Composer: Thomas de Hartmann
Performer: Leon Bosch
Orchestra: Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine
Conductor: Theodore Kuchar
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0676
Release: 2022
Size: 1.44 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Symphonie-Poème No. 1, Op. 50
01. I. Lento
02. II. Scherzo
03. III. Andante
04. IV. Finale. Allegretto feroce
Fantaisie-concerto for Double Bass & Orchestra, Op. 65
05. I. Allegro con brio
06. II. Romance 1830. Adagio
07. III. Finale. Allegro commodo
The music of the Ukrainian-born Thomas de Hartmann (1884–1956) is only now beginning to be rediscovered, almost seven decades after his death. The two works receiving their first recordings here reveal a major late-Romantic voice, downstream from Tchaikovsky, a student of Arensky and Taneyev, contemporary of Rachmaninov, and alert to the discoveries of Stravinsky and Prokofiev. The Symphonie-Poème No. 1 – a musical cousin of Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony – occupies a vast canvas and requires a correspondingly huge orchestra, generating a monumental sense of scale from essentially balletic material. The lighter Fantaisie-Concerto for double bass and orchestra moves from tangy dissonance via a tuneful slow movement to a perky, folk-inspired finale.