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Rauchenecker: Symphony No. 1 & "Phantasie" / Griffiths, Musikkollegium Winterthur
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Rauchenecker: Symphony No. 1 & "Phantasie" / Griffiths, Musikkollegium Winterthur

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Details

Composer
Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker
Artist
Sebastian Bohren, Musikkollegium Winterthur
Format
CD
Label
CPO
Released
Oct 21, 2022
Catalog #
555416-2
UPC
761203541621

About

Although almost completely forgotten today, Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker was an exceptionally versatile musician of European stature: as founder and conductor of the first professional orchestra of the city of Winterthur (1875), composer, ardent Wagnerian, city organist, music dealer and pedagogue, he left weighty and far-reaching traces in Germany, Switzerland and France. The two orchestral works presented on this album were written for "his" Winterthur City Orchestra (as the Musikkollegium Winterthur was called until 2000), while the Oriental Fantasy is an early work by the 21-year-old. Rauchenecker's symphonic debut seems in some ways to have been his artistic calling card: Few of his other works were performed as often, and the piece remained in the repertoire until at least 1932.

Despite Rauchenecker's close contact with the works of the New German school and his personal acquaintance with Richard Wagner, this work shows the composer to be a preserver of the symphonic tradition. In a certain sense, the work speaks of a commitment to "absolute music," for programmatic allusions as well as explicitly coloristic instrumental effects are completely dispensed with. His technically extremely demanding Oriental Fantasy combines the virtuosic demands of a solo concerto with a rhapsodically free form, and was one of Rauchenecker's own showpieces as a violinist.

Tracklist 6 tracks

  1. 1 Symphonisches Tonwerk im Stil einer Ouvertüre (Symphonic Tone Work in the Style of an Overture) 14:36
    Track
    1
    Title
    Symphonisches Tonwerk im Stil einer Ouvertüre (Symphonic Tone Work in the Style of an Overture)
    Duration
    14:36
    Composer
    Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker
    Ensemble
    Musikkollegium Winterthur
    Conductor
    Howard Griffiths
  2. 2 I. Allegro con spirito 08:25
    Track
    2
    Title
    I. Allegro con spirito
    Duration
    08:25
    Composer
    Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker
    Ensemble
    Musikkollegium Winterthur
    Conductor
    Howard Griffiths
  3. 3 II. Adagio con espressione 05:15
    Track
    3
    Title
    II. Adagio con espressione
    Duration
    05:15
    Composer
    Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker
    Ensemble
    Musikkollegium Winterthur
    Conductor
    Howard Griffiths
  4. 4 III. Allegro impetuoso 05:45
    Track
    4
    Title
    III. Allegro impetuoso
    Duration
    05:45
    Composer
    Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker
    Ensemble
    Musikkollegium Winterthur
    Conductor
    Howard Griffiths
  5. 5 IV. Moderato 05:00
    Track
    5
    Title
    IV. Moderato
    Duration
    05:00
    Composer
    Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker
    Ensemble
    Musikkollegium Winterthur
    Conductor
    Howard Griffiths
  6. 6 Orientalische Phantasie (Oriental Fantasy) (version for solo violin and string quartet) 13:01
    Track
    6
    Title
    Orientalische Phantasie (Oriental Fantasy) (version for solo violin and string quartet)
    Duration
    13:01
    Composer
    Mogens Pedersøn
    Performer
    Sebastian Bohren
    Ensemble
    Sarastro String Quartet