Julius Bittner: Orchesterwerke Vol.1 on CD
Orchesterwerke Vol.1
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
(if available from our supplier)
Symphonie Nr. 1 f-moll; Symphonische Dichtung "Vaterland"
- Artists:
- Siberian Symphony Orchestra, Dmitry Vasiliev
- Label:
- Toccata
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2018
- Item number:
- 9006755
- UPC/EAN:
- 5060113445001
- Release date:
- 19.4.2019
The name of the Austrian composer Julius Bittner (1874–1939) has been almost entirely lost from view, and yet he was one of the most successful composers of opera and operetta of his day, a mainstay of musical Vienna. Unusually, Bittner was also a practising lawyer; more unusually still, he was a double amputee, the result of the ravages of diabetes. None of his orchestral music has been recorded before – astonishingly, given the quality of the two works presented here. Vaterland is an expansive, Lisztian symphonic poem written on a patriotic impulse early in the First World War; and Bittner’s ambitious First Symphony, which has its starting point in Brahms and Bruckner, is a major piece of late- Romantic musical architecture, both tuneful and grandiose.
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Vaterland (Sinfonische Dichtung) (1915)
Sinfonie Nr. 1 f-moll (1923)
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2 1. Allegro
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3 2. Sehr langsam
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4 3. Sehr rasch - Etwas langsamer
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5 4. Sehr rasch
