Moritz Moszkowski: Orchestral Music, Volume Four
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 fourth volume presents his only symphony, a strikingly assured work for a composer in his late teens. Unsurprisingly, it owes a good deal to Schumann in its dancing rhythms, heraldic bearing and orchestral colours – and the Scherzo might almost be by Mendelssohn on holiday in Poland. The ‘Six Episodes’ – charming, ingratiating and energising by turn – are all that remain of the lost full-length ballet Laurin. They were saved because Moszkowski excerpted them for concert performance, thereby creating a ‘Dance Suite’ in all but name.
Sinfonia Varsovia
Ian Hobson, conductor
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Symphony in D Minor (1873) (36:00)
- I. Maestoso – Allegro appassionato, più mosso (12:21)
- II. Vivo (7:30)
- III. Larghetto (7:09)
- IV. Presto non tanto, più mosso (9:00)
Laurin: Six Episodes from the Ballet (1892-95) (22:58)
- I. Introduction and Dance of the Rose Elves (5:15)
- II. March of the Dwarfs (3:25)
- III. Sarabande et Double (3:44)
- IV. Valse Coquette (3:19)
- V. Nachtstück (3:09)
- VI. Bacchanale (4:06)
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