Composer: Hans Rott
Orchestra: Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
Conductor: Christopher Ward
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Capriccio
Release: 2021
Size: 1.27 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Nowak 35
01. I. Alla breve (1)
02. II. Adagio. Sehr langsam
03. III. Frisch und lebhaft
04. IV. Sehr langsam – Belebt
Symphony for String Orchestra in A-Flat Major, Nowak 37
05. I. Allegro con fuoco
06. II. Grave e largo
07. III. Scherzo
Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Nowak 35
08. I. Alla breve (2)
The premiere of the Symphony No. 1 in E major by Hans Rott, written more than 100 years earlier, in 1989 introduced the international music world to a composer who had been unknown or known only by name even to most pundits. His colleagues and friends included the one or two-year younger composers Gustav Mahler and Hugo Wolf. Besides Wagner, Bruckner was the most important model for Rott’s first symphonic work. The symphony is the summum opus the not quite twenty-year-old left behind. It is his first and final finished major work. It is the synthesis of what he had written to date and a proclamation of what might have come.