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; Bricht became a valued professor at Indiana University in Bloomington. Fittingly, it is the nearby Fort Wayne Philharmonic, in it's own debut recording, that has made the first album of Bricht's music. The recording reveals another major Viennese voice and points to yet another potentially important career cut off in the bud by the Nazis. Bricht was reportedly Franz Schmidt's favorite student, and the late-Romantic styles of the two men are indeed very closely aligned in their mix of Baroque counterpoint, Classical form and Wagnerian chromatic harmony: Bricht's Symphony in A minor might almost be Schmidt's No. 5.

Tracklist:

Symphonic Suite In A Minor, Op. 25: I. Unruhig Bewegt, Schwankend (Live)
Symphonic Suite In A Minor, Op. 25: II. Sehr Langsam Und Ausdrucksvoll (Live)
Symphonic Suite In A Minor, Op. 25: III. Rasch (Live)
Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 1, Fliessend (Live)
Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 2, Langsam Und Zart (Live)
Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 3, Stürmisch Bewegt (Live)
Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 4, Rasch Und Leicht (Live)
Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 5, Sehr Langsam (Live)
Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 6, Fliessend (Live)
Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 7, Langsam, Ausdrucksvoll (Live)
Verwehte Blätter, Op. 18b: No. 8, Rasch (Live)
Symphony In A Minor, Op. 33: I. Mäßig Bewegt (Live)
Symphony In A Minor, Op. 33: II. Langsam (Live)
Symphony In A Minor, Op. 33: III. Intermezzo Scherzando. Nicht Zu Rasch (Live)
Symphony In A Minor, Op. 33: IV. Finale. Ziemlisch Langsam - Bewegt (Live)

UPC: 5060113444882
Label: Toccata
Release Date: 9.7.18
Format: CD

Bricht - Orchestral Music 1 (CD)