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Eugen Suchon - Orchestral Works | Chandos CHAN10849

Eugen Suchon - Orchestral Works

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Label: Chandos

Cat No: CHAN10849

Barcode: 0095115184929

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 30th March 2015

Contents

Artists

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Neeme Jarvi

Works

Suchon, Eugen

Baladicka suita (Balladic Suite), op.9
Metamorfozy (Metamorphoses)
Symfonietta rustica

Artists

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Neeme Jarvi

About

Although his music is rarely performed nowadays, Eugen Suchoň was the most influential and respected Slovak composer of the twentieth century.

Three of his greatest symphonic works are performed here by the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and its artistic director, Neeme Järvi. The works were composed during the years which Suchoň spent in Bratislava, where he turned his interest to the origins of Slovak folk music and to extended tonality.

In the four-movement Baladická suita (Balladic Suite), of 1935, Suchoň incorporates some Slovak folk elements and demonstrates his mastery of orchestration in an almost impressionist piece of great power and vitality.

Written in 1953, the Metamorfózy (Metamorphoses) reflects the composer’s own impressions during the war years, from a relatively tranquil pre-1939 to more disturbed wartime emotions in the Allegro moderato, the last two movements respectively peaceful and triumphal.

If the Symfonietta rustica, completed in 1956, opens with some lyrical and rhapsodic elements recalling the Metamorfózy, this rustic work, adapted from the earlier Sonata rustica for piano, shows what the composer had achieved through his experiments in the modality of Slovak folk music.

Winner of two Grammy Awards, in 2004 and 2010, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra is the longest continually operating professional orchestra of its kind in Estonia and tours all over the world.

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