Liepāja Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann - Spoliansky: Orchestral Music (2022) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Overture (From "My Husband and I")
02. Boogie
03. Symphony in Five Movements: I. And Thus Man Was Created
04. Symphony in Five Movements: II. Ode to Love
05. Symphony in Five Movements: III. Humoresque
06. Symphony in Five Movements: IV. Of Weeping
07. Symphony in Five Movements: V. And New Life Blooms from the Ruins

The Russian-born Mischa Spoliansky (1898-1985) became one of the major names in cabaret in 1920s Berlin and then, as a refugee from Nazi Germany, in London, he became one of the best-known composers of film scores. He also wrote a handful of orchestral works, which have remained unknown until now. His Boogie is a witty, tongue-in-cheek piece of orchestral jazz, and the Overture to My Husband and I, one of his stage shows, has a Mozartian sparkle and wit.

But it is his only Symphony, an epic statement composed over a period of nearly three decades, that constitutes his real achievement as an orchestral composer – the fourth of its five movements apparently offering Spoliansky’s own musical commentary on the Holocaust.

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