Felix Woyrsch: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5

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Documenting Woyrsch's musical legacy, making it live and shine again. — MusicWeb International, February 2019

Release Date: 28th Dec 2018
Catalogue No: 555063-2
Label: CPO
Length: 60 minutes

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Woyrsch: Symphony No. 4 in F Major, Op. 71

Work length34:09

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NDR Radiophilharmonie
Thomas Dorsch
Recorded: 9-13 February 2015
Recording Venue: Großer Sendesaal des Landesfunkhaus Hannover, Germany

I. Mäßig bewegt, nicht übereilt

Track length9:27

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II. Langsam, ausdrucksvoll

Track length9:04

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III. Menuett im Rokokostil mit Variationen

Track length7:20

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IV. Nicht zu schnell, doch feurig und rhythmisch belebt

Track length8:18

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Woyrsch: Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 75

Work length21:03

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NDR Radiophilharmonie
Thomas Dorsch
Recorded: 9-13 February 2015
Recording Venue: Großer Sendesaal des Landesfunkhaus Hannover, Germany

I. Belebt

Track length5:20

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II. Sehr langsam

Track length6:51

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III. Mäßig schnell, etwas gemächlich

Track length3:43

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IV. Lebhaft und feurig, doch nicht übereilt

Track length5:09

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Woyrsch: Faust

Work length5:26

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NDR Radiophilharmonie
Thomas Dorsch

Faust: Garden Scene

Track length5:26

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As a composer coping with the symphonic legacy of Beethoven, Handel, and Brahms, it was difficult for Felix Woyrsch to develop his own idea of the symphony, especially since he did not aspire to break with the past but sought a negotiable path on which he could continue the symphonic tradition of the nineteenth century in his own personal way. However, our previous two CD releases featuring this composer’s symphonies clearly show that he belonged to a generational group including Richard Wetz, Wilhelm Berger, Felix Weingartner and Paul Juon whose members exercised due caution in the further development of the classical-romantic tradition, each one in his own way specifically enriched the generic history of the symphony with important nuances. Woyrsch’s Symphony No. 4 is about the same length as his third such work but in contrast to it built on melodic ideas of greater concision not rarely generating sharp contrasts within a short space. It is a work of abrupt changes and unforeseen modulations. In his Symphony No. 5 Woyrsch very much continues on the path taken by him in his earlier symphonies, though here he presents his ideas in extraordinarily concentrated form.

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February 2019

Documenting Woyrsch's musical legacy, making it live and shine again.

Felix Woyrsch: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5

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