Fort Wayne Philharmonic - Bricht: Orchestral Music, Vol. 1 (2018)

Tracklist
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01. Symphonic Suite in A Minor, Op. 25: I. Unruhig bewegt, schwankend (Live)
02. Symphonic Suite in A Minor, Op. 25: II. Sehr langsam und ausdrucksvoll (Live)
03. Symphonic Suite in A Minor, Op. 25: III. Rasch (Live)
04. Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 1, Fliessend (Live)
05. Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 2, Langsam und zart (Live)
06. Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 3, Stürmisch bewegt (Live)
07. Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 4, Rasch und leicht (Live)
08. Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 5, Sehr langsam (Live)
09. Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 6, Fliessend (Live)
10. Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 7, Langsam, ausdrucksvoll (Live)
11. Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 8, Rasch (Live)
12. Symphony in A Minor, Op. 33: I. Mäßig bewegt (Live)
13. Symphony in A Minor, Op. 33: II. Langsam (Live)
14. Symphony in A Minor, Op. 33: III. Intermezzo scherzando. Nicht zu rasch (Live)
15. Symphony in A Minor, Op. 33: IV. Finale. Ziemlisch langsam-Bewegt (Live)

The Austrian composer Walter Bricht (1904–70) was one of many musicians of Jewish ancestry who fled Vienna after the Anschluss for the safety of the USA, becoming a valued professor at Indiana University in Bloomington. Fittingly, it is the nearby Fort Wayne Philharmonic that has made the first album of Bricht's music. Bricht was reportedly Franz Schmidt's favourite student, and the late-Romantic styles of the two men are indeed very closely aligned in their mix of Baroque counterpoint, Classical procedure and Wagnerian chromatic harmony: Bricht's Symphony in A minor might almost be Schmidt's No. 5.