Richard Flury: Orchestral Music, Volume Six
The Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896–1967) completed the last of his five symphonies in 1956, when its unashamedly melodic, tonal style – with elements absorbed from Bruckner, Richard Strauss, Joseph Marx and other such late Romantics – made it a conscious rebellion against the modernist trends of the time. Flury, moreover, was an instinctive nature-painter, and the Swiss landscape that meant so much to him can be sensed almost as readily in supposedly abstract works such as this symphony as in those – often quasi-symphonic, like the suite also heard here – that play explicit homage to the woods and valleys in which he grew up.
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Paul Mann, conductor
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Symphony No. 5 (1955-56) (41:18)
- I. Allegro moderato (9:52)
- II. Andante sostenuto (9:07)
- III. Scherzo: Prestissimo; Trio: Allegretto (6:27)
IV. Variationen (15:52) - Theme: Das Lied der Prager Studenten, ‘Nach Süden nun sich lenken…’: Allegro (0:44)
- Variation 1: Andantino (1:03)
- Variation 2: Allegro molto (0:53)
- Variation 3: Larghetto (2:12)
- Variation 4: Allegretto (1:34)
- Variation 5: Allegro moderato (2:24)
- Variation 6: Allegro agitato (1:09)
- Variation 7: Vivo (0:50)
- Variation 8: Allegro moderato (3:13)
- Coda: Sostenuto, Choralmässig (1:50)
Im Altisberg: Symphonic Suite (1953) (32:40)
- I. Pastorale: Andante (8:56)
- II. Waldfest: Allegro molto (7:25)
- III. Nocturne: Allegro moderato (9:00)
- IV. Auf dem Burghubel: Allegro agitato (7:19)
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