Ernst Mielck - Orchestral and Choral Works
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Label: Toccata Classics
Cat No: TOCC0174
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 3rd June 2013
Contents
Works
Dramatic Overture, op.6Finnish Suite, op.10
Macbeth Overture, op.2
Old Bohemian Christmas Song, op.5
Old Germanic Yule Feast, op.7
Artists
Joha Kotilainen (baritone)Academic Male-Voice Choir of Helsinki
Lyran Academic Female-Voice Choir
Kampin Laulu Chamber Choir
Helsinki University Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Mikk MurdveeWorks
Dramatic Overture, op.6Finnish Suite, op.10
Macbeth Overture, op.2
Old Bohemian Christmas Song, op.5
Old Germanic Yule Feast, op.7
Artists
Joha Kotilainen (baritone)Academic Male-Voice Choir of Helsinki
Lyran Academic Female-Voice Choir
Kampin Laulu Chamber Choir
Helsinki University Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Mikk MurdveeAbout
Mielck’s sudden death marked the premature end of a career that promised great things. He had come to prominence only a few years earlier, first as a pianist, then as a composer. In his few years of creativity he composed a body of works that, though small, nonetheless demonstrated his extraordinary talent. His output includes the first fully fledged Finnish symphony (1897), composed two years before the First Symphony of Jean Sibelius. Contemporary musical circles even viewed him as a significant challenger to Sibelius. Mielck’s career reached its zenith in December 1898, when he became the first Finnish composer to hold a concert of his own works with the Berlin Philharmonic.
In spite of this success, Mielck has remained something of an outsider in the history of Finnish music. At a time when young Finnish composers were increasingly turning their attentions to national themes and a post-Wagnerian musical language, Mielck took inspiration from central-European Romanticism and the traditional compositional forms of Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms.
The rapid evolution in Mielck's language in the three years covered by this CD is remarkable. The two overtures and cantatas make clear that he was already a gifted composer in the post-Schumann Romantic tradition, and the Finnish Suite, written in the last year of his life, shows a striking simplification of his textures and what seems to have been a nascent nationalism.
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