Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Andrew Constantine – Bricht: Orchestral Music, Vol. 1 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Andrew Constantine – Bricht: Orchestral Music, Vol. 1 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:04 minutes | 922 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Austrian composer Walter Bricht (1904-1970) was one of many musicians of Jewish ancestry who fled Vienna after the Anschluss for the safety of the USA; Bricht became a valued professor at Indiana University in Bloomington. Fittingly, it is the nearby Fort Wayne Philharmonic, in its own debut recording, that has made the first album of Brichts music. The recording reveals another major Viennese voice and points to yet another potentially important career cut off in the bud by the Nazis. Bricht was reportedly Franz Schmidts favorite student, and the late-Romantic styles of the two men are indeed very closely aligned in their mix of Baroque counterpoint, Classical form and Wagnerian chromatic harmony: Brichts Symphony in A minor might almost be Schmidts No. 5.

Tracklist:

1. Fort Wayne Philharmonic & Andrew Constantine – Symphonic Suite in A Minor, Op. 25: I. Unruhig bewegt, schwankend (Live) (05:10)
2. Fort Wayne Philharmonic & Andrew Constantine – Symphonic Suite in A Minor, Op. 25: II. Sehr langsam und ausdrucksvoll (Live) (05:52)
3. Fort Wayne Philharmonic & Andrew Constantine – Symphonic Suite in A Minor, Op. 25: III. Rasch (Live) (03:37)
4. Fort Wayne Philharmonic & Andrew Constantine – Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 1, Fliessend (Live) (01:08)
5. Fort Wayne Philharmonic & Andrew Constantine – Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 2, Langsam und zart (Live) (01:24)
6. Fort Wayne Philharmonic & Andrew Constantine – Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 3, Stürmisch bewegt (Live) (01:00)
7. Fort Wayne Philharmonic & Andrew Constantine – Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 4, Rasch und leicht (Live) (01:15)
8. Fort Wayne Philharmonic & Andrew Constantine – Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 5, Sehr langsam (Live) (01:22)
9. Fort Wayne Philharmonic & Andrew Constantine – Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 6, Fliessend (Live) (01:50)
10. Fort Wayne Philharmonic & Andrew Constantine – Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 7, Langsam, ausdrucksvoll (Live) (02:09)
11. Fort Wayne Philharmonic & Andrew Constantine – Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 8, Rasch (Live) (01:18)
12. Fort Wayne Philharmonic & Andrew Constantine – Symphony in A Minor, Op. 33: I. Mäßig bewegt (Live) (09:51)
13. Fort Wayne Philharmonic & Andrew Constantine – Symphony in A Minor, Op. 33: II. Langsam (Live) (07:26)
14. Fort Wayne Philharmonic & Andrew Constantine – Symphony in A Minor, Op. 33: III. Intermezzo scherzando. Nicht zu rasch (Live) (03:58)
15. Fort Wayne Philharmonic & Andrew Constantine – Symphony in A Minor, Op. 33: IV. Finale. Ziemlisch langsam – Bewegt (Live) (10:36)

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