Technically extravagant, dramatic and powerful, but the atmosphere isn't really there. This may be interpreted as the sound of a ship in distress, going under. But I cannot hear the supernatural element of the Flying Dutchman much, in this piece. Wagner's version is far superior, but even that lacks the eerie qualities, but then again it's an opera, and not a symphonic poem.
Technically extravagant, dramatic and powerful, but the atmosphere isn't really there. This may be interpreted as the sound of a ship in distress, going under. But I cannot hear the supernatural element of the Flying Dutchman much, in this piece. Wagner's version is far superior, but even that lacks the eerie qualities, but then again it's an opera, and not a symphonic poem.
The Sea, the sublime. Tranquil yet merciless, giver and taker; the mother of all life. Rising, as we speak, to take back her due.
Magnificent, and could have passed as one of the items in Holst's Planets. Imagine, perhaps, prehistoric Earth, with organic life evolving from protoplasm.
This has something of the same, something coming alive, somehow, slowly working itself into existence:
Disruption of the natural order, and the rise of that which forever dwelleth beneath. Or, as Nietzsche pointed out, 2000 years of Christianity has not altered human nature in the slightest. The double-meaning of the word loom, as it were...
I have it as the front cover for the printed score with the sheet music inside, in Danish version. Probably worth quite a few bob, but I'm not gonna lose any sleep over it.
E. A. Poe wrote:...And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
Seems another post of mine became prophetic, cf. corona. Even the link died!
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Before Creation there was Chaos. It sounded like this, according to Haydn. So, who created Chaos, then. God? No, he was haydn at the time. Fair enough. Where? BTW, something quite familiar at 1:09, and then it slips away...
A true artist of the weird. It's like the soundtrack to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident Wish Lovecraft had heard that. It matches his idea of The Music of Erich Zann, the eccentric loner virtuoso, who plays in a steeple at night, before a completely black window showing a different space, to ward off otherworldly evils, trying to invade our dimension.