Carl Nielsen - Symphony No. 2 "The Four Temperaments"), Op. 16 (1902)
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- Carl August Nielsen (9 June 1865 - 3 October 1931) was a Danish composer, conductor and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer.
Symphony No. 2 "The Four Temperaments", Op. 16 (1901-02)
Dedicated to Ferruccio Busoni
1. Allegro collerico
2. Allegro comodo e flemmatico
3. Andante malincolico
4. Allegro sanguineo
San Francisco Symphony conducted by Herbert Blomstedt
Description by Rovi Staff [-]
Nielsen's Symphony No. 2, Op. 16 (1901-02) was inspired by a depiction of the four temperaments or "humours" -- long used to describe one's personality and physical characteristics -- on the wall of a village inn on the Danish island of Sjaeland. The composer fashioned a symphony based on the temperaments, cautioning that his treatment of them was not intended to be programmatic; instead, these four states merely provide an outline of the moods in the work. Nielsen described the musical depictions in the symphony's four movements thus: "... [T]he impetuous (Allegro collerico), the indolent (Allegro flemmatico), the melancholy (Andante malincolico) and the cheerful (Allegro sanguino). But the impetuous man can have his milder moments, the melancholy man his impetuous or brighter ones, and the boisterous, cheerful man can become a little contemplative, even quite serious -- but only for a little while. The lazy, indolent man, on the other hand, only emerges from his phlegmatic state with the greatest of difficulty, so this movement is both brief (he can't be bothered) and uniform in its progress."
In addition to displaying the composer's masterful talent for sonic portraiture, the symphony also demonstrates one of Nielsen's highly individual techniques, which he called "progressive tonality": a series of adventurous modulations that bypass the formal key relationships characteristic of most Classical and Romantic symphonies. Nevertheless, the influence of Brahms is clearly in evidence, especially in the third movement. After a few early performance, the symphony was not often heard until the 1960s, when Nielsen's genius began to receive wider recognition. - Hudba
0:00 1st movement: The Choleric
9:16 2nd movement: The Phlegmatic
13:45 3rd movement: The Melancholic
25:20 4th movement: The Sansuine
Blomstedt is the greatest conductor of Nielsen and with great sound from. San Francisco. Their whole set of the Nielsen symphonies are definitely worth adding to anyone's music collection 👍👍👏👏
Une des musiques les plus incroyables... Merci. ❤
So many influences and audacious ideas in this masterpiece : while the third movement and its solemn character makes us thinking of Bruckner or even Schumann (the fourth movement of the Rhenish Symphony), the first movement anticipates already Hindemith by its implacable sense of pulse and expression. A magnificent work !
A magnificent comment - thanks!
CN in heaven now, absolutely the best symphonic composer of the Nordic realm among Sibelius, Halvorsen and Alven
Nielsen created his own sound. It is all organic. In this symphony one can anticipate the 4th and see how much he departed from the 1st.
I gotta listen to more Carl Nielsen
Okay, Aram Khachaturian
I gotta listen to more Khachuturian
Go ahead
Try his 4th. Total blowout!
A great work. Very romantic third movement, I agree, the Brahmsian influence is significant. Quite different from the anti-romanticism of Nielsen's later career.
Yes, there is some influence of Brahms, but only Nielsen could have written it . His music sounds like Nielsen and no one else .
Now I'm interested in hearing an organ version of the third movement, which I think could translate well if the registration is used to its fullest extent.
The great symphony
Writer tap into him
someday.😊 ❤
What I notice about Nielsen is his quase obsession with the classical sense of form and architecture in the way he strictly develops his thematic materials: nothing diffuse here or fuzzy, but like Brahms, Mendelssohn and Reger, he is romantic in spirit and classical (and indeed, with his interspersed fugatos and carefully use of leitmotiv, often backward-looking) in form (unlike those cloudy "monsters" like Bruckner, Mahler or Wagner....although these too have their more compact moments so my sweeping generalization is not quite 100% accurate...but they go on endlessly and their bombastic grandeur can fatigue even the most experienced listeners).
Nielsen once stated in connection to his first symphony, that he wished to go against the "german gravy and fat" at the time
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I am the melancholic in the 3rd mvt
Didn't Stefano Paparazzi already upload this?
Yes, but different performance. Quite different. I upload the Blomstedt series. If he had used Blomstedt, sure, I wouldn't have bothered.
@@bartjebartmans lol, I don't even know Stefano Paparazzi have uploaded this piece :)
I used a different recording and even a different edition of the score, so no problem! :)
25:42
Nope. It’s not time for me to like nielsen yet, I see. Let’s wait another four years
Sounds so much like Brahms here : czcams.com/video/NN0Z2-TVPsI/video.html
It reminds me a specific moment in a Brahms work, but I can't find which one
A composer said to Brahms, "I like your new symphony...but it sounds like something". "Like what?" said Brahms. "YOUR next symphony?!"