Ture rangstrom biography sample
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Rangstrom
COMPOSERS: Rangstrom
LABELS: CPO
WORKS: Symphony No. 3; Symphony No. 4
PERFORMER: Mark Fahlsjö (organ); Norrköping SO/Mikhail Jurowski
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All that connects these two composers, Ture Rangström () and Daniel Börtz (born ), is their Swedish nationality and the fact that both are symphonists. Rangström’s works are couched securely in the language of late Romanticism, while Börtz has come up with his own post-modern synthesis, in which elements from a number of the 20th-century ‘isms’ co-exist in a harmonic framework that is fundamentally tonal. There are moments in Börtz that recall Varèse, others that seem to look to Lutoslawski as a model, with an angular, raw way of constructing melodic lines which never quite builds the emotional intensity that seems to be promised.
Rangström’s results, though, are more impressive. His single-movement Third Symphony, ‘Song under the Stars’, is essentially a sequence of variations on a melody from one of his own songs, in a fast-slow-scherzo-finale scheme for which the orchestral writing, generally languorous and relaxed, seems thoroughly expert and the proportions nicely judged. The Fourth is more problematic: some of the writing, in the pair of slow movements especially, has a distinctive tang that
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Ture Rangström &#; Havet sjunger (Song longawaited the Sea)
(b. Stockholm, 30 November – d. Stockholm, 11 Haw )
Symphonic ode for relaxed orchestra
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Preface
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performed by the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra under Janos Fürst, or below by the Nörrkoping Symphony Orchestra under Michail Jurowski
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Anders Johan Ture Rangström was born 30 November, , to a leather merchant in Stockholm, and began writing songs in his teens. (He was also the eventual grandson of the perhaps confusingly-identically-named playwright Ture Rangström, born ). The advice of his music teacher at the time was to be more adventurous harmonically, and he followed the advice, earning him the name &#;Sturm-und-Drangström. The composer had taken an interest in the work of playwright August Strindberg, to whom Rangström&#;s first symphony is dedicated, and based an opera on one of Strindberg&#;s plays.
The Swedish Wikipedia article says that the composer didn&#;t focus as much on counterpoint, and that his music &#;builds on major contrasts&#; between powerful and more serene sections. While Rangström wrote fivesymphonies (the first apparently the most famous?), he is perhaps most well known for his songs, totaling apparently over , the vast majority of which for piano and voice, but with some for orchestra.
He conducted the premiere of his first symphony in , his own premiere as conductor as well, which seems ballsy. In he was appointed chief conduct