around me. It is interesting that I mention that it evokes the silence when I speak of this kind of music.
Il y a de véritables "pépites" à découvrir parmi les compositeurs qui ne font pas (encore) partie des classiques du classique. C'est là une très belle oeuvre d'inspiration romantique servie par un orchestre visiblement motivé
A new find for me. A little depressing but worth listening to his other symphonies. Definitely had something musical to say. The only Belgian composer I really know is Vieuxtemps and he's totally Romantic.
Perhaps not one of the world's great lost symphonic masterpieces but a hugely enjoyable work by a composer who is new to me. Big thanks yet again to KuhlauDilfeng4
I always relate dates to what other composers are doing. Mahler was already dead when this piece was written. Sibelius's 4th had already been written. Very good work, beautiful in many ways but not revealing no new musical ideas.
