ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
1967, ERSO was conducted by Neeme Järvi.
Example 91.
Rääts does not make anything out of it; it would be against his principle of
variegation, abruptness and instability. This “cinematic” principle penetrates into the
orchestration and disrupts its unity. About “good” or ”bad” sound one cannot speak,
everything is possible. The aesthetic value of the composition has been diminished.
The Latvian musicologist Dr. Arnolds Klotinsh said:
This is an attempt towards variegation of musical dramaturgy... As a result we
recognise a certain turn towards philosophical dramatic symphonism, though it is confined in
the frame of a generalising objective mood of expression. The main shortcoming of the work is
the inadequacy between the principle of free contrasting of structures and an attempt to create
an extensive dramaturgic line... A broader question arises: must the wish to deepen the musical
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