Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra - Thomas de Hartmann Orchestral Music, Vol. 2 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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.

TRACKLIST

1. Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine - I. Lento
2. Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine - II. Scherzo
3. Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine - III. Andante
4. Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine - IV. Finale. Allegretto feroce
5. Leon Bosch - I. Allegro con brio
6. Leon Bosch - II. Romance 1830. Adagio
7. Leon Bosch - III. Finale. Allegro commodo



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