Yes, his music is like an x-ray(Röntgen) dose of cosmic joy and anybody who regularly hangs out with Brahms, Grieg etc like him is the real thing. Excellent segment!

Great discovery for me. He wrote some wonderful music. None better than the Symphony No. 22 in F. Sharp Major. Love the dreamlike opening. Also his Old Netherlands Suite and Sinfonietta are well worth a listen. Rontgen should be better known

A fabulous composer indeed. I feel much freshness and craftsmanship galore in his works. I really hope CPO will complete the recordings of the symphonies and concertos.

Very welcome music. CPO and Capriccio do so many great things. Go buy while they still produce cds.

Great talk David. His second piano concerto was my introduction to this composer - it may be one of his more famous pieces relatively speaking and another good place to start. Everyone should hear his second piano quintet (a short work with an absolutely gorgeous opening), and the second cello sonata - cellists especially should be glad to know Röntgen, he composed reams of beautiful music for that instrument.

Röntgen is amazing, I felt especially drawn to his Cello Sonatas - they are so memorably melodic.

Speaking of good Dutch composers, I recommend CPO's four-volume series of orchestral works by Hendrik Andriessen (1892-1981).

@jeroendejong6680

3 жыл бұрын

Got those a week ago. Total revelation! Just terrific. Bought also the beautifully dark Miroir de Peine song cycle with Roberta Alexander

Love this music...I think I have all of the CPO releases. The chamber music is also terrific. CPO is a tremendous asset and everyone needs to buy their disks and support their continued unearthing of long forgotten music that is so exciting.

I'm so glad you gave this great intro to Röntgen! I first came across him by his Violin Concerto #1, which is truly outstanding and has unforgettable melodies. Of course I had to buy the CD right away after hearing it on the radio, and then blindly bought a CD with his piano concertos #2 and #4. And oh wow... the Piano Concerto #2 is something really special. The slow movement is to die for. Since then, I think I've obtained every single piece of Röntgen's music that has been actually recorded and put out. And I don't regret any of it!

CPO released another formidable series of orchestral works by Julius Röntgen. All symphonies that were still missing, including the last three!!

I've come across Röntgen's Trilogie for choir and orchestra, a beautiful work. Thank you for promoting composers out of 'standard' reperoire, really appreciated as nowadays concert programmes seem to resemble each other.

After I saw his name on the walls of the concert hall of the Concertgebouw, I did some research and can't agree more with David, a wonderful composer.

Thanks again for a great recommendation. I've enjoyed discovering some great music by Dutch composers, who are woefully neglected, certainly outside the Netherlands. No doubt you know them, but CPO's series of van Gilse recordings have been a particular pleasure - his Piano Concerto is a delightfully playful take on a genre that in other hands can get a bit portentous. Another witty, charming and lyrical piece is Voormolen's Concerto for Two Oboes. I also have a great respect for Hendrik Andriessen; his orchestral song 'Magna Res est Amor' is one of the most beautiful and moving pieces of vocal music I know.

@jeroendejong6680

3 жыл бұрын

Dutch composers are also painfully neglected in the Netherlands, not just outside. Just to name a few who should have much more (inter)national exposure are Diepenbrock, Wagenaar, Röntgen, Van Gilse, Pijper, Vermeulen, H. Andriessen, Henkemans, Van Delden, and I could go on.

Thank you for making this video! I know and love his Third Symphony as well as the F# minor Cello Concerto, and I need to listen to more of his music. Would you consider doing similar videos on Jef van Hoof and Ludolf Nielsen? Thank you again!

Boy, David, you weren't kidding! This guy is unbelievable! Thanks for your recommendation. What could be better than a new discovery of great music?

@DavesClassicalGuide

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for listening! Yes, he's terrific.

I don’t know Röntgen at all, and for some reason the other day I found myself thinking about the paucity of great Dutch composers given the great tradition of the Concertgebouw. I can’t wait to dive into Röntgen’s oeuvre - thanks for telling us about this composer, Professor Dave!

@DavesClassicalGuide

3 жыл бұрын

Go for it!

Wonderful to find this instructive & jolly little talk after rediscovering some of the Old Dutch Dances as historically played by the Concertgebouw & Mengelberg .I almost found myself detecting a very joyous Germanic Delius. Great fun and thank you again, lots of You Tube videos around of his music too!

Just stumbled upon the Bitonal Symphony. Love his stuff. Like a more Hindemithian Brahms, but not as Hindemith-y as Hindemith himself.

As a Dutchman myself, I think I have been a bit infected (unconsciously?) with that meme of thinking that our “own” composers are not quite “up to par” with the “big” ones. I admit my guilt, and I will rethink my assumptions. Anyway, thank you so much for bringing Julius Röntgen to my attention more. About Van Gogh. Oh dear, yes, he is known under at least 4 different names (pronunciations) ;-)

Wow! Sort of a Dutch Chabrier...which I intend as a great compliment. CPO has just sold some more CDS (to me), thanks to their wisdom in allowing you to play audio samples. Thanks! LR

I just heard on Radio Swiss Classic a lovely piece from a Serenade-then searched it down as one by Rontgen! As I searched for more on KZread, naturally and, what should have been unsurprisingly enough, I found your appreciation of him! In marvelous ways, you are the Howard Carter of musical-Tut-ology. What a joyous find for my ears...

@DavesClassicalGuide

Жыл бұрын

Wonderful!

I was aquainted only with his first and second piano concerto (or in fact no. 6 & 7), and I'll definitively listen to some of those albums!!!!

And he is the cousin of Wilhelm Röntgen, the discoverer of X-rays. Nice relative to have.

@JohanHerrenberg

3 жыл бұрын

I've been to the Concertgebouw many times. Röntgen's name is on one of the walls of the Great Hall. When a friend of mine spotted it, he quipped 'Radiant music'.

Rontgen, Emmanuel Moore, and Tovey were three composers whom Casals thought would gain reputations in time. There’s a whole chapter in J. Ma Corredor’s “Conversations with Casals.”

@Ginotti

2 жыл бұрын

I am reading Casal's biography. They remained close friends all life. Casals was a convinced champion of his music and inspired so many works for cello.

Many thanks for the heads up, this is new name and much to explore. P. S. Maybe one day you'll do a video on Ludolf Nielsen and/or Rued Langgaard

I would describe this music as "Fresh"...it just sounds fresh and open👍

@DavesClassicalGuide

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

Greetings from the Netherlands.

The Dutch are terribly dismissive of their own composers, a sort of inverted parochialism. Says this Dutchman. Very sad. Thanks for promoting Röntgen's music.

@bomcabedal

3 жыл бұрын

It doesn’t help that our prime orchestra was expressly founded to play the “masterworks” and little else. I think they did a Van Gilse symphony about fifteen years ago, but not with their principal conductor of course. That snobbery has poisoned orchestras all over the country, I’m afraid.

@JohanHerrenberg

3 жыл бұрын

@@bomcabedal I think Vermeulen's First and Second Symphonies, Orthel's Second Symphony and Dopper's Ciaconna Gotica, to name a few pieces, are 'masterworks'. But if you never play them, not very many people will know... So, yes - missed opportunities, structurally, for decades.

@MrEdmundHarris

3 жыл бұрын

@@JohanHerrenberg Then there's Willem Pijper, who wrote some wildly original music.

@JohanHerrenberg

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrEdmundHarris Yes, Pijper is another one.

Not that my opinion is worth anything at all, but I'm especially fond of his single-movement symphonies, the 8th and 21st. I'm really hoping CPO eventually completes the cycle.

Amazing --- no thumbs down yet, I'm 105 on the thumbs up; and there's no reason for contrarians unless you're an enemy of Life. Keep up the good work David; best thing going on you tube these days.

As far as Dutch composers go, I like a Cornelis Dopper

Was he related to the guy that discovered x-rays?

@DavesClassicalGuide

3 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@Fafner888

3 жыл бұрын

@@DavesClassicalGuide That's cool!