Composer: Richard Flury
Performer: Alexandre Dubach
Orchestra: Liepāja Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Paul Mann
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0601
Release: 2021
Size: 1.11 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Orchestral Pieces from the Festspiel ‘Der Scholle treu’
01. No. 1, Festlicher Marsch
02. No. 2, Walzer
03. No. 3, Intermezzo I. Allegro molto
04. No. 4, Intermezzo II. Andante sostenuto
05. No. 5, Polonaise. Allegro moderato
Caprices for Violin & Orchestra
06. No. 1, Allegro agitato
07. No. 3, Polka
08. No. 2, Prestissimo
09. No. 4, Vivace
10. Andante sostenuto
Violin Concerto No. 3
11. I. Allegro moderato, quasi recitativo – Allegro molto
12. II. Andante
13. III. Presto
This second volume of orchestral music by the Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896–1967) brings works from across his career. A suite drawn from an early Festspiel – a community pageant – opens with a march of Elgarian swagger and continues with a mix of charm and substance. Flury was a gifted violinist, and his Third Violin Concerto, written at the height of the Second World War, is virtuosic and lyrical in equal measure, its unashamed Romanticism perhaps an escape from troubled times. The four late Caprices for violin and orchestra form a concertante serenade in all but name; and one of his very last pieces was a dark and moving tribute to a musician friend, the slow movement of a suite he did not live to finish.