Sad indeed. I love his music after being exposed to the stormy 6th and then the (it should be) famous 3rd. The Proms 3rd with Wagner and the composer in situ, was one of the greatest performances and recordings in BBC iplayer, one for the ages (2017? 2018?). Afterwards, I enjoyed Libra, his vocal works, and the early work Voyage Into the Golden Screen. There is a coherence in his output that I like so much. I will miss him.
Chris L
3 months ago
Bugger! I guess that means he never got to realise that Ninth that he’d said was “forming in [his] mind’ around the time that the Third Symphony was performed at the Proms. Not a huge surprise given that he’d already started to suffer from a wasting disease by that point, but it was still nice to dream for a few years.
I just finished revisiting the cycle of eight a few weeks back, an act that now seems like a premonition. I’m not superstitious enough truly to treat it as such, however, which is why I also won’t be trotting out that hoary old cliché about Ninth Symphonies…
Christopher C.
3 months ago
As a Nørgård superfan, I feel like I had already worked emotionally through this tragedy before the day finally came, because Nørgård did stop composing over a decade ago. Perhaps one ray of light that might come after his passing, is some new recordings by labels and performers who are reminded of this titan of music. I’d like to see, for example, a recording of <i>Lila</i> (1972), which in his catalogue of works is called a stepping stone between the world of the Second Symphony and the Third. Many other chamber works through the decades that never got recorded.
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Sad indeed. I love his music after being exposed to the stormy 6th and then the (it should be) famous 3rd. The Proms 3rd with Wagner and the composer in situ, was one of the greatest performances and recordings in BBC iplayer, one for the ages (2017? 2018?). Afterwards, I enjoyed Libra, his vocal works, and the early work Voyage Into the Golden Screen. There is a coherence in his output that I like so much. I will miss him.
Bugger! I guess that means he never got to realise that Ninth that he’d said was “forming in [his] mind’ around the time that the Third Symphony was performed at the Proms. Not a huge surprise given that he’d already started to suffer from a wasting disease by that point, but it was still nice to dream for a few years.
I just finished revisiting the cycle of eight a few weeks back, an act that now seems like a premonition. I’m not superstitious enough truly to treat it as such, however, which is why I also won’t be trotting out that hoary old cliché about Ninth Symphonies…
As a Nørgård superfan, I feel like I had already worked emotionally through this tragedy before the day finally came, because Nørgård did stop composing over a decade ago. Perhaps one ray of light that might come after his passing, is some new recordings by labels and performers who are reminded of this titan of music. I’d like to see, for example, a recording of <i>Lila</i> (1972), which in his catalogue of works is called a stepping stone between the world of the Second Symphony and the Third. Many other chamber works through the decades that never got recorded.