Kurt Atterberg - Symphony No.4 in G-minor, Op.14 "Sinfonia piccola" (1918) 

The andante has got to be one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard. Amazing and deserves to be much more widely heard.

WOW. That andante was absolutely SUBLIME. Normally I'm not the biggest fan of post-romanticism of this sort, but I can't deny how brilliant Atterberg was as a melodist and contrapuntist. Truly stunning.

I used to listen to this and sit in my living room to watch my plants grow, they were healthy plants! I think my plants liked Atterberg's music too !

Couldn't resist another comment...I think the second movement of this symphony must be the most beautiful single movement ever written.

What a fantastic Symphony !!!! The Andante is beautiful, melancholic, colorful, and cinematic; the short Scherzo and the Finale are playful and colorful. Atterberg may have influenced film composers, for he was a great Romantic melodist and orchestral colorist.

This symphony is truly amazing

Tout simplement immense... L'andante à 10:10 est un des plus grands morceaux de la musique. Sublime

0:50 such a wonderful melody, one of my favourite from this marvelous symphonic masterpiece.

5:46 what a beautiful Andante

Wow, this has so much melody...!

Loved this symphony, very interesting to hear it, thank you.

Wonderful symphony!!!!

This heroic performance is splendid

Stunningly beautiful piece, with wonderful Sibelian (and Mahlerian) influence and lyricism (especially that second movement).

Such beautiful, melodic, symphonic music. 1918?! Better late than never, right? Of course right! Thanks for sharing!

As its name suggests, this symphony is rather short (20 min.). It is written in a neoromantic style with features peculiar to the composer. It starts in an ardent way, which resolves quickly on melodies played by the English horn and the flute, but a rather cheerful climate remains. At 5.41, a quite different mood and a much slower tempo prevails. The mood is rather mysterious. A splendid andante follows at 10.39. At 12.51, timbals introduce a scherzo-like music. At 15:40 the music becomes lighter, with flutes followed by a English horn, then expressivity is deveoped. At 18:00 the tone becomes more severe, then accelerates in a final long crescendo.

I had just previously heard Eduard Tubin's 6th Symphony - what a difference! Atterberg's 4th is an antidotal "breath of fresh air"; even though it was composed in the time of WW1, it exudes optimism, unlike Tubin's depiction of doom. It's in the spirit of Sibelius (the "Karelia Suite"), and calls to mind his style, while not copying it. Of Atterberg"s even-numbered symphonies - the only ones I've heard so far - this one is the most beautiful. (The coda, however, seemed somehow awkwardly "tacked on").

Nice picture as well.

No dislikes... That's how I like it.

The Finale-Rondo is marked Allegro molto.

That moment that begins at 10:12 in the andante, what is this type of magic

Great symphony, depth and humor... can't deny, the strings/triangle at 19:43 sound like a P.D.Q. Bach touch...

brilliant

merveilleuse musique douce pleine de poésie

good piece

Nice Danke

7:52

Una hermosa sinfonía de un compositor casi ignoto. Un hermoso movimiento andante, con resonancias de Sibelius (contemporáneo de Atterberg), se ve flanqueado por tres movimientos de clara influencia rusa: pienso en el grupo de los cinco con Borodin, Mussorski y Rimski...

Does anyone know the name of this picture/painting? There is something about it that I like a lot.

Are you just adding random pictures to the video.....? The atmospheres are completely different!