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Symphony No.6 "The Heaven-Rending" - Rued Langgaard

Danish National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thomas Dausgaard. I - Thema: Versione I. Corrosif misérable religieux (0:00) - Thema: Versione II. L’istesso tempo, corrosif (3:15) - Maestoso - Movibile religioso - Variazione I: Introduzione. Allegro non troppo (5:03) - Variazione II: Fuga. Frenetico marziale (Tutta forza), corrosif (6:47) - Variazione III: Toccata. Poco a poco furioso mosso (9:05) - Mosso furioso - Variazione IV: Sonata. Maestoso frenetico (11:34) - Movibile - Magnificamente - Più a più furioso - Magnificamente - Allargando - Magnificamente - Frenetico, poco a poco allegro furioso - Completo furioso - Prestissimo - Variazione V: Coda. Corrosif religieux (17:57) - Glorificazione (20:41) Langgaard's Symphony No.6 was composed between 1919-20, being premiered on January 15 of 1923, performed by the Baden State Theatre Orchestra conducted by the own composer. It was very well-received in Germany, but the premiere in his natal Denmark was a disaster that ended in scandal. “Some people groaned, others spat, an elderly lady collapsed and had to be carried out. Shrieks and outbursts of laughter drowned out a half-­hearted applause.” Between 1928-30 the work was revised, being trimmed down substantially. The work wasn't originally programmatic at all, and didn't gain its subtitle ("The Heaven-Rending") until 1930 in a polemic reference to Nielsen’s The Inextinguishable. For a concert performance in 1949, Langgaard wrote a motto based on a Bible and hymn quotation: “Then Our Jesus intervened with power and rent the rending army of evil in the Heavens”. Langgaard conceded he had been inspired by Nielsen’s Symphony, but whereas Nielsen spoke of the music as an expression of the primal force of life itself, Langgaard emphasizes the Christian aspect, the struggle between good and evil. The work, as the previous one, is structured as a theme and variations. The theme has namely two faces or aspects, a light and a dark — or more symbolically: Christ and Antichrist, who co-exist. The first version is a hymn-like theme for strings that develops into a beautiful five-part polyphony. After disquieting timpani rolls, Theme II sounds like a sickly splitting-off, accompanied by doomsday bells. This is interrupted by a signal from the brass, based on the three first notes of Theme I, which forms the point of departure for the subsequent variations. Each variation gets its name from a classical type of form, and the technical designations deliberately point away from a programmatic interpretation of the music. The music is purely abstract — on paper. In Variation I, light and tonality still prevail. Variation II, on the other hand, is close to being atonal music, in a constant fortissimo and with the indication Frenetico marziale (‘Insanely warlike’). Variation III, aggravates the situation in virtuoso, blaring orchestration, leading the breathless figures on to the central section of the symphony, Variation IV. Here the material develops into a major war that is both unbridled and yet strictly polyphonic. Variation V has the disarming title Coda but is the actual ultimate aim. Not with something as simple as the victory of good over evil, but with an amalgamation of the two opposing forces into an absolute dominance. The effect is overwhelming when Langgaard finds a new, unsuspected level of intensity with a doubling of the number of trumpets from four to eight, which, according to his directions, “are to be placed in such a way in the orchestra that their sound cuts shrilly through that of the orchestra.” Trumpets, two sets of timpani, and an organ reinforce the brasses at the ending with the heading glorificazione, where F major’s victory over the "atonal evil" is proclaimed. Picture: [From left to right] Fragment of "Apse of Sant Climent, Taüll" (c. 1123) by the Master of Taüll. Fragment of "The Preaching of the Antichrist" (1500-4) by the Italian painter Luca Signorelli. Sources: https://bit.ly/3keMc82 and https://bit.ly/3lLgZtr To check the score: https://bit.ly/3xz8Hro