James Kearney asks:

>Can you please suggest other works (tone poems, symphonic movements) by
>any composer with an atmosphere as potent, as spinetingling, as *epic*
>as the "Swan"?

Not as brooding or melancholy, but I could suggest Bax's "Tintagel"
and "November Woods", Alfven's "Legend of the Skerries", Stenhammar's
"Midvinter", and Rautavaara's "Cantus Arcticus", among others.

Of course, there is also Sibelius's Symphony #4, "Tapiola", "Kullervo",
and the rest of the "Four Legends".

Mark
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