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Tubin: Reekviem Langenud Soduritele (Requiem for Fallen Soldiers) / Symphony No. 10

1/1/1988, 6 Tracks, 59:13

Featuring

  • Neeme Järvi
  • Kerstin Lundin-Grevelius
  • Roland Rydell
  • Helmut Sitar
  • Peter Wallin
  • Håkan Hardenberger
  • Folke Bohlin
  • Janåke Larson
  • Lunds Studentsångare
  • Göteborgs Symfoniker
  • Eduard Tubin

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Composition History

Tubin's Tenth Symphony was commissioned by the Gothenburg Orchestral Society and was completed in just three months in 1973.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

The Requiem's texts, by Estonian poets Henrik Visnapuu and Marie Under, reflect the Estonian struggle for freedom, with themes of war, loss, and hope.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Tubin began his Requiem in 1950 but stopped writing in the middle of the second movement, only completing it 19 years later on August 17, 1979.

Source: Booklet

Notable Performances

The Requiem was premiered on May 17, 1981, in Stockholm, with the composer Eduard Tubin himself conducting, marking his last appearance as a conductor.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Neeme Järvi, the principal conductor for this recording, was born in Tallinn, Estonia, in 1937 and won first prize at an international conducting competition in Rome in 1971.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Despite being a single-movement work, Tubin's Tenth Symphony contains elements of four movements fused into a single, unified structure.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Eduard Tubin, the composer, was born in Estonia in 1905 and fled to Sweden with his family in 1944, living in Stockholm until his death in 1982.

Source: Booklet

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