BBC Symphony Orchestra, Paul Mann - Flury: Orchestral Music, Vol. 6 (2026) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Symphony No. 5: I. Allegro moderato
02. Symphony No. 5: II. Andante sostenuto
03. Symphony No. 5: III. Scherzo. Prestissimo – Trio. Allegretto
04. Symphony No. 5: IV. Variationen. Thema. Das Lied der Prager Studenten, ‘Nach Süden nun sich lenken...’
05. Symphony No. 5: IVa. Var. 1, Andantino
06. Symphony No. 5: IVb. Var. 2, Allegro molto
07. Symphony No. 5: IVc. Var. 3, Larghetto
08. Symphony No. 5: IVd. Var. 4, Allegretto
09. Symphony No. 5: IVe. Var. 5, Allegro moderato
10. Symphony No. 5: IVf. Var. 6, Allegro agitato
11. Symphony No. 5: IVg. Var. 7, Vivo
12. Symphony No. 5: IVh. Var. 8, Allegro moderato
13. Symphony No. 5: IVi. Coda. Sostenuto, Choralmässig
14. Im Altisberg, Symphonische Suite für Orchester: I. Pastorale
15. Im Altisberg, Symphonische Suite für Orchester: II. Waldfest
16. Im Altisberg, Symphonische Suite für Orchester: III. Nocturne
17. Im Altisberg, Symphonische Suite für Orchester: IV. Auf dem Burghubel

The Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896–1967) completed the last of his five symphonies in 1956, when its unashamedly melodic, tonal style – with elements absorbed from Bruckner, Richard Strauss, Joseph Marx and other such late Romantics – made it a conscious rebellion against the modernist trends of the time. Flury, moreover, was an instinctive nature-painter, and the Swiss landscape that meant so much to him can be sensed almost as readily in supposedly abstract works such as this symphony as in those – often quasi-symphonic, like the suite also heard here – that play explicit homage to the woods and valleys in which he grew up.