Grechaninov - Symphony No. 2, Mass 'Et in terra pax'

Posted By : dino63 | Date : 10 Nov 2008 12:45:00 | Comments : 9 |

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The Second Symphony is a more original and engaging work than the First. It has claims to compelling qualities not even scratched by the First. In the second movement at 6.10 the eloquent trumpet tops out a moment of Tchaikovskian majesty in sympathy with the Fifth Symphony. The tone is predominantly elegiac-tragic with moments which drift in stimulatingly from the Pathétique. The clarinet at 8.30 sings poignantly if not as fluently as we might have hoped. Grechaninov's case is helped by Polyansky's expansive leanings and by a tremendously clear and meaty recording. Only in the last movement do the flames flicker and burn low. All in all though anyone drawn to Tchaikovsky is likely to want this music.

The Mass rather like the Sancti Spiritus mass on CHAN 9397 is for organ and chorus alone. Its style is in step as well. Older age has distanced him from the glimmering colours of Russian romantic nationalism and drawn him (without suffocation) into the Establishment church music of New York. I find little in this which has the exoticism of Rachmaninov's Vespers. A closer parallel might be Percy Whitlock or Herbert Sumsion. More C of E than Russian Orthodox. Less of the censer and more of the hassock. Choirmasters please note as this music is well worth your attention. Listen to the organ flourish at the Sanctus and I defy you not to think of Hubert Parry.

A welcome contrast then: a symphony of Tchaikovskian inclination if not rivalling the master's temperature, and a serious choral work smoothly presented with almost Elgarian illumination.

Rob Barnett

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Posted By: Petwolfe Date: 10 Nov 2008 14:34:04

Cool upload mate...sang that mass once in Amsterdam..thanks

Posted By: FIboreka Date: 10 Nov 2008 15:10:07

Thank you!

Posted By: karuna Date: 10 Nov 2008 19:28:27

great upload, good though not very widely known composer. thank you very much

Posted By: mendelfan Date: 13 Nov 2008 06:59:01

thanks :-D

Posted By: torelli Date: 13 Nov 2008 10:05:49

С интересом послушал. Однако, музыка посредственная...

Posted By: dino63 Date: 14 Nov 2008 12:12:43

Whadda mean "mediocre"?. Lucky for you I don't speak Russian ;) :)

Posted By: galbatro Date: 13 Dec 2008 01:53:58

Thank you!

Posted By: Igone Date: 16 Dec 2008 22:14:41

Thank you very much

Posted By: Contrabasse Date: 09 Apr 2009 14:46:37

Interesting, will give it a listen. Thank you!

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