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Thursday, March 26, 2020

Hans Huber - Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6 (Jörg-Peter Weigle)


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Composer: Hans Huber

  • (01) Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 118 'Heroische'
  • (05) Symphony No. 6 in A major, Op. 134

Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra
Jörg-Peter Weigle, conductor

Date: 2000
Label: Sterling
http://www.sterlingcd.com/catalogue/cds1037.html

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Review

Two Huber symphonies on a most generously coupled disc.

Among the sea-sweep and flow of first movement of the Heroische Symphonie you will find a Brahmsian approach (especially Brahms Symphony No. 1) and touches of Elgar (Enigma) and Richard Strauss (solo violin). The measured and ponderous tread of the Funeral March is punctuated by tubular bells and given a somewhat ambivalent ghoulish air. The Totentanz movement has a nicely alcoholic sway with horn and trumpet solos over a pizzicato string pasture. You can now add this symphony to the long list of Dies Irae appearances in classical music. The finale features a concert organ and a soprano (Barbara Baier) singing the Sanctus.

The Sixth Symphony announces itself in raucous exuberance and as it progressed reminded me of Siegfried Wagner's orchestral music (note the long-running CPO series) especially in its naïve playfulness. In the second movement the stahlspiel tinkles graciously but the movement is undermined by a rather stop-start progress. The adagio (III) is romantically 'slippery' with a strong Lisztian element. The effervescent spring of the woodwind writing marks out the finale. There is yet more Lisztian influence in the wheedling solo violin (6.28). The rhythms engagingly developed in this movement are decidedly terpsichorean mating this movement with Smetana's Festive Symphony and Bizet's Symphony in C. The warmth of the closing bars links the work with Dvorák Symphony No. 8 and Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony.

Both symphonies have their weaknesses but the sheer pleasure returned each time you listen to these works more than compensates.

-- Rob BarnettMusicWeb International

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Hans Huber (28 June 1852 – 25 December 1921) was a Swiss composer. He was born in Eppenberg-Wöschnau (Canton of Solothurn) and studied at the Leipzig Conservatory, where his teachers included Oscar Paul. Returned to Basel in 1877, Huber obtained a post in the Conservatory there in 1889, then director from 1896 to 1918. Among his notable students were Hans Münch and Hermann Suter. Huber wrote in all nine symphonies, several concertos for violin, cello and piano, and five operas. He also wrote a set of 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 100, for piano four-hands in all the keys.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Huber_(composer)

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Jörg-Peter Weigle (born 1953 in Greifswald, Germany) is a German conductor and music professor. Weigle studied at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" (Berlin), and later participated in a conducting class with Kurt Masur. Weigle was conductor of the Neubrandenburg State Symphony Orchestra (1977-1980), Leipzig Radio Choir (1980-1988), Dresden Philharmonic (1986-1994), and Stuttgart Philharmonic (1995-2002). Since 2001, Weigle has been a professor of choir direction at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, Berlin. On 1 April 2008, he became the school's rector.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rg-Peter_Weigle

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