Leon Bosch, Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine, Theodore Kuchar - Thomas de Hartmann: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2 (2022) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Symphonie-poème No. 1, Op. 50: I. Lento
02. Symphonie-poème No. 1, Op. 50: II. Scherzo
03. Symphonie-poème No. 1, Op. 50: III. Andante
04. Symphonie-poème No. 1, Op. 50: IV. Finale. Allegretto feroce
05. Fantaisie-concerto for Double Bass & Orchestra, Op. 65: I. Allegro con brio
06. Fantaisie-concerto for Double Bass & Orchestra, Op. 65: II. Romance 1830. Adagio
07. Fantaisie-concerto for Double Bass & Orchestra, Op. 65: III. Finale. Allegro commodo



The music of the Ukrainian-born Thomas de Hartmann (1884–1956) is only now beginning to be rediscovered, almost seven decades after his death. The two works receiving their first recordings here reveal a major late-Romantic voice, downstream from Tchaikovsky, a student of Arensky and Taneyev, contemporary of Rachmaninov, and alert to the discoveries of Stravinsky and Prokofiev.

The Symphonie-Poème No. 1 – a musical cousin of Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony – occupies a vast canvas and requires a correspondingly huge orchestra, generating a monumental sense of scale from essentially balletic material. The lighter Fantaisie-Concerto for double bass and orchestra moves from tangy dissonance via a tuneful slow movement to a perky, folk-inspired finale.

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