Moszkowski: Orchestral Music Vol.4 | Toccata Classics TOCC0615

Moszkowski: Orchestral Music Vol.4

£14.73

Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0615

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Expected Release Date: 7th August 2026

Contents

Artists

Sinfonia Varsovia (orchestra)

Conductor

Ian Hobson

Works

Moszkowski, Moritz

Laurin: 6 Episodes from the Ballet
Symphony in D minor

Artists

Sinfonia Varsovia (orchestra)

Conductor

Ian Hobson

About

The Polish composer Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925) is best remembered for a handful of virtuoso piano pieces, but he also produced a substantial body of orchestral music, most of it unperformed for a century or more. This fourth volume presents his only symphony, a strikingly assured work for a composer in his late teens. Unsurprisingly, it owes a good deal to Schumann in its dancing rhythms, heraldic bearing and orchestral colours - and the Scherzo might almost be by Mendelssohn on holiday in Poland. The 'Six Episodes' - charming, ingratiating and energising by turn - are all that remain of the lost full-length ballet Laurin. They were saved because Moszkowski excerpted them for concert performance, thereby creating a 'Dance Suite' in all but name.

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