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Hans Rott: Symphony No. 1; Mahler: Blumine; Bruckner: Symphonisches Pr¿¿ludium
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Hans Rott: Symphony No. 1; Mahler: Blumine; Bruckner: Symphonisches Pr¿¿ludium
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was completed in 1880. Shortly afterward,
turned the work down for performance, and
, increasingly in the grip of mental illness, pulled a gun on a train and claimed that
had rigged the train with dynamite. The work was forgotten and not performed until 1989. It has been recorded a few times, but this reading by conductor
and the
on
is the first on a major label apart from, perhaps, a
reading from 1993 on
, and
learned about the symphony when he ran across it on the Internet.
was a star student of
, who knew his works well and may have emulated them, called
"the founder of the new symphony as I myself understand it." The Scherzo of this symphony is Mahlerian, and there are influences of
and
as well.
, for the most part, fills his large structures with energy, even in the nearly 25-minute finale.
, already an expert Mahlerian, was an ideal choice here, and the
players are top-notch in the many solo passages. He makes the case that this symphony belongs in the regular repertory, and listeners for whom this is a first exposure to the work may well agree. ~ James Manheim