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@NickHelyHutch @Tonywauk I'm well into the stage where each one makes me feel guilty for not putting it at the top.

But I couldn't begin to capture Šejna's fresh and exhilarating energy. This natural world simply teems with life from the rustic peasants ready to dance to the birds chirruping in the trees. You can almost smell the wet grass, hear the water rushing, and feel the insects bite.

#27 Osmo Vänskä is so clear my mind's eye sees the notes, missing just a little joy on the way.

#26 Arturo Toscanini sticks to the score's letter too but just avoids being too detached.

#25 Artie's NBC assistant William Steinberg is even better; bracing and beautifully played.

Speaking of first recordings, all seven of the symphonies here are otherwise unavailable. Four have names so expect to see Julius Röntgen making an appearance or two in the #NamedSymphonies World Cup soon.

@CambUP_Music If anyone's wondering what to buy me for Christmas ...

Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960)
Symphony #4 in C-minor, Op.39 'Från havsbandet' (1919)

A sumptuous Straussian symphony-cum-tone poem. Wordless voices à la Nielsen's Espansiva are the tragic lovers, and they also glimpse RVW's Antarctic on the distant horizon.

https://t.co/mEKxc4gkwv

Edmund Rubbra 🇬🇧 (1901-1986)
Symphony No. 9 "Sinfonia Sacra"

Rubbra studied with Holst (whose Cotswolds Symphony is also in the cup). Rubbra's 9th, a choral symphony subtitled "The Resurrection", was inspired by Bramante's painting of the risen Christ.
https://t.co/KExmEptvup

Claude Debussy was born #OnThisDay in 1862. He completed La Mer in 1905. Distancing himself from the symphonies and symphonic poems of the German tradition, he called his piece "three symphonic sketches" instead.

So no, it isn't a symphony.

https://t.co/mRpfn31xAI

#SymphonistOfTheWeek #Weinberg100

1/ Few composers survived such tragedy, trauma and turbulence as Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996), born #OnThisDay #botd 100 years ago. Yet his life and the legacy he was able to leave us make him among the most inspiring musical figures I know.