Alexander Tikhonovich Grechaninov - Sinfonia Nº 3 (grabacion)

Alexander Tikhonovich Grechaninov
SINFONIA No. 3 in E major, Op. 100 (PRIMERA GRABACION MUNDIAL)
CANTATA "KVALITE BOGA" (Praise the Lord), Op. 65
Ludmila Kuznetsova, Soprano
Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Dir: Valery Polyansky.
(CHANDOS)

Volviendo en esta oportunidad con la maravillosa música de Grechaninov.

En entrega anterior, les pude presentar sus dos primeras sinfonías para dar a conocer al Grechaninov sinfónico, tan interesante y convincente como el creador de las grandes obras corales.

En la genial 3ra sinfonía encontramos ya al Grechaninov consagrado como un gran compositor. En la obra conseguimos una clara influencia tchaikovskiana y glazunoviana, con pero con cierta estética gala que permite hacer analogías con la Sinfonía en Re, de Cesar Franck. Increiblemente, ha sido Polyansky, a través de su espectacular ciclo, quien ha sacado a esta obra de las tinieblas del olvido. De igual modo, la Cantata "Alabanza al Señor", ya conocida por nosotros a través de otras versiones, cuenta en la de Polyansky como la Premiere mundial y de seguro como la referencia.

Esta corta pero sustanciosa y reveladora reseña, ilustra bastante sobre Grechaninov y sus sinfonías:

"Alexander Grechaninov was something of a living anachronism, and
a very long-lived one at that. A contemporary of Mahler, Sibelius, and Ives, his style remained on the conservative side of the Tchaikovsky tradition until his death in 1956. He wrote a great deal of Orthodox Church music, meaning that after 1917 a substantial part of his output was disenfranchised in his native Russia.

His five symphonies have been largely forgotten, but Polyansky and the Russian State Symphony Orchestra have done their best to revive them with a series of recordings on Chandos. The Third, written in 1923, is a big, colorful affair, reminiscent of Glazunov or Rachmaninov, and it is passionately performed in this spectacularly vivid and resonant recording. The disc also includes the first-ever recording of the cantata 'Praise the Lord,' a choral concert work with orchestra that has many of the soulful qualities of Grechaninov's liturgical music."

BBC Music Magazine.

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