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Norwegian composer Christian Sinding's music, especially in smaller genres rather than the orchestral music he preferred, is performed frequently enough in Scandinavia but rarely elsewhere, and this Capriccio release of his four symphonies generated enough interest to put it on classical best-seller lists in early 2025. Sinding (1856-1941) came from the generation after Edvard Grieg but was less nationally inclined; he lived for much of his career in Germany and found models among the German symphonists, increasingly flavored by Wagner and Richard Strauss as he grew older. Perhaps the strongest and most concise work here, in just three movements, is the Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 83, which has a very Brahmsian feel. In his final swing at the fences, the Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, Op. 129 ("Frost and Spring"), first performed in 1936, Sinding threw off fully the formal tradition, subtitling the work Rhapsody for Orchestra, constructing a sequence of seven connected movements that involve a piano and various other unusual instruments, and building up to a big conclusion; the model here was the tone poems of Richard Strauss. Not everyone will like it, but it is not dull. The best feature of Sinding's language is his ability to keep attractive melodies coming, and the strength of conductor Karl-Heinz Steffens, leading the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, is his way of giving sufficient space to these. Nobody is claiming that Sinding is a neglected top master, but the music here is listenable throughout, and it is played by people who love it and have studied it well.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Karl-Heinz Steffens, Conductor, MainArtist - Christian Sinding, Composer - Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Roland Kistner, Engineer - C.F. Peters Edition, Leipzig, MusicPublisher
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Karl-Heinz Steffens, Conductor, MainArtist - Christian Sinding, Composer - Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Roland Kistner, Engineer - C.F. Peters Edition, Leipzig, MusicPublisher
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Karl-Heinz Steffens, Conductor, MainArtist - Christian Sinding, Composer - Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Roland Kistner, Engineer - C.F. Peters Edition, Leipzig, MusicPublisher
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Karl-Heinz Steffens, Conductor, MainArtist - Christian Sinding, Composer - Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Roland Kistner, Engineer - C.F. Peters Edition, Leipzig, MusicPublisher
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Karl-Heinz Steffens, Conductor, MainArtist - Christian Sinding, Composer - Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Roland Kistner, Engineer - C.F. Peters Edition, Leipzig, MusicPublisher
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Karl-Heinz Steffens, Conductor, MainArtist - Christian Sinding, Composer - Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Roland Kistner, Engineer - C.F. Peters Edition, Leipzig, MusicPublisher
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Karl-Heinz Steffens, Conductor, MainArtist - Christian Sinding, Composer - Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Roland Kistner, Engineer - C.F. Peters Edition, Leipzig, MusicPublisher
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Karl-Heinz Steffens, Conductor, MainArtist - Christian Sinding, Composer - Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Roland Kistner, Engineer - C.F. Peters Edition, Leipzig, MusicPublisher
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Karl-Heinz Steffens, Conductor, MainArtist - Christian Sinding, Composer - Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Roland Kistner, Engineer - C.F. Peters Edition, Leipzig, MusicPublisher
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Karl-Heinz Steffens, Conductor, MainArtist - Christian Sinding, Composer - Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Roland Kistner, Engineer - C.F. Peters Edition, Leipzig, MusicPublisher
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Karl-Heinz Steffens, Conductor, MainArtist - Christian Sinding, Composer - Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Roland Kistner, Engineer - C.F. Peters Edition, Leipzig, MusicPublisher
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Karl-Heinz Steffens, Conductor, MainArtist - Christian Sinding, Composer - Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Roland Kistner, Engineer - C.F. Peters Edition, Leipzig, MusicPublisher
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Karl-Heinz Steffens, Conductor, MainArtist - Christian Sinding, Composer - Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Roland Kistner, Engineer - C.F. Peters Edition, Leipzig, MusicPublisher
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Karl-Heinz Steffens, Conductor, MainArtist - Christian Sinding, Composer - Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Roland Kistner, Engineer - C.F. Peters Edition, Leipzig, MusicPublisher
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Karl-Heinz Steffens, Conductor, MainArtist - Christian Sinding, Composer - Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Roland Kistner, Engineer - C.F. Peters Edition, Leipzig, MusicPublisher
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Karl-Heinz Steffens, Conductor, MainArtist - Christian Sinding, Composer - Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Roland Kistner, Engineer - C.F. Peters Edition, Leipzig, MusicPublisher
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Karl-Heinz Steffens, Conductor, MainArtist - Christian Sinding, Composer - Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Roland Kistner, Engineer - C.F. Peters Edition, Leipzig, MusicPublisher
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Karl-Heinz Steffens, Conductor, MainArtist - Christian Sinding, Composer - Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Johannes Kernmayer, Producer - Roland Kistner, Engineer - C.F. Peters Edition, Leipzig, MusicPublisher
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Album review
Norwegian composer Christian Sinding's music, especially in smaller genres rather than the orchestral music he preferred, is performed frequently enough in Scandinavia but rarely elsewhere, and this Capriccio release of his four symphonies generated enough interest to put it on classical best-seller lists in early 2025. Sinding (1856-1941) came from the generation after Edvard Grieg but was less nationally inclined; he lived for much of his career in Germany and found models among the German symphonists, increasingly flavored by Wagner and Richard Strauss as he grew older. Perhaps the strongest and most concise work here, in just three movements, is the Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 83, which has a very Brahmsian feel. In his final swing at the fences, the Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, Op. 129 ("Frost and Spring"), first performed in 1936, Sinding threw off fully the formal tradition, subtitling the work Rhapsody for Orchestra, constructing a sequence of seven connected movements that involve a piano and various other unusual instruments, and building up to a big conclusion; the model here was the tone poems of Richard Strauss. Not everyone will like it, but it is not dull. The best feature of Sinding's language is his ability to keep attractive melodies coming, and the strength of conductor Karl-Heinz Steffens, leading the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, is his way of giving sufficient space to these. Nobody is claiming that Sinding is a neglected top master, but the music here is listenable throughout, and it is played by people who love it and have studied it well.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 02:29:53
- Main artists: Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra Karl-Heinz Steffens
- Composer: Christian Sinding
- Label: Capriccio
- Genre: Classical
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