Composer: Moritz Moszkowski
Performer: Andrzej Krzyzanowski
Orchestra: Sinfonia Varsovia
Conductor: Ian Hobson
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0598
Release: 2021
Size: 1.02 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Overture in D Major
Suite d’orchestre No. 1, Op. 39
02. I. Allegro molto e brioso
03. II. Allegro giojoso
04. IIIa. Andante
05. IIIb. Un poco più mosso
06. IIIc. Un poco meno mosso
07. IIId. Allegro con spirito
08. IIIe. Allegretto con moto
09. IIIf. Lento maestoso. All’ongarese – Allegro fuocoso, poco a poco ancora più animato – Tempo primo
10. IIIg. Andante tranquillo
11. IIIh. Allegro scherzando
12. IIIi. Un pochino più lento del tema
13. IV. Intermezzo. Allegro con moto
14. V. Perpetuum mobile. Vivace
Prélude et Fugue for String Orchestra, Op. 85
15. Prélude
16. Fugue
The Polish composer Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925) is best remembered for a handful of virtuoso piano pieces, but he also produced a substantial body of orchestral music, most of it unperformed for a century or more.
This third volume presents his very first orchestral work, a strikingly assured Overture in D major, written when he was seventeen, and his last, a sombre, dignified and deeply felt Prelude and Fugue for strings, composed on the death of his mother in 1910. Between them comes Moszkowski’s First Orchestral Suite, from 1885, a joy from start to finish, with one delightful inspiration following another in a daisy-chain of dance-rhythms, memorable tunes and instrumental colour.