Ture Rangström - Symphony No. 1 (Michail Jurowski)

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Composer: Ture Rangström

• Dityramb
• Symphony No. 1 in C sharp minor "August Strindberg in memoriam"
• Vårhymn

Norrköping Symphony Orchestra

Michail Jurowski, conductor

Date: 1995

Label: CPO

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Ture Rangström (30 November 1884 – 11 May 1947) was a Swedish composer, music critic and conductor. Born in Stockholm, he studied with Hans Pfitzner in Berlin and Julius Hey in Munich. His early works were symphonic poems, including Dityramb (1909), Ett midsommarstycke (1910) and En höstsång (1911). Rangström later composed four symphonies, three operas—notably Gilgamesj (1944)—and nearly 300 songs, many of which he orchestrated. He was also a founding member of the Swedish Society of Composers and served as principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra from 1922 to 1925.

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Michail Jurowski (25 December 1945 – 19 March 2022) was a Russian conductor who based in Germany for most of his career. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory and began his career as an assistant to Gennady Rozhdestvensky at the Moscow Radio Symphony. After relocating to Germany in 1989, he held leading positions with several orchestras, such as the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie (1992–98), the Leipzig Opera (1999–2001), and the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln (2006–08). Jurowski made many first recordings of rarely performed music by Rangström, Peterson-Berger, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, among others.

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