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Braunfels: Fantastical Apparitions

Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Gregor Buhl

What an extraordinary work it is… Variation form is expanded far beyond breaking point to become, effectively, a single-movement symphony… The performance lacks nothing in commitment or sense...

Braunfels: Fantastical Apparitions

Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Gregor Buhl

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What an extraordinary work it is… Variation form is expanded far beyond breaking point to become, effectively, a single-movement symphony… The performance lacks nothing in commitment or sense...

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Walter Braunfels’ music died twice: first, when the Nazis declared his music ‘degenerate art’; and again when post-war Germany largely rejected tonal music, with arbiters of taste declaring any form of romantic music (almost the whole pre-war aesthetic) to be tainted. This seventh volume in Capriccio’s Braunfels Edition again demonstrates the considerable range of Braunfels’ colourful music. The focus here is on his great, early orchestral work Fantastical Apparitions of a Theme by Hector Berlioz, Op. 25 (1914–1917). The first complete recording of this amazing composition is coupled with his last orchestral work, the Sinfonia brevis, Op. 69 (1948).

Contents and tracklist

Einleitung. Allegretto con fuoco
Track length0:25
No. 1, Thema
Track length1:18
No. 2, Moderato
Track length1:58
No. 3, Gemessen
Track length3:59
No. 4, Mit Breite, doch nicht langsam und etwas frei
Track length6:26
No. 5, Andante
Track length2:47
No. 6, Ruhig
Track length3:59
No. 7, Sehr schnell
Track length3:36
No. 8, Lebhaft, sehr frei im Vortrag
Track length3:32
No. 9, Sehr schnell
Track length4:46
No. 10, Lebhaft
Track length0:57
No. 11, Moderato
Track length5:41
No. 12, Breit und wuchtig
Track length5:47
Finale. Lebhaft
Track length6:13
I. Allegro
Track length7:25
II. Adagio, ma non troppo
Track length9:35
III. Scherzo. Adagio molto
Track length6:46
IV. Finale. Moderato
Track length7:04

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June 2019

What an extraordinary work it is… Variation form is expanded far beyond breaking point to become, effectively, a single-movement symphony… The performance lacks nothing in commitment or sense of long-range form, though you might find yourself hankering for a more luxurious string sound, slightly sharper characterisation of the individual episodes, and a recorded balance that gives the brass less severity and the bass less boom.
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