Pranav Ranjit | John Blackwood McEwen - String Quartet No. 4 (Score Video) @towardthesea_ | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
00:00 Allegro ma non troppo
08:45 Vivace
12:39 Andante espressivo
16:31 Larghetto
Performed by the Chilingirian Quartet (Levon Chilingirian, violin 1; Charles Sewart, violin 2; Asdis Valdimarsdottir, viola; Philip de Groote, cello)
John Blackwood McEwen (1868-1948) was a Scottish composer and educator, most notable for his decades-long tenure teaching composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. As a composer, McEwen was influenced by Scottish folk music as well as many prevailing trends in European music at the turn of the century, including various post-Wagnerian composers, Impressionism, and the music of Scriabin.
Written in 1905, McEwen's fourth string quartet is one of his most innovative in the genre. Per the program notes of the recording, "the Allegro ma non troppo has echoes of early Bartók and the scherzo is an agitated version of the coda in the finale of Beethoven’s Op. 127. The last two movements are very Scottish in character; a sad lament full of rich chromatic harmonies preceding a highspirited romp."
The score can be found on McEwen's IMSLP page under "String Quartet No.4": imslp.org/wiki/Category:McEwen,_John_Blackwood
00:00 Allegro ma non troppo
08:45 Vivace
12:39 Andante espressivo
16:31 Larghetto
Performed by the Chilingirian Quartet (Levon Chilingirian, violin 1; Charles Sewart, violin 2; Asdis Valdimarsdottir, viola; Philip de Groote, cello)
John Blackwood McEwen (1868-1948) was a Scottish composer and educator, most notable for his decades-long tenure teaching composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. As a composer, McEwen was influenced by Scottish folk music as well as many prevailing trends in European music at the turn of the century, including various post-Wagnerian composers, Impressionism, and the music of Scriabin.
Written in 1905, McEwen's fourth string quartet is one of his most innovative in the genre. Per the program notes of the recording, "the Allegro ma non troppo has echoes of early Bartók and the scherzo is an agitated version of the coda in the finale of Beethoven’s Op. 127. The last two movements are very Scottish in character; a sad lament full of rich chromatic harmonies preceding a highspirited romp."
The score can be found on McEwen's IMSLP page under "String Quartet No.4": imslp.org/wiki/Category:McEwen,_John_Blackwood
![Vasily Kalinnikov - Symphony No. 2 (Score Video) [N. Järvi]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IFu1RxsVUhw/hqdefault.jpg "Vasily Kalinnikov - Symphony No. 2 (Score Video) [N. Järvi]
Performed by the Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Neeme Järvi
00:00 I. Moderato - Allegro non troppo
10:18 II. Andante cantabile
18:25 III. Allegro scherzando
26:32 IV. Andante cantabile - Allegro vivo
Vasily Kalinnikov (1866-1901) was a Russian Romantic composer whose often colorful and energetic music drew from Russian folk melodies. For more on Kalinnikov, see my post about him on my blog: https://unknowncomposers.org/2019/03/25/special-feature-vasily-kalinnikov-the-forgotten-russian-romantic/
Written in 1897 and dedicated to the conductor Aleksandr Vinogradsky, Kalinnikovs second symphony is one of his most important works. Although I personally find the melodies of his first symphony most compelling, the second displays a mastery of form and development while retaining the exuberance and orchestral color so characteristic of his style.
Although they have begun to gain prominence in recent years, Kalinnikovs works remain rarely performed among major orchestras outside the former USSR - I hope this score video will be a small part of changing the status quo. You can find the score on Kalinnikovs IMSLP page (https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Kalinnikov,_Vasily) under Symphony No. 2 in A Major.")
