Composer: Walter Bricht
Orchestra: Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Andrew Constantine
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0488
Release: 2018
Size: 923 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Symphonic Suite in A Minor, Op. 25
01. I. Unruhig bewegt, schwankend
02. II. Sehr langsam und ausdrucksvoll
03. III. Rasch
Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b
04. No. 1. Fliessend
05. No. 2. Langsam und zart
06. No. 3. Stürmisch bewegt
07. No. 4. Rasch und leicht
08. No. 5. Sehr langsam
09. No. 6. Fliessend
10. No. 7. Langsam, ausdrucksvoll
11. No. 8. Rasch
Symphony in A Minor, Op. 33
12. I. Mässig bewegt
13. II. Langsam
14. III. Intermezzo scherzando: Nicht zu rasch
15. IV. Finale: Ziemlisch langsam – Bewegt
The Austrian composer Walter Bricht (1904–70) was one of many musicians of Jewish ancestry who fled Vienna after the Anschluss for the safety of the USA, becoming a valued professor at Indiana University in Bloomington. Fittingly, it is the nearby Fort Wayne Philharmonic that has made the first album of Bricht’s music. Bricht was reportedly Franz Schmidt’s favourite student, and the late-Romantic styles of the two men are indeed very closely aligned in their mix of Baroque counterpoint, Classical procedure and Wagnerian chromatic harmony: Bricht’s Symphony in A minor might almost be Schmidt’s No. 5.