Moritz Moszkowski: Orchestral Music, Volume Three
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.
Sinfonia Varsovia
Ian Hobson, conductor
Andrzej Krzyżanowski, flute (Track 8)
Listen To This Recording:
- Overture in D major (1871–72)
- I Allegro molto e brioso
- II Allegro giojoso
- III Tema con variazioni: Andante
- III Tema con variazioni: Var. 1: Un poco più mosso
- III Tema con variazioni: Var. 2: Un poco meno mosso
- III Tema con variazioni: Var. 3: Allegro con spirito
- III Tema con variazioni: Var. 4: Allegretto con moto
- III Tema con variazioni: Var. 5: Lento maestoso. All’ongarese – Allegro fuocoso, poco a poco ancora più animato – Tempo primo
- III Tema con variazioni: Var. 6: Andante tranquillo
- III Tema con variazioni: Var. 7: Allegro scherzando
- III Tema con variazioni: Var. 8: Un pochino più lento del tema
- IV Intermezzo: Allegro con moto
- V Perpetuum mobile: Vivace *
- Prélude
- Fugue
Première Suite d’Orchestre, Op. 39, in F major (1885)
Prélude et Fugue pour Orchestre à Cordes, Op. 85 (1910)*
ALL EXCEPT * FIRST RECORDINGS
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