Pranav Ranjit | Ernest Pingoud - Prologue for Orchestra (Score Video) @towardthesea_ | Uploaded January 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Finnish Radio Symphony conducted by Atso Almila
If you are following along, please note that the repeat at 3:04 starts on the third bar. Many thanks to James Stuart for the original audio: youtube.com/watch?v=weWXbxrov-0
Ernest Pingoud (1887-1942) was a Finnish composer, one of three notable modernists in Finnish music of the early 20th century along with Aarre Merikanto and Väinö Raitio. Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Pingoud, who was of French, German, and Finnish extraction, studied with Anton Rubinstein, Glazunov and Rimsky-Korsakov at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and with Max Reger in Germany. Following the Russian Revolution, Pingoud moved permanently to Helsinki, where he also contributed to various newspapers and served in the administration of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.
Unlike many other composers of his time, Pingoud was notable (and frowned upon) for his rejection of Finnish nationalism; he never wrote a work based on the Kalevala or Finnish folk songs, instead looking to other modernist composers for inspiration. He often used elements like the Prometheus chord and the octatonic scale, giving much of his work - including the "Prologue", written in 1915 - a Scriabin-like feeling, although it is stylistically distinct.
This exciting and skillfully orchestrated work is based on an excerpt from "La Voix", part of Charles Baudelaire's poems "Les fleurs du mal"; similar Symbolist poetry inspired many modernist composers of Pingoud's time.
If you enjoyed this, I am planning to upload more score videos of music by Pingoud and his contemporaries soon - stay tuned!
Finnish Radio Symphony conducted by Atso Almila
If you are following along, please note that the repeat at 3:04 starts on the third bar. Many thanks to James Stuart for the original audio: youtube.com/watch?v=weWXbxrov-0
Ernest Pingoud (1887-1942) was a Finnish composer, one of three notable modernists in Finnish music of the early 20th century along with Aarre Merikanto and Väinö Raitio. Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Pingoud, who was of French, German, and Finnish extraction, studied with Anton Rubinstein, Glazunov and Rimsky-Korsakov at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and with Max Reger in Germany. Following the Russian Revolution, Pingoud moved permanently to Helsinki, where he also contributed to various newspapers and served in the administration of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.
Unlike many other composers of his time, Pingoud was notable (and frowned upon) for his rejection of Finnish nationalism; he never wrote a work based on the Kalevala or Finnish folk songs, instead looking to other modernist composers for inspiration. He often used elements like the Prometheus chord and the octatonic scale, giving much of his work - including the "Prologue", written in 1915 - a Scriabin-like feeling, although it is stylistically distinct.
This exciting and skillfully orchestrated work is based on an excerpt from "La Voix", part of Charles Baudelaire's poems "Les fleurs du mal"; similar Symbolist poetry inspired many modernist composers of Pingoud's time.
If you enjoyed this, I am planning to upload more score videos of music by Pingoud and his contemporaries soon - stay tuned!
![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!")
