Maximilian Steinberg symphony no.3

[eschiss1]

First commercial recording of Steinberg's symphony no.3 op.18 (G minor) (a work which incidentally I believe exists also in a transcription by Myaskovsky) was released on the Fuga Libera label on Nov. 15 (https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9722194--steinberg-symphony-no-3-shostakovich-the-bolt-suite-from-the-ballet.) That makes four, I think, of his symphonies- or maybe 5, recorded now.
(Meanwhile- back from break and have some interesting music at the library by Richard Flury including his early D minor string quartet waiting for me at the library to skim... Edit to tangent: the Flury quartet was ordered, and what came in instead was Reger's 5th quartet in Eulenburg score. Returned that, requested the Flury more specifically, will see. This does happen, because of Worldcat stuff I believe.)

[Tapiola]

This is an enjoyable work overall. The first half of the first movement was the only part of the piece that meant a sort of letdown to me (perhaps too gaseous to my taste). However, the rest of the symphony holds rather well. There are similarities with Myaskovsky's style, with some contrapuntal devices in the mix.

Not as good as his Symphony No. 2 in my view (whose only recording is on DG), but not bad at all either. Hopefully the Symphony No. 5 will see the light of day on record soon as well.

[eschiss1]

Myaskovsky's reduction of the Steinberg symphony is a loanable (not digitized) item at U. Rochester (New York) Sibley Library , I'm thinking of putting in an interlibrary loan request once I can stream the recording.  (They've been uploaded to IMSLP but are not yet out of copyright in the US, not for two years. As an admin I could go around that if I had a better reason than that.)