This Symphony is simply Epic!

It has a great opening and my attention was held throughout. In places it reminded me of Philip Glass's excellent score for 'Kundun'.

Very thanks

Amazing!

I've been listening to all of his symphonies on youtube since I saw the amazing opera I Played, I Danced. This is the best so far.

@PaulSmith-qs1es

4 жыл бұрын

When the chorus shows up, it reminds me of Snofrid by sibelius.

Genius from Latvia, suggest you to listen to all of his work not just symphonies :) :) :) And need to understand the meaning of all of it too :) Very important :)

@beth12svist

2 жыл бұрын

What puzzles me is how come he is not better known outside Latvia (I'm not Latvian, for the record). I've come here from a discussion about how modern "classical" music isn't accessible and I threw him out as my example of modern music that is accessible. And then I come here and there's just a handful of comments... He's definitely one of (if not _the_ ) my father's favourite composers, and I can see why.

@renarsdilevka6573

2 жыл бұрын

@@beth12svist Always wondering myself, well he is not someone who will put himself out there. He does not care about that, he is humble and he likes the intimacy, to have few thousand followers than be a star of any social media or known everywhere. But he is worth so people come to him instead, this is the whole world, new world which opens. And the most important as i already mentioned, he is the master of lyrics/poetry turning into the music for the soul. His diversity, his ability to compose for different genres of the music is just mind blowing. Operas, symphonies, "rock" symphony, music for the cartoons, music for the movies, theatres, rock music, folk music. And his signature is everywhere, the way he composes is not very standard, although based on the same music theory as Western music that we know for long time. But there is something unique in his music. And for the discussion of the modern music, if you meant nowadays music, then Arvo Part is another example, just one brilliant mind.

@beth12svist

2 жыл бұрын

@@renarsdilevka6573 I was trying to remember if my first introduction to him was through Sprīdītis, or Pilsēta kura piedzimst vējš (I hope I wrote that correctly); and then I realised it must have been another soundtrack, to a 70s or 80s film that was on in TV during one of our earlier visits to Latvia and that my sister watched - I don't speak Latvian, but she studied the language. So I mostly just heard it, and I don't really remember the music at all, but I feel like somehow it did leave a mark somewhere. There really is... something, to his music.

@renarsdilevka6573

2 жыл бұрын

@@beth12svist Yes almost for the titles, respect to you for that already. Yes it was old one, when i was little, we could drill it on TV constantly, but back in a day i did not have that ear and soul for his music. Now it is just like renaissance every time. I am trying to study it now, through the lens of the music theory and to understand how it sounds like that. Trying to understand what tools and expressions he uses to make sound it in a way i recognize him. It is like with Yann Tiersens music and other genius minds in minimalism, where they drag you in and you do not know why, all you know you loved the journey.