Hugo Alfvén - Symphony No.2 in D-major, Op.11 (1898)

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  • Hugo Alfvén
    Work: Symphony No.2 in D-major, Op.11 (1898)
    Mov.I: Moderat 00:00
    Mov.II: Andante 14:49
    Mov.III: Allegro 30:55
    Mov.IV: Preludio, Adagio 40:50
    Mov.V: Fugue, Allegro energico 47:19
    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor: Yevgeny Svetlanov
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Komentáře • 105

  • @richardhyde5997
    @richardhyde5997 Před 2 lety +21

    This wonderful symphony was my introduction to Alfvén some 40 years ago. Sadly, he has been neglected by me and so many others. No more; a further investigation of his music has begun. Please join me.

    • @dmeachy
      @dmeachy Před měsícem

      I'm with you. I could tell it was Hugo after the first couple measures of this piece. I frequently listen to his Swedish Rhapsody #1.

  • @jaimehudson7623
    @jaimehudson7623 Před rokem +3

    Thank-You! Music like this surely heals the Mind & Soul.

  • @DaveInLAS
    @DaveInLAS Před rokem +4

    Only 26 yrs old when he composed this!

  • @giginorman1955
    @giginorman1955 Před 2 lety +6

    This is a great symphony
    glad to hear it in full
    now that I'm 47!!!

  • @gunnarhallstedt9265
    @gunnarhallstedt9265 Před 5 lety +36

    The inspiration for Mov 1 Alfvén got when he was sailing in the Stockholm Archipelago. The imposant and majestic theme in the second part of Mov 5 is an old Swedish Psalm hymn called "I go to death where I go". Notice that Alfvén was just 26 years old when he wrote this Symphony. Brilliant performance!

    • @ylvaeliaeson4593
      @ylvaeliaeson4593 Před 2 lety +4

      It is the first time I hear it and it is beautiful!🌺

    • @andreasvenator
      @andreasvenator Před rokem +6

      Dear Gunnar, my grandfather was commodore of one of the yacht clubs in Riga during the 1930´s and often hosted Mr. Alfven up to the late 1930s at summer banquets in his yacht club. The last great sailing tour they did together was a trip in the summer of 1938. My dad was 10 at the time and was allowed to join on my grandfather´s yacht. The waypoints were Riga, Estonia and Gotland, whereafter Mr. Alfven sailed back to Sweden and my grandpa and dad sailed back to Riga after parting company. My grandfather received a little watch (Spieluhr) from him which played the opening bars of his summer rhapsody. I can still hum the tune to this day...wonderful memories!

  • @dmeachy
    @dmeachy Před měsícem +2

    I love the art work of all the pieces you've posted. Subscribed! Thank you!

  • @Brian_B505
    @Brian_B505 Před 3 lety +20

    How has this composer stayed under the radar so long?!! Thanks for the introduction, the gift of music is one of the greatest you can give.

    • @darrylschultz6479
      @darrylschultz6479 Před 2 lety +1

      This piece had faded from people's minds by the time radar was invented several decades later in 1935.

    • @tomstarzeck7137
      @tomstarzeck7137 Před 2 lety +1

      @@darrylschultz6479 🤣🤣

    • @Brian_B505
      @Brian_B505 Před rokem +1

      @@darrylschultz6479 😄

  • @bowerdw
    @bowerdw Před 4 lety +8

    If people consulted me, I would be comfortable saying this symphony with a very worthwhile listen.

    • @steveegallo3384
      @steveegallo3384 Před 3 lety +3

      Doug Bower -- What do you mean "if"?? Don't I ALWAYS consult you? How much more can I Give??

    • @bowerdw
      @bowerdw Před 3 lety +3

      @@steveegallo3384 No, you don't "ALWAYS consult" me. Thank goodness! LOL!

    • @bowerdw
      @bowerdw Před 3 lety +2

      @Steven Moore LOL! I wouldn't. It was just for this work.

  • @rudivandereep9611
    @rudivandereep9611 Před 4 lety +8

    What i enjoy about classics is the individual genetics of each composer

  • @mrturtle1128
    @mrturtle1128 Před 4 lety +39

    I am so glad to have found your channel, literally every day I am listening to a new video you posted and liking it

  • @giginorman1955
    @giginorman1955 Před 2 lety +5

    I don't listen to much of
    Alfven's music. But the
    symphony no. 2 really
    grabs me.

    • @tomstarzeck7137
      @tomstarzeck7137 Před 2 lety

      This has quickly become one of my favorites..number 4 is also quite beautiful

    • @dmeachy
      @dmeachy Před měsícem

      Swedish Rhapsody #1 is uplifting.

  • @miguelsaizgarcia3722
    @miguelsaizgarcia3722 Před 7 lety +21

    My favorite symphony of Hugo Alfvén!

    • @MegaCirse
      @MegaCirse Před 5 lety +2

      We are delighted ...... ;-)

  • @pottersmiles7238
    @pottersmiles7238 Před 2 lety +3

    I love this. Only a few minutes in too. First time hearing it

  • @stockholmsfisk
    @stockholmsfisk Před 4 lety +31

    As a resident in Sweden, I know Alfvén very closely. I can recommend these three pieces of his,I consider they are the best of his broad, and sometimes, in quality divergent output: The Symphony nr 4, the orchestral song " En båt med Blommor" (A boat with flowers) a poem by Oscar Levertin and the ballet "Bergakungen" ( The Mountain King).

    • @cajstrandberg4993
      @cajstrandberg4993 Před 2 lety +3

      I love Alfvén's music - especially the second symphony and his tone poem "En skärgårdsägen". I'm curious about "En båt med blommor" but never heard it. Do you know if there is any recording of it?

    • @stockholmsfisk
      @stockholmsfisk Před 2 lety +2

      czcams.com/video/QN0G1qsZkBA/video.html

    • @stockholmsfisk
      @stockholmsfisk Před 2 lety +1

      This is the best recording of this piece, Erik Saedén was, I would dare to say, the Swedish equivalent to Dieter Fischer-Diskau.

    • @cajstrandberg4993
      @cajstrandberg4993 Před 2 lety +3

      @@stockholmsfisk Thanks! So wonderful - I wasn't aware that it was available on CZcams. :)

  • @Troskyi
    @Troskyi Před 8 lety +21

    majestic charm in the first movement, his thematic development is like shorthand for the big sweeping romantic gestures of his contemporaries. he can sort of fast forward to the relevant emotional content without cheapening it.

  • @MegaCirse
    @MegaCirse Před 5 lety +6

    Heard this music the first time on a long-haul flight. His eccentric strangeness really impressed me, so much ahead of his time !

  • @danielsimmons7970
    @danielsimmons7970 Před 5 lety +13

    Hugo Alfven (1872-1960), Swedish composer, watercolorist and writer (4 vol. autobiography), composed over 200 works, including 5 symphonies.

  • @horsemeattball
    @horsemeattball Před 4 lety +8

    A no-holds barred, energetic, unapologetically Romantic work. Very much like early Dvorak. Music you can listen to over and over. Do I care if critics consider this piece outdated when written? Do I care if it snows in Antarctica?

    • @dmeachy
      @dmeachy Před měsícem

      Outdated? I cannot adhere that awful tag on any symphonic piece no matter how old it is. Music ages better than anything.

  • @flanor7540
    @flanor7540 Před 4 lety +10

    Great work! So far I was completely unfamiliar with this composer and his work. A revelation! I will listen to him more.

  • @Quotenwagnerianer
    @Quotenwagnerianer Před 6 lety +22

    My favourite of his symphonies. Actually my favourite in this kind of idiom. Sounds like a mixture between Brahms, Dvorak, Grieg and Wagner.

    • @extrasalt4595
      @extrasalt4595 Před 4 lety +3

      And Sibelius. Hoomeyow!!

    • @Jonsson474
      @Jonsson474 Před rokem +1

      Distinctly Swedish romantic nationalism. Similar Swedish composers are Kurt Atterberg, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Wilhelm Stenhammar and August Söderman. Yes I would also put Dvorak, Smetana, Grieg, Borodin and Glinka in the same bracket.

  • @aramkhachaturian8043
    @aramkhachaturian8043 Před 3 lety +5

    Another hidden gem to add to my collection

  • @mladenmike5224
    @mladenmike5224 Před 4 lety +4

    Listening to Alfven is like being in Swedish Norrland with it's all contrasts of instrumental variations. Couple of times driving North landsvägarna towards Luleå music sounds paint fantastisk inspiration in your head .

  • @davidgunn3947
    @davidgunn3947 Před 21 dnem

    Composers from Northern Europe, need I say more.......... Absolutely brilliant

  • @MontyVierra
    @MontyVierra Před 2 lety +3

    Thanks for uploading this. And thanks to those people contributing to the work with background information on the composer. Both of those are how a work gets to a wider public, not bemoaning the fact that because we haven't heard something it must be unknown.

  • @jsmithmedia2756
    @jsmithmedia2756 Před 4 lety +5

    The first movement has so much character all its own! Such a beautiful work. I will be looking into the composer more.

  • @ericmoninpianocomposer5454

    Wonderful post-romantic symphony!

  • @davebarclay4429
    @davebarclay4429 Před 4 lety +8

    At first I wasn't entirely sure about this performance. Although I'm a huge fan of Svetlanov I felt he was driving the music too hard. However by the time we got to 55:12, surely one of the most glorious passages in all Alfven's music, he had won me over. Another big thanks to KuhlauDilfeng2

  • @leonardomauretti6742
    @leonardomauretti6742 Před 4 lety +7

    Very interesting Symphony , considering that he was only 26 when wrote it. Great technique and great control of the orchestration. The first movement is really beautiful. Absolutely to rediscover.

    • @Jonsson474
      @Jonsson474 Před rokem +1

      He was also a music teacher, a doctor of music at Uppsala University and the leader of the Royal Court Orchestra.

  • @bowerdw
    @bowerdw Před 5 lety +8

    Why great music, great art, great writings, great acts are not noticed remains something of a mystery. Explanations fail to capture the true essence surrounding success of works of all kinds. There is nothing wrong with this work, it simply falls among those that for whatever reason is not noticed. CZcams visibility extended its visibility, but because there are so many others, this work remains obscure even under the new media offerings.

    • @paullewis2413
      @paullewis2413 Před 4 lety +2

      I wouldn’t call this symphony great music, however it certainly is fully professional and most certainly deserves to be heard more often instead of constant repeats of the “standard repertory”. In Europe orchestras are exploring more and more seldom heard works but that doesn’t seem to be the case so much in the U.S. and might be one of the causes of dwindling audiences.

    • @rburgess9964
      @rburgess9964 Před 4 lety

      @@peterbuckley265 What you have written is so true. The BBC takes a lot of the blame - promoting a coterie of chosen young composers for 'new' music while using its fine orchestras to roll out works from a very limited number of famous composers.
      Some works really do need new champions - Grace Williams's violin concerto is easily a match for Walton's but but seems to be never performed, certainly not a-in a braodcast concert

  • @oldrichcepelka296
    @oldrichcepelka296 Před 2 lety +1

    Dramatic, dark, energic... a quite new find for me.

  • @PANDORASBOXRELEASE
    @PANDORASBOXRELEASE Před 5 lety +9

    at 30:51, the entire audience deserves a medal for holding in that tuberculosis so well.

  • @donaldauguston9740
    @donaldauguston9740 Před 2 lety +1

    Magnificent! Thank you for posting. DA

  • @adolfodorantes4791
    @adolfodorantes4791 Před 5 lety +3

    Especial y bella sinfonía con detalles musicales sui generis que no se puede etiquetar o comparar.en sus temas,desarrollo y orquestación es muy propia del compositor. Me gustó la interpretación en vivo.

  • @ClarinetMate
    @ClarinetMate Před 2 lety +2

    55:12 simply judging by this passage I know this is the best recording. Beautifully balanced. Most other performances the brass just try to drown the woodwinds. Here you can hear the two families in perfect balance.

  • @andrewdaws7275
    @andrewdaws7275 Před 3 lety +3

    This is really lovely.

  • @mladenmike5224
    @mladenmike5224 Před 6 lety +3

    Sen jag var små barn vi lysnade på Hugo Alfvens symphonier på farsans gamla LP hi-fi spelaren med varma ljud. Svenska rapsodi nr-1 är favorit. Kan höra det om och om igen .....

    • @steveegallo3384
      @steveegallo3384 Před 5 lety

      Yes, this is a colossal work....Monumental! Right up there with Nielsen and (almost) Sibelius. BRAVO Sweden & Svetlanov!

  • @harryandruschak2843
    @harryandruschak2843 Před 9 lety +12

    Thank you so much for uploading this masterpiece. Here in Los Angeles, Alfen is considered a one-work composer. Guess which one. It is so refreshing to hear his other works.

    • @frankborder
      @frankborder Před 6 lety +1

      I think that is like most places.

    • @SpaghettiToaster
      @SpaghettiToaster Před 5 lety +5

      frankborder Most places don't know what a Hugo Alfven is.

    • @steveegallo3384
      @steveegallo3384 Před 5 lety +2

      @@SpaghettiToaster -- True, even among some music lovers, like me, he'd be considered 'unknown.' That said, "BRAVO" from México!

    • @julianfwong
      @julianfwong Před 4 lety +2

      According to the Internet, Swedish Rhapsody no.1? and here in Hong Kong I don't think there is even a performance on Alfven that is conducted here... he is super unknown!

    • @darrylschultz6479
      @darrylschultz6479 Před 2 lety +1

      @@steveegallo3384 I've gotta be honest-I didn't know you could toast spaghetti?!(Don't tell him I said that!).

  • @e_mc58tyre
    @e_mc58tyre Před 3 lety +1

    The score is available through the publisher Wise Music Classical

  • @MattReads12
    @MattReads12 Před 7 lety +6

    Getting to like Hugo Alfven more, even though is one of the lesser known composers (Swedish). I'm hearing some Beethoven, Brahms and Bruckner influences.

    • @michaellyndon6982
      @michaellyndon6982 Před 4 lety +2

      I'm hearing Sibelius and Bruckner myself, but a lot of the Late Romantic composers share similar styles in general (Though I'm not sure if Beethoven counts as Late Romantic)

  • @blofeld2430
    @blofeld2430 Před 7 měsíci

    That second movement is just majestic.

  • @PauloCesarMaiadeAguiar
    @PauloCesarMaiadeAguiar Před 4 lety +1

    Amazing Dear Many thanks for to share this dear Fantastic

  • @norwalltino
    @norwalltino Před 8 měsíci

    I'm in awe, totally smashed, Alven is a genius, greetings from Norway!🤣🤣🤣

  • @basb0y
    @basb0y Před 3 lety +2

    Changing from Sibelius to Brahms at 25:13 my skin started to have a life of its own!! wooooow

  • @justusgreen8498
    @justusgreen8498 Před 2 lety

    Brilliant piece of composed music

  • @frankborder
    @frankborder Před 6 lety +3

    all of the feels

  • @giovanskj9322
    @giovanskj9322 Před 4 lety +1

    Splendida sinfonia!

  • @stevenru4516
    @stevenru4516 Před 2 lety

    So glad I found this

  • @HumMax2
    @HumMax2 Před 10 měsíci

    Very nice. I listen every day to it. I suppose I listen to Beethoven again.

  • @federicopalaciostrigo9739

    ¡¡¡IMPRESIONANTE!!!

  • @rickos1915
    @rickos1915 Před 4 lety +1

    He also wrote "Skogen Sover" a gorgeous song sung by Jussi Bjorling.

  • @fulviopolce9785
    @fulviopolce9785 Před 5 lety +1

    Attorno al 22' c'è un guasto ?
    Comunque gran bella,epica sinfonia con influsso dei russi e di Tchaikowsky in particolare.

  • @ryans930
    @ryans930 Před 8 lety +4

    Does anyone know where I can buy this recording?

    • @alexk3987
      @alexk3987 Před 7 lety +3

      This seems to be a different Svetlanov performance to the one on the CD that I own (1988, Musica Sveciae) - same orchestra, but different timings. The 1988 one takes 65 minutes to this one's 58 and a half...

  • @ajmittendorf
    @ajmittendorf Před 4 lety +1

    Anyone know the painting?

  • @MrBrunosvensson
    @MrBrunosvensson Před 6 lety +6

    Who made the painting?

    • @feraudyh
      @feraudyh Před 6 lety +8

      ALBERT BIERSTADT (I used Google Image Search)

    • @throughaglassdarkly6285
      @throughaglassdarkly6285 Před 4 lety +1

      The scene looks like a fanciful rendering of Mtn Robson from Berg Lake (Canadian Rockies). It does seem to be a Bierstadt.

  • @alex669953
    @alex669953 Před 2 lety

    Thanks for the music. Can you please tell me the painter's name?

  • @fortunatomartino8549
    @fortunatomartino8549 Před 4 měsíci

    Just discovered this at age 59

  • @rr7firefly
    @rr7firefly Před 4 lety +1

    June 2020 -- so many of these videos are not playing. "An error occurred. Please try again later. Is anyone else encountering that problem?

  • @alexz580
    @alexz580 Před 5 lety +2

    Неплохо

  • @kaybeenullenvoyde9196
    @kaybeenullenvoyde9196 Před 4 lety +4

    I would appreciate hearing from the 5 "thumbs down" folks who dissed this. Why?

  • @samuelcomposer
    @samuelcomposer Před rokem

    23:06 what's up with that?

  • @lynxuscesarus5526
    @lynxuscesarus5526 Před 5 lety +1

    Ce romantisme échevelé me plaît...

  • @devarim5540
    @devarim5540 Před 3 lety +1

    Who painted the illustration?

  • @DavidKrebsisplaying
    @DavidKrebsisplaying Před 3 lety

    Picture?

  • @frankborder
    @frankborder Před 4 lety

    wish he would have taken Alfven's metronome/tempo markings in the introduction to the first movement - which are drastically different
    leave it to Svetlanov to abuse "artistic license" - an otherwise amazing conductor who is plagued by being overly fanciful

  • @christianspillemose4074

    first movement is fantastic. The rest is a bit boring buy okay. His third symphony is better the whole way through