Gurzenich-Orchester Koln - Symphony No. 1 & 2 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 2. Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 3. Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 4. Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 5. Mussorgsky Pictures at An Exhibition (Orch. Maurice Ravel) 6. Mussorgsky Pictures at An Exhibition (Orch. Maurice Ravel) 7. Mussorgsky Pictures at An Exhibition (Orch. Maurice Ravel) 8. Mussorgsky Pictures at An Exhibition (Orch. Maurice Ravel) 9. Mussorgsky Pictures at An Exhibition (Orch. Maurice Ravel) 10. Mussorgsky Pictures at An Exhibition (Orch. Maurice Ravel) 11. Mussorgsky Pictures at An Exhibition (Orch. Maurice Ravel) 12. Mussorgsky Pictures at An Exhibition (Orch. Maurice Ravel) 13. Mussorgsky Pictures at An Exhibition (Orch. Maurice Ravel) 14. Mussorgsky Pictures at An Exhibition (Orch. Maurice Ravel) 15. Mussorgsky Pictures at An Exhibition (Orch. Maurice Ravel) 16. Mussorgsky Pictures at An Exhibition (Orch. Maurice Ravel) 17. Mussorgsky Pictures at An Exhibition (Orch. Maurice Ravel) 18. Mussorgsky Pictures at An Exhibition (Orch. Maurice Ravel) 19. Mussorgsky Pictures at An Exhibition (Orch. Maurice Ravel)

'Yes, he is so related to my very self that he and I are like two fruits from the same tree, produced by the same soil and fed by the same air.' (Gustav Mahler) The premiere of the Symphony No. 1 in E major by Hans Rott, written more than 100 years earlier, in 1989 introduced the international music world to a composer who had been unknown or known only by name even to most pundits. His colleagues and friends included the one or two-year younger composers Gustav Mahler and Hugo Wolf. Besides Wagner, Bruckner was the most important model for Rott's first symphonic work. The symphony is the summum opus the not quite twenty-year-old left behind. It is his first and final finished major work. It is the synthesis of what he had written to date and a proclamation of what might have come.

'It simply cannot be gauged what music has lost with him' (Gustav Mahler) Hans Rott was a composer from Gustav Mahler's time who had been unknown or known only by name even to most pundits. Many people have expressed the opinion, perhaps justifiably, that only his tragic fate prevented him from going down in the annals of music as Mahler's equal and establishing a permanent position in the repertoire. A member of Bruckner's circle within the music scene in Vienna, he developed a pronounced antipathy towards Johannes Brahms. In view of many of his works, it is difficult to comprehend that during Rott's lifetime presumably not one of them was performed in public, but that only presentations took place under the aegis of internal conservatory events. With these recordings Capriccio attend to fill the gap with his (some of them reconstructed) orchestral works and document these fascinating worlds of music for the eternity.