目录
| # | 曲目 | 时长 |
|---|---|---|
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1 |
Symphony No. 6 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 23: I. Poco largamente – Allegro feroce | 00:22:25 |
| 2 | Symphony No. 6 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 23: II. Presto tenebroso | 00:08:55 |
| 3 | Symphony No. 6 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 23: III. Andante appassionato | 00:15:06 |
| 4 | Symphony No. 6 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 23: IV. Allegro vivace (quasi presto) – “O, quid vidimus” – Andante molto espressivo | 00:18:02 |
专辑简介
Gothenburg (Göteborg), Sweden’s second-largest city, is home to the oldest and most prestigious professional orchestra in the country. The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra’s extensive schedule includes roughly 100 concerts in its home concert hall, international tours, recordings, and outreach programs for school children. The orchestra was named “Sweden’s National Orchestra” in 1997 by the Swedish government. In 2025, outgoing principal conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali led the group on the final installment of their Sibelius symphony cycle on the Alpha label with the album Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 6 7; The Tempest.
The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1905 as an orchestral association, the Göteborgs Orkesterförening, with funding from local industries. The first concerts were given the same year under the baton of Heinrich Hammer. Composer Wilhelm Stenhammar was principal conductor from 1907 until 1922. Stenhammar was a firm leader and an innovator as a symphony director, with a gift for orchestra building and a wide-ranging interest in new repertory. Reasoning that children benefited from exposure to orchestral music, he was among the first conductors anywhere to establish regular school outreach concerts. This has resulted in symphony concerts becoming one of the favorite forms of musical entertainment in Gothenburg and the surrounding area. Stenhammar and the Gothenburg Symphony were the first to introduce the music of Danish composer Carl Nielsen to Sweden. An early obstacle for the orchestra, the lack of a suitable concert hall, was remedied in 1935 with the opening of the Göteborgs Konserthus, a municipally financed hall. This hall is compared favorably with such venues as Boston’s Orchestra Hal, Carnegie Hall, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw as one of the best-sounding concert halls in the world. The richness and clarity of the sound are among the factors that have set the high standards the Gothenburg Symphony has met. Since 1987, the orchestra has toured throughout Sweden, Europe, Asia, and the U.S., regularly performing in festivals in Sweden and abroad.
