Catching up with things that arrived at Chez Jo's while away.
Hjalmar Borgstrom the Norwegian composer has been well on the way to being rediscovered since the beginning of the new millenium.
Some composers do long disappear from public consciousness over time and he is one of his most important works were performed in his native Norway until the Second World War.
No one seems to know just why that was.
Until his death in 1925, he had also played an important role as a critic too.
With the premiere of his two operas and above all the rediscovery of his extraordinarily picturesque symphonic tone poems, a new page in this story of finding acceptance.
A contemporary of Richard Strauss who studied with Johan Severin Svendsen and Carl Reinecke among others, proves to be a legitimate descendant of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner; it is difficult to escape the captivating boldness of his programmatic concepts and their unconventionally beautiful realization.
I found these works on regular cd from WDR radio recordings encouraged by a favourable Presto review highly enjoyable.
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