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Ads by Google Related Topics No Doubt Faith No More Symphony No 9 Beethoven Symphony No 5 Beethoven Symphony No 3 Symphony No 2 Symphony No 4 Symphony No 5      Symphony No. 3 (Mahler) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Symphony No. 3 in D minor by Gustav Mahler was written between 1893 and 1896. As in his Symphony No. 2, Mahler adds vocal forces to the later movements of the piece. One notable recording was made in quadraphonic stereo by the Utah Symphony under Maurice Abravanel in the acoustically-remarkable Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._3_(Mahler)   (486 words)      CP2 109 Artur Schnabel: Symphonies 1 & 3 CP2 109 Artur Schnabel: Symphonies 1 and 3 Symphony No. 1 is by far the densest of the Symphonies. This CD (CP 109) presents Symphonies 1 and 3, with Symphony No. 2 being available on CP Symphony No. 1 is not a work of Schnabel's either physical or compositional youth. http://www.musicalobservations.com/recordings/cp2_109.html   (942 words)      Belle Epoque - Mahler: Symphony No. 3 Generally, the Symphonie No. 3 is regarded as symphony in d minor; the music starts in the key of d minor and ends in the key of D major. Corresponding to the Second Symphony, the second movement is a Menuetto, the third movement a Scherzo, and in the fourth movement emerges a gloomy contralto solo. Just as in the case of several of Beethoven's symphonies a century ago, so Mahler's Third has become a subject for debate among those with an interest in music, in the manner of the Bible or like a precipitous, unscaled peak which constantly allures the bold adventurer. http://www.labellepoque.de/mahler/sinf03_e.htm   (1774 words)      Symphony No. 3 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Among the pieces of music with the title Symphony No. 3 are: Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 3 is a hypothetical work, elaborated from Elgar's sketches by the composer Anthony Payne in the 1990s, published as Edward Elgar: The Sketches for Symphony No. 3 Elaborated by Anthony Payne. Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._3   (194 words)      Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven) - definition of Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven) in Encyclopedia The Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven, Opus 55 (known as the Eroica) is a work many consider to herald the dawn of musical Romanticism. In terms of sheer scale, the piece is about twice as long as any symphony that came before - the first movement alone is as long as the entirety of many Classical symphonies. Beethoven wrote most of the symphony in late 1803 and completed it in early 1804. http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Symphony_No._3_(Beethoven)   (550 words)      InternetEd Reviews: Charles Ives- Symphony No. 3 Ending the album is "Symphony No. 3" with its uplifting introduction, festive central music, and bright ending, which comprises of very rich string melodies. Conducted by Slatkin and performed by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, this record is an essential for fans of Charles Ives' music. All in all, this is among the best performances of Ives' music ever captured on record. http://www.interneted.com/Reviewpages/ivescharlessymphony3.htm   (319 words)      Symphony No. 3 The symphonies have appeared at regular intervals - No. 2 in 1981, No. 3 in 1985, No. 4 in 1989 - and are all not far short of an hour in playing time. When I wrote this symphony I thought of it in terms of purely abstract music, and involved myself with problems of large-scale articulation - that is, with musical architecture, particularly as a framework for long-range harmonic planning. While the music of this Orkney period is steeped in echoes of the natural environment, the symphonies' concern with abstract musical issues of tonal conflict, transformation of material balance of overall design, has been equally constant, and has tended to become more sharply focused. http://www.maxopus.com/works/symph_3.htm   (3320 words)      Analysis of Symphony No Beethoven°s third symphony was written during the years of 1803 and 1804. Home : Music : Analysis of Symphony No. 3 in e-flat Major (eroica) Op. Analysis of Symphony No Analysis of Symphony No. 3 http://www.markwshead.com/music/analysis_symphony.htm   (1059 words)      Gorecki - Symphony of Sorrowful Songs No.3 - A Good-Music-Guide Review Symphony no.3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs is an hour-long work that demands the attention of the listener. For an alternative, from the Naxos label there is this recording from the composer's home-town of Katowice with soprano Zofia Kilanowicz and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 1993, a recording with Dawn Upshaw and the London Symphonietta topped not only the classical music charts, but the popular charts as well, and remains the best-selling album ever of music by a contemporary composer. http://www.good-music-guide.com/reviews/058_gorecki_sorrowful_songs.htm   (911 words)      Fuchs, Symphony No. 3 The symphony is in the standard four-movement scheme, and its formal patterns are not hard to follow. Rather, Fuchs’s music seems to embody the aesthetic of his older colleague at the Vienna Conservatory, Eduard Hanslick, who rejected the idea that the aim of music was to plumb philosophical depths or encode psychological states and argued instead that musical beauty derived essentially from the creation of "regular and pleasing" sonic forms. The finale was the "problem" movement of the nineteenth-century symphony. http://www.americansymphony.org/dialogues_extensions/98_99season/6th_concert/fuchs.cfm   (955 words)      [Mahler - Symphony No. 3] notes by Paul Serotsky Mahler's orchestration was aimed unswervingly at clarity: in his hands the symphony orchestra became a wonderful, kaleidoscopic chamber ensemble, a natural (though not inevitable) consequence of his consistent use of polyphony - which itself derived from his lifelong admiration for the music of J. Bach. Originally, Mahler had planned the symphony to be in seven movements, but in the event withdrew the seventh movement and used it as the finale of his Fourth Symphony. Originally the symphony had a programme, which Mahler withdrew as he did all his proposed symphonic programmes. http://www.musicweb-international.com/Programme_Notes/mahler_sym3.htm   (2560 words)      Aaron Copland: Symphony No. 3 / Billy the Kid (Suite) by Max Westler Especially in his second recording with the New Philharmonia, much of the symphony sounds matter-of-fact, rhythmically slack. In fact, this New Zealand Symphony sounds like an altogether richer ensemble than the orchestra that recorded Samuel Barber's work back in the 80's with the late Andrew Schenck conducting. Overall the sound is detailed and vivid, a first balcony perspective on what turns out to be (in the symphony, at any rate) a thrilling performance. http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/music/1003/copland.htm   (1147 words)      Symphony No. 3 Alasdair Neale is Principal Guest Conductor of the New World Symphony, Music Director of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra, and this season began his tenure as Music Director of the Marin Symphony. Prior to the demonstration, IMSC captured the New World Symphony's performance of the fourth movement of Copland's Symphony No. 3 using novel multi-channel audio acquisition methods and high definition video, accurately capturing the acoustics of Miami Beach's Lincoln Theatre. Neale's Marin Symphony appointment follows 12 years as Associate Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. http://arts.internet2.edu/symphony3.html   (1198 words)      Johannes Brahms - Symphony 3 When his First Symphony at last appeared, it was hailed as "Beethoven's Tenth." His Second Symphony was seen as analogous to Beethoven's Pastorale Symphony, and his Third Symphony was dubbed by "Brahms' Eroica," by renowned conductor Hans Richter. Mozart composed his Symphony no. 1 at the age of eight. Brahms' Third Symphony was written in the summer of 1883. http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/brahms_sym3.html   (371 words)      Amazon.co.uk: Mahler: Symphony No.3: Music Symphony No. 3 In D Minor: Part I: No. 1 Kraftig. No other conductor let or lets the music speak for itself in the way that he did. Symphony No. 3 In D Minor: Part II: No. 4 Sehr Langsam. http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000027HC0   (712 words)      Symphony No. 3 The National Symphony Orchestra did not perform this work until the concerts of October 8, 9 and 10, 1974, in which Antal Doráti, at that time the orchestra's music director, conducted the three great American “Third Symphonies,” those of Roy Harris, Schuman and Aaron Copland, with the three composers present. His only acknowledgement of the two withdrawn symphonies was in affixing the number Three to the new symphony he composed for Koussevitzky following the success of the overture. Schuman spoke of himself as “the composer of eight symphonies, numbered 3 through 10.” His First was performed in New York in October 1936, and was withdrawn after its premiere. http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=2858   (1202 words)      Beethoven Symphony No.3 on Record I have almost 100 recordings of this symphony in my own collection and have not finished with it yet. Scherchen's Westminster recording was reissued by MCA in the late 1980s, in a 2CD set coupled with the First, Sixth and Eighth symphonies; the set drew rave reviews in Fanfare. With so many different recordings in my collection of this one symphony, a new one has to rather special to make much of an impact. http://turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca:8080/Beethoven/Symphony3   (1511 words)      Elgar - His Music : Symphony No 3 Elgar - His Music : Symphony No 3 The symphony is a less flamboyant work than either of the first two symphonies, but distinctively Elgar nevertheless. A recording of the programme was issued on CD with the October 1995 edition (volume IV number 2) of BBC's Music magazine. http://www.elgar.org/3symph3.htm   (1179 words)      Beethoven Symphony No. 3 also known as Beethoven's Eroica Symphony This is perhaps the highest point of the whole symphony. Beethoven Symphony No. 3 also known as Beethoven's Eroica Symphony All About Ludwig van Beethoven.The Symphony No. 3 also known as Beethoven's Eroica Symphony http://www.all-about-beethoven.com/symphony3.html   (360 words)      Schumann: Symphony No. 3, ``Rhenish'' With the exception of the fourth movement (marked feierlich, or ``solemn''), the music is as buoyant and lively as the people it depicts, capturing the listener at once and never failing to charm. The Third Symphony is actually last in order of composition, Schumann having delayed publication of the second-composed Fourth for some years. In 1841, after a number of years in which he concentrated on writing for the piano and for voice, Robert Schumann had turned at the urging of his wife Clara to larger-scale works such as symphonies and concertos. http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/prognotes/schumann/symphony3.html   (296 words)      Symphony No. 3 I don't think symphonies 4 and 7 of Sibelius, for instance, were terribly popular pieces, but they had to be written and I think they cry-out to be played to an audience because they still say very, very important things about the nature of existence. You've said that the counterpoint is reduced in the Third Symphony so that the musical surface is a lot easier to understand and less difficult to come to terms with than, say, the 'Second Taverner Fantasia' or the First Symphony. And there was a very wonderful revelation, I remember, of a very early performance on the radio of Symphony No.3; and there were recordings available - I had the old 1939 ~was it?) of the Vienna Phil doing Symphony 9, and the '38 one of Das Lied von der Erde. http://www.maxopus.com/essays/symph_3.htm   (4729 words)      Program Notes, Symphony No. 3 That Mahler considered this song as elemental to his symphony is shown by the fact that in an early sketch he included some of its themes in the first movement, which he later removed, but kept very clear thematic material from the song in the fifth movement. Mahler then rethought the structure of the Third Symphony and concluded that the light-hearted song would not be a fitting end to such an involved paean to nature. Later he also revised his ideas of the Fourth Symphony and it became a symphony in four movements, culminating in the song originally composed in 1892, Das himmlisches Leben, describing a child's view of heaven. http://www.mahlerfest.org/1999/notes.htm   (2019 words)      Daron Hagen :: Works :: Orchestral :: Symphony No. 3 Commissioned by the Waukesha Symphony Orchestra in celebration of its 50th Anniversary Season through special funding from The Milwaukee Foundation - Anthony & Andrea Bryant Family Fund, Symphony No. 3 was premiered by the Waukesha Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Alexander Platt on 28 April, 1998 at Shattuck Auditorium, Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin. The symphony ends with a brief coda consisting of massive block chords drawn from the end of the symphony's first movement. I was compelled to follow the characters' emotional and psychological journeys musically,' Hagen writes, 'so the symphony grew alongside the opera as the place where my journey could take place.' Consequently, wheras the first two symphonies are extroverted, 'public' works; the third turns inward. http://www.daronhagen.com/new/works/orchestra/sym3.html   (730 words)      Sleeve Notes - Bruckner: Symphony No 3 For some years, Bruckner's Symphony No 3 has been notorious as the most-revised of all his symphonies. It was pointed out - rightly - that his roots as a young composer were in the church music of Haydn and Mozart, Bach's Das wohltemperirte Clavier, the more 'classical' symphonies of Beethoven (Bruckner didn't hear the choral Ninth until he was 42) and the piano music, songs and masses of Schubert. But as we have seen, three full-scale revisions of the Third Symphony were made before that ill-fated premiere. http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/notes/67200.html   (1750 words)      Mahler Symphony No 3 Adler’s recording of the Third was made in Vienna in 1951 with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and, on first release, boasted sleeve notes by Alma Mahler herself. The name Charles Adler might be unfamiliar to many people today but he was a Mahler pioneer who made the first recordings of the Third and Sixth Symphonies, as well as the Adagio of the Tenth, for a label he financed from his own resources. Remember that until 1960 this was the only recording of the Third available so it helped form the impression of this work for a generation of Mahlerites giving it a firm place in the history of Mahler recordings. http://www.musicweb-international.com/Mahler/Mahler3.htm   (7139 words)      Orchestral Excerpts: Mahler - Symphony No. 3 The trombone solo in the first movement of Mahler's "Symphony No. 3" between rehearsal numbers 13 and 17 is unique in style, phrasing, and importance to the overall musical picture. Orchestral Excerpts for the Tenor Trombonist: Mahler Symphony No. 3 After having studied this symphony with my teacher Professor Willy Walther, who had performed it very successfully with the Berlin Philharmonic under the late Sergiu Celibache, and having performed it more than 30 times myself, I have very strong convictions about this wonderful music. http://www.trombone.org/orchexcerpts/exc-mahler3.asp   (1545 words)      INKPOT#52/83 CLASSICAL MUSIC: Requiem Cycle II - GÓRECKI Symphony No.3 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" The Symphony has a prayer-like quality, is slow in tempo and uses very little material to "grow" huge musical structures. What is striking to me about this symphony, in terms of its role in the canon of 20th century symphonic music, is that it is a kind of historical documentation. Anson, above: the Kenny/Yuasa interpretation is a necessary contribution to the suite of 'No. 3' recordings currently in existence. http://inkpot.com/classical/goreckisym3.html   (1384 words)      Philip Glass: Symphony No. 3 & Violin Concerto The first of the symphony's four movements exploits the difference between a short, pulsed figure and a long, flatted melody. He's premiered all of Glass' symphonies -- there are now five, including two based on music by David Bowie and Brian Eno -- so he really knows his way around this music. Philip Glass: Symphony No. 3 and Violin Concerto http://www.classical-music-review.org/reviews/Glass2.html   (658 words)      Honegger, Symphony No. 3 Honegger did not quote the chant melodies associated with these words, but used the movement titles instead to indicate the general expressive progression of the Symphony as it reflected his experience of the War. His large output comprises thirty stage works, including operas, oratorios, ballets and vaudevilles, a vast quantity of incidental music and film scores, five symphonies, many independent orchestral compositions, scores for chorus and orchestra, chamber music and songs. "My Symphony is a drama," he said, "in which three characters–real or symbolic–play: misery, happiness and man. It is an eternal problem. http://www.americansymphony.org/dialogues_extensions/94_95season/6th_concert/honegger.cfm   (699 words)      Amazon.com: Roy Harris: Symphony No. 3 / William Schuman: Symphony No. 3 - Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic: ... Bernstein's CBS recording of the same symphony with the same orchestra, which I listened to later is also very good, but this recording is the best, and I can hardly imagine an interpretation better. After listening to the 3rd symphony by William Schuman that recorded on this CD, under the baton of the great Bernstein in his greatest years, I thought I had get in touch with the very core of American culture. Accord to my ears, the third symphony by Schuman is a great example of a balance among passion, thoughtfulness, exhilaration and self-control, and Bernstein drove the music to perfection. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001G8E?v=glance   (1110 words)      Prokofiev's Symphony No.3 But don't take that to mean the music in the symphony is a distillation of its parent's most inoffensive moments. With this recording of the symphony, we have for once the marriage of superb musicianship and spectacular sound reproduction. Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra seem possessed in their execution of this score, at one with the grim subject matter from which the music was drawn. http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/brambles/48/prodoc6b.html   (632 words)      Medialunchbox - Music : Alfvén: Symphony No. 3 His most famous composition, Midsommarvarka (Midsummer Vigil, or Swedish Rhapsody No. 1), is occasionally programmed for "pops" concerts, but much of his music is little-known, if at all. Berwald: Symphonies No. 3 ("Sinfonie singulière") & 4; Piano Concerto in D Major Medialunchbox - Music : Alfvén: Symphony No. 3 http://www.medialunchbox.com/ItemId/B00000J8D2   (246 words)      Symphony No. 3 However, the first performance of the symphony was a disaster. Since it was dedicated to Wagner, the Third Symphony is also called "Wagner Symphony". So Bruckner wrote a note: "Symphony in D minor, where the trumpet begins the theme?" and Wagner, frantically busy, scrawled "Yes! http://www.geocities.com/immortalbruckner/sym3.html   (439 words)      Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3 The Third Symphony, which makes up the bulk of this issue, hardens that uneasiness (presumably it replaces Chandos' previous CD version by Neeme J”rvi and the London Symphony, as well as a Spring recorded with the Danish Radio Orchestra and Choir by Dmitri Kitayenko, with Jorma Hynninen as soloist). The prizes on this disc produced in 1997-8 are three a-cappella choruses that Rachmaninov composed in a six-year period before the Second Piano Concerto. It is as good an orchestra as Moscow currently boasts (sorry, Mikhail Pletnyev's players sound underorganized as an ensemble and overhyped on their DG discs I've heard to date, all of them traded off). http://classicalcdreview.com/rachpoly.htm   (445 words)      Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony 3 He broke from the mold of Mozart and Haydn to produce a grand symphony, a daring and dramatic work, stunning in its epic scope and emotional impact. "I'd give another kreutzer if they would stop!" That was the reported response of one weary listener at the 1805 premiere of Beethoven's Third Symphony. That concept lay at the heart of the Romantic revolution, and it was Beethoven who first brought Romanticism into music. http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/beethoven_sym3.html   (597 words)      freedb.org Cincinnati Philharmonia Orchestra / Gerhard Samuel / The Gustav Mahler re-orchestration of Beethoven Symphony No. 9 London Symphony Orchestra & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Beethoven Symphony No. 5, Op.67 & Symphony No. 7, Op. Benjamin Zander / On performing and Listening to Beethoven Symphonies No. 5 and No. 7 http://www.freedb.org/freedb_search.php?words=Beethoven+Symphony+No.3   (3048 words)      Elgar - His Music : Elgar/Payne Symphony No. 3 - An Introduction by Anthony Payne He composed no more, and in February 1934 he died, leaving over 130 pages of sketches for the unfinished Symphony. I had begun to feel as involved with the Symphony as if it had been a piece of my own. Elgar - His Music : Elgar/Payne Symphony No. 3 - An Introduction by Anthony Payne http://www.elgar.org/3symph3e.htm   (1921 words)      PMC SITES: HENRYK MIKO£AJ GÓRECKI Symphony No. 3, "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs," op. The focus on vocal music throughout this period led quite naturally to an emphasis on melody, with a resulting simplification of the harmonic and textural elements. They also draw inspiration from colours and rhythms of folk music: the strong accents, harsh timbres, and relentless ostinati of mountain dances from the Tatras and Podhale region, the melancholy clarinet tunes of Silesia, the impetousness of the Czech--or Silesian--polka. http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/composer/gorecki.html   (2035 words)      Amazon.com: Mahler: Symphony No.3: Music Undoubtedly this is one of Abbado's finest Mahler recordings, surpassed in quality only by his legendary Mahler 7th with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and perhaps by his relatively recent recording of Mahler's 2nd Symphony, also with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Find Recordings of Mahler's Symphony No. 6 in a ("Tragic"): by Jonathan, Classical Music Enthusiast I have listened to this recording, and I want to review it. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001G4T?v=glance   (1645 words)      Schumann: Symphony No. 3 ("Rhenish") The recording may be found in mp3 format on the Douglas Yeo Boston Symphony Orchestra Audition Tape page of this website. The solo in measure 12 is doubled with the bassoons and celli. You can hear me play this excerpt on the 1984 audition tape which I made for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. http://www.yeodoug.com/resources/handbook/image_files/text_files/rhenish.html   (559 words)      SF Symphony Secure Online Shopping The SFS and MTT present Mahler Symphony No. 3 and Kindertotenlieder, the third installment of the SFS/MTT Mahler cycle. The Mahler Third, is the most expansive of the composer's symphonies. This disc was recorded using Sony Direct Stream Digital technology and released on the SACD hybrid format, featuring 5.1 channel Super Audio playback. http://www.shopsfsymphony.org/item.jsp?item=02966&category=11   (288 words)      Amazon.com: Symphony No. 3 (Dover Miniature Scores): Books I love Beethoven's 3rd symphony, but as I will never be able to conduct an orchestra, I close my room's door, put the Eroica CD at full volume, and with my Eroica miniature score I'm able to conduct an ethereal orchestra in my mind. The epoch-making symphony that signaled the composer’s break with classical forms and brought about a profound change in the course of symphonic music. Formats > Sheet Music & Scores > Forms & Genres > Symphonies http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0486297969?v=glance   (621 words)      The Joachim Raff Society - Symphony No.3 "In the Forest" It was not unknown, however, for composers to concoct such detailed programmes after the event to satisfy the incessant demands for literalism that developed amongst Victorian music lovers - those for Bruckner's "Romantic" symphony or Rubinstein's "Ocean" Symphony being contemporary examples. Home : Works : Symphonies : Symphony No.3 Hans von Bülow described the symphony's success as "colossal". http://www.raff.org/symph3.htm   (818 words)      Madetoja: Symphony No.1/Symphony No.3 (2CD) - Wal-Mart For instance, if you bought a music CD that took 1 to 2 business days to process before shipping and you had it sent by Standard shipping (3 to 7 business days), the CD would arrive in 4 to 9 business days. Symphony No.1 Op.29 - I. Allegro - Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Symphony No.3 Op.55 - I. Andantino - Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=1567346   (668 words)      American Composers Orchestra - SoundAdvice Apr. 2, 2000 "Copland-Sessions" The historical and retrospective nature of the concert elicited many comments about and comparisons between the music of Sessions and Copland, and the change in listeners' perceptions from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. The concert included Copland's famously difficult Short Symphony, and Roger Sessions's Symphony No. 3. track and computer driven instruments left no room for http://www.americancomposers.org/advice20000402c.htm   (603 words)      Mahler - Symphony No. 3 in D Minor Mahler - Symphony No. 3 in D Minor (1993) Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Mahler - Symphony No. 3 in D Minor to receive a rating. Mahler - Symphony No. 3 in D Minor http://www.rottentomatoes.com/movie-1046454   (342 words)      Symphony No. 3 Tchaikovsky's manuscript of the symphony's finale contains some passages which did not feature in the published score, and are not normally performed. Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Antoni Wit St Peterburg Philharmonia Symphony Orchestra / Alexander Titov http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/blangston/pitch/th026.htm   (168 words)      Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No.3 The material of the symphony's first movement is based on themes connected with Renata, her obsession and the thwarted devotion of Ruprecht, who is in love with her. The Third Symphony (1928) was based on the opera The Fiery Angel (1922-25). The Fiery Angel, a mystical tale of doings in the Middle Ages, tells of Renata, a wild-eyed creature who is haunted by visions of an angel she has seen in her childhood and who now seeks to discover it in the human form of the men in her life. http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/1891/op44.html   (400 words)      Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 3/Symphony No. 4 - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 3/Symphony No. 4 Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 3/Symphony No. 4 - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter Additional Resources for Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 3/Symphony No. 4 http://smarter.com/movies-4/product/.../symphony_no._4-238163   (316 words)      [No title] He wrote 3 very beautiful poems but they're you know, lyric poems of a certain obscurity which would not have served the purpose of immediacy which was needed in the concert hall with a piece like that. The most striking example of [my writing 12 tone music] is Kaddish - my third symphony. [The reason for the new version of the Kaddish Symphony is] because I wasn't satisfied with the old version. http://www.leonardbernstein.com/catalogue001.html   (3735 words)

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