Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen & Howard Griffiths - Felix Woyrsch: Symphonies 1 & 6 (2026) [Hi-Res]

The works of the late Romantic Felix Woyrsch are excellent pleas for the species of the creative epigone. Perhaps it is precisely this much too often criticized group of "later-born" artists who, with their own creations, prepared the solid basis for the greats by adopting their achievements and testing them as a means of their own expressive will. The Silesian Woyrsch, who found a permanent home in Altona, which was not yet part of Hamburg at the time, demonstrated that sometimes even the impossible became possible. He succeeded in reconciling his diametrically opposed role models Wagner, Bruckner and Brahms quite "inconspicuously" without losing face himself - on the contrary: the cycle of six symphonies, which the current publication brings to a close, proves to be a high-profile confession that is all the more impressive when one knows that the active musician Felix Woyrsch was quite open to the phenomena of modernism.