Pranav Ranjit | Charles Tournemire - Symphony No. 2 "Ouessant" (Score Video) @towardthesea_ | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
00:00 Prélude : très modéré - allegro moderato
20:48 Très calme
34:08 Choral: allegro
Performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Antonio de Almeida
Charles Tournemire (1870-1939) was a French composer and organist, considered one of the greatest organists of his time. For more on Tournemire, see the description of my score video of his sixth symphony (youtube.com/watch?v=K_2T7QW5EjQ) and my blog (unknowncomposers.org/2018/11/04/the-journey-begins/).
Written in 1908-09, Tournemire's second symphony is named for and inspired by the rocky island of Ouessant in Brittany, which he visited regularly for many years to compose. Over 50 minutes long, it is a tempestuous work, yet still imbued with some of the languid and mystical qualities that characterize Tournemire's later music.
You can find the score on Tournemire's IMSLP page, under "Symphony No.2, Op.36": imslp.org/wiki/Category:Tournemire,_Charles
00:00 Prélude : très modéré - allegro moderato
20:48 Très calme
34:08 Choral: allegro
Performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Antonio de Almeida
Charles Tournemire (1870-1939) was a French composer and organist, considered one of the greatest organists of his time. For more on Tournemire, see the description of my score video of his sixth symphony (youtube.com/watch?v=K_2T7QW5EjQ) and my blog (unknowncomposers.org/2018/11/04/the-journey-begins/).
Written in 1908-09, Tournemire's second symphony is named for and inspired by the rocky island of Ouessant in Brittany, which he visited regularly for many years to compose. Over 50 minutes long, it is a tempestuous work, yet still imbued with some of the languid and mystical qualities that characterize Tournemire's later music.
You can find the score on Tournemire's IMSLP page, under "Symphony No.2, Op.36": imslp.org/wiki/Category:Tournemire,_Charles
![Eduard Tubin - Symphony No. 11 [unfinished] (Score Video)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/l-vYcU8buKo/hqdefault.jpg "Eduard Tubin - Symphony No. 11 [unfinished] (Score Video)
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arvo Volmer
Eduard Tubin (1905-1982) was an Estonian composer and conductor, his countrys most prolific and arguably greatest symphonist. Having completed his studies under another very prominent Estonian composer, Heino Eller (whose music I also plan to upload), in independent Estonia, Tubin fled following the Soviet reoccupation of his country in 1944. He settled permanently in Sweden for the rest of his life, writing many of his most important works, being elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and becoming a Swedish citizen in 1961. In addition to an impressive eleven symphonies, Tubin wrote two operas, the first Estonian ballet (Kratt), concerti for double bass and balalaika, choral music, art songs, and chamber and solo works (particularly violin and piano music.)
For those unacquainted with Tubin, his orchestral music - particularly the symphonies of his middle and later period - shares some common elements with Shostakovich, often marrying relatively rigid formal structures like fugues with rather astringent harmonic ideas and an unexpected emotional intensity. He also often brought Estonian folk music into several of his works. Although Tubins work was initially somewhat unrecognized outside Estonia (even in Sweden), it has gained prominence in the last few decades due to the efforts of Estonian conductors including Neeme and Paavo Järvi.
The eleventh symphony, which Tubin was working on when he passed away in 1982, combines the aforementioned characteristics with a rather bright orchestration typical of his later music. The last minute or so of the first movement was completed by the Estonian-Canadian composer Kaljo Raid, resulting in the recording here; the score I have available is a copy of Tubins manuscript and thus does not contain this completion.
I now have scores of all of Tubins symphonies except the first; some of them are scans of old and battered copies, so they will take a little longer to upload - especially as most of his symphonic works are quite substantial in both musical material and length. I also plan to post his balalaika concerto soon, so if you enjoyed this work, stay tuned for more!")
