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Moszkowski - Orchestral Music Vol.1: Johanna d’Arc | Toccata Classics TOCC0523

Moszkowski - Orchestral Music Vol.1: Johanna d’Arc

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0523

Barcode: 5060113445230

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 4th October 2019

Contents

Artists

Sinfonia Varsovia

Conductor

Ian Hobson

Works

Moszkowski, Moritz

Johanna d’Arc: symphonic poem in 4 movements, op.19

Artists

Sinfonia Varsovia

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 decades. Astonishingly, he was only in his early twenties when he wrote his monumental ‘Symphonic Poem in Four Movements’ Johanna d’Arc – heard here in its first recording – a vast symphonic fresco depicting the life, death and transfiguration of the heroine of Friedrich Schiller’s 1801 play, Die Jungfrau von Orleans. Moszkowski admitted to the influence of Wagner and Raff on the work – but he also managed to prefigure the musical language of the Hollywood epics of sixty years later.

As pianist, Ian Hobson has a long-standing relationship with Toccata Classics, and this is the fourth recording he has made in his alter ego as conductor – at the helm of the Sinfonia Varsovia, as with his previous albums, which uncovered the early orchestral music of Martinů. This is the first of a series of Ian Hobson recordings for Toccata Classics that will focus on Moszkowski’s piano and orchestral music.

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