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Bittner - Orchestral Music Vol.1 | Toccata Classics TOCC0500

Bittner - Orchestral Music Vol.1

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0500

Barcode: 5060113445001

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 1st March 2019

Contents

Artists

Siberian Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Dmitry Vasiliev

Works

Bittner, Julius

Symphony no.1 in F minor
Vaterland: Symphonic Poem

Artists

Siberian Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Dmitry Vasiliev

About

The name of the Austrian composer Julius Bittner (1874–1939) has been almost entirely lost from view, and yet he was one of the most successful composers of opera and operetta of his day, a mainstay of musical Vienna. Unusually, Bittner was also a practising lawyer; more unusually still, he was a double amputee, the result of the ravages of diabetes. None of his orchestral music has been recorded before – astonishingly, given the quality of the two works presented here. Vaterland is an expansive, Lisztian symphonic poem written on a patriotic impulse early in the First World War; and Bittner’s ambitious First Symphony, which has its starting point in Brahms and Bruckner, is a major piece of late-Romantic musical architecture, both tuneful and grandiose.

Dimitry Vasiliev was born in 1972 in the city of Bolshoi Kamen in Primorsky Kraj in the Russian Far East. He graduated from the Rostov State Conservatoire and then took a post-graduate course and probation period under the guidance of Alexander Skulsky at the Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatoire. He also participated in the master-classes of Alexander Vedernikov and Vladimir Ziva in Moscow. He has been principal conductor of the Siberian Symphony Orchestra in Omsk – one of the largest of Russian orchestras – since 2005, expanding its repertoire to include contemporary music, jazz, rock, musicals, film soundtracks, and so on. The SSO was founded in 1966 by the conductor Simon Cogan, who remained at its head for more than ten years. The discography of the SSO includes several recordings for Toccata Classics: the Orchestral Suites Nos. 1 and 2 by Vissarion Shebalin (TOCC0136), followed by albums of music by Woldemar Bargiel (TOCC0277), Mieczysław Weinberg (TOCC0193 and TOCC0313) and Philip Spratley (TOCC0194).

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